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Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review: The fall of FTX, Australia Medibank fallout, supply chain failures

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, November 14-18, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, John Scrimsher, CISO, Kontoor Brands Cyber...

Cybersecurity News: Musk’s ultimatum backfires, Iran breaches government using Log4Shell, Amazon RDS data leak

Musk’s ultimatum to employees leaves Twitter at risk In an email to staff entitled "A Fork in the Road," Musk said employees had until the...

Cybersecurity News: Disneyland phishing, Ukraine’s IT army in action, NSA goes low-key with private researchers

Disneyland phishes with Punycode The internet standard Punycode allows browsers to render domain names in Cyrillic and other non-Latin alphabets. But it’s also being used...

Cybersecurity News: Amazon cuts 10,000, FIFA apps warning, breach impact 98%

Amazon to cut 10,000 employees in tech and corporate roles Amazon is planning to lay off 10,000 employees in technology and corporate roles beginning this...

Cybersecurity News: Australia ransom ban, scourge of brand impersonation sites, GitHub gets private reporting

Australia considers ban on ransomware payments We’ve been covering the details and fallout from the most recent high-profile hack to hit Australia, impacting the insurance...

Cybersecurity News: Android lockscreen bypass, Lockbit hits Thales, FTX funds disappear

Android phone owner accidentally finds a way to bypass lock screen A cybersecurity researcher has found a way to bypass the lock screen on his...

Cybersecurity News: Lockbit operator extradited, Twitter CISO quits, NotPetya insurance shakeup

Alleged LockBit operator to be extradited from Canada to U.S. According to a statement from the Justice Department, Mikhail Vasiliev – a 33-year-old Russian and...

Cybersecurity News: Crypto Winter comes for FTX, oil and gas flow control vulnerability, images hide malware in PyPI

Crypto Winter comes for FTX Earlier this week, crypto exchange Binance signed a letter of intent to acquire its rival FTX. This comes after FTX...

Cybersecurity News: Powerball drawing delayed, Australian health record leak, Hushpuppi gets 11-year sentence

$2 billion Powerball drawing delayed by security issues The record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball run ended Tuesday after an hours-long delay at the hands of a...

Cybersecurity News: China stocking up vulnerabilities, Feds seizes 50,000 bitcoin, DOJ takes down Z-Library

China stockpiling vulnerabilities In Microsoft's 2022 Digital Defense Report, the company maintains that China’s offensive cyber capabilities have markedly improved, largely thanks to a 2021...

Cybersecurity News: Treasury thwarts Killnet, UK scanning devices, Denmark train cyberattack

US Treasury thwarts DDoS attack from Russian Killnet group Killnet is a pro-Kremlin group that claimed responsibility for taking more than a dozen US airports'...

Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review: Thomson Reuters leak, LockBit dominates ransomware, Stripe cuts jobs

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, October 31-November 4, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Marcos Marrero, CISO, H.I.G....

Cybersecurity News: Boeing subsidiary incident, Stripe job cuts, news website malware

Cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary causes flight planning disruptions Jeppesen, the navigation and flight planning tools company owned by Boeing, confirmed on Thursday that it...

Cybersecurity News: W4SP stings PyPI, password hubris, Dropbox breached

W4SP malware stings PyPI The software supply chain security firm Phylum published a report detailing 29 packages in the PyPi registry used to push the...

Cybersecurity News: LockBit dominates ransomware, CISA on voting integrity, ransomware reporting

LockBit dominates ransomware According to Deep Instinct’s 2022 Interim Cyber Threat Report, Lockbit accounted for 44% of all ransomware campaigns in the year so far....