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Reboot Your Smartphone, FBI’s Top Targeted Vulnerabilities, Flirty Account Dupes Defense Contractors

Why rebooting your smartphone is good security hygiene, the FBI reveals top targeted vulnerabilities in the last two years, and details on how a nation state used a “flirty” aerobics instructor to steal data from defense contractors.

** Links mentioned on the show **

Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers
https://apnews.com/article/technology-government-and-politics-hacking-752db867fafbaba1f9cc34f7588944c5

FBI reveals top targeted vulnerabilities of the last two years
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-reveals-top-targeted-vulnerabilities-of-the-last-two-years/

Hackers Pose as Flirty Aerobics Instructor to Target Employees
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-28/hackers-pose-as-flirty-aerobics-instructor-to-target-employees

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The Shared Security Show authored by Tom Eston. Read the original post at: https://sharedsecurity.net/2021/08/02/reboot-your-smartphone-fbis-top-targeted-vulnerabilities-flirty-account-dupes-defense-contractors/