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Cybersecurity News – November 11, 2020

Biden aide Bill Russo attacks Facebook’s post-election role Mr. Russo, who is deputy press secretary to the US president-elect tweeted that Facebook is not doing…

Why Don’t Cybercriminals Attack When It’s Convenient for Me?

Hey cybercrooks, I’ve got a really great weekend planned, so could you do us all a favor and cool it this Friday and just let…

Cybersecurity News – November 10, 2020

Inrupt launches enterprise privacy platform In 2017, Tim Berners-Lee launched a company called Inrupt to market products that used the open-source Solid system. Monday, Inrupt…

PREVIEW [11-13-20] Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview for this Friday’s CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication: An hour of critical thinking on best technologies, implementations, and adoptions of…

Cybersecurity News – November 9, 2020

Net neutrality and broadband expansion possible under Biden presidency Of the many changes expected to come about in a Biden presidency, tech industry watchers are…

Cybersecurity News – November 6, 2020

Facebook updates its premature victory policy On election night, Facebook told the Wall Street Journal that it’s policy to label candidate posts claiming premature victory…

[11-20-20] Hacking Data Protection and Visibility – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, November 20th, 2020 for “Hacking Data Protection and Visibility: An hour of critical thinking on how to gain back control…

Cybersecurity News – November 5, 2020

Facebook and Instagram add pop-up banners about election results The banners inform US users that the results of the US election have not been determined,…

Best Moments from “Hacking Bad Threat Modeling” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a highlights reel of last Friday’s [10-30-20] CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Bad Threat Modeling: An hour of critical thinking about the worst ways…

Cybersecurity News – November 4, 2020

Instagram banner mistakenly advertises Wednesday as Election Day for some subscribers On Tuesday, a subset of Instagram subscribers saw a notification that stated “Tomorrow is…

Cybersecurity News – November 3, 2020

Twitter clarifies its election results policy The company had previously said it will label misleading tweets claiming premature victory in the US presidential election. Now…

PREVIEW [11-6-20] Hacking Risk Management – CISO Series Video Chat

Here is a preview of this Friday’s [11-6-20] CISO Series Video Chat, “Hacking Risk Management: An hour of critical thinking on how we’re allocating resources…

Cybersecurity News – November 2, 2020

Cybersecurity specialists list their election week fears Calling it the Super Bowl for malicious actors, cybersecurity specialists have a long list of fears over election…

Cybersecurity News – October 30, 2020

Hackers steal funds from the Wisconsin Republican Party According to the party’s chairman Andrew Hitt, the attackers stole $2.3 million from the state, with suspicious…

Defense in Depth: Securing Digital Transformations

Digital transformation. It’s definition is broad and so are the mechanisms to secure it. Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week’s…

Cybersecurity News – October 29, 2020

NSA refuses to say if it still uses encryption backdoors The National Security Agency declined to disclose to Sen. Ron Wyden its promised new guidance…

[11-13-20] Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication – CISO Series Video Chat

Please join us on Friday, November 13th, 2020 for “Hacking Multi-Factor Authentication: An hour of critical thinking on best technologies, implementations, and adoptions of MFA”.…

Best Moments from Hacking Build vs. Buy Automation – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are the highlights from last Friday’s [10-23-20] CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Build vs. Buy Automation: An hour of critical thinking on the ongoing…

Cybersecurity News – October 28, 2020

TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce The deal aims to make it easier for Shopify’s over one million merchants to reach TikTok’s younger audience…

Archaeologists Dig Up the Remains of An Optimistic CISO

It is believed that in ancient times cybersecurity was successfully fought with a glass half-full approach. Today’s pessimistic CISOs have yet to confirm the findings.…

Cybersecurity News – October 27, 2020

Twitter to “pre-bunk” voter misinformation On Monday Twitter began placing messages at the top of a user’s feed to pre-emptively debunk misinformation about voting by…

PREVIEW [10-30-20] Hacking Bad Threat Modeling – CISO Series Video Chat

Here’s a preview of this Friday’s [10-30-20] CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking Bad Threat Modeling: An hour of critical thinking about the worst ways to…

Cybersecurity News – October 26, 2020

New Emotet attack urges recipients to upgrade Microsoft Word Emotet operators have started using a new template that pretends to be a Microsoft Office message…

Cybersecurity News – October 23, 2020

Firefox testing ‘Site Isolation’ feature Site Isolation browser techniques were first deployed in Chrome in mid-2018, that separates each web page and web iframes in…