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LockBit drops files that may or may not be from the Federal Reserve. Progress Software patches additional flaws in MOVEit file transfer software. A popular polyfil open source library has been compromised. DHS starts staffing up its AI Corps. Legislation has been introduced to evaluate the manual operations of critical infrastructure during cyber attacks. Researchers discover a new e-skimmer targeting CMS platforms. A breach at Neiman Marchus affects nearly 65,000 people. South African health services grapple with ransomware amidst a monkeypox outbreak.  Medusa is back. On the Learning Layer, Sam and Joe discuss the CISSP's CAT format and how to walk into test day with confidence. The VA works to clear the backlog caused by the ransomware attack onChange Healthcare.

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, which includes a simulated Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) final exam.

Sam and Joe discuss the CISSP's CAT format and how to walk into test day with confidence. Good luck Joe!

Lockbit Leaks Files for Evolve Bank & Trust in Its Alleged ‘Federal Reserve’ Data Dump (Metacurity)

Progress Software warns of new vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Gateway (Cyber Daily)

Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites (Sansec)

Exclusive: DHS hires first 10 AI Corps members (Axios)

US House bill seeks to assess manual operations of critical infrastructure during cyber attacks (Industrial Cyber)

Caesar Cipher Skimmer targets popular CMS used by e-stores (Security Affairs)

Neiman Marcus confirms breach. Is the customer data already for sale? (Malwarebytes)

South Africa’s national health lab hit with ransomware attack amid mpox outbreak (The Record)

New Medusa malware variants target Android users in seven countries (Bleeping Computer)

After Crippling Ransomware Attack, VA Is Still Dealing with Fallout, Trying to Pay Providers (Military.com)

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The US scrutinizes Chinese telecoms. Indonesia’s national datacenter is hit with ransomware. RedJulliett targets organizations in Taiwan. Researchers can tell where you are going by how fast you get there. A previously dormant botnet targeting Redis servers becomes active. Thousands of customers may have had info compromised in an attack on Levi’s. A new industry alliance hopes to prevent memory-based cyberattacks. Guest Seeyew Mo, Assistant National Cyber Director, Office of the National Cyber Director at the White House, shares the nuances of the White House's skills-based approach with N2K President Simone Petrella. Assange agrees to a plea deal.

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On our Solution Spotlight, guest Seeyew Mo, Assistant National Cyber Director, Office of the National Cyber Director at the White House, shares the nuances of the White House's skills-based approach (and how it's not only about hiring) with N2K President Simone Petrella. Seeyew shares a progress report on the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy nearly one year out. For more information, you can visit the press release: National Cyber Director Encourages Adoption of Skill-Based Hiring to Connect Americans to Good-Paying Cyber Jobs. The progress report Seeyew and Simone discuss can be found here: National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy: Initial Stages of Implementation. 

Exclusive: US probing China Telecom, China Mobile over internet, cloud risks (Reuters) 

Indonesian government datacenter locked down in $8M ransomware rumble (The Register)

Taiwanese tech firms, universities, religious groups among targets in cyber-espionage campaign (The Record)

New security loophole allows spying on internet users' online activity (HelpNet Security)

P2PInfect botnet targets REdis servers with new ransomware module (Bleeping Computer)

Credential Stuffing Attack Hits 72,000 Levi’s Accounts (Infosecurity Magazine)

CHERI Backers Form Alliance to Promote Memory Safety Chip (GovInfo Security)

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder, Agrees to Plead Guilty in Deal With U.S. (The New York Times) 

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LockBit claims to have hit the Federal Reserve. CDK Global negotiates with BlackSuit to unlock car dealerships across the U.S. Treasury proposes a rule to restrict tech investments in China. An LA school district confirms a Snowflake related data breach. Rafel RAT hits outdated Android devices. The UK’s largest plutonium stockpiler pleads guilty to criminal charges of inadequate cybersecurity. Clearview AI settles privacy violations in a deal that could exceed fifty million dollars. North Korean hackers target aerospace and defense firms. Rick Howard previews CSOP Live. Our guest is Christie Terrill, CISO at Bishop Fox, discussing how organizations can best leverage offensive security tactics. Bug hunting gets a little too real.

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Guest Christie Terrill, CISO at Bishop Fox, joins to discuss how organizations can leverage offensive security tactics not just as strategies to prevent cyber incidents, but as a critical component of a cyberattack recovery process. 

Rick Howard sits down with Dave to share a preview of what’s to come at our upcoming CSOP Live event this Thursday, going beyond the headlines with our panel of Hash Table experts for an insightful discussion on emerging industry trends, recent threats and events, and the evolving role of executives in our field.

LockBit claims the hack of the US Federal Reserve (securityaffairs)

Why are threat actors faking data breaches? (Help Net Security)

CDK Global outage caused by BlackSuit ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer)

US proposes rules to stop Americans from investing in Chinese technology with military uses (AP News)

Los Angeles Unified confirms student data stolen in Snowflake account hack (bleepingcomputer)

Ratel RAT targets outdated Android phones in ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer)

Sellafield Pleads Guilty to Historic Cybersecurity Offenses (Infosecurity Magazine)

Sellafield nuclear waste site pleads guilty to IT security breaches (Financial Times)

Facial Recognition Startup Clearview AI Settles Privacy Suit (SecurityWeek)

New North Korean Hackers Attack Aerospace and Defense Companies (cybersecuritynews)

Spatial Computing Hack (Ryan Pickren)

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Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at the University of Tulsa Sal Aurigemma shares how his interest in how things worked shaped his career path in nuclear power and computers, Being introduced to computers in high school and learning about the Chernobyl event led Sal to study nuclear engineering followed by time in the Navy as a submarine officer. On the submarine, Sal had to understand how systems worked from soup to nuts and that let him back to IT. As a computer engineer, Sal spent a lot of time on network troubleshooting and was eventually introduced to cybersecurity. Following 9/11, cybersecurity took on greater importance. Sal's research focuses on behavioral cybersecurity. To newcomers, he suggests heading into things with an open mind and doesn't recommend giving users 24-character passwords that have two upper, two lower, and two special characters that cannot be written down. We thank Sal for sharing his story with us.

Kerri Shafer-Page from Arctic Wolf joins us to discuss their work on "Lost in the Fog: A New Ransomware Threat." Starting in early May, Arctic Wolf's Incident Response team investigated Fog ransomware attacks on US education and recreation sectors, where attackers exploited compromised VPN credentials to access systems, disable Windows Defender, encrypt files, and delete backups.

Despite the uniformity in ransomware payloads and ransom notes, the organizational structure of the responsible groups remains unknown.

The research can be found here:

• Lost in the Fog: A New Ransomware Threat

Biden bans Kaspersky over security concerns. Accenture says reports of them being breached are greatly exaggerated. SneakyChef targets diplomats in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. A serious firmware flaw affects Intel CPUs. More headaches for car dealerships relying on CDK Global. CISA Alerts Over 100,000 Individuals of Potential Data Breach in Chemical Security Tool Hack. SquidLoader targets Chinese organizations through phishing. A new nonprofit aims to establish certification standards in maritime cybersecurity. A sneak peek of our latest podcast, Only Malware in the Building. Using the court system for customer support.

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Guest Selena Larson, joined by Dave Bittner and Rick Howard, hosts the new podcast "Only Malware in the Building." This monthly collaboration between N2K CyberWire and Proofpoint delves into the most impactful and intriguing malware stories. Selena makes complex cybersecurity info fun and digestible, offering tech professionals clear, actionable insights. 

Biden bans US sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties (Reuters)

Exclusive: Accenture says data leak claims false, only 3 affected (Cyber Daily)

Chinese-aligned hacking group targeted more than a dozen government agencies, researchers find (CyberScoop)

Intel-powered computers affected by serious firmware flaw (CVE-2024-0762) (Help Net Security)

CDK warns: threat actors are calling customers, posing as support (bleepingcomputer)

Personal and Chemical Facility Information Potentially Accessed in CISA Hack (SecurityWeek)

New Highly Evasive SquidLoader Attacking Employees Mimic As Word Document (gbhackers)

New body IMCSO to elevate standards and streamline provisioning of cybersecurity services in Maritime (itsecurityguru)

US DHS partners with Indonesia to strengthen maritime cybersecurity in Indo-Pacific region (Industrial Cyber)

How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline (engadget).

