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.
Twitch blames server error for massive data leak
Livestreaming site Twitch says an "error" caused the unprecedented leak that posted vast amounts of sensitive data...
Introducing the Ransom Disclosure Act
This bicameral legislation was introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Deborah Ross. It would require companies and organizations to...
Telegram adds 70 million users on the day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage
While Facebook’s hours-long outage on Monday may have hurt the company, its...
Major telco exchange company hacked
The company Syniverse is a common exchange hub for global telcos including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodaphone, and China Mobile, used...
Transnational fraud ring stole millions from Army members, veterans
Fredrick Brown, a former U.S. Army contractor, was sentenced yesterday to 151 months in prison after...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, Sep 27-Oct-1, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Steve Zalewski, co-host, Defense in...
New leak of Epik data exposes company’s entire server
Anonymous has released what it claims to be new data from the controversial web hosting company...
Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks users out of their accounts
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) issue preventing some customers from logging into...
Russia muscling Big Tech
Earlier this year, Russia followed India’s lead with a law requiring foreign information technology companies operating in the country to open...
Researcher drops three iOS zero-days that Apple refused to fix
Proof-of-concept exploit code for three iOS zero-day vulnerabilities (and a fourth one patched in July)...
Second farming cooperative shut down by ransomware this week
Crystal Valley, a Minnesota-based farming cooperative, has been hit by a ransomware attack by an unknown...
Let’s Encrypt root certificate may cause problems for older devices
Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit and one of the largest issuers of HTTPS certificates, the...
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