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Episodes

Raspberry Robin warning, Hyundai ransomware attack, Cisco job cuts

Raspberry Robin – a new one-day exploit targeting Windows Hyundai Europe suffers Black Basta ransomware attack Cisco to cut thousands of jobs as it focuses on high growth areas Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establis...

Feb 12, 20248 min

Week in Review: Volt Typhoon warning, Cloudflare’s nation-state breach, $25 million deepfake

Link to blog post This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Doug Mayer , vp, CISO, WCG Thanks to our show sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth across your...

Feb 09, 202426 min

Volt Typhoon warning, Cisco fixes Expressway, credit union theft

CISA, FBI issue sobering warning about Volt Typhoon Cisco fixes critical Expressway flaws 3 million records from thousands of credit unions exposed Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable gro...

Feb 09, 20249 min

CISA collaboration challenges, Iran's cyber efforts, ransomware's $1 billion

CISA collaboration initiative on thin ice Iran focusing cyber efforts Ransomware payments cross $1 billion in 2023 Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth across your organization. Ove...

Feb 08, 20247 min

United front against spyware, spyware to blame for most Google zero-days, insider data breach hits Verizon

Tech giants and world govs unite to tackle spyware threats Spyware vendors to blame for most Google zero-days Insider data breach hits almost half of Verizon’s employee base Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to esta...

Feb 07, 20249 min

Spoutible API Leak, Fake IDs at scale, Sudo Windows

Spoutible API vulnerability leaks user data Illicit service cranks out fake IDs Sudo coming to Windows Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth across your organization. Over 6,000 comp...

Feb 06, 20247 min

Cloudflare announces breach, AnyDesk announces breach, Children’s hospital attacked

Cloudflare announces nation-state level breach AnyDesk says hackers breached production servers, reset passwords Chicago children’s hospital announces cyberattack Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust...

Feb 05, 20248 min

Week in Review: Microsoft email explanation, Brazilian banking trojan, Mercedes GitHub error

Link to blog post Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Mary Rose Martinez , vp, CISO Marathon Petroleum Thanks to our show sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth a...

Feb 02, 202423 min

FBI Director’s warning, Apple flaw warning, Pentagon supplier breach

FBI director warns of Chinese hacker threat to U.S. critical infrastructure CISA warns of exploited Apple flaw Pentagon Intelligence supplier allegedly hacked Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and...

Feb 02, 20248 min

Volt Typhoon takedown, refusing ransoms, Binance's big leak

FBI grounds Volt Typhoon More companies refuse to pay ransoms Binance internal info exposed on GitHub Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth across your organization. Over 6,000 compa...

Feb 01, 20248 min

Mercedes-Benz leak, Juniper Networks patch, ZLoader is back

Mercedes-Benz exposes sensitive data, source code Juniper Networks issues out-of-band fix for high severity flaws New ZLoader malware, now with 64-bit Windows compatibility Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to estab...

Jan 31, 20249 min

Microsoft takes another hit, Energy giant hit by ransomware, the NSA is secretly buying your data

Microsoft takes another hit Energy giant hit by ransomware The NSA is secretly buying your data Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth across your organization. Over 6,000 companies p...

Jan 30, 20249 min

Jenkins patch alert, Cisco flaw alert, Russia’s intel wiped

Urgent patch alert for Jenkins Cisco flaw exposes Unified Comms systems Pro-Ukraine hackers wipe 2 petabytes of data from Russian intelligence center Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable g...

Jan 29, 20248 min

Week in Review: TeamViewer still abused, ransomware’s hidden costs, X supports passkeys

Link to blog post This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Mike Kelley , vp, CISO, The E.W. Scripps Company and partner, OTAWireless.com . Thanks to our show sponsor, Conveyor Conveyor, the security questionnaire automation software known for generating the most accurate AI answers to questionnaires is launching a much-requested feature. Conveyor’s AI can now use uploaded security documents like a SOC 2 and security policy whitepapers to auto...

Jan 26, 202428 min

Hewlett Packard breach, exposed API study, Ukraine infrastructure attacks

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) attacked through Microsoft 365 email system Study reveals 18,000 exposed API secrets, including $20 million in vulnerable Stripe tokens Ukrainian energy, postal, and transportation services hit by cyberattacks Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Conveyor Conveyor , the security questionnaire automation software known for generating the most accurate AI answers to questionnaires is launching a much-requested feature. Conveyor’s AI can now use uploaded security docu...

Jan 26, 20249 min

EquiLend offline, AI fueling ransomware, "mother of all breaches"

Cyberattack knocks EquiLend offline Brits warn of the AI impact on ransomware Data leak claims to hold over 26 billion records Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Conveyor Conveyor , the security questionnaire automation software one of our customers dubbed “my favorite security tool of the year”, is now even better. How? Conveyor’s AI can now use uploaded security documents like a SOC 2 or security policy document to auto-generate precise answers to entire security questionnaires in seconds. You...

Jan 25, 20247 min

CISA boss swatted, Subway investigates LockBit, Australia sanctions hacker

CISA boss targeted in “harrowing” swatting attack Subway puts a LockBit investigation on the menu Australia sanctions REvil hacker behind Medibank data breach Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Conveyor Ever wish AI could auto-generate answers to security questionnaires for you just based on your SOC 2 or other documents? Spoiler alert - it can and you can now try it for free with Conveyor’s AI security questionnaire automation software. Set up takes a few seconds. Get a free Conveyor account an...

