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Welcome to CyberSecurity News Byte with Jim Guckin, your one-stop resource for the latest cybersecurity news, updates, and discussions. The podcast is a vital tool for CyberSecurity and IT professionals, as well as technology leaders, who need to stay on top of the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Each week, we delve into the most significant cybersecurity stories from around the globe. Whether it's a new vulnerability discovered, a major data breach, or the rollout of a critical security patch, we aim to keep our listeners informed and prepared. We go beyond the headlines, breaking down complex issues into easy-to-understand segments, and providing insights into the potential implications and countermeasures that professionals can take.
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Episode 79: February 02 2024
This week we talk about [00:36] how a major player in the website protection game, get's hacked, [09:13] A Russian hacker group is using vulnerabilites from December to gain access to your account, [16:20] Mastadon has a critical vulnerability, can the admins patch their servers in time and finally [22:50] A popular remote access tool had their systems breach, and you should reset your account anyway.
[00:36] Cloudflare Hacked
[09:13] Russian Hackers using NTLM Relay Attacks
[16:20] Critical vulnerability in Mastodon
[22:50] AnyDesk breached, reset passwords -
Episode 78: January 29 2023
This week we talk about [00:36] an Outlook vulnebility that leaks a hashed password to places it shouldn't, then [06:32] The US government doesn't need warrants for your information they just pay data brokers, [13:58] The NoName Ransomware group take target at industries around the work, and finally [20:31] the Trello data breach that wasn't really a data breach and why that doesn't make us feel any better.
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Episode 77: January 22 2023
On my return for 2024, we talk about [00:36] how a Russia backed group hacked Microsoft's top leaders email account, [09:25] VMWare sounds the alarm about their latest critical vCenter vulnerability that's currently being used in attacks, [16:00] How a popular IT remote access tool is being exploited back hackers and what not to do, and finally [23:11] a long dormant group wakes back up and using email to create havoc.
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Episode 76: November 27 2023
This week we talk about [00:36] ownCloud let's it users know it's found 3 critical vulnerabilites in some of it's software, [06:57] A school app based in India was leaking personal student data due to misconfiguration, [12:15] Microsoft takes a sucessful attack again it's Windows Hello service to break into computers and [18:49] BlackCat is back at it again, by claiming to hack a fortune 500 company.
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Episode 75: November 20 2023
This week we talk about [00:36] We talk about how some security researchers were able to extract a RSA key from signing errors, [07:27] How a now defunt shadowy hack-for-hire group was behind a bunch of attacks, [15:11] Vulnerabilities in some AL and ML tools should they give you something to think about, [22:59] and an old tactic being used to extract money from those who care and reminder how it's the season for social engineering.
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Episode 74: November 11 2023
This week we talk about [00:36] The Lace Tempest group seen exploiting a vulnerability in a popular IT Support Software, [06:46] Then we talk about how a company suffered a compromise, paid the attacker and the data was still leaked, [13:38] We talk about the new vulnerability that CISA is warning about, and finally [17:34] Sumo Logic urges it's users to change their credentials.