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Signs point to a major cybersecurity event at cloud provider Snowflake. Hugging Face discloses "unauthorized access" to its Spaces platform. Australian legislation seeks jail time for deepfake porn. CISA adds two vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog. Spanish police investigate a potential breach of drivers license info. NSA shares mobile device best practices. Everbridge crisis management software company reports a data breach. N2K’s CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, Rick Howard joins us to preview CSO Perspectives Season 14 which launches today! Google tries to explain those weird AI search results. 

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N2K’s CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, Rick Howard joins Dave to preview CSO Perspectives Season 14 which launches today! The first episode explores SolarWinds and the SEC. This episode of CSO Perspectives has a companion essay. You can find it here. Not an N2K Pro subscriber? You can catch the first half of the episode here. 

The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning (WIRED)

Hugging Face says it detected 'unauthorized access' to its AI model hosting platform (TechCrunch)

Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws (The Guardian)

CISA warns of actively exploited Linux privilege elevation flaw (Bleeping Computer)

Spanish police investigate whether hackers stole millions of drivers' data (Reuters)

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week - here's why (ZDNET)

Everbridge warns of corporate systems breach exposing business data (Bleeping Computer)

Google’s AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why (Ars Technica) 

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As part of our series on the 2024 NICE Conference, we turn our focus to the one of the keynote speakers of the conference. This year’s conference theme “Strengthening Ecosystems: Aligning Stakeholders to Bridge the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap” highlights the collective effort to strengthen the cybersecurity landscape. By joining forces with key partners, we can foster a more robust cybersecurity ecosystem to bridge the workforce gap. 

In her keynote coming up on Tuesday, June 4th, Deneen DeFiore, Chief Information Security Officer of United Airlines, will discuss "A Journey with No Destination: A CISO’s Pathway to a Cybersecurity Career."

Prior to the conference, Simone Petrella, N2K President, caught up with Deneen DeFiore. They discussed Deneen's history with NICE, the importance of prioritizing cyber talent and workforce issues, what stakeholders need to more effectively tackle the cyber skills and experience gap across the profession, and more.

Find out more about the The Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) (NIST Special Publication 800-181, revision 1). Listen to our podcast about the update. Stay tuned for our coverage of the 2024 NICE Conference.

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Rick Howard, N2K’s CSO and The CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, presents the argument for why the SEC was misguided when it charged the SolarWinds CISO, Tim Brown, with fraud the after the Russian SVR compromised the SolarWinds flagship product, Orion. Our guests are, Steve Winterfeld, Akamai’s Advisory CISO, and Ted Wagner, SAP National Security Services CISO.

Andrew Goldstein, Josef Ansorge, Matt Nguyen, Robert Deniston, 2024. Fatal Flaws in SEC’s Amended Complaint Against SolarWinds [Analysis]. Crime & Corruption.

Anna-Louise Jackson, 2023. Earnings Reports: What Do Quarterly Earnings Tell You? [Explainer]. Forbes.

Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross Sorkin, 2016 - 2023. Billions [TV Show]. IMDb.

Dan Goodin, 2024. Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules [News]. Ars Technica.

David Katz, 021. Corporate Governance Update: “Materiality” in America and Abroad [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Jessica Corso, 2024. SEC Zeroes In On SolarWinds Exec In Revised Complaint [Analysis]. Law360.

Johnathan Rudy, 2024. SEC files Amended complaint against SolarWinds and CISO [Civil Action]. LinkedIn.

Joseph Menn, 2023. Former Uber security chief Sullivan avoids prison in data breach case [WWW DocumentNews]. The Washington Post.

Kim Zetter, 2014. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon [Book]. Goodreads.

Kim Zetter, 2023. SEC Targets SolarWinds’ CISO for Rare Legal Action Over Russian Hack [WWW Document]. ZERO DAY.

Kim Zetter, 2023. SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack [Essay]. WIRED.

Rick Howard, 2022. Cyber sand table series: OPM [Podcast]. The CyberWire - CSO Perspectives Podcast.

Rick Howard, 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Goodreads.

Pam Baker, 2021. The SolarWinds hack timeline: Who knew what, and when? [Timeline]. CSO Online.

Staff, 2009. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Topic 105) [Standard]. PWC.

Staff. 30 October 2023. SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control Failures [Website]. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision.

Staff, 31 October 2023. Securities and Exchange Commission v. SolarWinds Corporation and Timothy G. Brown, No. 23-civ-9518 (SDNY) [Case]. The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Staff, 29 March 2024. Cooley, Cybersecurity Leaders File Brief Opposing SEC’s SolarWinds Cyberattack Case [Press Release]. Cooley.

