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LA School Data Leaked, Exchange mitigations bypassed, Supreme Court looks at Section 230

LA school data published on leak site Exchange zero-day mitigations bypassed Supreme Court will look legal protections for apps and sites Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Hunters Hunters helps your security team overcome data volume and complexity – while significantlyreducing false positives. Upwork uses Hunters SOC Platform to "remain threat focused". Because of Hunters, Upwork has been able to stop going through the daily repetitive task of looking at alerts, and doing repetitive, manual in...

Oct 04, 20227 min

Microsoft Zero days, Lazarus attacks Dell, NSA employee caught

Microsoft confirms two Exchange Server zero days are being used in cyberattacks Lazarus hackers abuse Dell driver bug using new FudModule rootkit Ex-NSA employee charged with violating Espionage Act, selling U.S. cyber secrets Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Hunters Hunters is a SaaS platform, purpose built for Security Operation teams. Providing unlimited dataingestion and normalization at a predictable cost, Hunters helps SOC teams mitigate real threats faster and more reliably than SIEM. V...

Oct 03, 20228 min

Week in Review: Uber hacker arrested, cyberattacks deluge organizations, Lazarus hacks Macs

Link to Blog Post This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review , September 26-30, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Sara Lazarus , VP and head of trust and security, Stavvy Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Votiro Can you trust that your content and data is free of malware and ransomware? With Votiro you can. Votiro removes evasive and unknown malware from content in milliseconds, without impacting file fidelity or usability. It even works on password-protected and zipped f...

Sep 30, 202225 min

Russia's cyber winter, military contractor attack, IRS smishing warning

Finnish intelligence warns Russia 'highly likely' to turn to cyber in winter Researchers uncover covert attack campaign targeting military contractors IRS warns of "industrial scale" smishing surge Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Votiro Can you trust that your content and data is free of malware and ransomware? With Votiro you can. Votiro removes evasive and unknown malware from content in milliseconds, without impacting file fidelity or usability. It even works on password-protected and zipp...

Sep 30, 20228 min

Leaked ransomware used in attack, Cloudflare Turnstile, Fast Company hit with cyber attack

Leaked ransomware builder used in attacks Cloudflare hopes Turnstile can replace CAPTCHAs Fast Company goes dark after cyber attack Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Votiro Can you trust that your content and data is free of malware and ransomware? With Votiro you can. Votiro removes evasive and unknown malware from content in milliseconds, without impacting file fidelity or usability. It even works on password-protected and zipped files. Plus, it's an API, so it integrates with everything – in...

Sep 29, 20227 min

Lazarus targets macOS, Geopolitical DDoS, Meta takes down influence networks

Lazarus Group targets macOS users Geopolitics behind recent DDoS surge Meta takes on influence networks Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Votiro Can you trust that your content and data is free of malware and ransomware? With Votiro you can. Votiro removes evasive and unknown malware from content in milliseconds, without impacting file fidelity or usability. It even works on password-protected and zipped files. Plus, it's an API, so it integrates with everything – including Microsoft 365. Learn...

Sep 28, 20227 min

Jamf buys ZecOps, porn phishing DDoS, Cloudflare Zero Trust SIM

Jamf buys ZecOps Porn phishing scam turns into a DDoS Cloudflare announced secure eSIM offering Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Votiro Can you trust that your content and data is free of malware and ransomware? With Votiro you can. Votiro removes evasive and unknown malware from content in milliseconds, without impacting file fidelity or usability. It even works on password-protected and zipped files. Plus, it's an API, so it integrates with everything – including Microsoft 365. Learn more at...

Sep 27, 20227 min

Uber hacker arrested, Microsoft SQL hacked, CircleCI GitHub hack

London Police arrest 17-year-old hacker suspected of Uber and GTA 6 breaches Microsoft SQL servers hacked in TargetCompany ransomware attacks Attackers impersonate CircleCI platform to compromise GitHub accounts Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Votiro Can you trust that your content and data is free of malware and ransomware? With Votiro you can. Votiro removes evasive and unknown malware from content in milliseconds, without impacting file fidelity or usability. It even works on password-prot...

Sep 26, 20229 min

Week in Review: Uber and Twitter hacks, MFA exploits, Ransomware in decline?

Link to Blog Post This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review , September 19-23, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Joseph Lewis , Director, Cyber Assessment Strategy, US Department of Energy Thanks to this week's sponsor, 6clicks 6clicks is your AI-powered GRC platform, featuring a fully integrated content library. 6clicks provides organizations with a powerful GRC platform to build highly scalable risk and compliance functions and advisors with the tools to streamline and ...

Sep 23, 202222 min

MFA fatigue hacking, Senate blasts counterintelligence, Australian telco breach

MFA Fatigue: Hackers' new favorite tactic in high-profile breaches Senate reports details inefficiencies, confusion at key U.S. counterintelligence center Australian telco Optus suffers massive data breach Thanks to today's episode sponsor, 6clicks With 6clicks , organizations can manage enterprise risk easier than ever before. 6clicks helps you identify your risks, group them into risk registers, and run risk assessments. It highlights causes and potential impacts, outlines risk treatment plans...

