The insurer won’t pay for ‘acts of cyber-war’ or nation-state retaliation attacks.
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How Decryption of Network Traffic Can Improve Security
Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing.
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Widespread ‘Smishing’ Campaign Defrauds Iranian Android Users
Attackers use socially engineered SMS messages and malware to compromise tens of thousands of devices and drain user bank accounts.
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Stealthy ‘WIRTE’ Gang Targets Middle Eastern Governments
Kaspersky researchers suspect that the cyberattackers may be a subgroup of the politically motivated, Palestine-focused Gaza Cybergang.
80K Retail WooCommerce Sites Exposed by Plugin XSS Bug
The Variation Swatches plugin security flaw lets attackers with low-level permissions tweak important settings on e-commerce sites to inject malicious scripts.
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IOTW: GoDaddy breach affects 1.2 million customers
GoDaddy breach likely far-reaching and affects companies reselling Managed WordPress solutions
GoDaddy Breach Widens to Include Reseller Subsidiaries
Customers of several brands that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress have also been caught up in the big breach, in which millions of emails, passwords and more were stolen.
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9.3M+ Androids Running ‘Malicious’ Games from Huawei AppGallery
A new trojan called Android.Cynos.7.origin, designed to collect Android users’ device data and phone numbers, was found in 190 games installed on over 9M Android devices.
GoDaddy’s Latest Breach Affects 1.2M Customers
The kingpin domain registrar has logged its fifth cyber-incident since 2018, after an attacker with a compromised password stole email addresses, SSH keys and database logins.
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