Stephanie Pell, Jennifer Lee , Shoba Pillay, Jen Patja Howell, 2024. The SEC SolarWinds Enforcement Action [Podcast]. The Lawfare Podcast.

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As part of our series on the 2024 NICE Conference, we turn our focus to the Business Roundtable. This year’s conference theme “Strengthening Ecosystems: Aligning Stakeholders to Bridge the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap” highlights the collective effort to strengthen the cybersecurity landscape. By joining forces with key partners, we can foster a more robust cybersecurity ecosystem to bridge the workforce gap. Business Roundtable is an association of chief executive officers of America’s leading companies working to promote a thriving U.S. economy and expanded opportunity for all Americans through sound public policy.

The Business Roundtable launched its Cybersecurity Workforce Corporate Initiative in December of 2022. In coordination with its members and inputs from experts at Department of Commerce’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), it recently released a Cybersecurity Workforce Playbook to help employers create entry points to cybersecurity careers and strengthen cybersecurity talent pipelines across various industries and sectors.

Simone Petrella, N2K President, speaks with Erin White, Business Roundtable's Senior Director, Corporate Initiatives, about the Cybersecurity Workforce Corporate Initiative, the recently released Cybersecurity Workforce Playbook, key takeaways for the private sector, and how the Business Roundtable and NICE are working together to support these initiatives.

Find out more about the The Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) (NIST Special Publication 800-181, revision 1). Stay tuned for our coverage of the 2024 NICE Conference.

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Commandant for the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic School Diane M. Janosek shares the story of her career going global Diane explains how she's always been drawn to doing things that could help and raise the nation. From a position as a law clerk during law school, to the role of a judicial clerk, and joining the White House Counsel's office, Diane was exposed to many things and felt she experienced the full circle. Moving on to the Pentagon and finally, the NSA, Diane transitioned into her current role where she orchestrates the educational environment for military and civilian cyber and cryptologists worldwide for the nation. Diane encourages those who love to learn to join the multidisciplinary cybersecurity field. Our thanks to Diane for sharing her story with us. 

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Amit Malik, Director of Threat Research at Uptycs, is sharing their work on "New Threat Detected: Inside Our Discovery of the Log4j Campaign and Its XMRig Malware." The Uptycs Threat Research Team has discovered a large-scale Log4j campaign involving over 1700 IPs, aiming to deploy XMRig cryptominer malware.

This ongoing operation was initially detected through the team's honeypot collection, prompting an in-depth analysis of the campaign. The research says "The JNDI plugin is particularly useful to attackers because it allows them not only to fetch the values of environment variables in the target system but also to freely define the URL and protocol resource for the JNDI network connection."

The research can be found here:

• New Threat Detected: Inside Our Discovery of the Log4j Campaign and Its XMRig Malware

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Draft legislation looks to streamline federal cybersecurity regulations. Clarity.fm exposed personal information of business leaders and celebrities. Researchers find european politicians’ personal info for sale on the dark web. The BBC’s pension scheme suffers a breach. OpenAI disrupts covert influence operations making use of their platform. Hackers brick over 600,000 routers. Cracked copies of Microsoft office deliver a malware mix. A senator calls for accountability in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack. On our Industry Voices segment, we hear from SpyCloud’s Chip Witt, on navigating the threat of digital identity exposure. Florida man becomes Moscow’s fake-news puppet.

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On our Industry Voices segment, we hear from Chip Witt, SpyCloud's SVP, Product Management, discussing navigating the threat of digital identity exposure. To learn more, check out SpyCloud’s Annual Identity Exposure Report 2024. 

Senate chairman wants new White House-led panel to streamline federal cyber rules (The Record)

Data Leak Exposes Business Leaders and Top Celebrity Data (Hackread)

Information of Hundreds of European Politicians Found on Dark Web (SecurityWeek)

BBC Pension Scheme Breached, Exposing Employee Data (Infosecurity Magazine)

OpenAI accuses Russia, China, Iran, and Israel of misusing its GenAI tools for covert Ops (CSO Online)

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (Ars Technica)

Pirated Microsoft Office delivers malware cocktail on systems (Bleeping Computer)

UnitedHealth leaders 'should be held responsible' for installing inexperienced CISO, senator says (The Record)

Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia (The New York Times) 

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Operation Endgame takes down malware operations around the globe. A major botnet operator is arrested. Ticketmaster’s massive data breach is confirmed, and so is Google’s SEO algorithm leak. Journalists and activists in Europe were targeted with Pegasus spyware. Okta warns users of credential stuffing attacks. NIST hopes to clear out the NVD backlog. On our Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton speaks with Greg Jones, Chief Information Security Officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, joins us to discuss software security. LightSpy surveillance malware comes to macOS. ChatGPT briefly gets a god mode.

