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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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