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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.

Kaspersky busts a hacking group using their own AV. German police raid a dark web bunker, shutting down more than 200 servers. The city of Baltimore reports that it had no backups when it was hit with ransomware back in May 2019. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

A study decodes how kids get into hacking. DoorDash loses personal records of 5 million clients and drivers. Outlook plans to add 38 more file extensions to its blacklist. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Arizona schools demonstrate the model response to a malware attack. A marketing analytics company leaks deep profiles of the entire Ecuador population. A new phishing attack targets the whistleblower submission site for The Guardian. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Philadelphia law firms fend off phishing attacks involving fake clients. California follows San Francisco by passing a statewide bill to ban police use of facial recognition. Ransomware cripples multiple organizations, including Rockford, IL, public schools and Entercom Communications. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.