The curious case of the missing IcedID (Only Malware in the Building)

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Over 15,000 car dealerships hit the brakes after a software supplier cyber incident. The EU’s Chat Control gets put on hold. A hacker leaks contact details of over 33,000 Accenture employees. A major forklift manufacturer shuts down operations in the wake of a ransomware attack. IntelBroker claims to have leaked source code from Apple. An investigation questions the ethics of AI firm Perplexity. A radiology practice notifies over half a million people of a data breach. Federal contractors pay millions in fines for inadequate cyber security during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stolen files from the Kansas City Police department are posted online. On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey. Remembering the work of MIT’s Arvind. 

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs.

With all eight domains wrapped up, Sam and Joe pivot to the homestretch of Joe's studies. With the test about two weeks away, Joe discusses his approach to retaining the information and filling any remaining knowledge gaps. 

Car Dealerships Across US Halt Services After Cyberattack (Bloomberg)

Car Dealers Are Idle Across the US After Second Cyberattack  (Bloomberg)

EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control (Stack Diary)

Hacker Leaks Data of 33,000 Accenture Employees in Third-Party Breach (HackRead)

Crown Equipment confirms a cyberattack disrupted manufacturing (Bleeping Computer)

Threat actor claims to have breached Apple, allegedly stealing source code of several internal tools (9to5Mac)

Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (WIRED)

Radiology Practice Hack Affects Sensitive Data of 512,000 (GovInfo Security)

Federal contractors pay multimillion-dollar settlements over cybersecurity lapses (The Record)

BlackSuit ransomware publishes Kansas City, Kansas, police files (StateScoop)

Arvind, longtime MIT professor and prolific computer scientist, dies at 77 (MIT)  

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Please enjoy this bonus episode from our T-Minus Space Daily team. The N2K CyberWire team is observing the Juneteenth holiday here in the US.

Welcome to the T-Minus Overview Radio Show. In this program we’ll feature some of the conversations from our daily podcast with the people who are forging the path in the new space era, from industry leaders, technology experts and pioneers, to educators, policy makers, research organizations, and more.

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Europol and partners shut down 13 terrorist websites.  A data breach at the LA County Department of Public Health affects over two hundred thousand. The Take It Down act targets deepfake porn. The Five Eyes alliance update their strategies to protect critical infrastructure. VMware has disclosed two critical-rated vulnerabilities in vCenter Server. The alleged heads of the "Empire Market" dark web marketplace are charged in Chicago federal court. A new malware campaign tricks users into running malicious PowerShell “fixes.”Researchers thwart Memory Tagging Extensions in Arm chips. A major e-learning platform discloses a breach. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Guy Guzner, CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy to discuss "Reimagining app and identity security for SaaS." Clearview AI offers plaintiffs a piece of the pie. 

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On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Guy Guzner, CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy to discuss "Reimagining app and identity security for SaaS."

Europol Taken Down 13 Websites Linked to Terrorist Operations (GB Hackers)

Los Angeles Public Health Department Discloses Large Data Breach (Infosecurity Magazine)

New AI deepfake porn bill would require big tech to police and remove images (CNBC)

Five Eyes' Critical 5 nations focus on adapting to evolving cyber threats to boost critical infrastructure security, resilience (Industrial Cyber)

VMware by Broadcom warns of critical vCenter flaws (The Register)

Empire Market owners charged for enabling $430M in dark web transactions (Bleeping Computer)

From Clipboard to Compromise: A PowerShell Self-Pwn (Proofpoint US)

Arm Memory Tag Extensions broken by speculative execution (The Register)

Star ed-tech company discloses data breach (Cybernews)

Clearview AI Is So Broke It’s Now Offering Lawsuits Plaintiffs A Cut Of Its Extremely Dubious Future Fortunes (Techdirt)

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Spanish authorities snag a top Scattered Spider hacker. HC3 issues an alert about PHP. WIRED chats with ShinyHunters about the breach affecting Snowflake customers. Meta delays LLM training over European privacy concerns. D-Link urges customers to upgrade routers against a factory installed backdoor. A new Linux malware uses emojis for command and control. Vermont’s Governor vetoes a groundbreaking privacy bill. California fines Blackbaud millions over a 2020 data breach. Guest Patrick Joyce, Proofpoint's Global Resident CISO, sharing some key challenges, expectations and priorities of chief information security officers (CISOs) worldwide. N2K’s CSO Rick Howard for a preview of his latest CSO Perspectives podcast episode on The Current State of XDR: A Rick-the-Toolman episode.  Be sure to change those virtual locks. 

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Guest Patrick Joyce, Proofpoint's Global Resident CISO, sharing some key challenges, expectations and priorities of chief information security officers (CISOs) worldwide. You can learn more from their 2024 Voice of the CISO report. 

Dave is joined by N2K’s CSO Rick Howard for a preview of his latest CSO Perspectives podcast episode on The Current State of XDR: A Rick-the-Toolman episode. You can find the accompanying essay here. If you are not an N2K CyberWire Pro subscriber, you can catch the first half of the episode as a preview here. 

Alleged Scattered Spider ringleader taken down in Spain after law enforcement crackdown (ITPro)

US HC3 issues alert on critical PHP vulnerability impacting healthcare sector (Industrial Cyber)

Hackers Detail How They Allegedly Stole Ticketmaster Data From Snowflake (WIRED)

Meta Pauses European GenAI Development Over Privacy Concerns (Infosecurity Magazine)

Hidden Backdoor in D-Link Routers Let Attacker Login as Admin (GB Hackers)

New Linux malware is controlled through emojis sent from Discord (Bleeping Computer)

Vermont governor rejects state’s tough data privacy bill (The Record)

Blackbaud must pay $6.75 million, improve security after lying about scope of 2020 hack (The Record)

Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers (Bleeping Computer) 

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Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of “eXtended Detection and Response” (XDR) with CyberWire Hash Table guests Rick Doten, Centene’s VP of Security, and Milad Aslaner, Sentinel One’s XDR Product Manager.

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Jon Ramsey, Mark Ryland, 2022. AWS co-announces release of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) project [Press Release]. Amazon Web Services.

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Raffael Marty, 2021. A Log Management History Lesson – From syslogd(8) to XDR [Youtube Video]. YouTube.

Raffael Marty, 2021. A history lesson on security logging, from syslogd to XDR [Essay]. VentureBeat.

Rick Howard, 2020. Daemon [Podcast]. Word Notes.

Rick Howard, 2021. XDR: from the Rick the Toolman Series. [Podcast and Essay]. CSO Perspectives, The CyberWire.

Rick Howard, 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Goodreads.

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Staff, 2020. Log Formats – a (Mostly) Complete Guide [Explainer]. Graylog.

Stephen Watts, 2023. Common Event Format (CEF): An Introduction [Explainer]. Splunk.

Thomas Lintemuth, Peter Firstbrook, Ayelet Heyman, Craig Lawson, Jeremy D’Hoinne, 2023. Market Guide for Extended Detection and Response [Essay]. Gartner.

Senior VP of Cyber Operations at KnowBe4, Rosa Smothers, talks about her career as an early cybersecurity professional in what she describes as the Wild, Wild West to her path through government intelligence work. Rosa shares how she always knew she wanted to be involved with computers and how being a big Star Trek nerd and fan particularly of Spock and Uhura helped shape her direction. Following 9/11, Rosa wanted to work for the government and pursue the bad guys and she did just that completing her bachelor's degree and starting in the Defense Intelligence Agency as a cyber threat analyst focusing on extremist groups. She joined the CIA and worked on things you see in the movies, things that are science fictionesque. Rosa recommends talking with people to get your feet wet to find your passion. We thank Rosa for sharing her story with us.

This week, we are joined by a Security Researcher from SpyCloud Labs, James, who is discussing their work on "Unpacking Infostealer Malware: What we’ve learned from reverse engineering LummaC2 and Atomic macOS Stealer." Infostealer malware has become highly prevalent, with SpyCloud tracking over 50 families and finding that 1 in 5 digital identities are at risk.

This research analyzes the workings and intentions behind infostealers like LummaC2 and Atomic macOS Stealer, focusing on the types of data extracted and the broader security implications.

The research can be found here:

• Reversing LummaC2 4.0: Updates, Bug Fixes
• Reversing Atomic macOS Stealer: Binaries, Backdoors & Browser Theft
• How the Threat Actors at SpaxMedia Distribute Malware Globally

Microsoft’s President admits security failures in congressional testimony. Paul Nakasone joins OpenAI’s board. The feds hold their first AI tabletop exercise. CISA reports on the integration of space-based infrastructure. Cleveland city hall remains closed after a cyber attack. Truist commercial bank confirms a data breach. Rockwell Automation patches three high-severity vulnerabilities. University of Illinois researchers develop autonomous AI hacking agents. Arynn Crow, Sr Manager of AWS User Authentication Products, talks with N2K’s Brandon Karpf about security through MFA and FIDO Alliance passkeys, and her work on the Digital Identity Advancement Foundation. Can an AI run for mayor?

