ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 202.  It is Thursday September 10th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Azure Will Now Install Security Updates Automatically on Windows VMs

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Samsung fixes critical Android flaws with September updates

Windows 10 2004 KB4571756 breaks Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Reflected XSS in WordPress Plugin Admin Pages

Azure now installs security updates on Windows VMs automatically

Leading US video delivery provider confirms ransomware attack

Up to 308,000 Patients Potentially Affected by Baton Rouge Clinic Ransomware Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 201.  It is Wednesday September 9th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s the September Post Patch Tuesday Episode

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Adobe Releases Security Updates

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Intel fixes critical flaw in corporate remote management platform

Microsoft September 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 129 vulnerabilities

Classes to Resume in Hartford Wednesday After Ransomware Attack Postpones First Day of School

France, Japan, New Zealand warn of sudden spike in Emotet attacks

Netwalker ransomware hits Pakistan's largest private power utility

Hackers use legit tool to take over Docker, Kubernetes platforms

Data-sharing lawsuit against U of Chicago Medical Center, Google dismissed

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 200.  It is Tuesday September 8th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and You Might Want to Rethink Being the Boss

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New PIN Verification Bypass Flaw Affects Visa Contactless Payments

WordPress Sites Attacked in Their Millions

Ransomware gang says they are behind Newcastle University attack

Windows 10 Sandbox activation enables zero-day vulnerability

Windows 10 themes can be abused to steal Windows accounts

CEOs Could Be Held Personally Liable for Cyberattacks that Kill

PHI of Almost 140,000 Individuals Potentially Compromised in Imperium Health Phishing Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 199.  It is Monday September 7th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Happy Labor Day

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Facebook Debuts Third-Party Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

Attackers Steal Outlook Credentials Via Overlay Screens on Legitimate Sites

Evilnum hackers targeting financial firms with a new Python-based RAT

NCSC: 60% Rise in Girls Applying to CyberFirst Summer Courses

Hacker Steals $7.5 Million from Maryland Non-Profit by Compromising Employee’s Personal Computer

DoS and DDoS Attacks against Multiple Sectors

Microsoft to finally kill Adobe Flash support by January 2021

U.S. Department of Defense discloses critical and high severity bugs

OCR Publishes New Resources for MHealth App Developers and Cloud Services Providers

Blackbaud Data Breach Healthcare Victim Count Rises to Almost 1 Million

Assured Imaging Ransomware Attack Affects Almost 245,000 Patients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 198.  It is Friday September 4th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and More Incorrectly Configured AWS S3 Buckets Lead to Large Data Breach

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WhatsApp reveals six previously undisclosed vulnerabilities on new security site

Student arrested in Miami-Dade Schools cyberattacks ‘a good kid,’ neighbors say

Microsoft releases KB4571744 to fix Windows 10 update issue

Warner Music Group finds hackers compromised its online stores

Microsoft Defender can ironically be used to download malware

Google rolls out Secure DNS support to Chrome for Android

Online marketing company exposes 38+ million US citizen records

56,000 Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Donors Impacted by Blackbaud Ransomware Attack

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 197.  It is Thursday September 3rd 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Is Your Company Exposing Network Services to the Internet?

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Microsoft Office update changes Outlook fallback encryption

Joker Spyware Plagues More Google Play Apps

Magento plugin Magmi vulnerable to hijacking admin sessions

Cisco fixes critical code execution bug in Jabber for Windows

Data breach confirmed in ransomware attack on Haywood County Schools

Cyberattack, plus software failure, responsible for Miami-Dade Schools’ woes, Carvalho says

Hackers actively exploiting severe bug in over 300K WordPress sites

Epic Fail: Emotet malware uses fake ‘Windows 10 Mobile’ attachments

Emotet Surfaces With 'Red Dawn' Threat

Attackers abuse Google DNS over HTTPS to download malware

33% of companies expose unsafe network services to the internet

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 196.  It is Wednesday September 2nd 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It’s National Insider Threat Awareness Month

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National Insider Threat Awareness Month

Firefox 80.0.1 rolls out to fix crashes and download issues

U.S. Voter Databases Offered for Free on Dark Web, Report

Pioneer Kitten APT Sells Corporate Network Access

Credit card data smuggled via private Telegram channel

Google now pays for bugs used to bypass its anti-fraud systems

Healthcare execs say telehealth is their No. 1 pandemic tech problem

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 195.  It is Tuesday September 1st 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and Windows 10 2004 Not Having a Good Day

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Stolen Fortnite Accounts Earn Hackers Millions Per Year

Critical Slack Bug Allows Access to Private Channels, Conversations

American Payroll Association discloses credit card theft incident

Windows 10 2004 now blocked on devices with LTE cellular modems

Lenovo warns of Windows 10 2004 crashing ThinkPad laptops

Malware authors trick Apple into trusting malicious Shlayer apps

Hackers are backdooring QNAP NAS devices with 3-year old RCE bug

Robinhood, Vanguard, TD Ameritrade affected by stock trading outages

Cisco warns of actively exploited bug in carrier-grade routers

Utah Pathology Services Email Breach Potentially Affects 112,000 Patients

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 194.  It is Monday August 31st 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It Feels Like a Healthcare Day

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Ex-Cisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Deleting 16K Webex Teams Accounts

DoJ Aims to Seize 280 Cryptocurrency Accounts Used by Hackers

A Whopping Rise in Healthcare Cyber Incidents

You have two days left to purchase 2-year TLS/SSL certificates

Namecheap Outage

CenturyLink routing issue led to outages on Hulu, Steam, Discord, more

Former Nursing Home Employee Accused of Defrauding Residents Out of $25,000

HHS Announces Limited HIPAA Privacy Rule Waivers Due to Hurricane Laura and the Californian Wildfires

Radiology Groups Issue Warning About PHI Exposure in Online Medical Presentations

Good Morning and Welcome to the ProactiveIT Cyber Security Daily number 193.  It is Friday August 28th 2020. I am your host Scott Gombar and It Was Tesla

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Cisco Releases Security Updates

QakBot Banking Trojan Returned With New Sneaky Tricks to Steal Your Money

Local Government Organizations Most Frequently Targeted by Ransomware

Expect rapid growth in BEC scams to continue, despite global crackdown

Is the electric grid closer to a devastating cyberattack that could mean lights out?

Lemon_Duck cryptominer malware now targets Linux devices

REvil ransomware operators breached healthcare org Valley Health Systems