Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. The company currently has over 2 million users, some of them were not able to access the service for several hours.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The outage resulted in a significant delay in treatment. German authorities are investigating the perpetrators on suspicion of negligent manslaughter.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Mozilla addressed a bug that can be exploited by attackers to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers that share the same WiFi network. Mozilla has addressed a vulnerability that can be abused by attackers to hijack all the Firefox for Android browsers on the same WiFi network and force them to visit malicious sites, such as pages delivering malware and phishing pages.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Indictments against Iranian hackers, a Veterans Affairs data breach, and more of the week's top security news.

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Data breaches 101

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