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Cyber Security Headlines

Cyber Security Headlines

Cybersecurity News – Cloudflare outage, new cybersecurity laws, 7-Zip Windows security

Cloudflare outage impacts crypto exchanges  On Tuesday, Cloudflare suffered a wide-spread outage affecting services of a large number of its customers including Shopify, League of...

Cybersecurity News – Windows downloads blocked in Russia, Krebs on receipts, Chrome extension fingerprinting

Windows downloads blocked in Russia Russia’s TASS news agency reported that users in Russia can no longer download Windows 10 or 11 image files and...

Cybersecurity News – DoJ shuts RSOCKS Botnet, new eCh0raix target QNAP NAS, Russia’s Ukraine cyberwar

US DoJ announces shut down of Russian RSOCKS Botnet An international police operation that involved law enforcement partners from Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K....

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – June 13-17, 2022

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Ariel Weintraub, CISO, MassMutual Cyber Security...

Cybersecurity News – Vulnerable US warning, AutoSave assists ransomware, OMIGOD is back!

House Armed Services chair calls national security software, systems 'too vulnerable' In a story we have heard from many similar sources, the chairman of the...

Cybersecurity News – Cloudflare’s record DDoS, Shoprite hit with ransomware, threat actors target travelers

Cloudflare repels another record DDoS Cloudflare mitigated a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack with a record peak traffic of 26 million requests per second. This attack proved...

Cybersecurity News – Pegasus takeover, ethical hacker ruling, Kaiser Permanente hack

US defense contractor discusses takeover of NSO hacking technology L3Harris, a US defense contractor, is negotiating with NSO Group to potentially acquire its controversial Pegasus...

Cybersecurity News – Travis CI leaks credentials, Exchange deploys Black Cat, tracking phones with Bluetooth

Leaky continuous integration logs  Security researchers at Aqua Security report that third-party open source developer credentials are being leaked by the hosted continuous integration service...

Cybersecurity News: Amazon’s chat app, gaming decryptors, China influencers

Amazon’s chat app has a child sex abuse problem Amazon's chat app, it's encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, has become a go-to destination for people...

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – June 6-10, 2022

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Upendra Mardikar, CSO, Snap Finance Cyber...

Cybersecurity News – MFA a long haul for Feds, Emotet hits Google Chrome, Follina use grows

MFA could be long haul for some federal agencies says CISA official Numerous agencies have not yet met a November deadline on multifactor authentication laid...

Cybersecurity News – CISA calls for more ransomware reporting, snooping on SOHO routers, SSNDOB taken down

Lack of reporting hurting the ransomware fight In an interview, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, Eric Goldstein, said that the severe lack of ransomware...

Cybersecurity News – Passwords are finally dead, Online gun sites hacked, Shields data breach

Passwords are finally dead - no, its for real this time At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Apple announced its plan to launch passwordless...

Cybersecurity News – AlphaBay back on top, Karakurt phones home, and China eases up on Didi

The once and future AlphaBay In July 2017, global law enforcement coordinated on Operation Bayonet to take down the dark web marketplace AlphaBay, seizing servers...

Cybersecurity News – Reverse tunnel phishing, Atlassian bug, tech antitrust bill

Evasive phishing mixes reverse tunnels and URL shortening services Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL...