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Cybersecurity News – China censors open-source, Follina hits Office, EnemyBot expands

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…

Cybersecurity News – Killnet to attack Italy, Microsoft skimmer warning, China offers S. Pacific help

Pro-Russian hacker group KillNet plans to attack Italy today The pro-Russian hacktivist group is one of the most active non-state actors operating within the Russia-Ukraine…

Cybersecurity News – May 27, 2022

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…

Defense in Depth: Where’s the Trust in Zero Trust?

Zero trust is a hollow buzzword. In any form of security, there exist critical points where we have to trust. What we need is a…

Cybersecurity News – May 26, 2022

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…

Capture the CISO S1E2: Lightspin, PlexTrac, and Torq

Welcome to episode two of Capture the CISO, hosted by Johna Till Johnson (@JohnaTillJohnso), CEO, Nemertes. Our judges are Edward Contreras (@CISOEdwardC), CISO, Frost Bank…

Cybersecurity News – May 25, 2022

Interpol warns nation-state malware could become a commodity on dark web soon Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock declared that the ongoing conflict between Russia and…

Gartner Creates Another Category for Everyone to Ignore

I have talked to vendors who get all excited about Gartner opening up a new category for them. All I can think is uggh, something…

Cybersecurity News – May 24, 2022

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…

4 Explanations of the Economics of Email Fraud in 90 Seconds – Super Cyber Friday

Here is DJ Sampath (@djsampath), co-founder & CEO, Armorblox, very deftly providing varied explanations of the real financial impact email fraud can cause. It’s all…

Cybersecurity News – May 23, 2022

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…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – May 16-20, 2022

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, May 16-20, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Jerich Beason, CISO, Commercial Bank, CapitalOne…

Cybersecurity News – May 20, 2022

Greenland health services limited from cyberattacks The government of Greenland confirmed that recent cyberattacks have impacted its overall hospital system, which caused the healthcare system’s…

Defense in Depth: Who Investigates Cyber Solutions?

Cyber professionals, who is responsible on your team for investigating new solutions? Check out this post and this post for the discussion that are the basis of…

Cybersecurity News – May 19, 2022

VMware bugs abused to deliver Mirai malware Researchers say a GitHub proof-of-concept exploitation of recently announced VMware bugs is being abused by hackers in the…

[6-3-22] “Hacking the Attack Surface” – Super Cyber Friday

Please join us on Friday, June 3rd, 2022 for Super Cyber Friday. Our topic of discussion will be “Hacking the Attack Surface: An hour of…

Best moments from “Hacking Complexity” – Super Cyber Friday

Here is our highlights video from Super Cyber Friday“Hacking Complexity: An hour of critical thinking about how to consolidate and simplify a security program.” Our…

Capture the CISO S1E1: Conveyor, Pentera, and Votiro

Welcome to episode one of Capture the CISO, hosted by Johna Till Johnson (@JohnaTillJohnso), CEO, Nemertes. Our judges are Shawn Bowen (@SMbowen), CISO, World Fuel…

Cybersecurity News – May 18, 2022

Buffalo massacre suspect signaled plans on Discord for months The gunman behind 10 deaths and 3 injuries at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, this…

A Look Back at Foolish Security Policies of Past and Present

Are bad security policies of yesteryear just because we didn’t know any better at the time, or were they some bozos idea of legitimate security…

Cybersecurity News – May 17, 2022

Costa Rican ransomware rhetoric somehow gets uglier The Conti ransomware group posted messages on their leak site notifying the Costa Rican government it raised its…

[6-6-22] “Hacking Economics of Email Fraud” – Super Cyber Friday (Monday Edition)

Please join us online or in person on June 6th, 2022 for a special Monday edition of Super Cyber Friday. We’ll be live and in…

5 Explanations of Malware in 90 Seconds – Super Cyber Friday

Here I am with Aviv Grafi, CTO and founder, Votiro who is smartly defining malware and it’s impact on our real and cyber environments in…

Cybersecurity News – May 16, 2022

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of new attacks launched by Russia-linked Armageddon APT Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) reported a phishing campaign using messages with subject…