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Trump's Twitter Account Hacked...Again?

At a campaign rally in Tuscon, AZ on Monday, Donald Trump stated, “Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked, you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password.” The video quickly spread across the cybersecurity social media circles and generated a lot of attention. Today, Between The Hacks will dissect Trump’s statements, touch on some related news about a possible hack of Trump’s Twitter account, and share a few basic tips on how to secure your social media accounts.

Take Control of Your Privacy with Global Privacy Control

The challenge of protecting the privacy of people online while still providing free services and content, is a challenge that has been met with many attempted solutions. Unfortunately nothing has really worked well to date but the pressures of privacy legislation like GDPR, (Europe) LGPD (Brazil) and CCPA (California) are pushing technologists to figure out how to have each individual communicate their privacy desires to the websites that they visit. he latest attempt and solving this problem is…

BTH News 04October2020

This week on Between the Hacks, it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, potentially steep fines for paying a ransom, a New Jersey hospital pays a ransom to prevent sensitive data leakage, a warning about election misinformation, and a tool to test website privacy.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month

In two weeks, the 2020 National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) will begin and Between The Hacks is a Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2020 Champion. Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion organizations, which include companies, schools, school districts, colleges and universities, nonprofits and government entities, represent those dedicated to promoting a safer, more secure and more trusted Internet according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance.

For the month of October, Between the Hacks, along with hundreds…

BTH News 08August2020

This week on Between the Hacks, Black Hat keynote addresses election security, more fallout from the Blackbaud breach, the NSA warns of location tracking abuse, 20 GB of Intel data is leaked and watch the DEF CON YouTube channel.

Breach Week

It’s August 2020 and many families take this time to go on vacations. COVID-19 has caused many people to delay or cancel those plans so instead of Beach Week, here at Between The Hacks, we are dubbing this week as Breach Week.

Why? Because there was an unusually large number of data breaches made public this week. Avon, Drizly, Dave.com, Havenly and many others had data breached publicly online this week. So if you didn’t make it to the beach this year, put on your swimsuit, grab a frozen, fruity drink and relax as you learn which companies were breached, check if you were impacted, and learn how to be alerted if you are impacted by data breaches in the future.

BTH News 18July2020

This week on Between the Hacks, hacked Twitter accounts used in a bitcoin scam, a critical Windows server vulnerability, the UK proposed IoT security standards, the Internet goes down on Friday and a riveting book about how wormable malware created an enormous botnet.

BTH News 10July2020

This week on Between the Hacks, billions of leaked credentials found on the dark web, home routers found to be vulnerable, Instagram star extradited to the U.S. to face charges for BEC attacks, more news about clipboard snooping and The Internet’s Own Boy.

BTH News 04July2020

This week on Between the Hacks, July 4th Edition, voting vulnerabilities, Roblox hacked to promote Trump, a new bill that threatens encryption and free speech, the NSA shares VPN security strategies, and a book (and upcoming documentary) that reveals details of global cyber tension.

BTH News 26June2020

This week on Between the Hacks, Netgear vulnerabilities, U.S. police data leaked, Lucifer malware targets Windows, 80% of people don’t delete data from their car before selling, and find out if your accounts have been part of a data breach.

BTH News 19June2020

This week on Between the Hacks, breachstortion joins the family of phishing attack methods, a teen surfer and influencer’s Instagram account is hacked and used to share sexually explicit material, attackers are using MFA to lock people out of their hijacked accounts, an Isreali cybersecurity firm discloses zero-day vulnerabilities that affect hundreds of millions of devices, and a great deal on cybersecurity e-books.

Breachstortion

A breachstortion attack consists of a malicious email which claims that the sender has breached the victim’s website or company network, copied data from their databases and moved that data to an offshore server. The email then threatens to post the data publicly unless the victim pays the ransom.

Unlike sextortion, a breachstortion attack does not…