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FACEBOOK HACKED. An otherwise slow Friday afternoon has been spiced up by a hacker crew that managed to temporarily take control of Facebook's official Twitter account. Exposed details included name, address, phone number, date of birth, Social Security number, and Medicaid ID number.
The first is that bad actors will target voter registration systems with the intent to generate voting havoc and trigger voter fraud alerts. Security researchers have proven many times over that voting machines are hackable, but most of them don't expect threat actors to expend the vast amount of time and resources needed to successfully hack the 2020 presidential election voting results directly.
In anticipation of his keynote at HITB Security Conference 2020 in Amsterdam, we talked to internet pioneer Dr. Paul Vixie, Farsight Security Chairman and CEO. Dr. Vixie was inducted into the internet Hall of Fame in 2014 for work related to DNS and anti-spam technologies. He is the author of open source internet software including BIND 8, and of many internet standards documents concerning DNS and DNSSEC. You've worked in the DNS field for more than three decades, how have things changed since the late 1980s?
Iran repelled a cyberattack on Saturday that disrupted the country's internet services for an hour, a telecommunications ministry official said. "At 11:44 a distributed denial-of-service attack disrupted the internet services of some mobile and fixed operators for an hour," tweeted Sajad Bonabi.
Malicious files and links regularly bypass email security products, leaving enterprises vulnerable to email-based attacks. Increased use of automation allows attackers to create many 'mutations' for each malware or malicious file, potentially inundating email security products with new unknown threats.
CASB+ for Slack provides 360o visibility, protection and control of all user activity on Slack as well as continuous risk assessment against external or internal threats. The result is end-to-end data protection and compliance for more than 10 million active Slack users today.
Dynatrace announced new enhancements to its Digital Business Analytics module. The Dynatrace explainable AI engine, Davis, has been expanded to process business KPIs, such as revenue trends, customer conversions and churn.
Okta, the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, announced the hiring of Craig Weissman as Chief Architect, effective immediately. Weissman brings a proven track record of more than 20 years leading enterprise software development and cloud architecture, having played a pivotal role as Chief Technology Officer at Salesforce before co-founding cloud hospitality provider, Duetto.
Elevate Security, a platform that measures, influences, and reduces human cybersecurity risk, announced the appointment of Nicholas Telford as chief financial officer. Telford will oversee Elevate Security's long-term financial strategy, providing oversight and a roadmap to the organization's growth plan.