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This episode features discussion on lessons learned from the ransomware attack on the British Library, advice for managing expectations of IT/security teams, why firms are leaving Google Firebase unprotected and more
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Here's our week in review stories that David and guest host Jim Love will discuss:
Cyber Pros flock to cybercrime side hustles. I covered this earlier this week. This story came out of the UK and a report that an ex-cop went undercover on the dark web and discovered that there were a lot of cybersecurity professionals who were moonlighting or offering their services the Dark Web.
A second municipality fell victim to a ransomware attack. First it was the city of Hamilton just outside of Toronto, a relatively large municipality – about 600,000 people hit by Ransomware on Feb 25th.
Microsoft had to admit that those Russian state hackers were still doing damage.
For those who don’t remember the story, Microsoft had a very severe breach where email accounts of senior company executives were hacked in November. The cause of the breach, if I remember it right, was a “non-production” instance that was left without two factor authentication and allowed hackers to breach that system and get into a lot more including the executive emails.
Ransomware talent moves to Akira after Lockbit’s “demise”
Lockbit, a big player in ransomware got taken down very publicly by an international law enforcement group. They took Lockbit’s servers and even publicly tried humiliate the group, taking the counter that the group used to terrorize it’s victims. It had a countdown clock that showed the time left to pay the ransom or they’d release the company’s information on the dark web. The agencies that brought them down and took over their site put up their own countdown – only this was the time it would take them to nail the leader of Lockbit referred to as LockBitSupp.
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Google adds real time phishing protection to Chrome. A security bug is found in Kubernetes that allows attackers to remotely execute code on Windows nodes. The French government suffers an enormous cyber-attack and vulnerabilities in ChatGPT plug-ins.
Welcome to Cybersecurity Today for Friday March 15th, 2024. I’m your host Jim Love, filling in for Howard Solomon.
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A new phishing scam uses car insurance savings as to lure its victims, a report by Sophos shows that small businesses are being targeted by cybercriminals at an increasing rate. Okta says that data claiming to be from hacking them is not their customer data. These stories and more…
Welcome to Cybersecurity Today for Wednesday March 13th, 2024. I’m your host Jim Love, filling in for Howard Solomon.
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Breaking Bad in cybersecurity - UK companies are warned that cybersecurity employees may moonlight on the dark web. Microsoft reveals that Russians hackers’ attack is still ongoing. A system used by US government states and agencies has a critical flaw and a new attack vector using fonts has been detected by marketing software Canva.
Welcome to Cybersecurity Today for Monday March 11th, 2024. I’m your host Jim Love, filling in for Howard Solomon.
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JIm Love, host of the daily news podcast Hashtag Trending fills in for Howard this Saturday with a replay of a show that Jim did which featured Adam Evans, CISO at RBC. It's a little different but we hope you enjoy it.
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This episode features a discussion on how hard it is to kill a ransomware gang, Canada's proposed new online harms bill, why organizations still allow staff to use vulnerable software, and more
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This episode features a discussion on the takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang, and more
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