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Ethiopia foils a mass cyber hacking attempt with prompt incident response. A city in Florida recovers almost all monetary losses after a BEC scam. A bug is found in a popular bug bounty platform, earning a bug hunter $20,000. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Hidden cameras found at gas station pumps in conjunction with card skimmers. The FBI warns consumers about security issues in smart TVs. The State of Louisiana prevents any data loss and pays no ransom in a recent ransomware attack. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Google offers up to $1.5 million for Pixel Titan M exploits in 2020. A hacker offers $100,000 for corporate secrets. Disney+ suffers a password reuse attack less than a week after launch. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

GitHub recruits a team of tech companies to help secure open source software. A new Facebook bug secretly enables the iPhone camera. A tech company discovers a years-long data breach only after an infected server runs out of drive space. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Bug bounty platform Bugcrowd breaks weekly payout record with over $500,000. Paypal upsets Microsoft as phishers’ favorite brand for the first time in over a year. Hackers unlock smartphones in under 20 minutes by photographing fingerprints on glass. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

New phishing attacks target U.N. and enterprise executives. Bed Bath & Beyond blames their breach on password reuse. A new study finds smart light bulbs contain serious security gaps. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

A default admin password was used to "secure" sensitive data at Equifax. NordVPN suffered a data breach, exposing private encryption keys of some of its users. The U.S. Army moves on from an 8-inch floppy disk computing system. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

An anonymous hacker reveals 30% of the stolen credit cards on the black market. A Sudo flaw has been discovered that allows all Linux users run commands as root. A cybersecurity blogger experiments with an RDP honeypot. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

The Capital One breach was accomplished by a former AWS employee who took advantage of a misconfigured firewall used by Capital One to protect their AWS deployment....

A hacker encourages others to spend more time outside. A hacked programmer retaliates by hacking hackers who hacked him. A phishing incident results in a leak of personal information for 60,000 patients. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.