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Cyber Security Headlines

Cyber Security Headlines

Cybersecurity News – June 10, 2021

Cyber-attack disrupts NYC Law Department The New York Police Department and FBI Cyber Task Force are investigating an intrusion into the New York City Law Department’s IT...

Cybersecurity News – June 9, 2021

StackOverflow, Twitch, Reddit, others down in Fastly CDN outage A Who’s Who of major websites around the world also including Amazon, CNN, Shopify, Hulu, Quora,...

Cybersecurity News – June 8, 2021

US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers This follows the attack which prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline...

Cybersecurity News – June 7, 2021

VMware vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating is under attack The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21985, resides in the vCenter Server, a tool for managing virtualization in...

Cybersecurity News – June 4, 2021

NYC transportation authority hacked using Pulse Secure zero-day Back in April, Chinese-backed threat actors breached the network of New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) by exploiting a...

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – May 31- Jun 4, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, May 31- Jun 4, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Bryan...

Cybersecurity News – June 3, 2021

Florida teen faces charges for DDoS attack on school district Felony charges have been filed against an unnamed 17-year year old junior at St. Petersburg...

Cybersecurity News – June 2, 2021

Critical WordPress plugin zero-day under active exploitation Threat actors are scanning for sites running the Fancy Product Designer plugin to exploit a zero-day bug allowing...

Cybersecurity News – June 1, 2021

Amazon to opt-in users to Amazon Sidewalk  On June 8th, Amazon will enroll Echo, Ring, and other Amazon devices in the US into its new...

Cybersecurity News – May 31, 2021

Two new attacks allow alteration of certified PDF documents Researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have disclosed two new attack techniques, dubbed Evil Annotation and Sneaky Signature...

Cybersecurity News – May 28, 2021

Twitter urges Indian government to respect free speech On Thursday, Twitter responded to India’s new heavy-handed regulations that give authorities greater control over online media and internet...

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – May 24-28, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, May 24-28, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Jimmy Sanders (@jfireluv),...

Cybersecurity News – May 27, 2021

Belgium disrupts cyber-espionage campaign In the wake of Microsoft’s recent disclosure of Exchange server vulnerabilities, Belgium’s Federal Public Service Interior launched an investigation in March...

Cybersecurity News – May 26, 2021

DHS to issue first-ever cybersecurity regulations for pipelines after Colonial hack The Department of Homeland Security is moving to regulate cybersecurity in the pipeline industry...

Cybersecurity News – May 25, 2021

8.3 million plaintext passwords leaked A leak of almost 13 million DailyQuiz users appeared for sale online from multiple sources, following a breach of the...