JBS paid $11 million ransom to cybercriminals The world’s largest meat processor, JBS, has confirmed that it paid a ransom of $11 million to cyberattackers who the FBI have identified as the Russian-speaking REvil gang. JBS is based in Brazil,…
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, June 7-11, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Robert Wood, CISO, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is live every…
What should an entry level cybersecurity person be paid? And what level of education and training should be expected of them? Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week’s episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO…
Cyber-attack disrupts NYC Law Department The New York Police Department and FBI Cyber Task Force are investigating an intrusion into the New York City Law Department’s IT systems which could potentially have exposed sensitive information belonging to more than a…
StackOverflow, Twitch, Reddit, others down in Fastly CDN outage A Who’s Who of major websites around the world also including Amazon, CNN, Shopify, Hulu, Quora, the BBC and many others went down or slowed yesterday. Browsers received a “503 Service…
The security vendor/practitioner sales cycle would go a lot faster and smoother if CISOs would just take an “incentive” for a meeting. Just tell me what “incentive” you would like. I’m sure it’ll cost me a lot less than what…
US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers This follows the attack which prompted the shutdown of the key East Coast pipeline last month. The Justice Department is expected on Monday to announce details of the operation…
VMware vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating is under attack The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21985, resides in the vCenter Server, a tool for managing virtualization in large data centers. At least one reliable exploit has gone public, and there have been…
NYC transportation authority hacked using Pulse Secure zero-day Back in April, Chinese-backed threat actors breached the network of New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) by exploiting a Pulse Secure zero-day vulnerability. According to MTA’s Chief Technology Officer, Rafail Portnoy,…
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, May 31- Jun 4, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Bryan Zimmer, Head of Security, Humu Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is live every Thursday…
