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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines – October 12, 2020

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show "Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 9, 2020

UK issues a report on Huawei 5G rollback The UK House of Commons defence committee issued a report finding that "It is clear that Huawei...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 8, 2020

Singapore introduces cybersecurity rating for ‘smart’ devices From home Wi-Fi routers to robot vacuums, home appliances sold in Singapore can now opt-in to a voluntary...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 7, 2020

Paying ransomware ransom is now illegal, according to the Treasury Department "In an official advisory, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 6, 2020

Ransomware disrupts COVID-19 vaccine trials The attack hit the Philadelphia-based eResearchTechnology on September 20th, which provides services for electronic patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials. Researchers...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 5, 2020

Covid tracking apps from Google-Apple partnership gaining traction in the U.S. Six months after the release of API technology built for hosting Covid-19 exposure alert...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 2, 2020

Huawei failed to address network security flaws This comes from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), which believes Huawei has failed to tackle security...

CISO Series Turns Two!

Today is officially the anniversary of the CISO Series. The concept of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Series started back in January 2018, and then...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 1, 2020

Facebook faces down QAnon, bogus election ads, and privacy on the Gram Since Facebook announced in August that it would crack down on posts by...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 30, 2020

French shipping giant hit with ransomware attack The attack impacted CMA CGM. Since 2017, the world's four biggest maritime shipping companies have been subject to...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 29, 2020

Universal Health Services hospitals hit country-wide by Ryuk ransomware The attack started early Sunday morning leaving UHS hospitals in California, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington D.C.,...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 28, 2020

China’s biggest chip maker hit by US sanctions "The US Department of Commerce has stated that companies that export to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 25, 2020

DHS acknowledges leak of facial recognition images The images were part of a Department of Homeland Security facial recognition pilot project and were obtained in...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 24, 2020

Public-sector mega-vendor Tyler admits it was hacked The largest provider of software and services to the public sector in the United States said on Wednesday...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 23, 2020

Maze ransomware adopts Ragnar Locker virtual machine approach The people behind Maze ransomware are now distributing payloads through virtual machines as a method for getting...