CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.28
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy The Story of the 2011 RSA Hack (Schneier on Security, May 27 2021) Really good long article about the Chinese hacking of RSA, Inc. They were able to get copies of the seed values to the SecurID authentication token, a harbinger […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.21
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Apple Censorship and Surveillance in China (Schneier on Security, May 19 2021) Good investigative reporting on how Apple is participating in and assisting with Chinese censorship and surveillance. DarkSide Ransomware Gang Quits After Servers, Bitcoin Stash Seized (Krebs on Security, May […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.14
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy A Closer Look at the DarkSide Ransomware Gang (Krebs on Security, May 11 2021) The FBI confirmed this week that a relatively new ransomware group known as DarkSide is responsible for an attack that caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down 5,550 […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.05.07
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy DoD Lets Researchers Target All Publicly Accessible Info Systems (Dark Reading, May 05 2021) The Department of Defense expands its vulnerability disclosure program to include a broad range of new targets. More US agencies potentially hacked, this time with Pulse Secure […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.30
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Task Force Seeks to Disrupt Ransomware Payments (Krebs on Security, Apr 29 2021) Some of the world’s top tech firms are backing a new industry task force focused on disrupting cybercriminal ransomware gangs by limiting their ability to get paid, and […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.23
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Business Email Compromise Costs Businesses More Than Ransomware (Dark Reading, Apr 21 2021) Ransomware gets the headlines, but business paid out $1.8 billion last year to resolve BEC issues, according to an FBI report. REvil seeks to extort Apple and hits […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.16
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy FBI removes web shells from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers (Help Net Security, Apr 14 2021) Authorities have executed a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server software in the […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.09
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Google’s Project Zero Finds a Nation-State Zero-Day Operation (Schneier on Security, Apr 08 2021) Google’s Project Zero discovered, and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This seems to have been exploited by “Western […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.04.02
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Double-Extortion Ransomware Attacks Surged in 2020 (Infosecurity Magazine, Mar 30 2021) 15 ransomware families were observed using double-extortion tactics last year, compared to just one in 2019 Tim Callahan: ‘CISOs must voluntarily be part of the solution’ (SC Media, Mar 30 […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.26
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Acer Reportedly Hit With $50M Ransomware Attack (Dark Reading:, Mar 22 2021) Reports say a ransomware gang has given Acer until March 28 to pay, or it will double the ransom amount. Why SASE matters and what security pros need to […]