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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based based technology companies.

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Sendgrid Under Siege from Hacked Accounts

Krebs on Security

Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. “And I just am not seeing anything this egregious in terms of viruses and spams from the other email service providers.”

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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

Krebs on Security

.” “That said, the phishing attacks stem from partners’ machines being compromised with malware, which has enabled them to also gain access to the partners’ accounts and to send the messages that your reader has flagged,” they continued. A scan of social media networks showed this is not an uncommon scam.

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Social Media Accounts: The Weak Link in Organizational SaaS Security

The Hacker News

Social media accounts help shape a brand’s identity and reputation. However, despite the high profile role these accounts have, many organizations overlook social media account security. These public forums engage directly with customers as they are a hub to connect, share content and answer questions.

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Report: Healthcare haunted by account security

SC Magazine

More than three-quarters of organizations in the sector had at least 500 accounts that expire, and even more than that had at least a thousand “ghost accounts” of former employees that were never closed. “When information that sensitive is open to every employee, or to too many accounts or too many users. .

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Twitter Breach Highlights Privileged Account Security Issue

Dark Reading

Security incident that allowed attackers to hijack high-profile accounts suggests social media giant's controls for spotting insider abuse were not strong enough, security experts say.

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Cookiethief, the Android malware that hijacks Facebook accounts

Security Affairs

Experts discovered an Android Trojan, dubbed Cookiethief , that is able to gain root access on infected devices and hijack Facebook accounts. “This way, a cybercriminal armed with a cookie can pass himself off as the unsuspecting victim and use the latter’s account for personal gain.”. ” continues Kaspersky.