Cybersecurity Headlines

This week's podcast features Will Lin, managing director and co-founder of ForgePoint Capital. They discuss the ethical dilemma of complying with ransomware attacks, the importance of protecting against data deletion, the influence of compliance regulations, managing access control, and the significance of privacy awareness.

Israeli voting information leaked, Facebook disrupts Chinese group, Slack's privacy and security concerns, Trend Micro sponsors

US government calls for better information sharing after SolarWinds and Exchange attacks. Hospitals hiding pricing data. New Android zero-day vulnerability under attack. Financial firms lobbying and GE's security flaws. IT admin jailed for wiping Microsoft user accounts. Cybercriminal sentenced. AI app to battle phone scammers. CISO series video chat on hacking and insider risk.

Topics discussed in this podcast include Facebook's lawsuit, Democrats' antitrust bills, Microsoft Exchange servers ransomware attack, Trend Micro's cloud security, digital skills shortage in the UK, Shell's data loss in the Excellion attack, CEO paying for fake reviews, and Adobe's emergency patch for a critical flaw.

REvil Ransomware demands $50 million from Acer, hacktivist indicted for camera breach, SolarWinds-linked group abuses victims, DDoS attacks exploit DTLS servers, Windows 10 Update paused, Microsoft Defender protects against proxy logon attacks, CISA releases CHIRP tool, accidental file deletion at Victoria University.

Cybercrime losses of over $4.2 billion reported to FBI in 2020, fake iPhone charger explosion, taxpayers targeted with Trojan-inflicting phishing campaign, dark web gun sales, malware targeting iOS developers, printing problems caused by Windows updates, Microsoft table alignment issue, LinkedIn suspension, Google Cloud bug bounty, CISO series video chat on hacking pen testing.

Jesse Whaley, CISO at Amtrak, discusses the importance of prevention in cybersecurity, challenges with password-based authentication, identifying and blocking malicious domains, and shares a favorite story of cyber criminals impacted by a data center fire. Amtrak also announces cybersecurity job openings.

Chinese attackers target telcos. Mimecast source code stolen by SolarWinds attackers. Hiding data in Twitter images. Trickbot campaigns. Robocall fine. Dropbox Password Manager. Global vehicle surveillance.

Microsoft shares mitigation tool for Exchange servers, Teams and Exchange outage, Signal down in China, new ex-filtration technique, Mirai variant malware, Nokia job cuts, DNS hijack attacks, compromised GoDaddy accounts, word block incident, CISO series video chat.

Cyber criminals affected by data center fire, journalist targeted with SMS attack, hackers stealing NFTs, and more cyber news including Chrome Zero-Day exploit and phishing site evasion.