InfoSecSherpa’s News Roundup for Wednesday, August 18, 2021
InfoSecSherpa: Your Guide Up a Mountain of Information!
1 min readAug 18, 2021
- Stanford report on Jordanian disinformation network reveals inauthentic activity on TikTok and other platforms
(The Stanford Daily, August 17th) - Online fraud now Isle of Man’s most common crime
(BBC News, August 18th) - Unpatched Fortinet Bug Allows Firewall Takeovers
(Threatpost, August 18th) - One in seven Twitter accounts may be nothing more than software ‘bots’
(Tech Xplore, August 18th) - Gaming Industry is Under Siege from Web Attacks
(Ele Times World, August 18th) - Cuba cybersecurity rules take aim at protests
(DW, August 18th) - The Taliban spin machine
(CJR, August 18th) - The Cybersecurity 202: Sensitive government data could be another casualty of Afghan pullout
(The Washington Post, August 17th) - Cyber company obtains data from 750,000 Hoosiers in attack on Indiana COVID tracing survey
(Indy Star, August 17th) - Chinese group carried out widespread cyber espionage campaign in Israel — report
(The Times of Israel, August 10th)
