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Cybersecurity News – September 9, 2021

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…

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

Please join us on Friday, September 24th, 2021 for CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Threat Intelligence: An hour of critical thinking about what to trust…

Cybersecurity News – September 8, 2021

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…

PREVIEW [9-13-21] “Hacking the Insider Risk Summit” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview for our special MONDAY edition of the CISO Series Video Chat which will be on the eve of the Insider Risk Summit.…

Make Your Friends Jealous with Our Hand-Crafted Passwords

I know your friends say they use excellent passwords, but they don’t take the time and care we put into choosing the right combination of…

Cybersecurity News – September 7, 2021

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…

Cybersecurity News – September 6, 2021

Cyber Command urges patching of massively exploited Confluence bug US Cyber Command issued a rare alert on Friday urging US organizations to patch the massively…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – Aug 30-Sep 3, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, Aug 30-Sep 3, 2021, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Marnie Wilking, Global Head…

Cybersecurity News – September 3, 2021

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…

PREVIEW [9-10-21] “Hacking Alert Fatigue” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview video of our video chat that’s happening on Friday September 10th, 2021. “Hacking Alert Fatigue: How to Manage What Seems to Be…

Defense in Depth: Preventing Ransomware

What is the most critical step to preventing ransomware? Security professionals may be quick to judge users and say it’s a lack of cyberawareness. Could…

Cybersecurity News – September 2, 2021

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…

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

Please join us on Friday, September 17th, 2021 for CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Active Directory: An hour of critical thinking on securing the ‘keys…

Five best moments from “Hacking User Adoption” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are the five best moments from CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking User Adoption: An hour of critical thinking about improving acceptance and usage of…

Cybersecurity News – September 1, 2021

QNAP announces OpenSSL bugs fallout On Monday, QNAP put out two security advisories about OpenSSL remote-code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) bugs, fixed last week, that…

Are You Asking “How Secure Are We?” or “How Insecure Am I?”

We’ve heard the question “How secure are we?” many times, and we know what it really means. This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark),…

Cybersecurity News – August 31, 2021

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…

Cybersecurity News – August 30, 2021

“Worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine” discovered in Microsoft Azure [Extended story] Cloud security vendor Wiz announced that it had found a vulnerability in Microsoft…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – August 23-27, 2021

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 Bank…

Cybersecurity News – August 27, 2021

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…

Defense in Depth: Managing Lateral Movement

For four years in a row, Verizon’s DBIR, has touted compromised credentials as the top cause of data breaches. That means bad people are getting…

Cybersecurity News – August 26, 2021

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…

[9-10-21] “Hacking Alert Fatigue” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday September 10th, 2021 for CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Alert Fatigue: How to Manage What Seems to Be Unmanageable.” Register for…

Five Best Moments from Hacking Anomalous Behavior – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s our top five moments from CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Anomalous Behavior: An hour of critical thinking on when user actions raise the red…