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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines – September 9, 2021

Brad Smith recounts early days of the SolarWinds attack In an excerpt from an upcoming book, Microsoft President Brad Smith reveals details about how the...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 8, 2021

Ransomware gang threatens to leak data if victim contacts FBI, police In an announcement published on Ragnar Locker's darknet leak site this week, the group...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 7, 2021

ProtonMail shares user IP address with law enforcement The privacy-focused email provider received a "legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice"  it...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 6, 2021

Cyber Command urges patching of massively exploited Confluence bug US Cyber Command issued a rare alert on Friday "urging U..S organizations to patch the massively...

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – Aug 30-Sep 3, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, Aug 30-Sep 3, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Marnie Wilking, Global...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 3, 2021

WhatsApp faces $267M fine for breaching Europe’s GDPR Facebook is feeling heat from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which announced Thursday, a €225 million (~$267 million) General...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 2, 2021

BrakTooth bites major SoC vendors  The ASSET Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design disclosed a series of vulnerabilities dubbed BrakTooth that...

Cyber Security Headlines – September 1, 2021

QNAP announces OpenSSL bugs fallout On Monday, QNAP released two security advisories "about OpenSSL remote-code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) bugs, fixed last week, that affect...

Cyber Security Headlines – August 31, 2021

Manual Windows 11 installs might not get updates Microsoft confirmed it won't block users installing Windows 11 on older PCs manually using ISO files. The...

Cyber Security Headlines – August 30, 2021

“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure As posted in Ars Technica, "Cloud security vendor Wiz announced that it had found...

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – August 23-27, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, August 23-27, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice with our guest, Edward Contreras, (@CISOEdwardC)CISO, Frost...

Cyber Security Headlines – August 27, 2021

21-year-old claims responsibility for massive T-Mobile hack John Binns, a 21-year-old Virginia native who now lives with his mother in Turkey, claims to be the driving...

Cyber Security Headlines – August 26, 2021

Most government agencies use facial recognition According to a new report from the US Government Accountability Office, 19 of the 24 US government agencies surveyed...

Cyber Security Headlines – August 25, 2021

Modded WhatsApp delivers Triada trojan According to researchers from Kaspersky, a modified version of the WhatsApp messaging app for Android has been trojanized to serve...

Cyber Security Headlines – August 24, 2021

Apple started scanning for CSAM in 2019 Earlier this month, Apple announced it would start client-side scanning of devices for hashes derived from child sexual...