Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, April 12, 2024

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This episode features a discussion on Microsoft's cybersecurity troubles, worries about open source, a warning about abusing IT help desks to launch attacks and more

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Cyber Security Today, Jan 3, 3024 - Prepare for upcoming privacy legislation: This episode reports on Canadian and American privacy bills before legislatures, ransomware news and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Feb. 2, 2024 - AI fakes are making trouble for facial recognition logins, and more: This episode reports on US government action on vulnerable Ivanti gateways and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Dec. 6, 2023 - Warnings about Russian-based cyber attacks, and more: This episode reports on abuse of Go language repositories, unpatched Outlook servers targeted by Russian group, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday, Nov. 24, 2023: This episode features discussion on Australia's decision to not make ransomware payments illegal, huge hacks of third-party service suppliers in Canada and the U.S. and whether email and smartphone service providers are doing enough to protect customers by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for Friday Dec. 15, 2023: This epsiode features discussion on how much responsibility governments should shoulder to fight ransomware, why North Korea's Lazarus group is still exploiting the two-year old Log4j vulnerability and the latest on insider attacks by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Jan. 10, 2024 - Vulnerabilities found in internet-connected factory torque wrenches: This episode reports on a hole found in Bosch industrial torque wrenches, attacks on Microsoft SQL servers, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Dec. 20, 2023 - Data on over 35 million Comcast customers stolen because patching wasn't fast enough: This episode reports on a warning of a vulnerability in the SSH protocol, the latest multi-million person data breaches and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Jan. 15, 2024 - Three warnings to application developers: This episode covers reports with warnings to application developers from Recorded Future and Gitlab; how an accounting company was victimized by a phishing message, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Year in Review for 2023: This episode features a discussion about the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2023, and predictions for 2024 by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Dec. 29, 2023 - Get cracking on your cybersecurity strategic plan: Don't have a cybersecurity strategic plan? Here's how to start building one by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Dec. 11, 2023 - Irish water treatment plant shut by cyber attack, WordPress issues a security patch, and more: This episode reports on a US hospital chain notifying 2.5 million patients and employees about data stolen in a ransomware attack, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Jan 8, 2024 - How a Spanish cellular carrier's network was knocked offline, and more: This episode reports on basic cybersecurity oversights that led to the hacking of a teclo, the increased number of victims of a US law firm hack, a data breach at a Canadian provider of midwives and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Feb. 9, 2024 - A record US$1 billion paid to ransomware gangs last year: This episode reports on ransomware payments, a US$10 million bounty on a ransomware gang, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, Feb. 23, 2024: This episode features a discussion on the takedown of the LockBit ransomware gang, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, May 15, 2024 - Ebury botnet still exploiting Linux servers, Microsoft, SAP and Apple issue security updates, and more: This episode reports on the Phorpiex botnet spreading LockBit ransomware, the sentencing of a man behind the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer for money laundering, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, April 26, 2024: This episode features a discussion on the latest in the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a vulnerability in an abandoned Apache open-source project, the next step in Canada's proposed critical infrastructure cybersecurity law and the future of TikTok by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 26, 2024 - Patch warnings for Cisco ASA gateways and a WordPress plugin: This episode reports on the malicious plugin worm that refuses to die, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 22, 2024 - Vulnerability found in CrushFTP file transfer software, security updates for Cisco's controller management application, and more: This episode reports on a new campaign to steal credentials from LastPass users, a warning to admits of Ivanti Avalanche mobile device management software, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 19, 2024 - Police bust phishing rental platform, a nine-year old virus found on Ukrainian computers, and more: This episode reports on a threat actor targeting governments in the Middle East with a novel way of hiding malware is going international, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday April 19, 2024: On this episode Jen Ellis, co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force, talks about ways of fighting one of the biggest cyber threats to IT departments by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 17, 2024 - More suspicious attempts to take over open source projects, a data theft at a Cisco Duo partner, and more: This episode reports on security updates from Delinea and PuTTY, and reports on bad bots and threat actors going after Zoom meetings by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 15, 2024 - Act fast to a plug hole in Palo Alto Networks firewall, Canadian comedy festival loses over $800K in email scam, and more: This episode reports on a new anti-ransomware strategy, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 12, 2024 - A warning to Sisense customers, a new tactic for spreading the Raspberry Robin worm, and more: This episode reports on a new way threat actors are planting malware on GitHub, why you should watch for the running of unexpected automated scripts on your network, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 10, 2024 - RansomHub gang trying to extort Change Healthcare, large number of Microsoft security updates are released, and more: This episode reports on a warning to application developers using the Rust language, the need to unplug end of life D-Link NAS devices, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 8, 2024 - Crooks are hijacking Facebook pages to spread phoney AI applications: This episode reports on AI and Magento scams, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, April 5, 2024 - New ransomware gang claims 11 victims, Ivanti promises to overhaul product security, and more.: This episode reports on vulnerabilities in HTTP/2, RDP weaknesses a major cause of successful cyber attacks, and more by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday, April 5, 2024: This episode features a discussion on a highly critical report on the hacking of Microsoft Exchange Online email accounts, a case study of a ransomware attack and the discovery of a years-long infiltration of an open source group to insert a backdoor... by Cybersecurity Today
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Cyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, April 12, 2024

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