The 2020 Census will be a prime target for digital adversaries, but the plans for fighting those threats are incomplete and outdated, the Government Accountability Office found.
CS Digest Section: RECENT HEADLINES
Sysmon Getting DNS Query Logging with Querying Process Name
To the delight of Windows system administrators everywhere, Microsoft has announced that a new version of Sysmon is coming out this week that will include the ability to log DNS queries performed on a monitored computer. Even better, Sysmon will also log the process that performed the query.
Forget BlueKeep: Beware the GoldBrute
A botnet has appeared that has attempted to brute-force 1.5 million RDP connections to Windows systems in the last few days - and counting.
https://threatpost.com/forget-bluekeep-beware-goldbrute/145482/
How to Stop Robocalls – or At Least Slow Them Down
On Thursday, the agency finally approved phone carriers to begin blocking robocalls by default, a proposal that first surfaced in the Obama administration.
https://www.wired.com/story/stop-robocalls-slow-down-apps-tips-carriers-fcc/
The Catch-22 That Broke the Internet
Five days ago, the internet had a conniption. In broad patches around the globe, YouTube sputtered. Shopify stores shut down. Snapchat blinked out. And millions of people couldn't access their Gmail accounts. The disruptions all stemmed from Google Cloud, which suffered a prolonged outage-which also prevented Google engineers from pushing a fix.
Google Search Ads Infiltrated Again by Tech Support Scams
If you are planning on doing any shopping over the weekend, you may want to be careful when doing searches in Google. This is because scammers have infiltrated Google's ad network to redirect users to tech support scams when they click on popular search terms such as Lowes and PayPal.
Mozilla Firefox Now Stops Websites, Advertisers From Tracking You
After more than a year ratcheting up its privacy protections, Firefox now blocks website cookies that can let advertisers and publishers track you across the web.
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-firefox-now-blocks-websites-advertisers-from-tracking-you/
Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor
If you haven't recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/06/linux-vim-vulnerability.html
FBI Issues Warning on ‘Secure’ Websites Used For Phishing
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a public service announcement regarding TLS-secured websites being actively used by malicious actors in phishing campaigns.
That Malware With its Own Backdoor Into Android’s Framework? Don’t Worry; Google’s on it. (Gulp!)
Google confirmed that cyberthieves had managed to pre-install malware into the Android framework backdoor. In short, the malware appeared to be blessed by Google at the deepest point within Android.
