15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.08.07
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories (Wired, Jul 29 2020) A disinfo operation broke into the content management systems of Eastern European media outlets in a campaign to spread misinformation about NATO. 2. From Minecraft Tricks to Twitter […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.07.31
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Vulnerability in Cisco Firewalls Exploited Shortly After Disclosure (SecurityWeek, Jul 24 2020) Cisco this week informed customers that it has patched a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in its firewalls that can be exploited remotely to obtain potentially sensitive files from the targeted […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.07.24
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside (The New York Times, Jul 18 2020) Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times, giving the first account of what happened as […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.07.17
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Decoding the Verizon DBIR Report: An Insider’s Look Beyond the Headlines (Dark Reading, Jul 13 2020) To truly understand cybersecurity trends, we must look beyond the headlines and ask more of the data. What you learn might surprise you. 2. Business Email […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.07.10
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. CISA Issues Advisory on Home Routers (Dark Reading, Jun 30 2020) The increase in work-from-home employees raises the importance of home router security. 2. ThiefQuest Ransomware for the Mac (Schneier on Security, Jul 06 2020) “There’s a new ransomware for the Mac […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.07.03
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. GoldenSpy’ Malware Hidden in Tax Software Spies on Companies Doing Business in China (Dark Reading, Jun 25 2020) Advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign aims to steal intelligence secrets from foreign companies operating in China. 2. Majority of new remote employees use their […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.06.26
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Intel will soon bake anti-malware defenses directly into its CPUs (Ars Technica, Jun 15 2020) Control-Flow Enforcement Technology will debut in Tiger Lake microarchitecture. 2. Ryuk Continues to Dominate Ransomware Response Cases (Dark Reading, Jun 15 2020) Analysis reveals how Ryuk’s operators […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.06.19
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. UPnP vulnerability lets attackers steal data, scan internal networks (Help Net Security, Jun 09 2020) A vulnerability (CVE-2020-12695) in Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which is implemented in billions of networked and IoT devices – personal computers, printers, mobile devices, routers, gaming […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.06.12
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. Iran- and China-backed phishers try to hook the Trump and Biden campaigns (Ars Technica, Jun 08 2020) It’s starting to feel a lot like 2016. 2. Huge Rise in Enterprise Mobile Phishing During Q1 of 2020 (Infosecurity Magazine, Jun 02 2020) New […]
15 Bullet Friday – The Best Security News of the Week – 2020.06.05
The Top 15 Security Posts – Vetted & Curated *Threats & Defense* 1. NSA: Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Hijacked Mail Servers (Wired, May 28 2020) In a rare public warning, the US spy agency says the notorious arm of Russian military intelligence is targeting a known vulnerability in Exim. 2. Malware opens RDP backdoor into […]