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Security Affairs newsletter Round 65 – News of the week

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The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

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How to bypass two-factor authentication with a text message
WauchulaGhost targets ISIS Twitter Accounts and floods them with porn images
Security Affairs newsletter Round 64 – News of the week
The NSA wants to exploit IoT devices for surveillance and sabotage
Exclusive: Critical vulnerability found on Twitter?
Singapore will isolate Government Computers from the Internet
North Korean Hackers stole defense documents and photos from South
‘Hacking Team and heterogony of ends: how the hack of Phineas Fisher can lead to unwanted worst consequences for the evolution of the Surveillance Tools and State Spyware.
Watch out, FLocker Ransomware targets Android smart TVs
Crooks can clone payments cards with a hi-tech contactless device
Hackers find a way to send massive messages on Telegram
CVE-2016-4171 – Another Flash Zero-Day exploited in targeted attacks
Hack the Pentagon, hackers already found more than 100 flaws
Over 45 Million passwords from Verticalscope 1,000 sites leaked online
ScarCruft APT Group exploited Flash Zero-Day in High-Profile attacks
The xDedic marketplace is selling over 70,000 hacked Servers
Hacking Facebook Accounts with just a phone number through the SS7 protocol
Cisco wireless kits are affected by a critical bug but no fix is available
Russian Hackers get Cozy with American Politics
Ramadan and EURO2016: ISIS Threats Abound in the West
Guccifer 2.0 – Lone Wolf or a Fancy Bear?
FBI – Crooks sought to steal over $3 billion through BEC scams
WarBerry Pi, a Tactical Exploitation device
GitHub said that leaked passwords were used to access its accounts
NATO officially recognizes cyberspace a warfare domain
Tesco Bank mobile app wont run with Tor Orbot tool installed
FBI has a facial recognition system that can access 411 million photos

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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