Cyber Security Headlines is a six-minute news podcast available every weekday at 6 A.M. ET. At the end of the week (Fridays at 3:30 P.M. ET) we invite a security practitioner to comment on the top stories on the companion Week in Review show (20 minutes) where viewers can participate live. Week in Review also made available via podcast feed.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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