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5 Security Things to Know for the Week of Aug. 6

Written by Dan Kaplan | Aug 6, 2018

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1) The Black Hat and DEFCON conferences are here. Time to gear up for the most anticipated week on the infosec calendar.

2) Google pulled scores of apps from its Play Store because they contained Windows malware.

3) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security stood up a "cyber hub" to better respond to threats against critical infrastructure.

4) Nearly one-third of CISOs expect to enter a bug bounty program in the next year.

5) More than 200,000 routers and growing were zombified to install cryptomining scripts.