Bolstering the digital shield.
Jan 16, 2025•35 min•Ep 2226•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
President Biden issues a comprehensive cybersecurity executive order. Updates on Silk Typhoon’s US Treasury breach. A Chinese telecom hardware firm is under FBI investigation. A critical vulnerability has been found in the UEFI Secure Boot mechanism. California-based cannabis brand Stiiizy suffers a data breach. North Korea’s Lazarus Group lures freelance developers. The FTC highlights major security failures at web hosting giant GoDaddy. Veeam patches a critical vulnerability in their Backup for Microsoft Azure product. Hackers leak sensitive data from over 15,000 Fortinet firewalls. Our guest today is Oren Koren, Veriti's Co-founder and CPO, sharing insights about the state of healthcare cybersecurity. Shiver me timbers! Meta’s AI trains on a treasure chest of pirated books.
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CyberWire Guest
Our guest today is Oren Koren, Veriti's Co-founder and CPO, sharing insights about the state of healthcare cybersecurity. You can read more in their “The State of Healthcare Cybersecurity 2025” report.
Selected Reading
Biden to sign executive order on AI and software security (Axios)
Treasury Breach by Chinese Sponsored Hackers Focused on Sanctions, Report Says (Bloomberg)
Exclusive: Chinese tech firm founded by Huawei veterans in the FBI's crosshairs (Reuters)
New UEFI Secure Boot Bypass Vulnerability Exposes Systems to Malicious Bootkits (Cyber Security News)
380,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Cannabis Retailer Stiiizy (SecurityWeek)
North Korean Hackers Targeting Freelance Software Developers (SecurityWeek)
GoDaddy Accused of Serious Security Failings by FTC (Infosecurity Magazine)
Veeam Azure Backup Solution Vulnerability Allows Attackers To Enumerate Network (Cyber Security News)
Hacking group leaks Fortinet users’ details on dark web (Computing)
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal (WIRED)
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