Welcome to the April 30, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

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

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

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13344925/tiktok-bill-senate-national-security-threat-fbi-chinese-government-warning.html

https://cybernews.com/news/belarusian-kgb-allegedly-breached-cyber-partisans/

https://cybernews.com/security/romance-scammers-offer-fake-protection/

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/palo-alto-updates-remediation-for-max-critical-firewall-bug

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/04/29/okta-credential-stuffing/

https://www.wired.com/story/change-healthcare-admits-it-paid-ransomware-hackers/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2096365/marriott-admits-it-falsely-claimed-for-five-years-it-was-using-encryption-during-2018-breach.html

With the RSA conference coming in about 10-days, I bring back a topic I mentioned about 7 months ago as it pertains to Cyber Conferences to today's Op-Ed. Are they solving anything?  I have thoughts.

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Dissenting opinions are welcome at [email protected]

Welcome to the April 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.

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The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/unitedhealth_admits_breach_substantial/?td=rt-3a

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2094609/authentication-failure-blamed-for-change-healthcare-ransomware-attack.html

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/russia-fancy-bear-pummels-windows-print-spooler-bug.

https://cyberscoop.com/iranian-nationals-charged-with-hacking-u-s-companies-treasury-and-state-departments/

https://securityaffairs.com/162136/cyber-crime/hackers-threaten-leak-world-check.html

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/vulnerability-exploitation-rise/

Welcome to the April 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.

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The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/lastpass-users-lose-master-passwords-ultra-convincing-scam

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-dev-lures-child-exploiters-into-honeytrap-to-extort-them/

https://securityaffairs.com/162067/hacking/crushftp-zero-day-exploited.html

https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/possible-cyber-attack-on-911-of-4-american-states/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2093647/ransomware-feared-in-octapharma-plasmas-us-wide-shutdown.html

Today's Friday Op-Ed has to do with two news articles this week on nation-state actors attacking critical national infrastructure and we need to understand that a world at Cyber War is real, and it is spectacular!

Give a listen, tell a friend.

Thoughts/comments/suggestions welcome at [email protected]

Welcome to the April 17, 2024 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. 

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

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

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/change_healthcares_ransomware_attack_has/?td=rt-3a

https://cyberscoop.com/change-healthcare-unitedhealth-ransomware-hearing/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/exploit-released-for-palo-alto-pan-os-bug-used-in-attacks-patch-now/

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/cisco-duo-multifactor-authentication-service-breached

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/omni-hotels-confirms-data-compromise-in-apparent-ransomware-attack

https://cybernews.com/news/millions-student-papers-written-with-ai/

Welcome to the April 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.

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

The articles referenced in this podcast:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/microsoft_cisa_order/?td=rt-3a

https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/cisa-s-new-malware-analysis-platform-could-enable-better-threat-intelligence

https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/zambia-busts-77-in-china-backed-cybercrime-operation

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ex-amazon-engineer-gets-3-years-for-hacking-crypto-exchanges/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firebird-rat-creator-and-seller-arrested-in-the-us-and-australia/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/2089594/attackers-exploit-critical-zero-day-flaw-in-palo-alto-networks-firewalls.html

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-urges-reset-sisense-breach/

This Friday Op-ed has to do with the following article:

https://cybernews.com/security/number-of-cyberattacks-new-record/

Despite "efforts" cyber attacks continue to increase. I have thoughts on what you should do about it, particularly if you are a business owner. Perhaps someone will take me up on it.

Feel free to email me at [email protected]

Welcome to the April 10, 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/2024/04/09/us_federal_privacy_law_apra/?td=rt-3a

https://cybernews.com/privacy/apple-privacy-protections-questioned/

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/round-2-change-healthcare-targeted-second-ransomware-attack

https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-domestic-violence-connected-cars/

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protect-yourself-ai-scam-calls-detect/

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/two-new-bugs-can-bypass-detection-and-steal-sharepoint-data

Welcome to the April 8, 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/2024/04/05/china_ai_election_interference/

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chinese-threat-ttps-ivanti/.

https://cyberscoop.com/federal-government-russian-breach-microsoft/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/home-depot-confirms-third-party-data-breach-exposed-employee-info/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-health-dept-warns-hospitals-of-hackers-targeting-it-help-desks/

https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-browsers-duckduckgo-ghostery-brave/

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/bing-ad-posing-as-nordvpn-aims-to-spread-sectoprat-malware