ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 232.  It is Thursday October 22nd 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and

Iran and Russia Have Interfered With the US Election

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 22  Confirm Requests Via Multiple Lines of Communication

Oracle Kills 402 Bugs in Massive October Patch Update

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird

Egregor Claims Responsibility for Barnes & Noble Attack, Leaks Data

Google Chrome now blocks site notifications with abusive content

QNAP warns of Windows Zerologon flaw affecting some NAS devices

US govt: Iran behind fake Proud Boys voter intimidation emails

Dickinson County Health Suffers Ransomware Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 231.  It is Wednesday October 21st 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and Let’s Talk About the Top 25 Vulnerabilities Actively Being Attacked by China

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 21  Don’t Plug Unknown Devices Into Your Computer

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

New Google Chrome version fixes actively exploited zero-day bug

Adobe Fixes 16 Critical Code-Execution Bugs Across Portfolio

Google’s Waze Can Allow Hackers to Identify and Track Users

Pharma Giant Pfizer Leaks Customer Prescription Info, Call Transcripts

Cisco warns of attacks targeting high severity router vulnerability

Darkside ransomware donates $20K of extortion money to charities

NSA: Top 25 vulnerabilities actively abused by Chinese hackers

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 230.  It is Tuesday October 20th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and QAnon/8Chan sites were taken down, temporarily

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 20  Avoid Connecting to Unsecured Wireless Networks

Microsoft Exchange, Outlook Under Siege By APTs

Fooling self-driving cars by displaying virtual objects

Coinbase phishing hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via OAuth app

US Treasury hits bitcoin mixer with $60 million penalty

FBI warns of newly registered domains spoofing US Census Bureau

Hackers hijack Telegram, email accounts in SS7 mobile attack

QAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 229. It is Monday October 19th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Google Warned Users of 33,000 State-Sponsored Attacks in 2020

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 19 Keep Your Browser(s) Up to Date

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Magento

Microsoft Fixes RCE Flaws in Out-of-Band Windows Update

Google says it mitigated a 2.54 Tbps DDoS attack in 2017, largest known to date

Dickey’s BBQ Breach: Meaty 3M Payment Card Upload Drops on Joker’s Stash

Watch out for Emotet malware's new 'Windows Update' attachment

Hackers now abuse BaseCamp for free malware hosting

Google warned users of 33,000 state-sponsored attacks in 2020

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 228.  It is Friday October 16th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and 62% of SMBs Do Not Conduct Annual Security Audits

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 16  Beware of Malvertising .

Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts

Carnival Corp. Ransomware Attack Affects Three Cruise Lines

Barnes & Noble Hack: A Reading List for Phishers and Crooks

Robinhood Internal Probe Finds Hackers Hit Almost 2,000 Accounts

SMBs’ size doesn’t make them immune to cyberattacks

Twitter outage blocks users from tweeting, seeing notifications

Piedmont Cancer Institute Phishing Attack Impacts 5,000 Patients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 227.  It is Thursday October 15th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and Patch Windows “Bad Neighbor” TCP/IP Bug Now

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 15 Stay up to date with current threats.

Apache Releases Security Updates for Apache Tomcat

Google, Intel Warn on ‘Zero-Click’ Kernel Bug in Linux-Based IoT Devices

Critical SonicWall VPN Portal Bug Allows DoS, Worming RCE

Morgan Stanley Receives $60 Million Fine for Improper Handling of Customer Data

Microsoft is forcibly installing Office PWAs in Windows 10

Zoom rolls out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) next week

US Cyber Command: Patch Windows 'Bad Neighbor' TCP/IP bug now

Canva design platform actively abused in credentials phishing

Sen. Warner Seeks Answers about Suspected Universal Health Services Ransomware Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 226.  It is Wednesday October 14th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s the October Post  Patch Tuesday Episode

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 14 Regular System Audits and Inventories are an Important Part of Cybersecurity

Microsoft October 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 87 security bugs

SAP Releases October 2020 Security Updates

Mozilla releases Firefox 81.0.2 to fix Twitter errors

Critical Flash Player Flaw Opens Adobe Users to RCE

Backdoor Discovered in Xplora Children's Smartwatch

Miami-based tech company suffers massive 1TB customer and business data leak

3TB of clips from exposed home security cameras posted online

Windows 10 now warns when apps are configured to run at startup

London Borough of Hackney suffers ‘serious’ cyberattack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 225.  It is Tuesday October 13th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and Microsoft for the Win, Maybe?

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 13 Have a Mobile Device Action Plan

Hackers Publish Public School District's Stolen Data Online

Children and parent info exposed in Georgia DHS data breach

Windows Update can be abused to execute malicious files

QBot uses Windows Defender Antivirus phishing bait to infect PCs

Hackers used VPN flaws to access US govt elections support systems

BazarLoader used to deploy Ryuk ransomware on high-value targets

TrickBot botnet targeted in takedown operations, little impact seen

OCR Announces 9th Financial Penalty under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

228,000 Individuals Impacted by Legacy Community Health Services Phishing Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 224.  It is Monday October 12th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and What Happens When IT is Hit With Ransomware?

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 12 Be Aware, Don’t Overshare

Wormable Apple iCloud Bug Allows Automatic Photo Theft

Fitbit Spyware Steals Personal Data via Watch Face

Sophisticated Android Ransomware Executes with the Home Button

Robinhood says some customer accounts may have become target of hackers

Tyler Technologies paid ransomware gang for decryption key

Largest cruise line operator Carnival confirms ransomware data theft

Software AG IT giant hit with $23 million ransom by Clop ransomware

Community Health Systems Pays $5 Million to Settle Multi-State Breach Investigation

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 223.  It is Friday October 9th 2020.  I am your host Scott Gombar and Updates, Vulnerabilities, Credential Stuffing and Ransomware...oh my

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Cyber Security Awareness Tip 9 Cyber Liability Insurance is a Must 

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Adobe Creative Cloud down: Users report login, data access issues

Microsoft Azure Flaws Open Admin Servers to Takeover

Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

Gmail users: Expect to see these new security alerts, says Google

Sam's Club customer accounts hacked in credential stuffing attacks

Massachusetts school district shut down by ransomware attack

Former Mayo Clinic Employee Accessed Medical Records of 1,600 Patients Without Authorization

OCR Imposes $160,000 Penalty on Healthcare Provider for HIPAA Right of Access Failure