In this week's news wrap ended Sept. 6, the Threatpost team breaks down the biggest news of the week, including:
Cybercrooks successfully fooling a company into a large wire transfer using an AI-powered deepfakeof a chief executive's voice (and Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities joining forces to sponsor a contestpromoting research and development to combat deepfakes) A leaky server exposing phone numbers linked to the Facebook accountsof hundreds of millions of users in the latest privacy gaffe for the social media giant. Facebook allowing its users to opt-out of the Tag Suggestions feature, while at the same time attempting to help users better understand what the feature does. The challenges behind patch management, and why 80 percent of enterprise applications have at least one unpatched vulnerability in them.