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In the first of our interviews captured during the AWS re:Inforce event this past week, guest Arynn Crow, Senior Manager of AWS User Authentication Products, talks with N2K’s Brandon Karpf about security through MFA and FIDO Alliance passkeys, and her work on the Digital Identity Advancement Foundation.

Microsoft Admits Security Failings Allowed China's US Government Hack (Infosecurity Magazine)

OpenAI adds Trump-appointed former NSA director Paul M. Nakasone to its board (The Washington Post)

CISA leads first tabletop exercise for AI cybersecurity (CyberScoop)

New CISA report addresses zero trust in space, boosting security for satellites and ground infrastructure (Industrial Cyber) 

CISA adds Android Pixel, Microsoft Windows, Progress Telerik Report Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (Security Affairs)

Insurance giant Globe Life investigating web portal breach (Bleeping Computer)

Cleveland remains paralyzed by cyberattack (News 5 Cleveland)

Truist Bank confirms breach after stolen data shows up on hacking forum (Bleeping Computer)

Rockwell Automation Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in FactoryTalk View SE (SecurityWeek)

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed AI Agents that can Autonomously Hack Websites and Find Zero-Day Vulnerabilities (MarkTechPost)

Wyoming mayoral candidate wants to govern by AI bot (Ars Technica)  

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A whistleblower claims that Microsoft prioritized profit over security. U.S. warnings of global election interference continue to rise. Cyber insurance claims hit record levels. Location tracking firm Tile suffers a data breach. A new phishing kit creates Progressive Web Apps. Questioning the government’s cyber silence. On today’s Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton, Director of Thought Leadership at Unit 42, is joined by Data Privacy Attorney Daniel Rosenzweig. Together, they unravel the complexities of aligning data privacy and cybersecurity laws with technological advancements. AI powered cheating lands one student in hot water. 

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In this segment of Threat Vector, host David Moulton, Director of Thought Leadership at Unit 42, is joined by Data Privacy Attorney Daniel Rosenzweig. Together, they unravel the complexities of aligning data privacy and cybersecurity laws with technological advancements. Daniel shares his insights on the critical partnership between legal and tech teams. 

To hear David and Daniel’s full conversation and learn how a deep understanding of both legal and tech realms can empower businesses to navigate evolving legal frameworks, particularly in light of emerging AI technologies, listen here. Check out Threat Vector every other Thursday in your favorite podcast app. 

The information provided on this segment is not intended to constitute legal advice. All information presented is for general informational purposes only. The information contained may not constitute the most update, legal or interpretative compliance guidance. Contact your own attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular legal matter.

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says (ProPublica)

Microsoft president to testify about security lapses (IT News)

Spy agencies’ foreign influence hub says it is issuing more private warnings (The Record)

Cyber Insurance Claims Hit Record High in North America (Infosecurity Magazine)

Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops (404 Media)

New phishing toolkit uses PWAs to steal login credentials (Bleeping Computer)

Microsoft’s Recall puts the Biden administration’s cyber credibility on the line (CyberScoop)

Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested (Ars Technica) 

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Dutch military intelligence warns of the Chinese Coathanger RAT. Pure Storage joins the growing list of Snowflake victims. JetBrains patches a GitHub IDE vulnerability. A data broker hits the brakes on selling driver location data. Flaws in VLC Media player allow remote code execution. Patch Tuesday updates. On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey, taking on Domain 8, Software Development Security. Farewell, computer engineering legend Lynn Conway. 

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Sam and Joe take on Domain 8, Software Development Security, and tackle the following question:

At which step of the SDLC should security considerations be first integrated?

1. Functional requirements defining
2. Project initiation and planning
3. Testing and evaluation control
4. System design specification

Dutch intelligence says Chinese hacking campaign ‘more extensive’ than previously known (The Record)

Pure Storage confirms data breach after Snowflake account hack (Bleeping Computer)

Users of JetBrains IDEs at risk of GitHub access token compromise (CVE-2024-37051) (Help Net Security)

GitHub phishing campaign wipes repos, extorts victims (SC Magazine)

Data broker shuts down product related to driver behavior patterns (The Record)

VLC Media Player Vulnerabilities Allow Remote Code Execution (Cyber Security News)

Microsoft June 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 51 flaws, 18 RCEs (Bleeping Computer)

ICS Patch Tuesday: Advisories Published by Siemens, Schneider Electric, Aveva, CISA (SecurityWeek)

Column: Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (LA Times)

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23andMe’s looming bankruptcy could pause class-action privacy lawsuits. The FCC focuses on BGP. The White House looks to big tech to help secure rural hospitals. Cylance confirms a data breach. Arm warns of GPU kernel driver vulnerabilities. The world's largest law firm faces class action over the MOVEit hack. SAP releases high priority patches. Apple redefines AI - literally - and offers up Private Cloud Compute at their developer’s conference. Guest Chris Novak, Senior Director of Cyber Security Consulting at Verizon, shares highlights and key takeaways of their recently published 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Share your love — but not your passwords.

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Guest Chris Novak, Senior Director of Cyber Security Consulting at Verizon, shares highlights and key takeaways of their recently published 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).

UK and Canada Launch Joint Probe Into 23andMe Breach While District Judge Says Bankruptcy Is Imminent (Metacurity)

FCC Advances BGP Security Rules for Broadband Providers (bankinfosecurity)

White House enlists Microsoft, Google for rural hospital cyberdefense (Beckers Health IT)

Cylance confirms data breach linked to 'third-party' platform (bleepingcomputer)

Arm warns of actively exploited flaw in Mali GPU kernel drivers (bleepingcomputer)

Law firm Kirkland sued in class action over MOVEit data breach (Reuters)

SAP Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Financial Consolidation, NetWeaver (SecurityWeek)

Here's how Apple's keeping your cloud-processed AI data safe (and why it matters) (ZDNET)

When things go wrong: A digital sharing warning for couples (Malwarebytes)

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Microsoft makes Recall opt-in. The Senate holds hearings on federal cybersecurity standards. Snowflake’s scrutiny snowballs. New York Times source code is leaked online. Ransomware leads to British hospitals' desperate need for blood donors. Cisco Talos finds 15 serious vulnerabilities in PLCs. Sticky Werewolf targets Russia and Belarus. Frontier Communications warns 750,000 customers of a data breach. Chinese nationals get prison time in Zambia for cybercrimes. N2K’s CSO Rick Howard speaks with Danielle Ruderman, Security GTM Leader, AWS about what keeps CISOs up at night. DIY cell towers can land you in hot water. 

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N2K’s CSO Rick Howard speaks with Danielle Ruderman, Security GTM Leader, AWS about what keeps CISOs up at night and learnings from AWS CISO Circles. Today, our team is at the AWS re:Inforce this week. Stay tuned for our coverage.

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (The Verge) 

US Senate Committee holds hearing on harmonizing federal cybersecurity standards to address business challenges (Industrial Cyber)

What Snowflake isn't saying about its customer data breaches (TechCrunch)

New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token (Bleeping Computer)

London Hospitals Seek Biologics Backup After Ransomware Hit (GovInfo Security)

Cisco Finds 15 Vulnerabilities in AutomationDirect PLCs (SecurityWeek)

Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus (Security Affairs)

Frontier warns 750,000 of a data breach after extortion threats (Bleeping Computer)

22 Chinese Nationals Sentenced to Long Prison Terms in Zambia for Multinational Cybercrimes (SecurityWeek)

Two arrested in UK over fake cell tower smishing campaign (The Register)

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Investigative journalist and author Geoff White talks about tracing a line through the dots of his career covering technology. Geoff shares that he has always been "quite geeky," but came to covering technology after several roles in the journalism industry. Newspapers, magazines and television were all media Geoff worked in before covering technology. Geoff got into journalism not due to the glamour sometimes associated with it, but because he wanted to fight for the public to cover stories that helped those who didn't have massive amounts of money, power or a huge lobbying campaign in political circles. When writing his book, Crime Dot Com, Geoff reflected on the cybercrime and cybersecurity stories he's covered and saw how things started falling into place. Our thanks to Geoff for sharing his story with us. 

Jérôme Segura, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Malwarebytes, is discussing their work on "Threat actors ride the hype for newly released Arc browser." The Arc browser, newly released for Windows, has quickly garnered positive reviews but has also attracted cybercriminals who are using deceptive Google search ads to distribute malware disguised as the browser.