Sep 23, 20228 min

15-year old Python bug, LinkedIn Smart Link phishing, US military using Augury

15-year old Python bug causing problem LinkedIn Smart Links used for phishing US military buys Augury network monitoring tool Thanks to today's episode sponsor, 6clicks Your GRC solution is only as valuable as the reports it can generate. Provide an exceptional analytics experience for all your GRC stakeholders with the 6clicks reporting suite. Unlock powerful insights and prove compliance using dashboards and charts, pixel perfect reporting, presentations, and data storytelling via LiveDocs.. F...

Sep 22, 20227 min

American Airlines hack, $160M swiped from Wintermute, 2K and Rockstar cyberattacks

American Airlines announce breach of customer and staff info Crypto market maker hacked for $160 million 2K and Rockstar fall victim to cyber attacks Thanks to today's episode sponsor, 6clicks The 6clicks GRC solution comes with a fully integrated content library full of hundreds of standards, assessment templates, libraries, playbooks, and more. With the content library included in every 6clicks license, organizations can get started on their GRC implementation faster than ever before. For more...

Sep 21, 20227 min

Chromeloader evolves, ransomware falls, US reviews social media campaigns

The shifting ways of Chromeloader Ransomware attacks fall in first half Pentagon orders review of social media influence campaigns Thanks to today's episode sponsor, 6clicks Experience the magic of Hailey, the 6clicks artificial intelligence engine for risk and compliance. With Hailey, organizations can automatically show cross-compliance between regulations or identify gaps to external compliance requirements in their policies. Eliminate manual and costly risk and compliance processes by joinin...

Sep 20, 20227 min

Uber downplays breach, LastPass downplays hack, Netgear router vulnerability

Uber says there is no evidence that users' private information was compromised LastPass says hackers accessed its systems for just 4 days Netgear Routers impacted by FunJSQ module flaw Thanks to today's episode sponsor, 6clicks 6clicks has pioneered a unique Hub & Spoke architecture to underpin its AI-powered GRC solution and cater to markets requiring scalable, multi-tenanted GRC. This model enables organizations to deploy multiple, autonomous GRC entities connected to a single hub for roll...

Sep 19, 20228 min

Week in Review: Uber hacked, intermittent encryption ransomware, Twitter overheats

Link to Blog Post This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review , June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Quincy Castro , CISO, Redis Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Edgescan Scalable automated and continuous Attack Surface Management (ASM) and vulnerability detection integrated with a world-class cyber security team provide 100% false-positive-free alerts and expert remediation guidance. Edgescan.com All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series...

Sep 16, 202224 min

Gamers targeted on YouTube, Biden supply chain order, Queen Elizabeth II phishing scam

Gamers targeted by self-spreading stealer on YouTube Biden order further scrutinizes foreign tech supply chains Phishing attacks being launched in the name of Queen Elizabeth II Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Edgescan Edgescan simplifies Vulnerability Management by delivering a single full-stack solution (SaaS) integrated with world-class security professionals. Instead of managing a plethora of point scanning tools for each layer of the attack surface and squandering precious staff resource...

Sep 16, 20228 min

Teams leaks tokens, cyberscammer human trafficking, Treasury Tornado Cash guidance

Teams stores tokens in cleartext Cyberscammers caught up in human trafficking US Treasury issues guidance on Tornado Cash Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Edgescan Scalable automated and continuous Attack Surface Management (ASM) and vulnerability detection integrated with a world-class cyber security team provide 100% false-positive-free alerts and expert remediation guidance.

Sep 15, 20227 min

Apple's second zero-day, heat beats tweets, herd mentality phishing

Apple Releases iOS and macOS updates to patch actively exploited zero-day flaw Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline New phishing scheme uses 'herd mentality' approach to dupe victims Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Edgescan Edgescan combines full-stack coverage with integrated reporting and business-level prioritization to deliver a single source of truth for your entire vulnerability management program with zero false positives. For the stories behind the headlines,...

Sep 14, 20228 min

Google buys Mandiant, Redbleed mitigations hurt, Meta hands over PyTorch

Google closes on Mandiant Paying the iron price for Retbleed mitigation Meta hands over the keys to PyTorch Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Edgescan Edgescan offers a single platform solution that covers the full stack, from Web Applications to APIs to the Network and data layer. Continuous Attack Surface Management coupled with automated & strategic Pen-testing as a Service (PTaaS) yields fully scalable coverage....

Sep 13, 20226 min

Intermittent encryption warning, HP firmware bugs, SEC crypto office

Ransomware gangs switching to new intermittent encryption tactic Firmware bugs in many HP computer models left unfixed for over a year U.S. SEC to set up new office for crypto filings Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Edgescan Edgescan simplifies Vulnerability Management by delivering a single full-stack solution (SaaS) integrated with world-class security professionals. Instead of managing a plethora of point scanning tools for each layer of the attack surface and squandering precious staff re...

