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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines – December 9, 2020

Microsoft’s December 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 58 vulnerabilities With the December 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates release, Microsoft has released fixes for 58 vulnerabilities and...

Cyber Security Headlines – December 8, 2020

Google publishes cross-site leaks wiki This site is set up as an open knowledge base where researchers can share new information about cross-site leaks. At...

Cyber Security Headlines – December 7, 2020

Drug dealers offer Pfizer vaccine on the Dark Web With the United Kingdom becoming the first Western country to authorize a Covid-19 vaccine and announce...

Cyber Security Headlines – December 4, 2020

Spotify celebrity pages defaced to plug Trump, Taylor Swift A hacker has vandalized Spotify's list of the year's most popular songs. The hacker, who goes...

Cyber Security Headlines – December 3, 2020

Malicious hackers target the Covid-19 vaccine ‘cold chain’ As the world waits for the COVID-19 vaccine, a very complex distribution process is underway that requires...

Cyber Security Headlines – December 2, 2020

US Supreme Court eyes narrowing of CFAA Continuing a story we covered on Monday, "the Supreme Court has indicated serious reservations about the ambiguity and...

Cyber Security Headlines – December 1, 2020

Baltimore schools struggling with ransomware The November 25th attack forced the Baltimore County Public Schools to announce they would be closed through December 1st, promising...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 30, 2020

Biden transition team forced to build its own cybersecurity protections "The Trump administration is blocking many of the transition-related resources usually provided to a president-elect,...

Cyber Security Headlines November 25, 2020

Brazil continues to recover from its worst cyberattack Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court was hit with a ransomware attack on November 3rd, with systems taken offline...

Cyber Security Headlines November 24, 2020

New Jersey passes anti-doxxing law Governor Phil Murphy signed Daniel’s Law into effect, barring the publication of home addresses and unlisted phone numbers for judges,...

Cyber Security Headlines November 23, 2020

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,...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 20, 2020

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...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 19, 2020

Trump's tweets to lose protected status post-presidency US President Donald J. Trump isn't like the rest of us, and he doesn't play by the same...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 18, 2020

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....

Cyber Security Headlines – November 17, 2020

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...