These malicious campaigns exploit the hype around Arc, using techniques like embedding malware in image files and utilizing the MEGA cloud platform for command and control, highlighting the need for caution with sponsored search results and the effectiveness of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems.

The research can be found here:

• Threat actors ride the hype for newly released Arc browser

Microsoft's recall raises red flags. Ukraine's CERT sounds alarm. Russian hacktivists cause trouble in EU elections. DEVCORE uncovers critical code execution flaw. LastPass leaves users locked out. Apple commits to five years of iPhone security. An AI mail fail. Inside the FCC's plan to strengthen BGP protocol. Dave sits down with our guest Camille Stewart Gloster, Former Deputy National Cyber Director at the White House, as she shares a retrospective of her public service career. And let’s all Cheers to cybersecurity.

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Guest Camille Stewart Gloster, Former Deputy National Cyber Director at the White House, shares a retrospective of her public service career. Camille’s full conversation with Dave can be found on our weekly cybersecurity law, policy and privacy podcast, Caveat. You can listen to it here. 

Microsoft’s Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought (WIRED)

Microsoft Research scientist gives non-answer when asked about Windows Recall privacy concerns (TechSpot) 

TotalRecall: A New Tool that Extracts Data From Windows 11 Recall Feature (Cyber Security News)

Exclusive: Senators express "serious concern" with Pentagon's Microsoft plan (Axios)

UAC-0020 used SPECTR Malware to target Ukraine defense forces (Security Affairs) 

Russian hacktivists vow mass attacks against EU elections (The Register)

Ransomware Actor Exploited CoinMiner Attacker's Proxy Server (Cyber Security News)

Critical PHP Remote Code Execution Flaw let Attackers Inject Malicious Scripts (Cyber Security News)

Users furious after LastPass down for hours (Cybernews)

Apple Says iPhones Will Get Security Updates for at Least 5 Years (SecurityWeek) 

EmailGPT Exposed to Prompt Injection Attacks (Infosecurity Magazine)

FCC Proposes BGP Security Reporting for Broadband Providers (SecurityWeek)

Unpacking the SEC 10-K cyber disclosures (PwC) 

Apple set to launch Passwords app, taking on LastPass and 1Password (TechSpot)

Wineloader Mimic As Ambassador Of India To Start The Infection Chain (Cyber Security News) 

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CSAC recommends key changes to the  Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. Cloud vendor Snowflake says single-factor authentication is to blame in their recent breach. Publishers sue Google over pirated ebooks. The FBI shares LockBit decryption keys. V3B is a phishing as a service campaign targeting banking customers. Commando Cat targets Docker servers to deploy crypto miners. Our guest is Danny Allan, Snyk's CTO, discussing how in the rush to implement GenAI, some companies are bypassing best practices and security policies. Club Penguin fans stumble upon a cache of secrets in the house of mouse.

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Guest is Danny Allan, Snyk's CTO, discussing how in the rush to implement GenAI, companies bypass best practices and security policies. This highlights a clear gap between those in leadership looking to adopt AI tools and the teams who are utilizing them. Learn more in Snyk Organizational AI Readiness Report. 

CISA advisors urge changes to JCDC's goals, operations, membership criteria (The Record)

CISA says 'patch now' to 7-year-old Oracle WebLogic bug (The Register)

Snowflake says users with single-factor authentication targeted in attack (SC Media)

Advance Auto Parts stolen data for sale after Snowflake attack (Bleeping Computer)

Major Publishers Sue Google Over Ads for Pirated Ebooks (Publishing Perspectives)

FBI unveils 7,000 decryption keys to aid LockBit victims (Silicon Republic)

 Hackers Attacking Banking Customers Using Phishing-As-A-Service V3B Toolkit (GB Hackers)

Commando Cat: A Novel Cryptojacking Attack Abusing Docker Remote API Servers (Trend Micro)

Club Penguin fans breached Disney Confluence server, stole 2.5GB of data (Bleeping Computer) 

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OpenAI insiders describe a culture of recklessness and secrecy. Concerns over Uganda’s biometric ID system. Sophos uncovers a Chinese cyberespionage operation called Crimson Palace. Poland aims to sure up cyber defenses against Russia. Zyxel warns of critical vulnerabilities in legacy NAS products. Arctic Wolf tracks an amateurish ransomware variant named Fog. A TikTok zero-day targets high profile accounts. Cisco patches a Webex vulnerability that exposed German government meetings. On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey, diving into Domain 7, Security Operations. A Canadian data breach leads to a class action payday. 

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Sam and Joe dive into Domain 7, Security Operations, and tackle the following question:

Which of the following is the MOST important goal of Disaster Recovery Planning?

1. Business continuity
2. Critical infrastructure restoration
3. Human Safety
4. Regulatory compliance

OpenAI Whistle-Blowers Describe Reckless and Secretive Culture (The New York Times)

Uganda: Yoweri Museveni's Critics Targeted Via Biometric ID System (Bloomberg)

Chinese South China Sea Cyberespionage Campaign Unearthed (GovInfo Security)

Palau confirms 'major' cyberattack, points to China (Digital Journal)

Poland to invest $760 million in cyberdefense as Russian pressure mounts (The Record)

'NsaRescueAngel' Backdoor Account Again Discovered in Zyxel Products (SecurityWeek)

Arctic Wolf sniffs out new ransomware variant (CSO Online)

CNN, Paris Hilton, and Sony TikTok accounts hacked via DMs (Security Affairs)

Cisco Patches Webex Bugs Following Exposure of German Government Meetings (SecurityWeek)

ICBC must pay $15K to all who had data breached before JIBC attacks (Vancouver Sun) 

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Ransomware disrupts London hospitals. Researchers discover serious vulnerabilities in Progress' Telerik Report Server and Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. Over three million people are affected by a breach at a debt collection agency. A report finds Rural hospitals vulnerable to ransomware. An Australian mining firm finds some of its data on the Dark Web. Google patches 37 Android vulnerabilities. Russian threat actors target the Summer Olympics in Paris. On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Sandy Bird, CTO at Sonrai. Sandy discusses the risks of unused identity infrastructure. The Amazon rainforest goes online.

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On our Industry Voices segment, we are joined by Sandy Bird, CTO at Sonrai. Sandy discusses the risks of unused identity infrastructure. You can learn more about Sonrai’s work in this area by reviewing their Quantifying Cloud Access Risk: Overprivileged Identities and Zombie Identities report.

Critical incident declared as ransomware attack disrupts multiple London hospitals (The Record)

CVE-2024-4358, CVE-2024-1800: Exploit Code Available for Critical Exploit Chain in Progress Telerik Report Server (Tenable)

Atlassian’s Confluence hit with critical remote code execution bugs (CSO Online)

Debt collection agency FBCS leaks information of 3 million US citizens (Malwarebytes)

Rural hospitals are particularly vulnerable to ransomware, report finds (CyberScoop)

Australian rare earths miner hit by cybersecurity breach (Mining Weekly)

37 Vulnerabilities Patched in Android (SecurityWeek)

Russia used fake AI Tom Cruise in Olympic disinformation campaign (Computer Weekly)

The Internet's Final Frontier: Remote Amazon Tribes (New York Times)

N2K and Proofpoint have teamed up to launch “Only Malware in the Building,” the newest podcast on the N2K CyberWire network. Each month our hosts Selena Larson, Proofpoint’s staff threat researcher, and N2K’s Rick Howard and Dave Bittner, explore the mysteries around today’s most intriguing cyber threats. Listen to the first episode and subscribe now.

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Signs point to a major cybersecurity event at cloud provider Snowflake. Hugging Face discloses "unauthorized access" to its Spaces platform. Australian legislation seeks jail time for deepfake porn. CISA adds two vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog. Spanish police investigate a potential breach of drivers license info. NSA shares mobile device best practices. Everbridge crisis management software company reports a data breach. N2K’s CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, Rick Howard joins us to preview CSO Perspectives Season 14 which launches today! Google tries to explain those weird AI search results. 

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N2K’s CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, Rick Howard joins Dave to preview CSO Perspectives Season 14 which launches today! The first episode explores SolarWinds and the SEC. This episode of CSO Perspectives has a companion essay. You can find it here. Not an N2K Pro subscriber? You can catch the first half of the episode here. 

The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning (WIRED)

Hugging Face says it detected 'unauthorized access' to its AI model hosting platform (TechCrunch)

Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws (The Guardian)

CISA warns of actively exploited Linux privilege elevation flaw (Bleeping Computer)

Spanish police investigate whether hackers stole millions of drivers' data (Reuters)

The NSA advises you to turn your phone off and back on once a week - here's why (ZDNET)

Everbridge warns of corporate systems breach exposing business data (Bleeping Computer)

Google’s AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why (Ars Technica) 

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As part of our series on the 2024 NICE Conference, we turn our focus to the one of the keynote speakers of the conference. This year’s conference theme “Strengthening Ecosystems: Aligning Stakeholders to Bridge the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap” highlights the collective effort to strengthen the cybersecurity landscape. By joining forces with key partners, we can foster a more robust cybersecurity ecosystem to bridge the workforce gap. 

In her keynote coming up on Tuesday, June 4th, Deneen DeFiore, Chief Information Security Officer of United Airlines, will discuss "A Journey with No Destination: A CISO’s Pathway to a Cybersecurity Career."

Prior to the conference, Simone Petrella, N2K President, caught up with Deneen DeFiore. They discussed Deneen's history with NICE, the importance of prioritizing cyber talent and workforce issues, what stakeholders need to more effectively tackle the cyber skills and experience gap across the profession, and more.

Find out more about the The Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) (NIST Special Publication 800-181, revision 1). Listen to our podcast about the update. Stay tuned for our coverage of the 2024 NICE Conference.

Rick Howard, N2K’s CSO and The CyberWire’s Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, presents the argument for why the SEC was misguided when it charged the SolarWinds CISO, Tim Brown, with fraud the after the Russian SVR compromised the SolarWinds flagship product, Orion. Our guests are, Steve Winterfeld, Akamai’s Advisory CISO, and Ted Wagner, SAP National Security Services CISO.

Andrew Goldstein, Josef Ansorge, Matt Nguyen, Robert Deniston, 2024. Fatal Flaws in SEC’s Amended Complaint Against SolarWinds [Analysis]. Crime & Corruption.

Anna-Louise Jackson, 2023. Earnings Reports: What Do Quarterly Earnings Tell You? [Explainer]. Forbes.

Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Andrew Ross Sorkin, 2016 - 2023. Billions [TV Show]. IMDb.

Dan Goodin, 2024. Financial institutions have 30 days to disclose breaches under new rules [News]. Ars Technica.

David Katz, 021. Corporate Governance Update: “Materiality” in America and Abroad [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

Jessica Corso, 2024. SEC Zeroes In On SolarWinds Exec In Revised Complaint [Analysis]. Law360.

Johnathan Rudy, 2024. SEC files Amended complaint against SolarWinds and CISO [Civil Action]. LinkedIn.

Joseph Menn, 2023. Former Uber security chief Sullivan avoids prison in data breach case [WWW DocumentNews]. The Washington Post.

Kim Zetter, 2014. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon [Book]. Goodreads.

Kim Zetter, 2023. SEC Targets SolarWinds’ CISO for Rare Legal Action Over Russian Hack [WWW Document]. ZERO DAY.

Kim Zetter, 2023. SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack [Essay]. WIRED.

Rick Howard, 2022. Cyber sand table series: OPM [Podcast]. The CyberWire - CSO Perspectives Podcast.

Rick Howard, 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Goodreads.

Pam Baker, 2021. The SolarWinds hack timeline: Who knew what, and when? [Timeline]. CSO Online.

Staff, 2009. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Topic 105) [Standard]. PWC.

Staff. 30 October 2023. SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control Failures [Website]. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision.

Staff, 31 October 2023. Securities and Exchange Commission v. SolarWinds Corporation and Timothy G. Brown, No. 23-civ-9518 (SDNY) [Case]. The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Staff, 29 March 2024. Cooley, Cybersecurity Leaders File Brief Opposing SEC’s SolarWinds Cyberattack Case [Press Release]. Cooley.

Stephanie Pell, Jennifer Lee , Shoba Pillay, Jen Patja Howell, 2024. The SEC SolarWinds Enforcement Action [Podcast]. The Lawfare Podcast.

As part of our series on the 2024 NICE Conference, we turn our focus to the Business Roundtable. This year’s conference theme “Strengthening Ecosystems: Aligning Stakeholders to Bridge the Cybersecurity Workforce Gap” highlights the collective effort to strengthen the cybersecurity landscape. By joining forces with key partners, we can foster a more robust cybersecurity ecosystem to bridge the workforce gap. Business Roundtable is an association of chief executive officers of America’s leading companies working to promote a thriving U.S. economy and expanded opportunity for all Americans through sound public policy.

The Business Roundtable launched its Cybersecurity Workforce Corporate Initiative in December of 2022. In coordination with its members and inputs from experts at Department of Commerce’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), it recently released a Cybersecurity Workforce Playbook to help employers create entry points to cybersecurity careers and strengthen cybersecurity talent pipelines across various industries and sectors.

Simone Petrella, N2K President, speaks with Erin White, Business Roundtable's Senior Director, Corporate Initiatives, about the Cybersecurity Workforce Corporate Initiative, the recently released Cybersecurity Workforce Playbook, key takeaways for the private sector, and how the Business Roundtable and NICE are working together to support these initiatives.

Find out more about the The Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) (NIST Special Publication 800-181, revision 1). Stay tuned for our coverage of the 2024 NICE Conference.

Amit Malik, Director of Threat Research at Uptycs, is sharing their work on "New Threat Detected: Inside Our Discovery of the Log4j Campaign and Its XMRig Malware." The Uptycs Threat Research Team has discovered a large-scale Log4j campaign involving over 1700 IPs, aiming to deploy XMRig cryptominer malware.

This ongoing operation was initially detected through the team's honeypot collection, prompting an in-depth analysis of the campaign. The research says "The JNDI plugin is particularly useful to attackers because it allows them not only to fetch the values of environment variables in the target system but also to freely define the URL and protocol resource for the JNDI network connection."

The research can be found here:

• New Threat Detected: Inside Our Discovery of the Log4j Campaign and Its XMRig Malware

Commandant for the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic School Diane M. Janosek shares the story of her career going global Diane explains how she's always been drawn to doing things that could help and raise the nation. From a position as a law clerk during law school, to the role of a judicial clerk, and joining the White House Counsel's office, Diane was exposed to many things and felt she experienced the full circle. Moving on to the Pentagon and finally, the NSA, Diane transitioned into her current role where she orchestrates the educational environment for military and civilian cyber and cryptologists worldwide for the nation. Diane encourages those who love to learn to join the multidisciplinary cybersecurity field. Our thanks to Diane for sharing her story with us. 

Draft legislation looks to streamline federal cybersecurity regulations. Clarity.fm exposed personal information of business leaders and celebrities. Researchers find european politicians’ personal info for sale on the dark web. The BBC’s pension scheme suffers a breach. OpenAI disrupts covert influence operations making use of their platform. Hackers brick over 600,000 routers. Cracked copies of Microsoft office deliver a malware mix. A senator calls for accountability in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack. On our Industry Voices segment, we hear from SpyCloud’s Chip Witt, on navigating the threat of digital identity exposure. Florida man becomes Moscow’s fake-news puppet.

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On our Industry Voices segment, we hear from Chip Witt, SpyCloud's SVP, Product Management, discussing navigating the threat of digital identity exposure. To learn more, check out SpyCloud’s Annual Identity Exposure Report 2024. 

Senate chairman wants new White House-led panel to streamline federal cyber rules (The Record)

Data Leak Exposes Business Leaders and Top Celebrity Data (Hackread)

Information of Hundreds of European Politicians Found on Dark Web (SecurityWeek)

BBC Pension Scheme Breached, Exposing Employee Data (Infosecurity Magazine)

OpenAI accuses Russia, China, Iran, and Israel of misusing its GenAI tools for covert Ops (CSO Online)

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (Ars Technica)

Pirated Microsoft Office delivers malware cocktail on systems (Bleeping Computer)

UnitedHealth leaders 'should be held responsible' for installing inexperienced CISO, senator says (The Record)

Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia (The New York Times) 

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Operation Endgame takes down malware operations around the globe. A major botnet operator is arrested. Ticketmaster’s massive data breach is confirmed, and so is Google’s SEO algorithm leak. Journalists and activists in Europe were targeted with Pegasus spyware. Okta warns users of credential stuffing attacks. NIST hopes to clear out the NVD backlog. On our Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton speaks with Greg Jones, Chief Information Security Officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, joins us to discuss software security. LightSpy surveillance malware comes to macOS. ChatGPT briefly gets a god mode.

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Eric Goldstein, Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at CISA, joins us to discuss software security.

