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Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – Dec 6-10, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, Dec 6-10, is hosted by David Spark with our guest, Paul Truitt, Principal, Mazars Cyber Security…

Cybersecurity News – December 10, 2021

Volume of attacks on IoT/OT devices increasing A new study commissioned by Microsoft shows that 44 percent of more than 600 respondents interviewed  said their…

Defense in Depth: How Can We Simplify Security?

Why is cybersecurity becoming so complex? What is one thing we can do, even if it’s small, to head us off in the right direction…

Cybersecurity News – December 9, 2021

Ransomware hits GitLab and Confluence Over the past several days, a ransomware organization hit the servers of the two services, impacting hundreds of servers across…

Best moments from “Hacking Cyber Risk Quantification” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are 6 minute minutes of our best moments from CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Cyber Risk Quantification: An hour of critical thinking about how…

Cybersecurity News – December 8, 2021

AWS outage impacts Ring, Netflix, and Amazon deliveries On Tuesday, Amazon’s AWS US-EAST-1 Region suffered an outage beginning at approximately 12 PM EST, affecting numerous…

After a Breach It’s Really Easy to Calculate Risk

There’s no question calculating risk is trickly. Because once you understand your risk then you can assign budget appropriately to reduce your risk. OR, you…

Cybersecurity News – December 7, 2021

Biden admin looks to accelerate cybersecurity hiring spree There are currently roughly 600,000 vacant cybersecurity positions across the US government, and the Biden administration is…

Six Good and Not-So-Good Explanations of Zero Trust in One Minute

You’ve heard probably dozens of explanations of zero trust before, but have you heard the knowingly bad ones as well? In preparation for this Friday’s…

Cybersecurity News – December 6, 2021

Omicron phishing scam already spotted in UK U.K. consumer watchdog “Which?” has raised the alarm that a new phishing scam, doctored up to look like…

Cybersecurity News – December 3, 2021

Emotet now spreads via fake Adobe Windows App Installer packages eCommerce servers are being targeted with remote access malware that hides on Nginx web servers…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – Nov 29-Dec 3, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, Nov 29-Dec 3, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Pat Benoit, vp, Global Cyber…

Defense in Depth: Convergence of Physical and Digital Security

Security convergence is the melding of all security functions from physical to digital and personal to business. The concept has been around for 17 years…

Cybersecurity News – December 2, 2021

AT&T customers hit with malware Researchers at Qihoo 360 discovered the EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller offered by AT&T to SME customers in the US…

[12-17-21] “Hacking Virtualization” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, December 17th, 2021, for CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Virtualization: An hour of critical thinking about how virtualization can simplify…

Best moments from [11-19-21] “Hacking Email Security” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here is a quick five minute video full of our best moments from CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Email Security: An hour of critical thinking…

Cybersecurity News – December 1, 2021

Twitter bans sharing private images and videos without consent Twitter has expanded its private information policy to ban users from sharing photos or videos of…

I’ve Got Zero Trust In My Understanding of Zero Trust

Don’t look at me to explain zero trust to you, because I’m just as confused. I’ve heard plenty of definitions, and they all sound good.…

Cybersecurity News – November 30, 2021

Dark web market shuts down after DDoS On November 23rd, the operators of the Cannazon dark web market announced their intent to shutdown operations, with…

Six Explanations of Cyber Risk Quantification in 90 Seconds

I asked Jack Freund (@jackfreund3), who is the vp of cyber risk quantification at BitSight, to explain cyber risk quantification in multiple ways, such as…

Cybersecurity News – November 29, 2021

RATDispenser spreads multiple remote access trojans into the wild Researchers from the HP Threat Research team have discovered a new stealthy JavaScript loader dubbed RATDispenser.…

Cybersecurity News – November 24, 2021

Over nine million Android devices infected by info-stealing trojan A large-scale malware campaign on Huawei’s AppGallery has led to roughly 9,300,000 installs of trojans masquerading…

We’re Very Good at SAYING We Care About Diversity

It’s extremely easy to say you want to diversify. In fact, I’ll do it right now three times. We want diversity.We’re very pro diversity and…

Cybersecurity News – November 23, 2021

GoDaddy data breach impacts millions The web hosting giant disclosed a data breach to the Securities and Exchange Commission, warning that 1.2 million customers may…