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Cybersecurity News – September 23, 2021

Let’s Encrypt root certificate may cause problems for older devices Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit and one of the largest issuers of HTTPS certificates, the…

[10-8-21] “Hacking Regulations” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday October 8th, 2021 for CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Regulations: An hour of critical thinking of moving regulators from operational to…

Five best moments from “Hacking Active Directory” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are five of our best moments from CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Active Directory: An hour of critical thinking on securing the ‘keys to…

Cybersecurity News – September 22, 2021

Capoae malware brute-forces WordPress sites for cryptomining A recently discovered wave of malware attacks has been spotted using tactics that involve easy-to-guess administrative credentials to…

Five best moments from “Hacking the Insider Risk Summit” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are five of the best moments from “Hacking the Insider Risk Summit: An hour of critical thinking about creating a security aware culture.” Our guests…

What’s the ROI of Nothing Happening?

You don’t want anything to happen, but you also want security to somehow to calculate ROI. Maybe the ROI could be calculated from actual sales…

Cybersecurity News – September 21, 2021

Google expands app permissions reset The company introduced the “permissions auto-reset” feature in Android 11 last year. This causes apps that haven’t been used in…

Two Fun Ways to Celebrate Three Years with the CISO Series

In a little over a week, CISO Series is going to be celebrating it’s third anniversary. It’ll be happening on October 1st, 2021. Myself and…

PREVIEW [9-24-21] “Hacking Threat Intelligence” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a short preview of this Friday’s (September 24th, 2021) CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Threat Intelligence: An hour of critical thinking about what to…

Cybersecurity News – September 20, 2021

Email scammers posed as DOT officials in phishing messages focused on $1 trillion bill Shortly after Congress took action on a $1 trillion infrastructure bill,…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – Sep 13-17, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, Sep 13-17, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Geoff Belknap, CISO, LinkedIn Cyber…

Cybersecurity News – September 17, 2021

New Windows security updates break network printing As part of its September Patch Tuesday released this week, Microsoft issued a fix for the last remaining…

Defense in Depth: Convergence of SIEM and SOAR

SIEM tools that ingest and analyze data are ubiquitous in security operations centers. But just knowing what’s happening in your environment is not enough. For…

Cybersecurity News – September 16, 2021

Travis CI security vulnerability is bad news for open source Travis CI is a continuous integration software-testing solution used by over 900,000 open-source projects and…

[10-1-21] “Hacking Resiliency” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday October 1st, 2021 for CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Resiliency: An hour of critical thinking on withstanding the brunt of…

Five best moments from “Hacking Alert Fatigue” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are five of our best moments from CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Alert Fatigue: How to Manage What Seems to Be Unmanageable.” Our guests…

Cybersecurity News – September 15, 2021

Apple issues urgent updates to fix new zero-day linked to Pegasus spyware Apple released emergency security updates Monday after it was discovered that an Israeli…

Could We Speak To Your CISO To Confirm He Received the Cupcakes?

It’s imperative we speak to him. We want to make sure they landed safely. And if he has some available time, maybe we can show…

Cybersecurity News – September 14, 2021

SSID Stripping is a new take on spoofing Researchers at AirEye disclosed the newly discovered vulnerability, which impacts devices running Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Android and…

PREVIEW [9-17-21] “Hacking Active Directory” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview of this Friday’s [September 17th, 2021] for CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Active Directory: An hour of critical thinking on securing the…

Cybersecurity News – September 13, 2021

Windows MSHTML zero-day exploits shared on hacking forums This event will allow other hackers to start exploiting the new vulnerability in their own attacks. Last…

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

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, Sep 6-10, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with our guest, Matt Crouse, CISO, Taco Bell…

Cybersecurity News – September 10, 2021

US considers limiting CISA director’s term Bipartisan House lawmakers have introduced legislation this week proposing a limit on the term of the Department of Homeland…

Defense in Depth: Cybersecurity Is Not Easy to Get Into

Yes, we want more people in cybersecurity. And the lure of great pay is definitely there. But just because there’s a great want for more…