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News Wrap: Twitter Hack, Apple Under Fire and Global Privacy Finger Wags

Threatpost editors talk about the biggest security news stories for the week ended Jul. 24.

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This year's favorite talk! Details on bug, exploit dev, mitigation bypass, discussion on dead ends, reliability estimates, accompanied by hardening measures and how Microsoft is working on eradicating such issues #BlackHat2019 https://twitter.com/JosephBialek/status/1161669764940324871

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“My #BlackHat2019 slides on exploiting Hyper-V are now on the MSRC Github page: https://t.co/0IlpGMlFVi”

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social GDPR exploit: "The security expert contacted dozens of UK and US-based firms to test how they would handle a 'right of access' request made in someone else's name..." #Blackhat2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49252501
Privacy law exploited to reveal fiancee’s data

One in four firms holding a test subject's data released it to her partner without her permission.

This year the keynote was a pretty good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2rIVdpMToM

#blackhat2019

Black Hat Asia 2019 Keynote: The Next Arms Race

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nteresting results from Google's #Blackhat2019 talk about #phishing:
- They block more than 100M phishing mails/day
- 68% of these are new variations.
- Enterprise users 5 times more likely to be targeted than standard Gmail users.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/phishing-emails-heres-why-we-are-still-getting-caught-out-after-all-these-years/
#Infosec #Gmail

Phishing emails: Here's why we are still getting caught out after all these years | ZDNet

Google explains why phishing scams are still depressingly effective.

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Bitfi earns dubious distinction of winning Pwnie for 'Lamest Vendor Response' to a bug report for the second time. #BHUSA #BlackHat2019