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Cybersecurity News – May 6, 2021

Facebook’s Oversight Board upholds Trump suspension The board upheld Facebook’s decision to suspend former US President Donald Trump, saying his posts ahead of the January…

[5-21-21] “Hacking the Speed of Business” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us Friday, May 21st, 2021 for “Hacking the Speed of Business: An hour of critical thinking on how security can keep up with accelerating…

Best moments from “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy” – CISO Series Video Chat

This is a short highlight video of CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy: An hour of critical thinking on where encryption fails and…

Cybersecurity News – May 5, 2021

A new set of vulnerabilities may affect 60 percent of the world’s public email servers The Qualys Research Team has discovered 21 vulnerabilities in the…

Why Commute When You Can Stay Home and Be Overworked?

Work from home seemed ideal until you realized you were working at all hours with people all over the world. It would actually be a…

Cybersecurity News – May 4, 2021

A look at the Project Signal ransomware campaign Security researchers at Flashpoint identified the ransomware campaign, seemingly organized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps using…

Is the CISO-Vendor Relationship Getting Any Better?

As we’re coming on our third anniversary of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast my co-host Mike Johnson and I have a question for you, is…

PREVIEW [5-7-21] “Hacking Cloud Access” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview for this Friday’s (May 7th, 2021) CISO Series Video Chat entitled “Hacking Cloud Access: An hour of critical thinking about how managing…

Cybersecurity News – May 3, 2021

New Spectre exploits beat AMD and Intel mitigations Researchers from the University of Virginia and University of California San Diego discovered several new variants of…

CISO Series Video Chat vs. Webinar

You know that moment when you’re speaking on a webinar and you’re thinking, “Is anyone listening?” In this video, I chat with Ed Bellis (@ebellis),…

Cybersecurity News – April 30, 2021

Babuk ransomware operators announce shutdown In a forum post titled “Hello World 2,” the operators said they intend to close up shop. Often when ransomware…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – April 26-30, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, April 26-30, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Jerich Beason (@blanketSec), CISO,…

Defense in Depth: Insider Risk

By just doing their jobs, your employees are introducing risk to the business. They don’t mean to be causing issues, but their simple actions and…

Cybersecurity News – April 29, 2021

Linux malware used to backdoor systems for years Security researchers at Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab discovered the  RotaJakiro malware, which first had samples…

[5-14-21] “Hacking Process” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, May 14th, 2021 for “Hacking Process: An hour of critical thinking about delivering and receiving the right information to the…

Best moments from “Hacking Distractions” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a six minute highlights video of CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Distractions: An hour of critical thinking of what we should stop paying attention…

Cybersecurity News – April 28, 2021

Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid The Babuk Locker gang claims it has downloaded more than 250 GB of…

Pushing This to the Top Of Your Inbox So You Can Delete It Again

We’re following up on our previous email because we love to engage in self-defeat. We assume you don’t want to hear from me again, but…

Cybersecurity News – April 27, 2021

Software bug opened macOS to malware Security researcher Cedric Owens discovered a bug that bypasses many of the checks macOS uses to thwart malware, allowing…

It’s So Hard To Tell, But We’re All Getting Credential Stuffed

Credential stuffing: Depending on which industry you work in and how seriously your business takes threats, you’re either shrugging it off or it’s throbbing like…

PREVIEW [4-30-21] “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy” – CISO Series Video Chat

This is a short preview video of this Friday’s (April 30th, 2021) CISO Series Video Chat entitled “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy: An hour of critical…

Cybersecurity News – April 26, 2021

Emotet malware officially removed from all infected devices globally The infamous botnet that once empowered over 70% of global infections was apparently successfully uninstalled from…

Cybersecurity News – April 23, 2021

Prometei botnet exploits Exchange server bugs  Security researchers have discovered that a persistent cryptocurrency mining botnet is exploiting still-unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers in order to…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – April 19-23, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, April 19-23, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, George Finney, CISO, Southern…