In this Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton speaks with Greg Jones, Chief Information Security Officer at Xavier University of Louisiana. Greg brings a wealth of knowledge from his military background and applies a disciplined, adaptive approach to securing one of America's most vibrant educational institutions. You can listen to David and Greg’s full discussion here. 

Police seize malware loader servers, arrest four cybercriminals (Bleeping Computer)

Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’ (Krebs on Security)

Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users. (Mashable)

Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (The Verge)

Phones of journalists and activists in Europe targeted with Pegasus (CyberScoop)

Okta Warns of Credential Stuffing Attacks Targeting Cross-Origin Authentication (SecurityWeek)

NIST says NVD will be back on track by September 2024 (Help Net Security)

macOS version of elusive 'LightSpy' spyware tool discovered (Bleeping Computer)

Hacker Releases Jailbroken "Godmode" Version of ChatGPT (Futurism) 

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An alleged leak of Google’s search algorithm contradicts the company’s public statements.  German researchers discover a critical vulnerability in a TP-Link router. Breachforums is back…maybe. The Seattle Public Library suffers a ransomware attack. A Georgia man gets ten years for money laundering and romance scams, and the Treasury department sanctions a group of botnet operators. 44,000 individuals are affected by the breach of a major U.S. title insurance company. Microsoft describes North Korea’s Moonstone Sleet. Advocating for a more architectural approach to cybersecurity. Maria Varmazis speaks with WiCyS Executive Director Lynn Dohm and a panel of N2K experts about the 2024 Cyber Talent Study. A cracked password results in a multimillion dollar windfall. 

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Sam and Joe dive into Domain 6: Security Assessment and Testing and tackle the following question together:

You are hiring a vendor to perform a penetration test that would simulate a breach from an insider threat. What type of test would be BEST to perform? 

1. Blue Box
2. Black Box
3. White-hat hack
4. White box

Maria Varmazis, N2K host of T-Minus Space Daily, talks with WiCyS Executive Director Lynn Dohm and N2K's Simone Petrella, Dr. Heather Monthie, and Jeff Welgan about the 2024 Cyber Talent Study. You can find out more about the study here. 

Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (The Verge)

Update TP-Link's Archer C5400X router now to fix remote takeover vulnerability (TechSpot)

Data leak site BreachForums is back, boasting Live Nation/Ticketmaster user data. But is it a trap? (Malwarebytes)

Ransomware attack on Seattle Public Library knocks out online systems (The Record)

Man Sentenced for Laundering Over $4.5M Obtained from Business Email Compromise and Romance Fraud Schemes (United States Department of Justice)

Treasury Sanctions a Cybercrime Network Associated with the 911 S5 Botnet (United States Department of Treasury)

First American December data breach impacts 44,000 people (Bleeping Computer)

Moonstone Sleet emerges as new North Korean threat actor with new bag of tricks (Microsoft Security Blog)

Cybersecurity at a crossroads: Time to shift to an architectural approach (CSO Online)

How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet (WIRED) 

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The FBI untangles Scattered Spider. The RansomHub group puts a deadline on Christie’s. Prescription services warn customers of data breaches. Personal data from public sector workers in India is leaked online. Check Point says check your VPNs. The Internet Archive suffers DDoS attacks. A Minesweeper clone installs malicious scripts. N2K T-Minus Space Daily podcast host Maria Varmazis speaks with guest Carrie Hernandez Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder from Rebel Space Technologies, about the need to extend cybersecurity into space. If you can’t beat ‘em, troll ‘em. 

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Potent youth cybercrime ring made up of 1,000 people, FBI official says (CyberScoop)

Christie’s given Friday ransom deadline after threat group claims responsibility for cyber attack (ITPro)

Data Stolen From MediSecure for Sale on Dark Web (SecurityWeek)

2.8 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Prescription Services Firm Sav-Rx (SecurityWeek)

Data leak exposes personal data of Indian military and police (CSO Online)

Check Point warns of threat actors targeting its VPNs (TechMonitor)

Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attack (PCMag)

Hackers phish finance orgs using trojanized Minesweeper clone (bleepingcomputer)

Cops Are Just Trolling Cybercriminals Now (WIRED)

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Rick Howard, N2K CyberWire’s Chief Analyst, CSO, and Senior Fellow, commemorates Memorial Day.

Abraham Lincoln, 1863. The Gettysburg Address [Speech]. Abraham Lincoln Online.

Amanda Onion, Original 2009, Updated 2023. Memorial Day 2022: Facts, Meaning & Traditions [Essay]. HISTORY.

Brent Hugh, 2021. A Brief History of “John Brown’s Body” [Essay]. Digital History.

Bob Zeller, 2022. How Many Died in the American Civil War? [Essay]. HISTORY.

General George Marshall, 2014. President Lincoln’s Letter to Mrs Bixby [Movie Clip - Saving Private Ryan]. YouTube.

JOHN LOGAN, 1868. Logan’s Order Mandating Memorial Day [Order]. John A. Logan College.

John Williams, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 2012. The People’s House: Lincoln (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Song]. Apple Music.

John Williams, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 2012. The Blue and the Grey: Lincoln (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Song]. Apple Music - Web Playe.

Livia Albeck-Ripka, 2023. A Brief History of Memorial Day [Essay]. The New York Times.

Paul Robeson, 2021. John Brown’s Body [Song]. YouTube.

Robert Rodat (Writer), Steven Spielberg (Director), Harve Presnell (Actor), 1998. Saving Private Ryan [Movie]. IMDb.

Staff, 2020. A Brief Biography of General John A. Logan [Biography]. John A. Logan College.

Staff, 2024. Civil War Timeline [WWW Document], American Battlefield Trust.

Thomas Jefferson, 1776. Declaration of Independence: [Transcription]. National Archives.

Winston Churchil, 1940. Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Winston Churchill Speeches [Speech]. YouTube.

Director of security operations at Syntax Richard Torres talks about his path leading him working in juvenile justice to becoming a private investigator to physical security at a nuclear power plant to cybersecurity presently. Always a fan of police shows, Richard became a member of the Air Force Junior ROTC in high school and began his path there. Richard shares the challenges of working in several facets of the security industry including his transition from SWAT team member to cybersecurity. He notes the role that diplomacy plays when you're trying to get honesty and be steered in the right direction. Our thanks to Richard for sharing his story with us. 

Jon DiMaggio, a Chief Security Strategist at Analyst1, is sharing his work on "Ransomware Diaries Volume 5: Unmasking LockBit." On February 19, 2024, the National Crime Agency (NCA), a UK sovereign law enforcement agency, in collaboration with the FBI, Europol, and nine other countries under "Operation Cronos," disrupted the LockBit ransomware gang’s data leak site used for shaming, extorting, and leaking victim data.

The NCA greeted visitors to LockBit’s dark web leak site with a seizure banner, revealing they had been controlling LockBit’s infrastructure for some time, collecting information, acquiring victim decryption keys, and even compromising the new ransomware payload intended for LockBit 4.0.

The research can be found here:

• Ransomware Diaries Volume 5: Unmasking LockBit

LockBit drops 300 gigabytes of data from London Drugs. Video software used in courtrooms worldwide contains a backdoor. Google patches another Chrome zero-day. The EU seeks collaboration between research universities and intelligence agencies. Atlas Lion targets retailers with gift card scams. Researchers explore an Apple reappearing photo bug. Hackers access a Japanese solar power grid. Congress floats a bill to enhance cyber workforce diversity. Ben Yelin joins us with a groundbreaking legal case involving AI generated CSAM. Whistling past the expired domain graveyard. 

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Ben Yelin, co host of our Caveat podcast and Program Director for Public Policy & External Affairs at the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security, discusses "FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery."

Hackers release corporate data stolen from London Drugs, company says (The Star)

Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world (Ars Technica)

Google fixes eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year (Bleeping Computer)

EU wants universities to work with intelligence agencies to protect their research (The Record)

US retailers under attack by gift card-thieving cyber gang (Help Net Security)

Apple wasn’t storing deleted iOS photos in iCloud after all (Bleeping Computer)

Hijack of monitoring devices highlights cyber threat to solar power infrastructure (CSO Online)

New Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce bill to promote inclusivity, provide CISA with millions for outreach (Industrial Cyber)

When privacy expires: how I got access to tons of sensitive citizen data after buying cheap domains (INTI)

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Spyware is discovered on U.S. hotel check in systems. A Microsoft outage affects multiple services. Bitdefender uncovers Unfading Sea Haze. University of Maryland researchers find flaws in Apple’s Wi-Fi positioning system. Scotland’s NRS reveals a sensitive data leak. Rapid7 tracks the rise in zero-day exploits and mass compromise events. The SEC hits the operator of the New York Stock Exchange with a ten million dollar fine. Operation Diplomatic Specter targets political entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The FCC considers AI disclosure rules for political ads. N2K T-Minus Space Daily podcast host Maria Varmazis speaks with guests Brianna Bace and Unal Tatar PhD sharing their work on Legal Perspectives on Cyberattacks Targeting Space Systems. Tone-blasting underwater data centers. 

