Cybersecurity Headlines

Microsoft Teams outage also takes down Microsoft 365 services

Heatwave forced Google and Oracle to shut down in London

Hackers for hire: adversaries employ "cyber mercenaries"

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Microsoft cuts security jobs amidst weakening economy

Is your cute little Neopet leaking your personal data?

Russia disguises malware as Ukrainian app for hacking Russia

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Car GPS tracker exposes location data

Russian malware groups spoof pro-Ukraine apps

MacOS backdoor speaks to the cloud

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Albania hit with cyberattack

Vendors not patching for speculative execution

DARPA looks into open-source

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Dozens of cities and towns are paying tech workers to abandon Silicon Valley

CISA orders agencies to patch new Windows zero-day used in attacks

Password recovery tool infects industrial systems with Sality malware

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This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Carla Sweeney, VP Information Security Red Ventures

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Ex-C.I.A. engineer convicted in biggest theft ever of Agency secrets

Chinese hackers targeted U.S. political reporters just ahead of January 6 attack, researchers say

Twitter outage briefly hits thousands

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Microsoft warns of massive phishing operation

Android malware downloaded over 3 million times

More speculative-execution attacks found for x86

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FTC is cracking down on false claims of anonymizing data

TikTok halts privacy policy change in Europe

Government contractor pays $9 million over whistleblower allegations

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Ransomware hits French telco

NSO Group acquisition called off

Krebs on Experian security

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