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Hackers get into National Republican Congressional Committee's email system
The National Republican Congressional Committee's email system was hacked leading up to midterm elections.
What is digital trust? How CSOs can help drive business
Chief security officers should play a key role in building trust with customers, and that translates to better customer acquisition, greater customer loyalty, and more revenue.
Microsoft, Mastercard propose universal digital identity program
Microsoft and Mastercard say the “single, reusable digital identity” could solve identity verification issues and help with fraud prevention.
US senator proposes jailing execs, fining companies for data breaches
Following the Marriott breach, a U.S. senator proposes jailing senior company executives and levying multi-billion-dollar fines for data breaches.
Security executives on the move and in the news
Find up-to-date news of CSO, CISO and other senior security executive appointments.
Ad fraud botnet 3ve shut down after infecting 1.7 million PCs
An enormous ad fraud botnet, 3ve, was shut down after 1.7 million PCs were infected to falsify 12 billion ads per day.
Hacker adds malicious bitcoin-stealing code to popular JavaScript library
An NPM package with 2 million weekly downloads had malicious code injected into it. Plus, more problems arise from the Windows 10 October 2018 Update.
Amazon 'technical error' exposes undisclosed number of customer names and emails
Amazon isn't saying how many customers had their names and email addresses exposed due to a data leak caused by an unexplained technical error.
Google makes good on promise to remove some Symantec PKI certificates
If you get this digital certificate error using Chrome, then Google now considers that website's Symantec PKI certificate untrustworthy.
Russian Cozy Bear APT 29 hackers may be impersonating State Department
Russian Cozy Bear hackers may be impersonating the U.S. State Department in a large, new spear-phishing campaign, plus other cybersecurity news.
Microsoft covertly collects personal data from enterprise Office ProPlus users
Experts raised privacy concerns when a data protection impact assessment found Microsoft covertly collects personal data from users of the enterprise version of Office ProPlus.
Possible BGP hijacking takes Google down
Google went down Monday as a border gate protocol (BGP) issue rerouted traffic to China, Russia, and Nigeria.
Cylance researchers discover powerful new nation-state APT
A new APT, dubbed White Company, is flexing its muscle on the world stage, and it has security researchers worried.
Cyber criminals abuse US Postal Service Informed Delivery for ID theft
Criminals are abusing the US Postal Service's Informed Delivery for ID theft and fraud. Meanwhile, vulnerabilities were found in Oracle's VirtualBox, WordPress and Adobe ColdFusion servers.
Doctored Jim Acosta video shows why fakes don’t need to be deep to be dangerous
White House promotion of an allegedly doctored press conference video shows how "shallow fakes" can manipulate opinion.
Critical authentication flaw in DJI drone web app fixed
Check Point researcher finds vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to spy on drone fleets in real time.
Worst malware and threat actors of 2018 so far
Researchers name the worst malware and threat actors of 2018 so far, several vulnerabilities were disclosed, and HSBC Bank reveals it suffered a data breach.
Republican Kemp accuses Georgia Democrats of hacking but provides no proof
Georgia’s Secretary of State Office is investigating the Democratic Party of Georgia for hacking the state’s voter registration system but failed to cite any evidence.
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