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Cybersecurity News – March 25, 2021

Voting information on millions of Israeli’s leaked ahead of election The data leaked on March 23rd, two days ahead of the general parliamentary election, exposing…

20 Tales of Online Fraud and How to Fight It

How many types of digital fraud are there? Might as well count the shades of color in a rainbow, says Dan Woods, vice president of …

Best Moments from “Hacking Pentesting” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a six minute highlights video of the best moments from last week’s CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Pentesting: An hour of critical thinking to…

Cybersecurity News – March 24, 2021

US government calls for better information sharing in wake of SolarWinds, Exchange attacks The Biden administration is seeking new methods for better early threat detection…

Patches? Yes, We Need Stinkin’ Patches!

There was a time we could trust a patch, but now our adversaries are actually looking at the patches to find even more vulnerabilities. And…

Cybersecurity News – March 23, 2021

SCOTUS: Facebook’s still on the hook for nonconsensual user tracking  On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear Facebook’s bid to pare back a $15…

PREVIEW [3-26-21] “Hacking Insider Risk” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s an interview I conducted with Jadee Hanson, CISO, Code42, about what we’re expecting for our Friday, March 26th, 2021 CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking…

Cybersecurity News – March 22, 2021

REvil Ransomware gang demands $50 million from Acer Taiwanese computer maker Acer, the sixth-largest personal computer maker in the world, suffered a ransomware attack over…

Cybersecurity News – March 19, 2021

Over $4.2 billion in cybercrime losses reported to FBI in 2020 Cyber crooks went on a crime spree last year, bilking us out of 20%…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – March 15-19, 2021

Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, March 15-19, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Jesse Whaley , CISO, Amtrak Cyber…

Defense in Depth: What Is Security’s Mission?

What’s the mission of your security program? Is it to proactively secure the company against a compromise of the confidentiality, integrity, and availability, or, is…

Cybersecurity News – March 18, 2021

Telcos targeted by Chinese attackers Researchers at McAfee report that a hacking group known as Mustang Panda and RedDelta, known to operate out of China,…

[4-2-21] “Hacking IT-Security Gap” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 for CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking the IT-Security Gap: An hour of critical thinking of improving communications…

Best Moments from “Hacking Board Metrics” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a six minutes highlights video of the best moments from last week’s CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Board Metrics: An hour of critical thinking…

Cybersecurity News – March 17, 2021

Microsoft shares one-click ProxyLogon mitigation tool for Exchange servers Microsoft published the tool application on Monday that applies all the necessary mitigations for the ProxyLogon…

I Think Possibly Maybe We’ve Solved Diversity in Cybersecurity

We’re tired of hearing “we’re trying” when it comes to the subject of companies improving their abysmal diversity. How about “We’re doing something and it’s…

Cybersecurity News – March 16, 2021

Cyber criminals impacted by OVH data center fire A fire in the Strasbourg data centers of OVHcloud disrupted a number of organizations, including cyber criminals.…

PREVIEW [3-19-21] “Hacking Pentesting” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview of this Friday’s CISO Series Video Chat happening on March 19th, 2021. Title is “Hacking Pentesting: An hour of critical thinking to…

Cybersecurity News – March 15, 2021

DearCry ransomware using ProxyLogon exploits Microsoft security researcher Phillip Misner has confirmed that DearCry, also known as DoejoCrypt, is being installed in human-operated attacks using…

Cybersecurity News – March 12, 2021

Raided phone network Sky ECC says no, police didn’t break our encryption On Wednesday, European police said they had arrested at least 80 people and…

[3-26-21] “Hacking Insider Risk” – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, March 26th, 2021 for “Hacking Insider Risk: An hour of critical thinking on the unnecessary corporate risk introduced by non-malicious…

Cybersecurity News – Week in Review – March 8-12, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, March 8-12, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Dan Walsh, CISO, VillageMD…

Defense in Depth: Vendor CISOs

It’s hard to be a CISO. But, what’s it like to be a CISO at a security vendor, doing the hard work while carrying the…

Cybersecurity News – March 11, 2021

Cloud hosting data centers burn down Multiple data centers of the Strasbourg, France-based cloud computing company OVH, the largest hosting provider in Europe and third-largest…