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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines – June 9, 2021

StackOverflow, Twitch, Reddit, others down in Fastly CDN outage A Who’s Who of major websites around the world also including Amazon, CNN, Shopify, Hulu, Quora,...

Cyber Security Headlines – June 8, 2021

US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers This follows the attack which prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline...

Cyber Security Headlines – June 7, 2021

VMware vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating is under attack According to ArsTechnica, the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21985, "resides in the vCenter Server, a tool for...

Cyber Security Headlines – June 4, 2021

NYC transportation authority hacked using Pulse Secure zero-day Back in April, Chinese-backed threat actors breached the network of New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) by exploiting a...

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – May 31- Jun 4, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, May 31- Jun 4, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Bryan...

Cyber Security Headlines – June 3, 2021

Florida teen faces charges for DDoS attack on school district Felony charges have been filed against an unnamed 17-year year old junior at St. Petersburg...

Cyber Security Headlines – June 2, 2021

Critical WordPress plugin zero-day under active exploitation According to BleepingComputer, "threat actors are scanning for sites running the Fancy Product Designer plugin to exploit a...

Cyber Security Headlines – June 1, 2021

Amazon to opt-in users to Amazon Sidewalk  On June 8th, Amazon will enroll Echo, Ring, and other Amazon devices in the US into its new...

Cyber Security Headlines – May 31, 2021

Two new attacks allow alteration of certified PDF documents Paraphrased from Security Affairs, "researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have disclosed two new attack techniques, dubbed Evil...

Cyber Security Headlines – May 28, 2021

Twitter urges Indian government to respect free speech On Thursday, Twitter responded to India’s new heavy-handed regulations that give authorities greater control over online media and internet...

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – May 24-28, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, May 24-28, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Jimmy Sanders (@jfireluv),...

Cyber Security Headlines – May 27, 2021

Belgium disrupts cyber-espionage campaign In the wake of Microsoft’s recent disclosure of Exchange server vulnerabilities, Belgium’s Federal Public Service Interior launched an investigation in March...

Cyber Security Headlines – May 26, 2021

DHS to issue first-ever cybersecurity regulations for pipelines after Colonial hack According to the Washington Post, "the Department of Homeland Security is moving to regulate...

Cyber Security Headlines – May 25, 2021

8.3 million plaintext passwords leaked A leak of almost 13 million DailyQuiz users appeared for sale online from multiple sources, following a breach of the...

Cyber Security Headlines – May 24, 2021

Air India hack covers ten years and three other airlines The hack that is currently being attributed to Air India was apparently directed at Atlanta-based...