Hackers waltzed past MFA used by CISA on cloud accounts Multifactor authentication is one of the strongest security protocols we have, but it’s not infallible. On Wednesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealed that malicious actors bypassed…
Cyber Security Headlines – January 8, 2021
Cyber Security Headlines – January 8, 2021
Trump banned from Facebook & Instagram, maybe indefinitely Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Donald Trump will be blocked from using Facebook and Instagram “for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.” He’s…
Cyber Security Headlines – December 18, 2020
Cyber Security Headlines – December 18, 2020
Ex-Homeland Security adviser: ‘We’re being hacked’ Thomas P. Bossert, former Homeland Security adviser to Presidents Trump and George W. Bush, said in a New York Times article that the magnitude of the ongoing SolarWinds hack is “hard to overstate” and…
Cyber Security Headlines – December 11, 2020
Cyber Security Headlines – December 11, 2020
Breaking up Facebook won’t be easy The US government and 48 attorneys general want to break up Facebook. In twin lawsuits filed on Wednesday, they allege that Facebook has engaged in illegal, anti-competitive tactics to buy, bully and kill its…
Cyber Security Headlines – December 4, 2020
Cyber Security Headlines – December 4, 2020
Spotify celebrity pages defaced to plug Trump, Taylor Swift A hacker has vandalized Spotify’s list of the year’s most popular songs. The hacker, who goes by the name “Daniel,” defaced the Spotify pages of some of the world’s most popular…
Cyber Security Headlines – November 19, 2020
Cyber Security Headlines – November 19, 2020
Trump’s tweets to lose protected status post-presidency US President Donald J. Trump isn’t like the rest of us, and he doesn’t play by the same rules, Twitter has acknowledged. Whereas you or I could have been banned for some of…