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N2K T-Minus Space Daily podcast host Maria Varmazis speaks with guests Brianna Bace and Unal Tatar PhD sharing their work on their paper: Law in Orbit: International Legal Perspectives on Cyberattacks Targeting Space Systems. You can learn more about their work in this post. Check out T-Minus Space Daily for your daily space intelligence. 

Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers ( TechCrunch)

Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT internet search (Bleeping Computer)

Deep Dive Into Unfading Sea Haze: A New Threat Actor in the South China Sea (Bitdefender)

 Apple’s Wi-Fi Positioning Can Be System Abused To Track Users (GB Hackers) 

National Records of Scotland Data Breached in NHS Cyber-Attack (Infosecurity Magazine)

Zero-Day Attacks and Supply Chain Compromises Surge, MFA Remains Underutilized: Rapid7 Report (SecurityWeek)

NYSE Operator Intercontinental Exchange Gets $10M SEC Fine Over 2021 Hack (SecurityWeek)

Operation Diplomatic Specter: An Active Chinese Cyberespionage Campaign Leverages Rare Tool Set to Target Governmental Entities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia (Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Intel)

FCC chair proposes requirement for political ads to disclose when AI content is used (The Record)

Acoustic attacks could be a serious threat to the future of underwater data centers (TechSpot)

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Some say Microsoft’s Recall should be. A breach of a Texas healthcare provided affects over four hundred thousand. Police in the Philippines shut down services following a breach. Ivanti patches multiple products. GitHub fixes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability. Researchers discover critical vulnerabilities in Honeywell’s ControlEdge Unit Operations Controller. The DoD releases their Cybersecurity Reciprocity Playbook. Hackers leak a database with millions of Americans’ criminal records. Mastercard speeds fraud detection with AI. On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey, diving into Domain 5: Identity and Access Management. Remembering a computing visionary. 

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On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Joe and Sam dive into Domain 5: Identity and Access Management (IAM) and tackle a question together about biometric configuration. Try the question yourself before listening to the discussion!

You are configuring a biometric hand scanner to secure your data center. Which of the following practices is BEST to follow?

1. Decrease the reader sensitivity
2. Increase the FAR
3. Decrease the FRR
4. Increase the reader sensitivity

UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots (BBC)

How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security (DoublePulsar)

CentroMed Confirms Data Breach Affecting an Estimated 400k | Console and Associates, P.C. (JDSupra)

PNP suspends online services amid data breach probe (Philippine News Agency)

Ivanti Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Endpoint Manager (SecurityWeek)

Critical SAML Auth Bypass Vulnerability Found in GitHub Enterprise Server (Heimdal Security)

Critical Vulnerability in Honeywell Virtual Controller Allows Remote Code Execution (SecurityWeek)

DoD CIO debuts cybersecurity reciprocity playbook to streamline system authorizations, boost cybersecurity efficiency (Industrial Cyber)

Criminal record database of millions of Americans dumped online (Malwarebytes)

Mastercard Doubles Speed of Fraud Detection with Generative AI (Infosecurity Magazine)

Gordon Bell, Legendary Designer of Computers, Dies at 89 (Gizmodo) 

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The alleged operator of Incognito Market is collared at JFK. The UK plans new ransomware reporting regulations. Time to update your JavaScript PDF library. CISA adds a healthcare interface engine to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. HHS launches a fifty million dollar program to help secure hospitals. A Fluent Bit vulnerability impacts major cloud platforms. The EPA issues a cybersecurity alert for drinking water systems. BiBi Wiper grows more aggressive. Siren is a new threat intelligence platform for open source software. On our Industry Voices segment, guest Amit Sinha, CEO of DigiCert, joins N2K’s Rick Howard to discuss “Innovation: balancing the good with the bad.” And is it just me, or does that AI assistant sound awfully familiar?

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On our Industry Voices segment, guest Amit Sinha, CEO of DigiCert, joins N2K’s Rick Howard to discuss “Innovation: balancing the good with the bad.” Rick caught up with Amit at the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco. 

“Incognito Market” Owner Arrested for Operating One of the Largest Illegal Narcotics Marketplaces on the Internet (United States Department of Justice)

Exclusive: UK to propose mandatory reporting for ransomware attacks and licensing regime for all payments (The Record)

CVE-2024-4367 in PDF.js Allows JavaScript Execution, Potentially Affecting Millions of Websites: Update Now (SOCRadar)

CISA Warns of Attacks Exploiting NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Flaw (SecurityWeek)

Fluent Bit flaw discovered that impacts every major cloud provider (Tech Monitor)

EPA Issues Alert After Finding Critical Vulnerabilities in Drinking Water Systems (SecurityWeek)

New BiBi Wiper version also destroys the disk partition table (Bleeping Computer)

Enhancing Open Source Security: Introducing Siren by OpenSSF (OpenSSF)

HHS offering $50 million for proposals to improve hospital cybersecurity (The Record)

Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI’s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her (The New York Times)

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Germany’s BSI sues Microsoft for more information on recent security incidents. Julian Assange can appeal his U.S. extradition. AI chatbots may have itchy trigger fingers. CISA warns of vulnerabilities affecting Google Chrome and D-Link routers. Ham Radio’s association suffers a data breach. New underground marketplaces pop up to replace BreachForums. An updated banking trojan targets users in Central and South America. Cybercom’s founders share its origin story.  Examining gender bias in open source software contributors. For our Industry Voices segment, guest Chris Pierson, CEO at BlackCloak, met up with N2K’s Brandon Karpf at the 2024 RSA Conference to discuss personal cybersecurity risks for executives. College students unlock free laundering — no money required. 

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On our Industry Voices segment, guest Chris Pierson, CEO at BlackCloak, met up with N2K’s Brandon Karpf at the 2024 RSA Conference. Chris and Brandon discussed personal cybersecurity risks for executives.

BSI sues Microsoft for disclosure of information on security disaster (Ground News)

Assange Can Appeal U.S. Extradition, English Court Rules (The New York Times)

ChatGPT likes to fight. For military AI researchers, that’s a problem (Tech Brew)

CISA warns of hackers exploiting Chrome, EoL D-Link bugs (Bleeping Computer)

American Radio Relay League Hit by Cyberattack (SecurityWeek)

FBI seizes BreachForums infrastructure — but successor sites are already popping up (ITPro)

Grandoreiro Banking Trojan is Back With Major Updates (Infosecurity Magazine)

(PDF) Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (ResearchGate)

The inside story of Cyber Command’s creation (CSO Online)

Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free (TechCrunch) 

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Cyber Initiative and Special Projects Fellow at the Hewlett Foundation Monica Ruiz shares her career development from aspirations of being a weather woman to her current role as a grantmaker and connector in cybersecurity. Monica discusses how her international study experience changed her outlook and brought her to the field of security. She shares the difficulties she faced as a woman of color when when not that many people look like you, and how she used that as her reason to move forward and better the cybersecurity field through her work. Our thanks to Monica for sharing her story with us. 

This week, we are joined by Hosein Yavarzadeh from the University of California San Diego, as he is discussing his work on "Pathfinder: High-Resolution Control-Flow Attacks Exploiting the Conditional Branch Predictor" This paper introduces new methods that let attackers read from and write to specific parts of high-performance CPUs, such as the path history register (PHR) and prediction history tables (PHTs).

These methods allow two main types of attacks. One can reveal a program's control flow history, as shown by recovering a secret image through the libjpeg routines. The other enables detailed transient attacks, demonstrated by extracting an AES encryption key, highlighting significant security risks for these systems.

The research can be found here:

• Graph: Growing number of threats leveraging Microsoft API

On this Special Edition podcast, Dave Bittner speaks with guest Dave Hickton, Founding Director, Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security at the University of Pittsburgh, and former US Attorney, on this 10th Anniversary of the first indictment of Chinese PLA actors. Hear directly from Mr. Hickton what lead to the indictment, the emotions that went along with this unprecedented action, and the legacy of the event.

On May 19, 2014, a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania (WDPA) indicted five Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, economic espionage and other offenses directed at six American victims in the U.S. nuclear power, metals and solar products industries. 

