This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, June 28-July 2, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Gerhard Rickert, VP, Information Security, Central Pacific Bank Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is live every…
Secrecy orders abound in Microsoft’s government data requests Microsoft’s customer security head Tom Burt disclosed that one-third of all government data requests the company receives are issued with secrecy clauses that prevents Microsoft from disclosing it to the subject of…
Data for 700 million LinkedIn users posted for sale On the heels of the loss of 500 million records in April, a new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on the popular hacker forum RaidForums, according to researchers.…
Windows 11 CPU confusion continues Last week, Microsoft said CPUs with Trusted Platform Module 1.2 would be supported except on new OEM builds where it would need TPM 2.0. However in a blog post yesterday, the company added more uncertainty.…
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco Microsoft has confirmed signing a malicious driver being distributed within gaming environments. Called “Netfilter,” it is a rootkit that was observed communicating with Chinese command-and-control IPs. This incident has once again…
Dell bug puts 30 million PCs at risk Security researchers at Eclypsium disclosed four major security vulnerabilities in the BIOSConnect feature of Dell SupportAssist, opening the door to remote code execution within the BIOS. BIOSConnect is a utility that allows…
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, June 21-25, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Ira Winkler, CISO, Skyline Technology Solutions and author of You Can Stop Stupid, (available at Amazon and other retailers)…
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee found dead in Spanish prison John McAfee, the creator of McAfee antivirus software, was found dead in his jail cell near Barcelona in an apparent suicide Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to…
DirtyMoe is a rapidly growing Windows botnet Researchers from Avast are warning of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet (PurpleFox, Perkiler, and NuggetPhantom), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half…
Data leak marketplace dials up the pressure The Marketo marketplace specializes in selling leaked data and is using a new technique to pressure company’s into paying for it. The marketplace has been emailing competitors of impacted companies, offering them sample…
