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Subscribe to our Threatpost Today newsletterJoin thousands of people who receive the latest breaking cybersecurity news every day.The administrator of your personal data will be Threatpost, Inc., 500 Unicorn Park, Woburn, MA 01801. Detailed information on the processing of personal data can be found in the privacy policy. In addition, you will find them in the message confirming the subscription to the newsletter. TikTok Launches Bug Bounty Program Amid Security SNAFUs The move is a distinct change in direction for the app, which has been criticized and even banned for its security practices. Adobe says the two critical flaws (CVE-2020-24407 and CVE-2020-24400) could allow arbitrary code execution as well as read or write access to the database.Subscribe to our newsletter, Threatpost Today!Get the latest breaking news delivered daily to your inbox.Subscribe now Marking a pivot from COVID-19 scams, researchers track a single threat actor through the evolution from the pandemic to PayPal, and on to more timely voter scams all with the same infrastructure. The two important-severity flaws in Microsoft Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code could enable remote code execution. Google s Threat Analysis Group sheds more light on targeted credential phishing and malware attacks on the staff of Joe Biden s presidential campaign. Fortinet researchers are seeing a pivot in the spear-phishing and phishing lures used by cybercriminals, to entice potential job candidates as businesses open up. In-game features of the just-released FIFA 21 title give scammers easy access its vast audience. Disinformation Spurs a Thriving Industry as U.S. Election Looms Threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in launching disinformation campaigns and staying under the radar to avoid detection from Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. A Cyber Vigilante is Sabotaging Emotet s Return During Black Hat USA 2020, Threatpost talks to Sherrod DeGrippo, with Proofpoint, about Emotet s recent return -and how a cyber vigilante is attempting to thwart the malware s comeback. Tokyo Olympics Postponed, But 5G Security Lessons Shine Threatpost Senior Editor Tara Seals is joined by Russ Mohr, engineer and Apple evangelist at MobileIron along with Jerry Ray, COO at SecureAge, for a discussion about the now postponed Tokyo Games and its use of 5G and the myriad of security concerns Japan is preparing for. 2020 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch Mobile becomes a prime phishing attack vector, hackers will increasingly employ machine learning in attacks and cloud will increasingly be seen as fertile ground for compromise. Top Mobile Security Stories of 2019 Cybercrime increasingly went mobile in 2019, with everything from Apple iPhone jailbreaks and rogue Android apps to 5G and mobile-first phishing dominating the news coverage. Here are Threatpost s Top 10 mobile security stories of 2019. Top 10 IoT Disasters of 2019 From more widescale, powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, to privacy issues in children s connected toys, here are the top IoT disasters in 2019.Subscribe to our newsletter, Threatpost Today!Get the latest breaking news delivered daily to your inbox.Subscribe now Infosec Insider Post Infosec Insider content is written by a trusted community of Threatpost cybersecurity subject matter experts. Each contribution has a goal of bringing a unique voice to important cybersecurity topics. Content strives to be of the highest quality, objective and non-commercial. Sponsored Content Sponsored Content is paid for by an advertiser. Sponsored content is written and edited by members of our sponsor community. This content creates an opportunity for a sponsor to provide insight and commentary from their point-of-view directly to the Threatpost audience. The Threatpost editorial team does not participate in the writing or editing of Sponsored Content.

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