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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

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...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 22, 2020

CISA issues emergency directive to roll out a Windows Server patch The directive was rolled out on September 18th with a four day deadline. The...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 21, 2020

Trump approves Oracle’s TikTok deal, delays app store ban "The deal involves the creation of a new company called TikTok Global and a $5 billion...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 18, 2020

Oracle’s bid calls for access to TikTok's source code The news comes to sources speaking to Bloomberg, and would see Oracle also getting access to...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 17, 2020

DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with global hacking campaign The Justice Department has charged five Chinese citizens with cyberattacks against more than 100 companies in...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 16, 2020

Senator calls for US to reject Oracle’s TikTok deal The Republican Senator for Missouri, Josh Hawley has "publicly called on the Treasury Department to reject...