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.
GoDaddy employees duped in cryptocurrency hack
Social engineering was used to trick GoDaddy employees into transferring ownership and control over several cryptocurrency domains. This attack,...
Worldwide campaign targets ZeroLogon exploit
Security researchers at Symantec have documented companies in 17 regions being impacted by this campaign across automotive, pharmaceutical, engineering, and...
Trump fires CISA director Chris Krebs
Krebs served as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since its founding in November 2018....
Apple responds to macOS privacy concerns
Apple's Gatekeeper security service was first released on Mac's in 2012, and “performs online checks to verify if an...
Finland pushes through change to ID code law
The Finish government said it was preparing new legislation to allow citizens to change their personal identity...
Facebook extends ban on political ads
In the announcement, the social network said that the ban would extend for another month. Facebook cited the delays...
Biden aide Bill Russo attacks Facebook’s post-election role
Mr. Russo, who is deputy press secretary to the US president-elect tweeted that Facebook is not doing...
Inrupt launches enterprise privacy platform
In 2017, Tim Berners-Lee launched a company called Inrupt to market products that used the open-source Solid system. Monday, Inrupt...
Trump lawsuit site to report rejected votes leaked voter data
The website, called DontTouchTheGreenButton.com was launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the recently...
Facebook updates its premature victory policy
On election night, Facebook told the Wall Street Journal that it's policy to label candidate posts claiming premature victory...
Facebook and Instagram add pop-up banners about election results
The banners inform US users that the results of the US election have not been determined,...
Instagram banner mistakenly advertises Wednesday as Election Day for some subscribers
On Tuesday, a subset of Instagram subscribers saw a notification that stated “Tomorrow is...
Twitter clarifies its election results policy
The company had previously said it will label misleading tweets claiming premature victory in the US presidential election. Now...
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