CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.19
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Illegal Content and the Blockchain (Schneier on Security, Mar 17 2021) “This openness is also a vulnerability, one that opens the door to asymmetric threats and small-time malicious actors. Anyone can put information in the one and only Bitcoin blockchain. Again, […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.12
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy On Not Fixing Old Vulnerabilities (Schneier on Security, Mar 09 2021) “How is this even possible? …26% of companies Positive Technologies tested were vulnerable to WannaCry, which was a threat years ago, and some even vulnerable to Heartbleed. “The most frequent […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.05
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Microsoft: Chinese Cyberspies Used 4 Exchange Server Flaws to Plunder Emails (Krebs on Security, Mar 02 2021) Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug four critical security holes that attackers have been using to plunder email communications at companies that […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.26
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Accellion FTA attacks, extortion attempts might be the work of FIN11 (Help Net Security, Feb 23 2021) Mandiant/FireEye researchers have tentatively linked the Accellion FTA zero-day attacks to FIN11, a cybercrime group leveraging CLOP ransomware to extort targeted organizations. Accellion has […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.19
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Microsoft: 1000+ Hackers Worked on SolarWinds Campaign (Infosecurity Magazine, Feb 16 2021) Russian-backed cyber-espionage operation is “largest” world has seen U.S. Charges North Korean Hackers Over $1.3 Billion Bank Heists (SecurityWeek, Feb 17 2021) Three North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.12
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy ‘Dangerous Stuff’: Hackers Tried to Poison Water Supply of Florida Town (The New York Times, Feb 09 2021) For years, cybersecurity experts have warned of attacks on small municipal systems. In Oldsmar, Fla., the levels of lye were changed and could […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.05
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Another SolarWinds Orion Hack (Schneier on Security, Feb 04 2021) “At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin — was using an already […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.29
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy More Security Vendors Admit to SolarWinds Attacks (Infosecurity Magazine, Jan 27 2021) Several more cybersecurity vendors have revealed that they were attacked by the same threat actors that compromised SolarWinds, although there appears to have been minimal if any impact on […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.22
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cybersecurity Management & Strategy Human Error to Blame as Exposed Records Top 37 Billion in 2020 (Infosecurity Magazine, Jan 22 2021) Breach volumes drop but ‘breached’ records surge 141% FireEye Releases New Open Source Tool in Response to SolarWinds Hack (SecurityWeek, Jan 19 2021) FireEye […]
CISO View – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.15
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 Mess (Wired, Jan 11 2021) […]