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Cybersecurity News – January 27, 2021

Google’s Threat Analysis Group warns of social engineering hack aimed at security researchers The hackers, allegedly based in North Korea, have been targeting individual security…

Why Do We Fire the CISO? Tradition!

Yes, firing the CISO probably won’t solve our security issues. But our community has a multi-generational heritage of relying on scapegoats to make them feel…

Cybersecurity News – January 26, 2021

Google’s cookie replacement performs well in tests In tests, the Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC API, a proposed replacement for third-party cookies, showed that…

PREVIEW [1-29-21] Hacking BYOD and Unmanaged Devices – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a short preview of this Friday’s [1-29-21] CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking BYOD and Unmanaged Devices: An hour of critical thinking of all the…

Cybersecurity News – January 25, 2021

President Biden takes on cybersecurity on day one On his first day in office, he announced three new appointments for national cybersecurity agencies: Anne Neuberger…

Cybersecurity News – January 22, 2021

Technologists comb through Parler videos with facial recognition Faces are being recognized in archived Parler videos. One technologist claims to have distinguished about 40,000 faces…

Cybersecurity News Week in Review – January 18-22, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 18-22, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest Joshua Scott, Head of Information Security…

Defense in Depth: Building a Security Team

You’re a new CISO at a new org given a headcount of ten to build a cybersecurity team. What’s your strategy to build that team?…

Cybersecurity News – January 21, 2021

Malwarebytes breached by the group that attacked Solarwinds The company is the fourth prominent security firm to announce being targeted by the group, after Microsoft,…

[2-5-21] Hacking Windows Security – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, February 5th, 2021 for “Hacking Windows Security: An hour of critical thinking on securing servers, workstations, and Active Directory”. REGISTER Joining…

Best Moments from “Hacking Data Intelligence” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a six minute highlights video of “Hacking Data Intelligence: An hour of critical thinking on how to turn insights into actionable protection of data”.…

Cybersecurity News – January 20, 2021

FireEye releases report and network auditing tool for SolarWinds-type hacks The report, released yesterday, details the techniques used by the SolarWinds hackers inside the networks…

Click This Link to Fail a Phishing Test

Our phishing tests are designed to make you feel bad about yourself for clicking a link. We’re starting to realize these tests are revealing how…

Cybersecurity News – January 19, 2021

Parler resurfaces online The URL for the social media platform Parler was updated to show a message from CEO John Matze, reiterating the site’s self-proclaimed…

PREVIEW [1-22-21] Hacking High Profile Accounts – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a short preview of this Friday’s (January 22nd, 2021) CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking High Profile Accounts: Designing extra layers of protection around more valuable…

Cybersecurity News – January 18, 2021

Xiaomi added to Pentagon blacklist Nine Chinese firms have been added to the Pentagon’s blacklist of alleged ties to the Chinese military, including phone maker…

Cybersecurity News – January 15, 2021

Hackers waltzed past MFA used by CISA on cloud accounts Multifactor authentication is one of the strongest security protocols we have, but it’s not infallible.…

Cybersecurity News Week in Review – January 11-15, 2021

This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 11-15, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest Allan Alford, @AllanAlfordinTX. Facial-recognition app…

Defense in Depth: Are our Data Protection Strategies Evolving?

As we’re evolving from putting data on premises to the cloud, are our data protection strategies evolving as well? There are issues of securing data,…

Cybersecurity News – January 14, 2021

Europol confirms dark web marketplace takedown The law enforcement agency announced it coordinated with police departments across several countries to take down DarkMarket, which had…

[1-29-21] Hacking BYOD and Unmanaged Devices – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, January 29th, 2021 for “Hacking BYOD and Unmanaged Devices: An hour of critical thinking of all the devices we don’t have…

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

Here are six minutes of the best moments from our recent CISO Series Video Chat, “Hacking Cyber Media: An hour of critical thinking about how…

Cybersecurity News – January 13, 2021

Hackers leak stolen Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine data online The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today revealed that some of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data stolen from…

Our “Hope It Doesn’t Happen to Me” Security Strategy

We’re thinking it just might be possible to wish our security problems away. This episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO…