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CS Digest: 10 Jun 2020

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The Cybersecurity (CS) Digest is a curated bi-weekly news summary for cybersecurity professionals. It is transmitted in an HTML-formatted email and provides links to articles and news summaries across a spectrum of cybersecurity topics.

CSIAC ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CSIAC Podcast – Ownership Model – Rust Models Part 2 - CSIAC

This video discusses the Rust Language Ownership model which uses a type safety policy for avoiding undefined program behavior. The Rust type system ensures memory safety and prevents data races in multi-thread programs. The language rules for program variable (data) mutation, and the differences between value copies and moves is discussed in detail. Variable data is, by default, immutable. Variables must be annotated with the "mut" keyword in order to be modified.

CSIAC Webinar, Monday, June 15 @ 1100 EDT: Rust Error Handling - CSIAC

This presentation begins with a brief summary of Rust's features and the needs that motivate them. It then focuses on one particular important feature-set, Rust's error handling mechanisms. The discussion provides code snippets that illustrate how error handling works in Rust with annotated comments, accompanied by discussion explaining code operations. Links will be provided for the complete working code examples.
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CSIAC Podcast – Introduction to the Rust Programming Language – Rust Models Part 1 - CSIAC

This video provides an introduction and a brief overview of the Rust Programming Language. It covers the prerequisites required for getting started. This includes: the setup of a development environment using Visual Studio Code, and the Rust package manager and build tool known as "Cargo."
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RECENT HEADLINES:

Google faces $5 billion lawsuit in U.S. for tracking ‘private’ internet use - Reuters

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through browsers set in "private" mode.
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Huge Cyberattacks Attempt To Silence Black Rights Movement With DDoS Attacks - Forbes

After the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests across the U.S., cyberattacks on advocacy groups spiked by an astonishing 1,120 times. It's unclear who is behind the attacks, but they included attempts to neuter anti-racist organizations' freedom of speech.
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Researcher lands $100,000 reward for ‘Sign in with Apple’ authentication bypass bug - ZDNet

Apple has awarded a bug bounty hunter $100,000 for finding and reporting a severe security issue that could lead to the takeover of third-party user accounts.
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As Amazon Face Recognition Tool Mismatches Politicians With Mugshots, Research Finds It Working Worse Than 2 Years Ago - Fork Log

Tests performed by Comparitech showed that Amazon's face recognition technology incorrectly matched over a hundred of the United States and United Kingdom politicians with photos of arrested people.
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It’s not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously - The Register

The NSA has raised the alarm over what it says is Russia's active exploitation of a remote-code execution flaw in Exim for which a patch exists.
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The NCCoE Announces Technology Collaborators for Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments Project - NCCoE

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has invited ten technology providers and industry experts to collaborate on the Protecting Information and System Integrity in Industrial Control System Environments Project.

After a breach, users rarely change their passwords, study finds - ZDNet

Only around a third of users usually change their passwords following a data breach announcement, according to a recent study published by academics from the Carnegie Mellon University's Security and Privacy Institute (CyLab).
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80% of Organizations Suffered a Cloud Data Breach in the Past 18 Months - CISO MAG

A new research has revealed that 80% of organizations suffered at least one cloud data breach in the past 18 months, while 43% of companies reported 10 or more cloud data breaches.
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Hackers steal secrets from US nuclear missile contractor - Sky News

Hackers have stolen confidential documents from a US military contractor which provides critical support for the country's Minuteman III nuclear deterrent, Sky News has learnt.
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Attack targeted database credentials on 1.3 million WordPress sites - SC Magazine

A massive attack at the end of May targeted the database credentials of some 1.3 million WordPress sites.
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DOD’s third attempt to implement IPv6 isn’t going well - ZDNet

The US Department of Defense is woefully behind on its plan to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support the newer IPv6 protocol, according to a government report published on Monday.
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