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FBI warning: Two hacking campaigns are targeting Salesforce systems to steal data, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in an alert Friday. The warning includes indicators of compromise and outlines how hackers are calling corporate customer support lines posing as tech employees to talk agents into releasing credentials.
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New iPhones sport anti-spyware protection. Apple's forthcoming iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices contain measures to help stop problems with memory corruption often used by spyware and forensic tools used by police. The new devices are due out Friday. (TechCrunch)
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Material impact: An Aug. 16 ransomware attack will cost Data I/O $388,000 "and will likely have a material impact on the Company’s results of operations and financial condition," electronics supplier said in a regulatory disclosure. Communications, shipping, receiving, manufacturing and support functions were disrupted but are now fully restored, according to the company, which provides software and security systems to firms that make integrated circuits. No revenue was lost, Data I/O said.
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DHS has mismanaged funds intended to retain high-value cybersecurity employees, watchdog says. The Department of Homeland Security gave 240 ineligible employees retention pay that under a program started in 2015 should have gone to mission-critical workers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the DHS inspector general said in a new report. (FedScoop)
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A database kept by the Vietnamese government that stores information about creditors and other financial institutions was hacked. The National Credit Information Center, which is managed by the State Bank of Vietnam, is investigating whether it lost personal data in the attack. (Reuters)
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