The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to hack into American entities, to maintain unauthorized access to their computers and to steal information from those entities that would be useful to their competitors in China, including state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In some cases, it alleges, the conspirators stole trade secrets that would have been particularly beneficial to Chinese companies at the time they were stolen. In other cases, it alleges, the conspirators also stole sensitive, internal communications that would provide a competitor, or an adversary in litigation, with insight into the strategy and vulnerabilities of the American entity.

US Attorney Dave Hickton represented the Western District of Pennsylvania and was the signatory on the indictment. His team worked with the FBI Cyber Team in Pittsburgh, PA to bring about this historic action.

• Press Release: U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Corporations and a Labor Organization for Commercial Advantage
• Indictment

Australia warns of a large-scale ransomware data breach. The justice department charges five with helping North Korean IT workers evade sanctions. The FCC wants to beef up BGP. Antidot is a new Android banking trojan. The SEC enhances disclosure obligations. Researchers uncover vulnerabilities in GE ultrasound devices. A Baltimore neo-nazi pleads guilty to conspiring to take down an electrical grid. On our Solution Spotlight: N2K’s Simone Petrella speaks with Alicja Cade, Director in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO, about the CISO role, board communication, and cyber workforce development. “Tanks” for the warm water, but you can keep the vulnerabilities.

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On our Solution Spotlight: N2K’s Simone Petrella speaks with Alicja Cade, Director in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO, about the CISO role, board communication, and cyber workforce development. Simone and Alicja spoke at the 2024 RSA Conference. 

Australian government warns of 'large-scale ransomware data breach' (The Record)

US exposes scheme enabling North Korean IT workers to bypass sanctions (Help Net Security)

FCC proposes BGP security measures (Network World)

BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work? (Network World)

New 'Antidot' Android Trojan Allows Cybercriminals to Hack Devices, Steal Data (SecurityWeek)

SEC beefs up data privacy rules (Investment Executive)

GE Ultrasound Gear Riddled With Bugs, Open to Ransomware & Data Theft (DarkReading)

Baltimore County woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid (The Baltimore banner)

How I upgraded my water heater and discovered how bad smart home security can be (Ars Technica)

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The FBI seizes BreachForums. NCSC rolls out a 'Share and Defend' initiative. ESports gaming gets a level up in their security. The spammer becomes the scammer. Bitdefender is sounding the alarm. The city of Wichita gets a wake-up call. In our Threat Vector segment, host David Moulton discusses the challenges and opportunities of AI adoption with guest Mike Spisak, the Managing Director of Proactive Security at Unit 42. And no one likes a cyber budgeting blunder.

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In our Threat Vector segment, David Moulton, Director of Thought Leadership at Unit 42, discusses the challenges and opportunities of AI adoption with guest Mike Spisak, Managing Director of Proactive Security at Unit 42. They emphasize the importance of early security involvement in the AI development lifecycle and the crucial role of inventorying AI usage to tailor protection measures. You can listen to the full episode here. 

FBI seize BreachForums hacking forum used to leak stolen data (Bleeping Computer) 

New UK system will see ISPs benefit from same protections as government networks (The Record)

Riot Games, Cisco to Connect and Protect League of Legends Esports Through Expanded Global Partnership (Cisco) 

To the Moon and back(doors): Lunar landing in diplomatic missions (WeLiveSecurity)

New Black Basta Social Engineering Scheme (ReliaQuest)

IoT Cameras Exposed by Chainable Exploits, Millions Affected (HackRead)

Kimsuky APT Using Newly Discovered Gomir Linux Backdoor (Decipher)

Law enforcement data stolen in Wichita ransomware attack (The Record) 

Nigeria Halts Cybersecurity Tax After Public Outrage (Dark Reading) 

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U.S. Senators look to enhance American leadership in AI. Federal Agencies Warn of Rising Cyberattacks on Civil Society. The Pentagon says they’re satisfied with Microsoft’s post-breach security pivots. Patch Tuesday updates. A Mississippi health system alerts users of a post-ransomware data breach. The FTC cautions automakers over data collection. CISOs feel pressure to understate cyber risks. On the Learning Layer, Sam and Joe continue their certification journey. Guest Sarah Powazek of UC Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) speaks with N2K’s Brandon Karpf about cyber civil defense clinics. A crypto mixing service developer finds himself behind bars.

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Guest Sarah Powazek of UC Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) speaks with N2K’s Brandon Karpf at 2024 RSA Conference about cyber civil defense clinics and the CLTC. Learn about their upcoming Cyber Civil Defense Summit being held at the International Spy Museum in Washington DC next month. 

On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Sam and Joe discuss how to use the midterm exam and Test Day Strategy video. 

Senators Propose $32 Billion in Annual A.I. Spending but Defer Regulation (The New York Times)

Civil society under increasing threats from 'malicious' state cyber actors, US warns (The Record)

Post-data breach, DOD held 'very candid discussions' with Microsoft (DefenseScoop)

Microsoft issues patches for over 60 software vulnerabilities (Tech Monitor)

Adobe releases May 2024 fixes for critical issues in Reader, Acrobat, Illustrator and other products (BeyondMachines.net)

CISA issues ICS advisories on hardware vulnerabilities from Rockwell, SUBNET, Johnson Controls, Mitsubishi Electric (Industrial Cyber)

900k Impacted by Data Breach at Mississippi Healthcare Provider (SecurityWeek)

FTC fires 'shot across the bow' at automakers over connected-car data privacy (The Record)

Security leaders report pressure from boards to downplay cyber risks (​​ITPro)

Tornado Cash Developer Jailed for Laundering Billions of Dollars (GB Hackers)

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Google patches another Chrome zero-day. UK insurance agencies and the NCSC team up to reduce ransom payments. The FCC designates a robocall scam group. Vermont passes strong data privacy laws. A malicious Python package targets macOS users. ESET unpacks Ebury malware. Don’t answer Jenny’s email. Guest is author Barbara McQuade discussing her book "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”  The White House says, “Keep your crypto mining away from our missile silos!” 

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Guest Barbara McQuade joins us to discuss her book "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America" with Caveat co host Ben Yelin. You can hear Barbara and Ben’s full conversation on last week’s episode of Caveat here. You can catch Caveat on your favorite podcast app each Thursday where hosts Dave and Ben examine the latest in surveillance, digital privacy, cybersecurity law and policy. 

Google Patches Second Chrome Zero-Day in One Week (SecurityWeek)

UK Insurance and NCSC Join Forces to Fight Ransomware Payments (Infosecurity Magazine)

FCC Warns of 'Royal Tiger' Robocall Scammers (SecurityWeek)

Vermont passes data privacy law allowing consumers to sue companies (The Record)

PyPi package backdoors Macs using the Sliver pen-testing suite (Bleeping Computer)

Apple backports fix for RTKit iOS zero-day to older iPhones (Bleeping Computer)

Ebury is alive but unseen: 400k Linux servers compromised for cryptocurrency theft and financial gain (WeLiveSecurity)

Security Experts Issue Jenny Green Email Warning For Millions (Forbes)

US government shuts down Chinese-owned cryptomine near nuclear missile base in Wyoming (Data Centre Dynamics)

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IntelBroker claims to have breached a Europol online platform. The U.S. and China are set to discuss AI security. U.S. agencies warn against BlackBasta ransomware operators. A claimed Russian group attacks British local newspapers. Cinterion cellular modems are vulnerable to malicious SMS attacks. A UK IT contractor allegedly failed to report a major data breach for months. Generative AI is a double edged sword for CISOs. Reality Defender wins the RSA Conference's Innovation Sandbox competition. Our guest is Chris Betz, CISO of AWS, discussing how to build a strong culture of security. Solar storms delay the planting of corn. 

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Guest Chris Betz, CISO of AWS, discussing how to build a strong culture of security. In his blog, Chris writes about how AWS’s security culture starts at the top, and it extends through every part of the organization. 

Europol confirms web portal breach, says no operational data stolen (Bleeping Computer)

US and China to Hold Discussions on AI Risks and Security (BankInfo Security)

CISA, FBI, HHS, MS-ISAC warn critical infrastructure sector of Black Basta hacker group; provide mitigations (Industrial Cyber)

'Russian' hackers deface potentially hundreds of local British news sites (The Record)

Cinterion IoT Cellular Modules Vulnerable to SMS Compromise (GovInfo Security)

MoD hack: IT contractor concealed major hack for months (Computing)

AI's rapid growth puts pressure on CISOs to adapt to new security risks (Help Net Security)

Reality Defender Wins RSAC Innovation Sandbox Competition (Dark Reading)

Solar Storms are disrupting farmer GPS systems during critical planting time (The Verge) 

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