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This week’s Cyber Security Headlines - Week in Review, February 1-5, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Shawn Bowen, CISO, Restaurant Brands Interna…

Microsoft sees a rise in business email compromise attacks on schools

Facebook takes a proactive content stance after Myanmar coup

SolarWinds CEO says its email systems were compromised for months

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Another SolarWinds vulnerability used to hack National Finance Center

SonicWall confirms actively exploited zero-day

Microsoft Defender now detects macOS vulnerabilities

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Deloitte’s CDC vaccine system comes up short

Myanmar internet and telecom disruptions continue due to coup

Sprite Spider emerges as one of the most destructive ransomware threat actors this year

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Suspected Russian hack extends far beyond SolarWinds software

Russian hack brings changes and uncertainty to US court system

Section 230 emerges as Robinhood’s shield from lawsuits

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Unhappy #DataPrivacyDay to us all

WhatsApp adds biometric authentication to web, desktop versions

Sources: Facebook preps suit against Apple over App Store rules

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This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 25-29, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest, Steve Zalewski, Deputy CISO, Levi Strauss.

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10-year old sudo bug patched

Mass Emotet uninstall planned for March 25th

Microsoft’s security business exceeds $10 billion in revenue

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Google’s Threat Analysis Group warns of social engineering hack aimed at security researchers

Verizon outage started in Brooklyn

TikTok fixes flaws allowing theft of private user information

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Google’s cookie replacement performs well in tests

Twitter Birdwatch pilot launches

WhatsApp wormable malware found on Android

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President Biden takes on cybersecurity on day one

SonicWall firewall maker hacked using zero-day in its VPN device

Intel probes reports of quarterly earnings hack

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Technologists comb through Parler videos with facial recognition

EU privacy watchdogs go after employers who spy on workers

Google investigates top AI ethicist’s exfiltration of thousands of files

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This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 18-22, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice  @stevenprentice with our guest Joshua Scott, Head of Information Security at P…

Malwarebytes breached by the group that attacked Solarwinds

Google researcher finds security flaws impacting popular chat apps

Executive Order addresses malicious use of public clouds

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FireEye releases report and network auditing tool for SolarWinds-type hacks

SolarWinds malware arsenal widens with Raindrop

DNSpooq bugs let attackers hijack DNS on millions of devices

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Parler resurfaces online

Darknet forum Joker's Stash shutting down

Microsoft Defender to enable auto-remediation by default

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Xiaomi added to Pentagon blacklist

Dating apps are using images from the siege to ban rioters’ accounts

NSA suggests enterprises use designated DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers

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Hackers waltzed past MFA used by CISA on cloud accounts

Social media convulses after Capitol attack

Google fixes bug that delayed COVID contact-tracing apps

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This week’s Cyber Security Headlines Week in Review, January 11-15, 2021 is hosted by Steve Prentice @stevenprentice with our guest Allan Alford, @AllanAlfordinTX.

Europol confirms dark web marketplace takedown

Google to reportedly block all political ads... again

DoD halts deployment of cybersecurity system

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