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Infosec bits for week 48/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Cyber Security Challenge 2019: Qualifying Teams [SANReN]
    - Our champions will compete head-to-head at the CHPC conference next week in an attack/defend contest and solving various CTF challenges
  2. Black Friday Shopping: Protect Your Identity [CISA]
  3. PN-G [schools district] pays ransom to regain access to district files [Isaac Windes, Beaumont Enterprise / Hearst Newspapers]
  4. Data-Enriched Profiles on 1.2B People Exposed in Gigantic Leak [Tara Seals, Threatpost]
    - see also: Data Enrichment Industry Responsible for a Massive Data Leak Affecting 1.2 Billion Individuals
  5. ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .ORG heist [Sam Klein, SJ’s Lingest Now]
  6. Twitter will finally let users disable SMS as default 2FA method [Catalin Cimpanu, Zero Day]
  7. Lights That Warn Planes of Obstacles Were Exposed to Open Internet [Joseph Cox, Motherboard / VICE]
  8. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers [Andy Greenberg (book)]
  9. Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software [BBC News]
  10. Local Malware Analysis with Malice [Guy Bruneau, SANS]