Germany seeks to strengthen its cybersecurity collaboration with Israel in light of the recent escalation between Iran and Israel. Initiative “Cyber Dome” includes a German-Israeli cyber research center and expanded cooperation between Israel’s Mossad and Germany’s BND intelligence agency.
Marriott International has agreed to pay a $52 million fine for cyber-negligence resulting in data breaches affecting over 300 million of its customers worldwide, representing a fine of less than two cents per customer.
The US Federal Trade Commission and attorney generals from 49 states ran parallel investigations into three data breaches which took place between 2014 and 2020. Cybercriminals were able to steal the passport information, payment card numbers, loyalty numbers, dates of birth, email addresses plus personal information from hundreds of millions of customers.
Researchers from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) presented a new attack named ‘AutoSpill’ that enables attackers to steal account credentials on Android devices via an autofill operation, during the Black Hat Europe security conference.
IIIT researchers pinpointed WebView, the Android feature used to open external links through an internal browser view as the starting point of the security flaw, leaving autofilled usernames and passwords vulnerable.
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