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Cyber Security Headlines

Cyber Security Headlines

Cybersecurity News – December 22, 2021

Hack DHS program expanded to include Log4j  On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that DHS would broaden its new bug bounty program to...

Cybersecurity News – December 21, 2021

Mobile network vulnerability goes back to 2G A new paper from researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi discloses a security vulnerability in mobile network...

Cybersecurity News – December 20, 2021

Log4J – New patch and a field day for ransomware Fallout from the Log4j zero-day continues to appear by the hour. Since its discovery last...

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – Dec 13-17, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, Dec 13-17, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Patti Titus, Chief Privacy and...

Cybersecurity News – December 17, 2021

Hackers begin exploiting second Log4j vulnerability as a third flaw emerges Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Wednesday revealed that threat actors are actively attempting to...

Cybersecurity News – December 16, 2021

Log4J vulnerability used by APTs Microsoft and the security firm Mandiant report they observed groups with ties to China, Iran, Turkey, and North Korea launching...

Cybersecurity News – December 15, 2021

Kronos ransomware outage drives widespread payroll chaos On Saturday, Workforce-management provider, Kronos, whose customers include companies such as Tesla, Puma, and YMCA, had its private...

Cybersecurity News – December 14, 2021

New details on the Log4Shell attacks Researchers at Cisco and Cloudflare report that the first attacks on the Log4J utility were actually observed on December...

Cybersecurity News – December 13, 2021

German cybersecurity watchdog issues red alert on Log4j Germany's federal cybersecurity watchdog, the BSI, on Saturday issued a red alert warning, its highest, regarding the...

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – Dec 6-10, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, Dec 6-10, is hosted by David Spark with our guest, Paul Truitt, Principal, Mazars Cyber...

Cybersecurity News – December 10, 2021

Volume of attacks on IoT/OT devices increasing A new study commissioned by Microsoft shows that 44 percent of more than 600 respondents interviewed  said their...

Cybersecurity News – December 9, 2021

Ransomware hits GitLab and Confluence Over the past several days, a ransomware organization hit the servers of the two services, impacting hundreds of servers across...

Cybersecurity News – December 8, 2021

AWS outage impacts Ring, Netflix, and Amazon deliveries On Tuesday, Amazon’s AWS US-EAST-1 Region suffered an outage beginning at approximately 12 PM EST, affecting numerous...

Cybersecurity News – December 7, 2021

Biden admin looks to accelerate cybersecurity hiring spree There are currently roughly 600,000 vacant cybersecurity positions across the US government, and the Biden administration is...

Cybersecurity News – December 6, 2021

Omicron phishing scam already spotted in UK U.K. consumer watchdog “Which?” has raised the alarm that a new phishing scam, doctored up to look like...