A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders (Krebs on Security, May 05 2021) Phishers targeting Microsoft Office 365 users increasingly are turning to specialized links that take users to their organization’s own email login page.
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security AI can alter geospatial data to create deepfake geography (Help Net Security, Apr 29 2021) A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense MITRE Adds MacOS, More Data Types to ATT&CK Framework (Dark Reading, Apr 30 2021) Version 9 of the popular threat matrix will improve support for a variety of platforms, including cloud infrastructure. Tesla Car Hacked Remotely
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion (Wired, Apr 23 2021) This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them. 2. Justice Dept. Creates Task Force
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
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Identity Management & Web Fraud The New iOS Update Lets You Stop Ads From Tracking You (Wired, Apr 26 2021) Facebook and other advertisers fought the move, but App Tracking Transparency is finally here. Experian’s Credit Freeze Security is Still
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cloud Security, DevOps, AppSec Hackers Used ‘Mind-Blowing’ Bug to Dodge macOS Safeguards (Wired, Apr 26 2021) The vulnerability was patched Monday, but hackers had already used it to spread malware. The next big thing in cloud computing? Shh… It’s confidential
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Signal CEO Hacks Cellebrite iPhone Hacking Device Used By Cops (VICE, Apr 21 2021) One of the biggest encrypted chat apps in the world just showed how a device used to decrypt messages can be
A Review of the Best News of the Week on Cyber Threats & Defense Apple’s Ransomware Mess Is the Future of Online Extortion (Wired, Apr 23 2021) This week, hackers stole confidential schematics from a third-party supplier and demanded $50 million not to release them. Justice Dept. Creates Task Force