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.
WhatsApp faces $267M fine for breaching Europe’s GDPR
Facebook is feeling heat from Ireland’s Data
Protection Commission (DPC), which announced Thursday, a €225 million (~$267
million) General...
BrakTooth bites major SoC vendors
The ASSET Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design disclosed a series of vulnerabilities dubbed BrakTooth that...
QNAP announces OpenSSL bugs fallout
On Monday, QNAP put out two security advisories about OpenSSL remote-code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) bugs, fixed last week, that...
Manual Windows 11 installs might not get updates
Microsoft confirmed it won't block users installing Windows 11 on older PCs manually using ISO files. The...
“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure
Cloud security vendor Wiz announced that it had found a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure's...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, August 23-27, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice with our guest, Edward Contreras, (@CISOEdwardC)CISO, Frost...
21-year-old claims responsibility for massive T-Mobile hack
John Binns, a 21-year-old Virginia native who
now lives with his mother in Turkey, claims to be the driving...
Most government agencies use facial recognition
According to a new report from the US Government Accountability Office, 19 of the 24 US government agencies surveyed...
Modded WhatsApp delivers Triada trojan
A modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app for Android has been trojanized to serve malicious payloads, display full-screen ads,...
Apple started scanning for CSAM in 2019
Earlier this month, Apple announced it would start client-side scanning of devices for hashes derived from child sexual...
Microsoft Exchange under attack with ProxyShell flaws
CISA is warning of active exploitation attempts that leverage the latest line of "ProxyShell" Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that...
Liquid cryptocurrency exchange loses $94 million following
hack
Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has
suspended deposits and withdrawals after attackers compromised its warm
wallets. Liquid is one of the...
T-Mobile says hackers stole records belonging to 48.6 million
individuals
Following up on a story we brought to you
earlier this week, T-Mobile has confirmed its sixth...
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