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Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, joins us to discuss software security.

In this Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton speaks with Greg Jones, Chief Information Security Officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. Greg brings a wealth of knowledge from his military background and applies a disciplined, adaptive approach to securing one of America's most vibrant educational institutions. You can listen to David and Greg’s full discussion here. 

Police seize malware loader servers, arrest four cybercriminals (Bleeping Computer)

Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’ (Krebs on Security)

Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users. (Mashable)

Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (The Verge)

Phones of journalists and activists in Europe targeted with Pegasus (CyberScoop)

Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Cross-Origin Authentication (SecurityWeek)

NIST says NVD will be back on track by September 2024 (Help Net Security)

macOS version of elusive 'LightSpy' spyware tool discovered (Bleeping Computer)

Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (Futurism) 

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An alleged leak of Google’s search algorithm contradicts the company’s public statements.  German researchers discover a critical vulnerability in a TP-Link router. Breachforums is back…maybe. The Seattle Public Library suffers a ransomware attack. A Georgia man gets ten years for money laundering and romance scams, and the Treasury department sanctions a group of botnet operators. 44,000 individuals are affected by the breach of a major U.S. title insurance company. Microsoft describes North Korea’s Moonstone Sleet. Advocating for a more architectural approach to cybersecurity. Maria Varmazis speaks with WiCyS Executive Director Lynn Dohm and a panel of N2K experts about the 2024 Cyber Talent Study. A cracked password results in a multimillion dollar windfall. 

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Sam and Joe dive into Domain 6: Security Assessment and Testing and tackle the following question together:

You are hiring a vendor to perform a penetration test that would simulate a breach from an insider threat. What type of test would be BEST to perform? 

Maria Varmazis, N2K host of T-Minus Space Daily, talks with WiCyS Executive Director Lynn Dohm and N2K's Simone Petrella, Dr. Heather Monthie, and Jeff Welgan about the 2024 Cyber Talent Study. You can find out more about the study here. 

Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (The Verge)

Update TP-Link's Archer C5400X router now to fix remote takeover vulnerability (TechSpot)

Data leak site BreachForums is back, boasting Live Nation/Ticketmaster user data. But is it a trap? (Malwarebytes)

Ransomware attack on Seattle Public Library knocks out online systems (The Record)

Man Sentenced for Laundering Over $4.5M Obtained from Business Email Compromise and Romance Fraud Schemes (United States Department of Justice)

Treasury Sanctions a Cybercrime Network Associated with the 911 S5 Botnet (United States Department of Treasury)

First American December data breach impacts 44,000 people (Bleeping Computer)

Moonstone Sleet emerges as new North Korean threat actor with new bag of tricks (Microsoft Security Blog)

Cybersecurity at a crossroads: Time to shift to an architectural approach (CSO Online)

How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (WIRED) 

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The FBI untangles Scattered Spider. The RansomHub group puts a deadline on Christie’s. Prescription services warn customers of data breaches. Personal data from public sector workers in India is leaked online. Check Point says check your VPNs. The Internet Archive suffers DDoS attacks. A Minesweeper clone installs malicious scripts. N2K T-Minus Space Daily podcast host Maria Varmazis speaks with guest Carrie Hernandez Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder from Rebel Space Technologies, about the need to extend cybersecurity into space. If you can’t beat ‘em, troll ‘em. 

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N2K T-Minus Space Daily podcast host Maria Varmazis speaks with guest Carrie Hernandez Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder from Rebel Space Technologies, about the need to extend cybersecurity into space.

Potent youth cybercrime ring made up of 1,000 people, FBI official says (CyberScoop)

Christie’s given Friday ransom deadline after threat group claims responsibility for cyber attack (ITPro)

Data Stolen From MediSecure for Sale on Dark Web (SecurityWeek)

2.8 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Prescription Services Firm Sav-Rx (SecurityWeek)

Data leak exposes personal data of Indian military and police (CSO Online)

Check Point warns of threat actors targeting its VPNs (TechMonitor)

Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attack (PCMag)

Hackers phish finance orgs using trojanized Minesweeper clone (bleepingcomputer)

Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now (WIRED)

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