A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec CISA Warns Organizations About Attacks on Cloud Services (SecurityWeek, Jan 14 2021) In light of successful cyberattacks targeting organizations’ cloud services, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published a series of recommendations on
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security WhatsApp Delays Data Sharing Change After Backlash (SecurityWeek, Jan 18 2021) WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal.
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Intel unveils ransomware-fighting CPUs (SC Media, Jan 15 2021) The capability is an easy win for CISOs, which can benefit with limited tweaks to machines. Hackers used 4 zero-days to infect Windows and Android devices (Ars
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach (Krebs on Security, Jan 07 2021) The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Europol announces bust of “world’s biggest” dark web marketplace (Naked Security – Sophos, Jan 14 2021) Dark web servers are hard to find – but not impossible. Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud SolarWinds attackers suspected in Microsoft authN compromise (SC Media, Jan 12 2021) Mimecast issued a new certificate and is urging affected customers to delete the old one after Microsoft warned of a compromise. The FBI
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec An Absurdly Basic Bug Let Anyone Grab All of Parler’s Data (Wired, Jan 12 2021) The “free speech” social network also allowed unlimited access to every public post, image, and video. The Hacker Who Archived Parler
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years (Wired, Jan 08 2021) A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app’s users to a practice that’s been in place since 2016. Ubiquiti: Change Your Password,
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach (Krebs on Security, Jan 07 2021) The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy