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.
London Police arrest 17-year-old hacker suspected of Uber and GTA 6 breaches
Police in London Police have announced the arrest of a 17-year-old as part...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, September 19-23, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Joseph Lewis, Director, Cyber Assessment...
MFA Fatigue: Hackers’ new favorite tactic in high-profile breaches
With the advent of multi-factor authentication, especially through employees’ smartphones, it was inevitable that a hack...
15-year old Python bug causing problem
Back in 2007, a researcher submitted a path traversal bug in Python’s tarfile package, letting an attacker overwrite arbitrary...
American Airlines announce breach of customer and staff info
On Tuesday, American Airlines indicated that “a very small number of customers’ and employees’ personal information”...
The shifting ways of Chromeloader
Microsoft and VMware warned of an ongoing malware campaign using Chromeloader. Researchers observed this dropping malicious browser extensions, node-WebKit malware,...
Uber says there is no evidence that users’ private information was compromised
In an update regarding the recent breach of its internal computer systems, Uber...
Gamers targeted by self-spreading stealer on YouTube
On Thursday, researchers from Kaspersky published details of a new campaign leveraging RedLine malware to target YouTube users....
Teams stores tokens in cleartext
A security researcher at the firm Vectra released a report detailing how the Microsoft app stores authentication tokens in cleartext....
Apple Releases iOS and macOS updates to patch actively exploited zero-day flaw
Apple is addressing multiple vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS, including a new zero-day...
Google closes on Mandiant
Back in March, Google announced it intended to acquire the threat intelligence firm Mandiant in a $5.4 billion deal. This came...
Ransomware gangs switching to new intermittent encryption tactic
More and more ransomware groups are now using a technique to encrypt victims' systems faster while reducing...
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