Here is the weekly roundup :
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Hacker Trades Hundreds of Millions of Stolen Email Credentials (Including Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)
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Hold Security, an independent security firm has revealed that hundreds of millions of hacked and stolen email credentials including user names and passwords were recovered after an exchange with a Russian hacker.
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10-Year-Old White-Hat Hacks Instagram
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A 10-year-old, who isn’t even old enough to sign up on Facebook has hacked Instagram, the popular image-sharing application owned by the social media giant. More specifically, he found a vulnerability, as a white-hat hacker, and Facebook awarded him a bug bounty of $10,000.
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FBI’s Advice to Ransomware Victims: Don’t Pay
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In a new post warning about the relentless waves of ransomware attacks targeting businesses and individuals, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has advised victims not to pay ransomware attackers.
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Americans Fear Cyberattacks the Most, After ISIS
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In a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center which had 2,000 Americans queried about various international threats to the United States, they picked ISIS as their number one worry. What comes second? Cyberattacks.
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Millions of Waze Users at Privacy Risk
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A vulnerability in Google’s navigation app Waze has been discovered by security researchers that allows hackers to stalk a user in real-time.
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Interesting Reading From Around the Web
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Craig Wright Claims He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi -- Experts Fear An Epic Scam
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We may never know the true identity of the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Australian academic Craig Wright has reportedly confirmed himself as the Bitcoin creator, signing messages with cryptographic keys said to solely belong to Satoshi in private sessions with a handful of media organizations and community luminaries. But within minutes of Wright’s claims being published, encryption experts have expressed doubt.
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Crooks Go Deep With ‘Deep Insert’ Skimmers
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ATM maker NCR Corp. says it is seeing a rapid rise in reports of what it calls “deep insert skimmers,” wafer-thin fraud devices made to be hidden inside of the card acceptance slot on a cash machine. NCR says these deep insert skimming devices — usually made of metal or PCB plastic — are unlikely to be affected by most active anti-skimming jamming solutions, and they are unlikely to be detected by most fraudulent device detection solutions.
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ATM EMV Deadline Looms
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The next major step for merchants and card issuers in the move from magstripe to chip technology is looming: The liability shift deadline for ATMs and self-service fuel dispensers. The liability shift deadline for ATM transactions made with MasterCard branded credit and debit cards is Oct. 1, 2016; Visa's deadline is Oct. 1, 2017.
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Featured Articles:
The weakest link: Mobile device security still lacking in customers
It seems you can't go anywhere without seeing a mobile device, and in today's enterprise world it's no different.With more and more devices coming into the enterprise space, security of those devices - and the company and personal data users store on them - becomes increasingly important.
Dusan Petricko, the Incident Response Manager at LIFARS shares his insights on the topic.
The Global Cyber Crime Underground (Part 3): Latin America & Brazil
This is the third and final blog in a three-part series co-written by LookingGlass Cyber Threat Intelligence Group and LIFARS. The series provides a high level overview of the global cyber crime underground and the biggest players in this space. Today we'll take a look at the South American & Brazilian cybercrime undergrounds.
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