Cybersecurity Headlines is a six-minute news podcast available every weekday at 6 A.M. ET. At the start of the week (Mondays at 4 P.M. ET) we invite two security pros to comment on the top stories on the companion Department of Know show where viewers can participate live. Department of Know also made available via podcast feed.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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