YouTube account hijacking. Facebook finds more apps misusing data. Cyber deterrence in the Gulf region. Huawei’s CFO continues to fight extradition from Canada to the US. Pentesting blues.

YouTube creators in the “car community” get their accounts hijacked over the weekend. Facebook finds tens of thousands of apps behaving badly with respect to priority--the social network’s announcement has been cooly received in the US Senate. The Gulf region continues to be a field of cyber as well as kinetic competition. Huawei’s CFO is back in court today. And Iowa tries to sort out what it actually hired pentesters to do (and to whom they were supposed to do it.) Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI on smart TV privacy concerns.

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2019/September/CyberWire_2019_09_23.html 

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