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US partners with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to help fight
cyber threats
At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference on
Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Director of...
Google and Amazon patch DNS-as-a-Service bugs
At Black Hat, security researchers from the cloud security company Wiz demonstrated a vulnerability in hosted DNS service providers...
Federal agencies are failing to protect sensitive data, Senate report finds
As quoted in Cyberscoop, "of eight federal agencies audited for their cybersecurity programs, only...
APT targeting Microsoft IIS servers
Researchers at the security firm Sygnia discovered the campaign, believed to be carried out by the APT “Praying Mantis.” The...
BlackMatter ransomware gang rises from the ashes of DarkSide, REvil
Adding to a story we brought you on Friday, a new ransomware gang named BlackMatter...
Biden warns that severe cyberattacks could escalate to an
actual war
During a speech at the National
Counterterrorism Center of the Office of the Director of National...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, July 26-30, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Robb Reck (@robbreck), founder...
Federal agencies directed to develop cyber security standards for infrastructure
President Biden issued this directive to federal agencies, which will establish voluntary cybersecurity goals for...
Microsoft rushes fix for PetitPotam attack PoC
Microsoft has quickly addresses an attack called “PetitPotam” that could "force remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes...
No More Ransom project five-years in
The project was launched in 2016 as a public-private partnership between European law enforcement and security industry leaders McAfee,...
French president pushes for Israeli inquiry into NSO spyware concerns
According to The Guardian, "Emmanuel Macron has reportedly spoken to the Israeli prime minister, Naftali...
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, July 19-23, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Shawn M. Bowen,...
Israel creates task force to look into NSO spyware
Reuter’s sources say Israel has created a senior inter-ministerial team to look into allegations that spyware...
China fires back at US after Exchange hack accusations
Following up on a story Cyber Security
Headlines covered yesterday,
where US and its allies pinned a Microsoft...
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