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.
New phishing attack uses Morse code to hide malicious URLs
A novel new phishing approach uses a fake invoice email complete with an HTML spreadsheet...
Canada calls Clearview AI’s facial recognition ‘mass surveillance’
Canada’s privacy commissioners have told Clearview AI to stop offering its facial recognition services in the country,...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, February 1-5, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Shawn Bowen, CISO, Restaurant Brands International (RBI)
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Another SolarWinds vulnerability used to hack National Finance Center
Reuter’s sources say suspected Chinese threat actors used a novel SolarWinds Orion vulnerability to break into...
Deloitte’s CDC vaccine system comes up short
The US vaccine distribution effort is being severely curtailed by inefficiencies in vaccine distribution and administration software, with...
Suspected Russian hack extends far beyond SolarWinds software
Investigators say they have found concrete evidence that almost one third of the attack victims had no...
Unhappy #DataPrivacyDay to us all
New research claims that data leaks and breaches skyrocketed 93% in 2020. Imperva detected 883,865 incidents at the start of...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 25-29, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest, Steve Zalewski, Deputy CISO,...
Google’s Threat Analysis Group warns of social engineering hack aimed at security researchers
The hackers, allegedly based in North Korea, have been targeting individual security...
Google’s cookie replacement performs well in tests
In tests, the Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC API, a proposed replacement for third-party cookies, showed that...
President Biden takes on cybersecurity on day one
On his first day in office, he announced three new appointments for national cybersecurity agencies: Anne Neuberger...
Technologists comb through Parler videos with facial recognition
Faces are being recognized in archived Parler videos. One technologist claims to have distinguished about 40,000 faces...
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