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.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group warns of social engineering hack aimed at security researchers
The hackers, allegedly based in North Korea, have been targeting individual security...
Google’s cookie replacement performs well in tests
In tests, the Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC API, a proposed replacement for third-party cookies, showed that...
President Biden takes on cybersecurity on day one
On his first day in office, he announced three new appointments for national cybersecurity agencies: Anne Neuberger...
Technologists comb through Parler videos with facial recognition
Faces are being recognized in archived Parler videos. One technologist claims to have distinguished about 40,000 faces...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 18-22, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest Joshua Scott, Head of...
Malwarebytes breached by the group that attacked Solarwinds
The company is the fourth prominent security firm to announce being targeted by the group, after Microsoft,...
FireEye releases report and network auditing tool for SolarWinds-type hacks
The report, released yesterday, details the techniques used by the SolarWinds hackers inside the networks...
Parler resurfaces online
The URL for the social media platform Parler was updated to show a message from CEO John Matze, reiterating the site’s self-proclaimed...
Xiaomi added to Pentagon blacklist
"Nine Chinese firms have been added to the Pentagon's blacklist of alleged ties to the Chinese military, including phone maker...
Hackers waltzed past MFA used by CISA on cloud accounts
Multifactor authentication is one of the strongest security protocols we have, but it’s not infallible....
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 11-15, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest Allan Alford, @AllanAlfordinTX.
Facial-recognition app...
Europol confirms dark web marketplace takedown
The law enforcement agency announced it coordinated with police departments across several countries to take down DarkMarket, which had...
Hackers leak stolen Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data online
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from...
SolarWinds breach now linked to Turla
This comes from analysis on the Sunburst backdoor by researchers at Kaspersky. The exploit used in the supply-chain attack...
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