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Cyber Security Headlines

Cyber Security Headlines

Cybersecurity News – September 22, 2021

Capoae malware brute-forces WordPress sites for cryptomining A recently discovered wave of malware attacks has been spotted using tactics that involve easy-to-guess administrative credentials to...

Cybersecurity News – September 21, 2021

Google expands app permissions reset The company introduced the "permissions auto-reset" feature in Android 11 last year. This causes apps that haven’t been used in...

Cybersecurity News – September 20, 2021

Email scammers posed as DOT officials in phishing messages focused on $1 trillion bill Shortly after Congress took action on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill,...

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

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, Sep 13-17, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Geoff Belknap, CISO, LinkedIn...

Cybersecurity News – September 17, 2021

New Windows security updates break network printing As part of its September Patch Tuesday released this week, Microsoft issued a fix for the last remaining...

Cybersecurity News – September 16, 2021

Travis CI security vulnerability is bad news for open source Travis CI is a continuous integration software-testing solution used by over 900,000 open-source projects and...

Cybersecurity News – September 15, 2021

Apple issues urgent updates to fix new zero-day linked to Pegasus spyware Apple released emergency security updates Monday after it was discovered that an Israeli...

Cybersecurity News – September 14, 2021

SSID Stripping is a new take on spoofing Researchers at AirEye disclosed the newly discovered vulnerability, which impacts devices running Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Android and...

Cybersecurity News – September 13, 2021

Windows MSHTML zero-day exploits shared on hacking forums This event will allow other hackers to start exploiting the new vulnerability in their own attacks. Last...

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

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, Sep 6-10, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with our guest, Matt Crouse, CISO, Taco...

Cybersecurity News – September 10, 2021

US considers limiting CISA director’s term Bipartisan House lawmakers have introduced legislation this week proposing a limit on the term of the Department of Homeland...

Cybersecurity News – September 9, 2021

Brad Smith recounts early days of the SolarWinds attack In an excerpt from an upcoming book, Microsoft President Brad Smith reveals details about how the...

Cybersecurity News – September 8, 2021

Ransomware gang threatens to leak data if victim contacts FBI, police In an announcement published on Ragnar Locker's darknet leak site this week, the group...

Cybersecurity News – September 7, 2021

ProtonMail shares user IP address with law enforcement The privacy-focused email provider received a "legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice"  it...

Cybersecurity News – September 6, 2021

Cyber Command urges patching of massively exploited Confluence bug US Cyber Command issued a rare alert on Friday urging US organizations to patch the massively...