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

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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.

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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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