Sep 12, 20228 min

Week in Review: TikTok breach, China accuses US, CISA feedback

Link to Blog Post This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review , June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Jason Elrod , CISO, Multicare Health System Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Snyk Developers want to code fast and security wants to ship securely — and they want to do it all from the cloud. That's why they both choose Snyk . Backed by industry-leading security intelligence, Snyk provides real-time scanning with automated fixes and remediation advice right from th...

Sep 09, 202226 min

China accuses US, London buses hacked, New APT42 group

China accuses US of cyberattacks and cyberespionage London's biggest bus operator hit by cyber "incident" Researchers reveal new Iranian threat group APT42 Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Snyk Developers want to code fast and security wants to ship securely — and they want to do it all from the cloud. That's why they both choose Snyk . Backed by industry-leading security intelligence, Snyk provides real-time scanning with automated fixes and remediation advice right from the tools and workflo...

Sep 09, 20228 min

CISA incident reporting, Linux-focused IoT malware, Albania cuts ties over cyberattack

CISA asks for feedback on reporting rules New Linux-focused malware targets IoT Albania cuts diplomatic ties over cyberattack Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Snyk Developers want to code fast and security wants to ship securely — and they want to do it all from the cloud. That's why they both choose Snyk . Backed by industry-leading security intelligence, Snyk provides real-time scanning with automated fixes and remediation advice right from the tools and workflows developers use. Code, depen...

Sep 08, 20227 min

Ex-Uber exec heads to trial, Twitter fires back at Mudge, FBI K-12 warning

Uber's ex-cyber exec heads to trial Twitter fires back at Mudge for "parroting" Elon Musk FBI warns of ransomware attacks on school districts Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Snyk Developers want to code fast and security wants to ship securely — and they want to do it all from the cloud. That's why they both choose Snyk . Backed by industry-leading security intelligence, Snyk provides real-time scanning with automated fixes and remediation advice right from the tools and workflows developers ...

Sep 07, 20228 min

Sextortion ring busted, TikTok denies breach, Cloudflare cuts off Kiwi Farms

Transnational sextortion ring dismantled TikTok denies breachtok Cloudflare cuts off Kiwi Farms Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Snyk Developers want to code fast and security wants to ship securely — and they want to do it all from the cloud. That's why they both choose Snyk . Backed by industry-leading security intelligence, Snyk provides real-time scanning with automated fixes and remediation advice right from the tools and workflows developers use. Code, dependencies, containers, cloud env...

Sep 06, 20226 min

Fed agency supply chain tips, Apple lawsuit settlement, Neopets 18 month hack

Federal agencies share supply chain security tips Apple settles lawsuit with developer over App Store rejections and scams Hackers were inside Neopets systems for 18 months Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Code42 It's not just about the data leaving your company - what about the data coming in? Along with departing employees, new talent is also actively joining your organization. This poses cybersecurity challenges since they could be knowingly or unknowingly bringing data from their former co...

Sep 02, 20228 min

Google's open-source bug bounty, Ragnar Locker hits airline, Cloudflare won't cut off services

Google launches open-source bug bounty Ragnar Locker claims attack on airline Cloudflare won't terminate services for controversial customers Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Code42 Surprise! Surprise! Five years from now, Jamie, who's resigning today, will ring the NASDAQ bell officially launching her company on the public market. And what you'll soon realize is that Jamie stole your most valuable data to start her new company. Learn how Code42 Incydr can stop data theft and protect your orga...

Sep 01, 20227 min

Google Translate malware, White House aviation briefing, book distributor ransomed

Google Translate app is actually Windows crypto-mining malware White House to give aviation executives classified cyberthreat briefing Book distributor Baker & Taylor hit by ransomware Thanks to our episode sponsor, Code42 Cybersecurity teams are facing unprecedented challenges when it comes to protecting sensitive corporate data from exposure, leak and theft. In fact, the Code42 Annual Data Exposure Report revealed there's a 1 in 3 chance that your company will lose IP when an employee quit...

Aug 31, 20227 min

Log4Shell Hits Israel, Russian cyberattacks on Montenegro, AlphaBay Turns 1

Microsoft warns Iranians using Log4Shell Montenegro hit with Russian cyberattacks AlphaBay Turns 1 Thanks to this week's episode sponsor, Code42 Have you been thinking about launching an Insider Risk Management program? You don't need to be Big Brother to effectively address Insider Risk. Code42 believes that the Three Es should define any IRM program: expertise, education, and enforcement. Shift your security culture from "watchdog" to "guide dog" and everyone wins. Learn more at Code42.com/sho...

Aug 30, 20226 min

Hackers breach LastPass, new Agenda ransomware, Facebook Cambridge settlement

Hackers breach LastPass developer system to steal source code New Agenda ransomware appears in the threat landscape Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach lawsuit ends in 11th hour settlement Thanks to this week's episode sponsor, Code42 It's not just about the data leaving your company - what about the data coming in? Along with departing employees, new talent is also actively joining your organization. This poses cybersecurity challenges since they could be knowingly or unknowingly bringing ...

Aug 29, 20228 min
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