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