IT Security News Daily Summary 2021-01-18

• Top Tips to Upscale Your Netflix Security Instantly

• Hackers Leaked 22 Million Records on the Dark Web in 2020

• OpenWRT reports data breach after hacker gained access to forum admin account

• Expired Domain Allowed Researcher to Hijack Country’s TLD

• FBI Warns of Employee Credential Phishing via Phone, Chat

• Joker’s Stash Carding Market to Call it Quits

• No US Trial for Irish Hacker

• Capitol Rioters ID’ed With Help From Dating Apps

• What’s at Stake in the Austin Waiver

• Conti Ransomware Strikes the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

• FBI Warns of Corporate Vishing Attacks

• New Coalition Aims to Combat Growing Wave of Ransomware Attacks

• Notorious Carding Website Joker’s Stash Shuts Down

• Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Found In FiberHome Routers

• Latest Surveillance Tech Relies More On Computers Than Humans

• 3 Challenges of Penetration Testing and How to Solve Them

• How MSPs can offer secure cloud file storage to their clients

• ‘Child’s Play’ – Kids breach and bypass Linux Mint screensaver lock

• 500K+ records of C-level people from Capital Economics leaked online

• Scottish Environment Protection Agency refuses to pay ransomware crooks over 1.2GB of stolen data

• Transferring data between smartphones seamlessly

• Researchers Estimate Ryuk Ransomware Operations to Be Worth $150 Million

• NSA Appoints Cyber Director

• Health Insurer Fined $5.1m Over Data Breach

• EEMA Appoints Digital Identity Expert to Board of Management

• The Growing Importance of Security Assurance (And What It Means to Be Good at Compliance Operations)

• Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there’s no licence to ply

• 2021 Cybersecurity Predictions

• Apple paid a $50,000 bounty to two bug bounty hunters for hacking its hosts

• 
Doc & RTF Malicious Document, (Mon, Jan 18th)

• The CIS Benchmark for Cisco Nexus (NX-OS) 1.0 went live last week, find it here: https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks/, (Mon, Jan 18th)

• Technology and Human Stories Intersect at the International Spy Museum

• Deals: M1 13-Inch MacBook Pro Marked Down by $100 at Amazon and B&H Photo

• US NSA offers new security protocols for DNS Enterprise Environments

• How to prepare your business for civil unrest during inauguration week

• You’re using your Android and Mac’s fingerprint reader all wrong

• Hackers ‘manipulated’ stolen COVID-19 vaccine data before leaking it online

• Medical Device Security: Diagnosis Critical

• Researchers Earn $50,000 for Hacking Apple Servers

• Rob Joyce is the new NSA Cyber Director

• Help The FBI Identify These MAGA Terrorists

• Apple Supplier Foxconn to Build $270 Million Plant in Vietnam, Likely for MacBook and iPad

• Online Service Providers and the Fight Against Child Exploitation: The Fourth Amendment Agency Dilemma

• Infamous cybercrime, carding market Joker’s Stash is shutting down

• Google Cloud: We do use some SolarWinds, but we weren’t affected by mega hack

• Underground Carding Marketplace Joker’s Stash Announces Shutdown

• Organizations Should Establish ‘Blame-Free Employee Reporting’ of Suspicious Activity, CISA Says

• Cisco Shows no Intentions on Patching EOL Vulnerabilities

• Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 11, 2021

• Hallowed Bugtraq Infosec List Killed Then Resurrected

• Signal Operational Again After Daylong Outage

• Xiaomi Denies Any Ties With Chinese Military

• Terrifying Scope Of Capitol Attack Becoming Clearer As Washington Lock’s Down For Biden’s Inauguration

• Apple and Tim Cook Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Deals: New iPad Sales Include Up to $75 Off iPad Pro, iPad Air, and 10.2-Inch iPad

• Expert Insight On Scam-as-a-Service Operation Made More Than $6.5 Million In 2020

• Navigating the Cyber Threat Landscape: Lessons From 2020 And Trends For 2021

• Hallowed Bugtraq infosec list killed then resurrected over the weekend: We heard your feedback, says Accenture

• The Apple M1: The Beginning of a New Era?

• WhatsApp Delays Data Sharing Change After Backlash

• Signal fixes Outage after Surge in New Users

• Cloud and Remote App Access Climbs Skyward

• Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Flagship Gets Stylus Support

• US States Investigating Google App Store Practices

• Internet’s Biggest Card Theft Marketplace To Shut Down

• Hackers Using 4 Zero-day Vulnerabilities to Attack Windows and Android Devices Remotely

• COEP COOP CORP CORS CORB – CRAP that’s a lot of new stuff!

• Government Data Sharing | Avast

• UK police warn of sextortion attempts in intimate online dating chats

• Ongoing ransomware attack leaves systems badly affected, says Scottish environment agency

• Rob Joyce Appointed Director of Cybersecurity at NSA

• MoD Experiences 18% Growth in Personal Data Loss Incidents

• Trump’s Worst, Most Bizarre Statements About ‘the Cyber’

• What’s up with WhatsApp’s privacy policy?

• Naked Security Live – Staying safe online at home (especially if you’re homeschooling!)

