The Download: This Week’s Top Security News – September 2, 2016
The Download: This Week’s Top Security News – September 2, 2016

The data and endpoint security landscape is always changing, and news happens fast. Each week we recap some of the top security news stories to help you stay informed. Here’s what happened this week.

GoDaddy, a web hosting company and domain registrar, has warned their customers about two new targeted phishing scams that have been making the rounds. While the first scam spoofs the company’s auction email address, the second sends users a fake email that appears to come from GoDaddy’s support center.

Social media has been used for years as a means of spreading malware through social engineering. But this new report suggests that the problem is growing. In particular, Twitter is the main platform in terms of cyber risk.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife temporarily shut down the sale of hunting and fishing licenses during an investigation into a vulnerability on their vendor’s license sale system.

Web browser Opera has reset  all user passwords following an incursion into its sync system. Luckily, Opera says only a small percentage of their user base were were affected by the breach.

Transmission, a BitTorrent client for Mac, has been infected with malware known as OSX/Keydnap. The Transmission team says they plan to perform a full security audit of all of their web servers and source control systems.

The Dropbox data breach that occurred back in 2012 has come back with a vengeance to haunt the app’s users. The hack has affected over 68 million accounts.