Jan 24, 20247 min

Thailand's data leak, CISA's Ivanti order, security funding drips

Thailand court attempts to suppress data leak CISA issues emergency directive on Ivanti zero-days Cybersecurity startup funding down 50% Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Conveyor What’s worse than a last minute security questionnaire in your inbox? Having to maintain a thousand question and answer pairs to use to respond to a questionnaire. Now, Conveyor’s AI security questionnaire automation software can use security documents like a SOC 2 and a pared down question and answer bank to auto-ge...

Jan 23, 20247 min

Russia Microsoft breach, JPMorganChase hacking increase, TeamViewer still abused

Russian hackers breach Microsoft executive emails to learn about themselves JPMorgan Chase says hacking attempts are increasing TeamViewer still being abused to breach networks in new ransomware attacks Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Conveyor AI can now literally answer any question in seconds, yet infosec teams are still in a living nightmare manually filling out questionnaires. Conveyor AI’s can now use your uploaded security documents to auto-generate precise answers to entire questionnai...

Jan 22, 20249 min

Week in Review: SEC X breach, pwned highlights leak, Kyivstar attack cost

Link to blog post This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Jerich Beason , CISO, WM Thanks to our show sponsor, Savvy Security Shadow identities on SaaS apps are growing unchecked, rapidly expanding an attack surface where businesses have little-to-no visibility or control. Savvy helps security teams safely embrace SaaS benefits by automating the discovery and removal of the most toxic combinations of SaaS identity risk. Savvy’s automation pl...

Jan 19, 202422 min

Atlassian Jira outage, iPhone spyware solution, Russia’s Europe espionage

Atlassian outage briefly affected multiple cloud services iShutdown helps discover spyware on iPhones Russian state hackers COLDRIVER deploy malware in European espionage campaign Huge thanks to our sponsor, Savvy Security Shadow identities on SaaS apps are growing unchecked, rapidly expanding an attack surface where businesses have little-to-no visibility or control. Savvy helps security teams safely embrace SaaS benefits by automating the discovery and removal of the most toxic combinations of...

Jan 19, 20248 min

Drone threats, PixieFail firmware, HIBP dataset

Chinese drones considered national security threat PixieFail could spell trouble for cloud providers Have I Been Pwned adds “statistically significant” data leak Huge thanks to our sponsor, Savvy Security Shadow identities on SaaS apps are growing unchecked, rapidly expanding an attack surface where businesses have little-to-no visibility or control. Savvy helps security teams safely embrace SaaS benefits by automating the discovery and removal of the most toxic combinations of SaaS identity ris...

Jan 18, 20247 min

Google patches zero-day, Citrix zero-day warning, Phemedrone stealer warning

Google patches first Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the year Urgent warning from Citrix to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities New malware strain persists despite patch Huge thanks to our sponsor, Savvy Security Shadow identities on SaaS apps are growing unchecked, rapidly expanding an attack surface where businesses have little-to-no visibility or control. Savvy helps security teams safely embrace SaaS benefits by automating the discovery and removal of the most toxic combinations of SaaS iden...

Jan 17, 20249 min

VPN blocks, OpenAI election tools, Calvia ransomware attack

Turkey blocks some VPNs OpenAI publishes election guidance Spanish municipality faces stiff ransomware demand Huge thanks to our sponsor, Savvy Security Shadow identities on SaaS apps are growing unchecked, rapidly expanding an attack surface where businesses have little-to-no visibility or control. Savvy helps security teams safely embrace SaaS benefits by automating the discovery and removal of the most toxic combinations of SaaS identity risk. Savvy’s automation playbooks and just-in-time sec...

Jan 16, 20247 min

Water nonprofit targeted, Denmark energy update, SEC X update

Ransomware gang targets clean water nonprofit Denmark energy sector attacks likely not Sandworm after all SEC says X account breach did not lead to further breaches Thanks to our episode sponsor, Savvy Security Shadow identities on SaaS apps are growing unchecked, rapidly expanding an attack surface where businesses have little-to-no visibility or control. Savvy helps security teams safely embrace SaaS benefits by automating the discovery and removal of the most toxic combinations of SaaS identi...

Jan 15, 20248 min

Week in Review: Merck settles NotPetya, Google accounts hacked, GitHub abuse rises

Link to blog post This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest Allan Cockriel , Group CISO, Shell Thanks to our show sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth acr...

Jan 12, 202425 min

Ivanti zero-day, Akira targets backups, school data exposed

Ivanti VPN hit by zero-days Akira targeting backups Sensitive school data accidentally exposed online Remember to subscribe to the Cyber Security Headlines newsletter here . Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to esta...

Jan 12, 20247 min

Texas healthcare breach, enormous Brazil leak, Tortilla decryptor released

Texas healthcare provider suffer data breach Entire population of Brazil possibly exposed in data leak Decryptor for Tortilla ransomware released Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growt...

Jan 11, 20248 min

SEC account hack spikes Bitcoin, Mandiant Twitter hijack, China cracks AirDrop

Bitcoin price spikes after SEC Twitter account hijack Twitter account hijack wave affects Mandiant China claims it cracked Apple AirDrop Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts to establish trust and enable growth across ...

Jan 10, 20249 min

google hacked, loanDepot attacked, Netgear compromised

Google accounts hacked: No passwords required loanDepot joins growing list of US mortgage lenders attacked Netgear and Hyundai’s X accounts latest to be compromised in crypto scam Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Vanta From dozens of spreadsheets and screenshots to fragmented tools and manual security reviews, managing the requirements for modern compliance and security programs is increasingly challenging. Vanta is the leading Trust Management Platform that helps you centralize your efforts t...

Jan 09, 20247 min