Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday run if they want PC to boot Slack Bug Allows Remote File Hijacking, Malware Injection TeamViewer Confirms It Was Hacked in 2016 Transcript: Hello, Friends, it is Monday, May 20th. Twenty nineteen in here’s today’s security news first off from the registered echo that UK Sophos tells users to roll back Microsoft patch Tuesday run if they want to. P.S. If they want their P.C. to boot this is written by Gareth Corfield. So Sophos has released a statement that says hey if you’re using our product and you want to…Continue ReadingMonday, May 20th, 2019

GOOGLE WILL REPLACE TITAN SECURITY KEY OVER A BLUETOOTH FLAW ‘GozNym’ Banking Malware Gang Dismantled by International Law Enforcement Russian government sites leak passport and personal data for 2.25 million users Transcript:  Welcome to security on the bayou. It is Thursday, May 16th, 2019. And here’s today’s security news and why it matters to you. ‘First off big news of the day this articles on wired one thing in this article you could google and find almost anywhere probably be on your local news Google replace tighten security key over a Bluetooth flaw. This is written by Lily Hay Newman.…Continue ReadingThursday, May 16th, 2019

Baltimore Ransomware Attack Takes Strange Twist UPDATE NOW! Critical, remote, ‘wormable’ Windows vulnerability Israeli TV’s Eurovision webcast hijacked by hackers. Hamas blamed Transcript: Hello friends welcome to security on the bayou It is Wednesday May 15th 20 19 and here’s your security news for the day. First things first from Sophos The Naked Security blog. You know this is one of my favorites. Title is update now. Critical remote work Mobile Windows vulnerability so normally I would just skip right over Patch Tuesday because it’s everywhere all the time. It’s not even patched choosey anymore what do we even call…Continue ReadingWednesday, May 15th, 2019

Update WhatsApp now! One call could give spies access to your phone Over 25,000 Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers vulnerable to sensitive information disclosure flaw. FBI Detects New Surveillance Malware Linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group Transcript:  [00:00:00] Hello folks. Welcome to security on the bayou It is Wednesday Wednesday. It’s not Wednesday. It’s Tuesday, May 14 20 19 and here’s security news and why it matters to you. So if you’ve been living under a rock this morning you may not know that WhatsApp has a fairly severe vulnerability. Essentially what happens here is there’s a vulnerability in the VoIP…Continue ReadingTuesday, May 14th, 2019

Breach Incidents on Record Pace for 2019 C-level executives increasingly and proactively targeted by social breaches IT Specialist Convicted on Cyber Hacking Charges Sentenced Transcript:  [00:00:00] Good morning friends. It is Thursday May 9th 2019. And this is Security on the bayou. Hope everybody’s having a wonderful week two more days you’re almost done get there it’s can be a beautiful we can hopefully wherever you are. All right. First up from security Boulevard dot com by Erica chick while whiskey breach incidents on record pace for 20 19. So this is an interesting report. And this is again one…Continue ReadingThursday, May 9th, 2019

LulZSec and Anonymous Ita hackers published sensitive data from 30,000 Roman lawyers CIA camps out in anonymized Tor network Highlights from the Verizon DBIR 2019 Transcript:  [00:00:00] Welcome friends. It is Wednesday May 8th 20 19 and here’s today’s security news.  [00:00:07] First thing’s first let’s start with this from security affairs by Pierluigi Paganini which I think he wrote an article yesterday if I remember correctly. This one entitled little SEC anonymous IPA hackers published sensitive data from 30000 Roman lawyers. So I.T. here standing for Italian. So they were able to collect the data of 30000 different lawyers…Continue ReadingWednesday, May 8th, 2019

A bug in Mirai code allows crashing C2 servers DuckDuckGo proposes “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” to require sites to respect DNT browser setting ‘Matrix’-Themed Ransomware Variant Spreads Transcript:M  [00:00:00] Welcome to Security led by you it is Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. All right let’s kick things off here. First off from security affairs echoed by Pier Luigi Pagani a bug in Meri code allows crashing CE to servers. So as you may know the MRI botnet is out there and it’s taking over as the devices like crazy. It’s hard to go anywhere and…Continue ReadingTuesday, May 7th, 2019

McAfee Survey Finds IT at Cybersecurity Fault Most President Trump Signs EO to Bolster Federal Digital Security Workforce A MYSTERIOUS HACKER GROUP IS ON A SUPPLY CHAIN HIJACKING SPREE Transcript: [00:00:00] Hello folks it is Friday, May 3rd 20. And here is today’s security news first. [00:00:06][6.0] [00:00:06] Let’s start with security Boulevard dot com from Michael Vizard. The title is McAfee survey finds I.T. at cybersecurity fault. Most first things first that headline terrible I clicked it because it said Mac Freeman intrigued me to try to figure what the hell he’s talking about. So here it is. This…Continue ReadingFriday, May 3rd, 2019

Sinister secret backdoor found in networking gear perfect for government espionage: The Chinese are – oh no, wait, it’s Cisco again Putin Signs Controversial Internet Law We dunno what’s worse: Hackers ransacked Citrix for FIVE months, or that Equifax was picked to help mop up the mess Transcript:  [00:00:00] Good morning folks it is Thursday May 2nd 2019 and here’s today’s security news.  [00:00:05] First things first from security week by AFP. Putin signs controversial Internet law. So today Putin signed this sovereign internet bill act in Russia which would essentially do a few things. One of those is it…Continue ReadingThursday, May 2nd, 2019

Phone and laptop searches at US border ‘quadruple’ Plan to secure internet of things with new law A ‘Cyber Event’ Disrupted the Power Grid in California and Wyoming, But Don’t Panic Just Yet Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months Transcript:a  [00:00:00] Hello folks it is Wednesday May 1st twenty And here’s today’s security news. First from BBC News. Phone and laptop search at U.S. border quadruple. That’s a lot quadrupling that’s four times that’s a lot in 2018. There were three thirty-three thousand two hundred ninety-five searches at the border. So this is all coming out…Continue ReadingWednesday, May 1st, 2019