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Cybersecurity Headlines

Cybersecurity Headlines is a six-minute news podcast available every weekday at 6 A.M. ET. At the start of the week (Mondays at 4 P.M. ET) we invite two security pros to comment on the top stories on the companion Department of Know show where viewers can participate live. Department of Know also made available via podcast feed.

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CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

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Cybersecurity News: NetGear urgent patch, malicious PyTorch compromise, LockBit ransoms Lisbon

Steve Prentice -
NETGEAR fixes a severe bug in its routers. Patch it ASAP! Netgear has fixed a bug affecting various WiFi router models, including Wireless AC Nighthawk,...
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Cybersecurity News: Google Home snooping, 3Commas API leak, Ireland investigating Twitter data sale

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Snooping bug found on Google Home speakers A security researcher discovered a bug in Google Home smart speakers that could allow for installing a backdoor....
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Cybersecurity News: Ransomware hammers hospitals, Citrix servers not applying patches, Log4Shell at 1-year old

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Ransomware continues to hammer hospitals The Lake Charles Memorial Health System began notifying patients of a data breach impacting almost 270,000 that received treatment at...
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Cybersecurity News: Facebook reaches Cambridge Analytica settlement, BTC.com lost $3 million in cyberattack, $8 million stolen from BitKeep users

Sean Kelly -
Facebook reaches settlement related to Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook has agreed to pay $725 million as a penalty to settle a long pending legal battle...
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Cybersecurity News: Severe LastPass breach, Inglis resigns post, Xfinity accounts hacked

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LastPass admits to severe data breach, encrypted password vaults stolen The security breach that hit LastPass in August now appears to be more severe than...
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Cybersecurity News: Malware in search ads, Guardian hit with ransomware, Okta source code accessed

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FBI warns of malware in search ads A new public service announcement from the law enforcement agency warned of threat actors purchasing ads in search...
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Cybersecurity News: McGraw Hill data leak, UK ICO names breached firms, Twitter aided Pentagon propaganda

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McGraw Hill exposed student grades and personal info Misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 buckets belonging to McGraw Hill exposed more than 100,000 students' information. Roughly...
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Cybersecurity News: Glupteba botnet returns, the future of ransomware, and Epic Games’ privacy fine

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Botnet shrugs off Google In December 2021, Google caused significant disruption in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. This included technical mitigations and legal actions...
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Cybersecurity News: Russia infiltrates satellites, Gmail’s end-to-end encryption, NSA’s Russia warning

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CISA says Russia's Fancy Bear infiltrated US satellite network Researchers at CISA recently discovered what they suspect to be Russian hackers inside a U.S. satellite...
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Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review: Antivirus data wipers, TSA expands facial recognition, Uber breach 

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This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, December 12-16, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Jeremy Embalabala, CISO, HUB International Cyber...
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Cybersecurity News: Japanese MirrorStealer malware, HTML smuggling SVGs, DDoS-for-hire arrests

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Hackers target Japanese politicians with new MirrorStealer malware Analysts from ESET are reporting on a cybercrime group known as MirrorFace, which had been observed targeting...
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Cybersecurity News: EU drafts new US-data sharing agreement, Microsoft signed malicious drivers, InfraGard data leak

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EU gets closer to US-data sharing agreement The US and EU used to have the Privacy Shield agreement to allow companies to move data back...
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Cybersecurity News: Twitter data leak, Uber hit with another breach, Chinese police arrest crypto laundering gang

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Twitter addresses claims of recent data leak On Friday, Twitter confirmed that earlier this year someone had potentially exploited a vulnerability that Twitter discovered back...
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Cybersecurity News: India leaks expat passport info, Cloudflare expands free security tools, Greece outlaws spyware

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India’s foreign ministry leaks passport details The publication Cybernews reports the Global Pravasi Rishta Portal, a platform for expats run by the Ministry of External...
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Cybersecurity News: Pwn2Own Toronto winners, EDR data wipers, MuddyWater’s new campaign

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Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 nets almost $1M for 63 zero days Pwn2Own Toronto 2022, a hacking competition put on by the Zero Day Initiative has wrapped...
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