Security Affairs newsletter Round 35 – Best of the week from best sources

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Malvertising attack hit The Economist, anti-ad blocking service PageFair hacked

Threat actors hacked the popular Touchnote company

Cyber Caliphate Hacks 54k Twitter accounts, including ones of CIA and FBI officials

The Infernal-Twin tool, easy hacking wireless networks

British NCA revealed to have hacking abilities, aka equipment interference

The Power of V&V

Cyber domain black swans

Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale

Remote Code Execution Flaw Found in Java App Servers

Cryptowall 4.0 comes from Russia, Bitdefender released a vaccine

New 4G LTE Hacks Punch Holes In Privacy

Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s watching you

Iranian cyberespionage group attacked over 1,600 high-profile targets in one year

200,000 Comcast login credentials available on the Dark Web

Flash Flaws Most Common in Exploit Kits: Report

Flaw in Linux.Encoder1 ransomware reveals the decryption key

Social media savvy students ‘better at avoiding cybercrime’

Comodo fixes bug that led to issue of banned digital certificates

Three men charged for the attack on the JPMorgan Chase

Adobe Patches 17 Flaws in Flash Player

GCHQ and NCA hunting criminals in the dark web

What You Should Know about Triangulation Fraud and eBay

88 percent of company networks vulnerable to privileged account hacks

Comcast resets 200,000 cleartext passwords that were up for sale online

7 tips to becoming a successful CISO

T-Mobile US megahack cost Experian $20m, class actions coming

The Snooper’s Charter would devastate computer security research in the UK

Beaches, carnivals and cybercrime: a look inside the Brazilian underground

SAP Releases Over Dozen High Priority Patches

Android Tablets with Pre-Installed Trojan Sold on Amazon

Most Enterprises Prone to Privileged Account Hacks: Report

Ransomware infected the UK Parliament’s computer networks

Drone regulation – Keeping the skies safe from commercial drones

Android Tablets with Pre-loaded Cloudsota malware sold on Amazon

Spam and phishing in Q3 2015

Shadow state? Scotlands IT independence creeps forth

Did FBI pay the Carnegie Mellon to hack Tor?

New PoS Malware Delivered via Malicious Docs, Exploit Kit

Pay or we’ll knock your site offline—DDoS-for-ransom attacks surge

The Edward Snowden guide to practical privacy

Ransomware-as-a-service surfaces, wants 10 percent profit cut

The dark side of layered security

Flaw in Spring Social Puts User Accounts at Risk

More Ransomware Being Spread Via Malvertising

Conficker is back – and its infecting police body cams

Bug in Gmail app for Android Allows anyone to Send Spoofed Emails

Flaw in the Android Gmail app opens to email spoofing attacks

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