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Facebook Flaws and Privacy Laws: A Journey into Early Social Media Security from 2009

Security Boulevard

Travel back to 2009 with the second-ever episode featuring discussions on early Facebook bugs, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, and a pivotal Canadian privacy ruling involving Facebook. The post Facebook Flaws and Privacy Laws: A Journey into Early Social Media Security from 2009 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

Tim Mackey, Head of Software Supply Chain Risk Strategy at Black Duck, explains: "Attacks on legacy cyber-physical, IoT, and IIoT devicesparticularly in an OT environmentare to be expected and must be planned for as part of the operational requirements for the device. For the latest updates and resources, visit StopRansomware.gov.

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Cybersecurity in Aviation: Rising Threats and Modernization Efforts

SecureWorld News

Boeing itself was targeted by the LockBit ransomware platform in 2023, facing a $200 million ransom demand, while its unit Jeppesen, a provider of flight navigation tools, suffered a major ransomware incident in 2022, delaying flight-planning services and illustrating the cascading risk of a single provider outage.

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Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats

Schneier on Security

More imagination leads to more movie-plot threats -- which contributes to overall fear and overestimation of the risks. Last month, at the 2009 Homeland Security Science & Technology Stakeholders Conference in Washington D.C., And that doesn't help keep us safe at all.

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Hundreds of Millions of Dell Users at Risk from Kernel-Privilege Bugs

Threatpost

The privilege-escalation bug remained hidden for 12 years and has been present in all Dell PCs, tablets and notebooks shipped since 2009.

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t

Krebs on Security

“We released a security advisory in June of 2009 and a security update that helps keep customers safe. Faced with either or both of these scenarios, most affected companies probably decided the actual risk of not applying these updates was comparatively low. Further reading: Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions (PDF).

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

ChronoPay specializes in providing access to the global credit card networks for “high risk” merchants — businesses involved in selling services online that tend to generate an unusually large number of chargebacks and reports of fraud, and hence have a higher risk of failure. Click to enlarge.

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