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Amer Owaida • 20 Feb 2020 • 2 min. read
Digital Security
MGM Resorts data breach exposes details of 10.6 million guests
What DNS encryption means for enterprise threat hunters
Privacy
Sensitive plastic surgery photos exposed online
A number of celebrities, government officials and tech CEOs were also caught up in the incident
Amer Owaida • 20 Feb 2020
The dawn of the DNS over HTTPS era is putting business security and SOC teams to the challenge
Rene Holt • 19 Feb 2020
Other leaked records include videos, facial and body scans, as well as a range of patients' personal data
Amer Owaida • 18 Feb 2020
Plugin flaw leaves up to 200,000 WordPress sites at risk of attack
A fix is available, so you may want to make sure that you run the plugin’s latest version
Tomáš Foltýn • 18 Feb 2020
FC Barcelona Twitter account hacked – again
The same hackers have also gotten their mitts on social media accounts of other high-profile sporting targets
Amer Owaida • 17 Feb 2020
Scams
PayPal remains the most-spoofed brand in phishing scams
WhatsApp also emerges as a favorite target for brand impersonation amid a general spike in social media phishing
Amer Owaida • 14 Feb 2020
How romance scammers break your heart - and your bank account
What are some of the most common warning signs that your online crush could be a dating scammer?
Cybercrime
FBI: Cybercrime losses tripled over the last 5 years
On the upside, the Bureau recovered more than US$300 million in funds lost to online scams last year
Amer Owaida • 13 Feb 2020
Almost 2 billion malware installs thwarted by Google Play Protect in 2019
That’s for apps from third-party marketplaces; another 790,000 policy-breaking apps were stopped from reaching Google Play
