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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

Cybersecurity Headlines

Cyber Security Headlines – CISA calls for more ransomware reporting, snooping on SOHO routers, SSNDOB taken down

Rich Stroffolino -
Lack of reporting hurting the ransomware fight In an interview, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, Eric Goldstein, said that the severe lack of ransomware...
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Cyber Security Headlines – Passwords are finally dead, Online gun sites hacked, Shields data breach

Sean Kelly -
Passwords are finally dead - no, its for real this time At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Apple announced its plan to launch passwordless...
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Cyber Security Headlines – AlphaBay back on top, Karakurt phones home, and China eases up on Didi

Rich Stroffolino -
The once and future AlphaBay In July 2017, global law enforcement coordinated on Operation Bayonet to take down the dark web marketplace AlphaBay, seizing servers...
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Cyber Security Headlines – Reverse tunnel phishing, Atlassian bug, tech antitrust bill

Steve Prentice -
Evasive phishing mixes reverse tunnels and URL shortening services Reverse tunnel services are now becoming the thing, along with URL shorteners, that security researchers at...
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Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – May 30-June 3, 2022

Steve Prentice -
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, May 30-June 3, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Steve Zalewski, Co-host, Defense...
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Cyber Security Headlines – Conti can attack firmware, UNISOC Android phone vuln, Express VPN leaves India

Steve Prentice -
Leaked Conti chats confirm gang’s ability to conduct firmware-based attacks Members of the Conti group have been chatting, and copies of these chats leaked earlier...
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Cyber Security Headlines – FluBot shut down, Hive hits Costa Rica, CISA advisory on voting machines

Rich Stroffolino -
Europol shuts down FluBot The European law enforcement agency announced that it coordinated with eleven different countries to take down the operation behind the pernicious...
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Cyber Security Headlines – Follina update, Tension inside Google, IBM pays $1.6 billion

Sean Kelly -
Follina vulnerability under active exploitation Following up on a story we brought to you yesterday on Cyber Security Headlines, Chinese-linked threat actors, known as TA413,...
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Cyber Security Headlines – China censors open-source, Follina hits Office, EnemyBot expands

Rich Stroffolino -
China censoring open-source code Earlier this month, the popular Chinese code repository platform Gitee made open-source code from thousands of developers private and hidden from...
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Cyber Security Headlines – Killnet to attack Italy, Microsoft skimmer warning, China offers S. Pacific help

Steve Prentice -
Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet plans to attack Italy today The pro-Russian hacktivist group is seen as one of the most active non-state actors operating within...
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Cyber Security Headlines – May 27, 2022

Steve Prentice -
Up to 83% of known compromised passwords would satisfy regulatory requirements On Tuesday, Specops, a provider of password management and authentication solutions, released findings from...
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Cyber Security Headlines – May 26, 2022

Rich Stroffolino -
Popular open source libraries leaked keys for “research” Several developers reported that two popular open source libraries, Python’s “ctx” and PHP’s “PHPass” had been altered...
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Cyber Security Headlines – May 25, 2022

Steve Prentice -
Interpol warns nation-state malware could become a commodity on dark web soon Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock declared that due to the ongoing conflict between...
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Cyber Security Headlines – May 24, 2022

Rich Stroffolino -
Cyberattack divorces Zola users from registries  The wedding registry site confirmed that a cyberattack over the weekend impacted many user accounts. Users on Reddit claimed...
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Cyber Security Headlines – May 23, 2022

Sean Kelly -
Ransomware victim trolls hackers with obscene pics Following up on a story we brought to you last week on Cyber Security Headlines, the Bank of...
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