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Free Iran Virtual Summit shows positive power of cyberspace

Theresa Payton
Theresa Payton
Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad
Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad
August 14, 2020
The internet has become a powerful force for global interconnectivity and democratization. What’s more, the internet has introduced new methods for collective mobilization, such as “e-rebellions” and virtual protests. The global pandemic has accelerated the use of cyberspace as a powerful venue for individuals, groups, and nations to share ideas, engage, mobilize, and challenge authoritarian states in an impactful way.
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The Keys to the Treasury Kingdom

Mekotio banking trojan fakes security update, steals bitcoins, exfiltrates Google credentials

August 14, 2020

ESET researchers explored Mekotio, a banking trojan targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries: mainly Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Peru and Portugal. Mekotio boasts several typical backdoor activities, including taking screenshots, restarting affected machines, restricting access to legitimate banking websites, and, in some variants, even stealing bitcoins and exfiltrating credentials stored by the Google Chrome browser.


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Survey reveals nearly 50% of organizations knowingly push vulnerable software

August 13, 2020
New research finds nearly half of organizations regularly and knowingly ship vulnerable code despite using application security tools. Among the top reasons cited for pushing vulnerable code were pressure to meet release deadlines (54 percent) and finding vulnerabilities too late in the software development lifecycle (45 percent), according to the Veracode and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research.
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Congressman Barr introduces NIST COVID-19 Cybersecurity Act

August 13, 2020
Congressman Andy Barr (KY-06) introduced the NIST COVID-19 Cyber-Security Act, which instructs the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to produce standards for mitigating and protecting against cyberattacks to American universities researching COVID-19. 
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Revised NIST Cyber Security Framework - Security Magazine

SANS Institute suffers data breach due to phishing attack

August 13, 2020
SANS Institute, a provider of cybersecurity training and certification services, lost approximately 28,000 items of personally identifiable information (PII) in a data breach that occurred after a single staff member fell victim to a phishing attack.
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