Cybersecurity Headlines

A look at the Project Signal ransomware campaign

Moscow facial recognition system used against protestors

Facebook Oversight Board to release Trump decision Wednesday

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New Spectre exploits beat AMD and Intel mitigations

Microsoft finds critical code execution bugs in IoT, OT devices

New ransomware group uses SonicWall zero-day to breach networks

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Babuk ransomware operators announce shutdown

Now we need to worry about deepfake satellite images

QNAP hit with AgeLocker ransomware

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This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, April 26-30, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Jerich Beason (@blanketSec), CISO, Epiq.

Thanks to our episode sponsor, Aptible

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Linux malware used to backdoor systems for years

Intel and Microsoft partner to detect cryptojacking

Android contact tracing logs exposed to preinstalled apps

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Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid

Vulnerabilities in Eaton product can allow hackers to disrupt power supply

FBI shares four million email addresses used by Emotet with Have I Been Pwned

Thanks to our episode sponsor, Aptible

What do the compliance leaders at Datadog, Pagerduty, Fullstory, Sift, PartnerStack, and many other marque companies have in common? They all understand that the ultimate goal of their work is to build trust with customers. And that's why they all use Aptible Comply to automate compliance management, and then they use the Rooms functionality to share their security documentation, making building customer trust easy. If you want to build trust like the best you can go to aptible.com/ciso to create your free Room now.

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Software bug opened macOS to malware

An analysis of the COMB21 password leak

Authorities warn of FluBot Android malware

Thanks to our episode sponsor, Aptible

Compliance teams have a ton of work to do such as completing access reviews, mitigating risks, and collecting evidence towards an audit pst Aptible Comply can help automate all of those things. The last thing the compliance team should be spending time on is sharing infosec documentation. That's why we also created Rooms. Now your security docs are instantly available to your customers; no back-and-forth to sign NDAs, watermark docs, or provide new docs. Focus on compliance and help the sales team close deals with Rooms. Go to aptible.com/ciso to create your free Room now.

Emotet malware officially removed from all infected devices globally

Computer security world in mourning over death of Dan Kaminsky

Password manager Passwordstate hacked to deploy malware on customer systems

Thanks to our episode sponsor, Aptible

Remember this? It's the end of the quarter which means urgent sales requests for security documentation. Well, thanks to Aptible Comply those days are over. Comply Rooms is a completely free, sales enablement tool built specifically for compliance teams to provide immediate, self-serve, and secure access to trust packets. With Rooms you just upload your security docs and NDA, then input your customer's emails to invite them where they download automatically watermarked documents. The process that used to take days is now done in minutes. Go to aptible.com/ciso to create your free Room now.

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Prometei botnet exploits Exchange server bugs

Facebook wants to 'normalize' the mass scraping of personal data

Microsoft 365 outage affects email delivery

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This week's Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, April 19-23, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, George Finney, CISO, Southern Methodist University

Thanks to our episode sponsor, Palo Alto Networks

All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series.com