Cybersecurity Headlines

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Oct 5, 2022 • 7min

Musk Twitter deal update, TikTok security deal politics, Netwalker affiliate sentenced

Musk offers to proceed with Twitter deal TikTok security deal becomes a political pawn Netwalker ransomware affiliate sentenced to 20 years in prison Thanks to today's episode sponsor, Hunters Hunters is a SaaS platform, purpose built for your Security Operation team. Cimpress, theparent company of VistaPrint, implemented Hunters SOC Platform to replace its SIEM. Thanks to Hunters, Cimpress no longer needs to babysit alerts and detection logic – they've improved their SOC's efficiency, and optimized costs. Visit Hunters.ai to learn more. For the stories behind the headlines, visit CISOseries.com
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Oct 4, 2022 • 7min

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 investigations. Learn more at: Hunters.ai
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Oct 3, 2022 • 8min

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. Visit Hunters.ai to learn more. For the stories behind the headlines, head to CISOseries.com.
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Sep 30, 2022 • 25min

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 files. Plus, it's an API, so it integrates with everything – including Microsoft 365. Learn more at Votiro.com. All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series.com
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Sep 30, 2022 • 8min

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 zipped files. Plus, it's an API, so it integrates with everything – including Microsoft 365. Learn more at Votiro.com. For the stories behind the headlines, head to CISOseries.com.
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Sep 29, 2022 • 7min

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 – including Microsoft 365. Learn more at Votiro.com.
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Sep 28, 2022 • 7min

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 more at Votiro.com.
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Sep 27, 2022 • 7min

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 Votiro.com.
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Sep 26, 2022 • 9min

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-protected and zipped files. Plus, it's an API, so it integrates with everything – including Microsoft 365. Learn more at Votiro.com. For the stories behind the headlines, head to CISOseries.com.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 22min

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 scale their services, saving everyone enormous time and money. Reimagine risk. Improve cybersecurity. Demonstrate compliance. For more information visit 6clicks.com/cisoseries. All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series.com

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