Welcome to the August 7, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://cybernews.com/security/paris-olympics-ransomware-attack-grand-palais-venue/

https://cybernews.com/news/tiktok-lite-awards-addictive-european-union/

https://cyberscoop.com/ransomware-terrorism-ndaa-2025/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/interpol-recovers-over-40-million-stolen-in-a-bec-attack/

https://www.wired.com/story/undisruptable27-us-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity/

Welcome to the August 5, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/us_doj_sues_tiktok/

https://cybernews.com/security/scammers-impersonating-crypto-exchanges-fbi-warns/

https://cyberscoop.com/jailed-cybercriminals-returned-to-russia-in-historic-prisoner-swap/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/surge-in-magniber-ransomware-attacks-impact-home-users-worldwide/

https://www.scmagazine.com/resource/third-party-breaches-persist-what-you-need-to-know

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/08/01/airlines-third-party-risks/

https://securityaffairs.com/166539/data-breach/personal-data-3-billion-people-data-breach.html

In part 3 of my series on cybersecurity for particular industries, I spend this week discussing Utilities.  If these go down, we are in for a world of hurt. Give a listen, tell a friend.

Email questions/comments/suggestions to [email protected].

Welcome to the July 31, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/kids-online-safety-act-passes-senate-despite-concerns-it-will-harm-kids/

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/43-million-people-hit-in-massive-healthcare-data-breach-full-names-addresses-and-ssns-exposed-online

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dark-angels-ransomware-receives-record-breaking-75-million-ransom/

https://dailyhodl.com/2024/07/25/jpmorgan-chase-wells-fargo-and-bank-of-america-refuse-to-reimburse-863000000-to-customers-in-repeated-relentless-failure-to-protect-victims-of-fraud-us-senate-investigation/

https://cybernews.com/security/paris-2024-olympic-apps-eavesdropping-on-users/

Welcome to the July 29, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://cybernews.com/security/summerville-police-ransomware-attack-embargo-alphv-blackcat-/

https://cyberscoop.com/north-korea-hacking-indictment-fbi-apt-45/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbcs-data-breach-impact-now-reaches-42-million-people/

https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/nhs-ransomware-attack-leads-to-extreme-blood-shortage/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3476179/how-your-xdr-is-evaded.html

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/07/meta-takes-down-63000-sextortion-related-accounts-on-instagram

In part 2 of my Friday Op-Ed series on different business sectors and the difficulties companies in these sectors have as it pertains to cybersecurity we talk Healthcare. Healthcare is in the top 3 year in and year out when it comes to targeting by cyber bad actors. Why?  Well I'll tell you and provided some simple solutions to start with.

Give a listen, tell a friend.

Feel free to contact me at [email protected], or follow me at linkedin.com/in/darrenmott.

Welcome to the July 24, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/23/typosquatting_crowdstrike_crisis/

https://cybernews.com/cyber-war/hackers-disable-lviv-heating-frostygoop/

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/goodbye-attackers-can-bypass-windows-hello-strong-authentication

https://cyberscoop.com/mgm-ransomware-attack-arrest-com-uk-police/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/breachforums-v1-hacking-forum-data-leak-exposes-members-info/

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/ransomware-attack-shuts-down-three-dozen-los-angeles-courts

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chinese-group-malware-target-os/

Welcome to the July 22, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://cybernews.com/security/crowdstrike-outage-turns-playground-for-threat-actors/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-crowdstrike-updates-target-companies-with-malware-data-wipers/

https://cyberscoop.com/treasury-sanctions-russia-hacktivist-water/

https://securityaffairs.com/165932/security/medisecure-databreach-12-9m-individuals.html

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/us-data-breach-victims-surge-1170/

Today starts a multi-week Friday focus where the Op-Eds will focus on some stats and tips for different business sectors, such as Churches, Non-Profits, Healthcare, and so on. Today I start with Law Firms.

Law Firms are getting hacked all over the country, AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY.

GIVE A LISTEN, TELL A LAWYER FRIEND!

Welcome to the July 15, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.

Listens and shares are appreciated.    

Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to [email protected]

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kaspersky-is-shutting-down-its-business-in-the-united-states/

https://cybernews.com/crypto/lazarus-caught-laundering-millions-from-dmm/

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/15/zdi_microsoft_vulnerability/?td=rt-3a

https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/void-banshee-apt-microsoft-zero-day-spear-phishing-attacks

https://www.wired.com/story/disney-slack-leak-nullbulge/