• Joker’s Stash Carding Site to Close in February

• Thales and TT Electronics Partner to Enable OT Cybersecurity Initiatives and Research

• Notorious Underground Credit Card Marketplace ‘Joker’s Stash’ is Shutting Down

• Fitness+ Subscribers Now Have Nearly 300 Workouts to Choose From

• DuckDuckGo sees rapid growth in 2020

• Financial sector’s cyber security guidelines tightened in Singapore

• Fake Vaccine Data used to Spread Fear

• A week in security (January 11 – January 17)

• What happens if my phone is stolen?

• SolarWinds hack is quickly reshaping Congress’s cybersecurity agenda

• How to reboot a broken or outdated security strategy

• Use Infinity SOC to find out if you are affected by the Solarwinds Sunburst Hack

• Environmental Regulator Suffers Ransomware Blow

• Colombian Woman purloin Rs 17.71 Lakh from SBI ATM

• WhatsApp Clients Resort to Other Messaging Platforms

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2021

• Ring Rolls Out Video End-to-End Encryption To Consumers As Technical Preview

• WhatsApp Data Privacy | Avast

• Private AI Research Institute | Avast

• Singapore tightens cyber defence guidelines for financial services sector

• Leaked #COVID19 Vaccine Data “Manipulated” to Mislead Public

• German laptop retailer fined €10.4m under GDPR for video-monitoring employees

• Some M1 Macs Blighted By Fast User Switching Screensaver Bug

• Romwe – 19,531,820 breached accounts

• US Administration Revokes Huawei Export Licences

• Fortnite Maker Expands Apple Dispute To UK

• WhatsApp Delays Deadline For New Privacy Terms

• US Adds Xiaomi To Military Blacklist

• Details on the New NIST Requirement for RASP and IAST

• Prosperoware adds data protection features for Office 365, supports Azure for storage

• Baffle DPS on AWS simplifies tokenization and encryption of data stored in Amazon RDS

• Port53 launches SOC-as-a-Service, offering 24/7 monitoring, detection, and response

• Trying to register your antivirus in Windows Security Center?

• Doc & RTF Malicious Document, (Mon, Jan 18th)

• Hallowed Buqtraq infosec list killed then resurrected over the weekend: We heard your feedback, says Accenture

• Breach Trends and Insights – January 2021

• Multiple backdoors and vulnerabilities discovered in FiberHome routers

• Apple Removes macOS Feature That Allowed Apps to Bypass Firewall Security

• Hackers Calling Fair Game on Healthcare Institutions

• Managing Identities and Entitlements to Secure the Public Cloud

• Vulnerability management isn’t working for cloud security: Here’s how to do it right

• Joe Biden to invest $9 billion to strengthen North America Cybersecurity

• Tips to Cyber secure your Apple iPhone

• Enterprises move on from legacy approaches to software development

• How do I select a fraud detection solution for my business?

• WhatsApp delays privacy update over user ‘confusion’ and backlash about Facebook data sharing

• GDPR: German laptop retailer fined €10.4m for video-monitoring employees

• The Changing Dynamics of Cyber Insurance

• Public cloud IT infrastructure revenue increasing

• Malware incidents on remote devices increase

• Pass the Way to DA

• ISC Stormcast For Monday, January 18th, 2021 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=7332, (Mon, Jan 18th)

• ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage appliances: Increasing overall size of a full backup in single system

• Dynatrace Application Security Module directly linked to Snyk Intel to ease developer remediation

• Ransomware reveals the hidden weakness of our big tech world

• WhatsApp delays take it or leave it privacy terms update until May

• Xiaomi denies any ties with Chinese military

• President Biden’s Peloton exercise equipment under scrutiny

• Greg Brown joins Udemy as president

• D-Link announces official implementation of the IEC 62443-4-1 industry security standard certification

• Very Good Security appoints Paul Machle as Chief Financial Officer

• Cyber Threat Intel Analysis and Expansion of SolarWinds Identified IoCs

• EMA said that hackers manipulated stolen documents before leaking them

• Jobandtalent – 10,981,207 breached accounts

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• Robert M. Lee’s & Jeff Haas’ Little Bobby Comics – ‘WEEK 312’

• DEF CON 28 Safe Mode IoT Village – Deral Heiland’s ‘Getting Started Building An IoT Hardware Hacking Lab’

• Apple Extends 13-Inch MacBook Pro Backlight Repair Program

• Orbit Fox WordPress Plugin Security Flaws Could Allow Website Takeovers

• Images of Unreleased iPhone 5s in Black and Slate Shared Online

• Negotiating Peace in Iraq’s Disputed Territories: Modifying the Sinjar Agreement

• Two Pink Lines

• WhatsApp Still Needs to Prove it is Trustworthy

• No Surrender: Some Whites Still Believe US Civil War Wasn’t Lost

• Threat Actors Demand Ransom After Major Cyber Attack on Scottish Environmental Protection Agency

• Critical flaws in Orbit Fox WordPress plugin allows site takeover

• New Release of Sysmon Adding Detection for Process Tampering, (Sun, Jan 17th)

• Unemployment Benefits Claims Fraud: New Threats for 2021

• WhatsApp Delay Privacy Updates Until May 2021

• Joker’s Stash, the Largest Carding Forum Shutting Down

• Former DOD Head: The US Needs a New Plan to Beat China on AI

• Security Affairs newsletter Round 297

• Week in review: Pen testing, Sunspot malware, Microsoft plugs Defender zero-day

• Bug Detected in Linux Mint Virtual Keyboard by Two Kids

• Multilingual Cybersecurity Awareness Training adapted for your needs

• Penetration testing

• Pcaps and the Tools That Love Them Part 1 of ???

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