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Link to episode This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with guests Brett Conlon , CISO,  American Century Investments , and  Michael Bickford , former CISO, New York State Gaming Commission.  Missed the live show? Check it out  on YouTube. The Department of Know  is live every Friday at 4:00 p.m. ET. Join us each week by registering for the open discussion at  CISOSeries.com...

Cosmetics giant Rituals discloses data breach Apple fixes iOS flaw exploited by the FBI Microsoft Teams Helpdesk impersonation Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-rituals-cosmetics-breach-fbi-ios-flaw-fixed-teams-helpdesk-malware-impersonation/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker is extending Zero Trust beyond endpoint control. With their recent rel...

OpenAI shares cyber product with government orgs Unauthorized Mythos access, Firebox bugs fixed by Mythos Insurers move to cap LLMjacking cyber payouts Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-new-openai-cyber-product-unauthorized-mythos-access-insurers-to-cap-llmjacking-payouts/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker is extending Zero Trust beyond endpoint...

CISA lacks Mythos access Lovable denies data leak YouTube opens up deepfake detection tool Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-cisa-lacks-mythos-lovables-leak-by-design-youtubes-deepfake-detection/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker is extending Zero Trust beyond endpoint control. With their recent releaseof Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust...

Vercel confirms breach, stolen data for sale ZionSiphon targets water infrastructure Bluesky blames outage on DDoS Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-vercel-breach-zionsiphon-targets-water-infrastructure-bluesky-ddos/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker is extending Zero Trust beyond endpoint control. With their recent releaseof Zero Trust Network...

London hospitals continue to suffer from 2024 ransomware attack Four arrested in PowerOFF takedown Microsoft Defender "RedSun" zero-day  Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-london-hospital-ransomware-legacy-poweroff-takedown-microsoft-redsun-zero-day/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker ThreatLocker is extending Zero Trust beyond endpoint control. With their rec...

Link to episode page This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with guests  Andrew Storms , security engineering, Kilo Code, and Eduardo Ortiz-Romeu , VP, global head of cybersecurity, Techtronic Industries.  Missed the live show? Check it out on YouTube . Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Happy Friday. Hope there isn't a fresh security questionnaire sitting in your inbox ri...

Cisco posts urgent Webex Services warning Splunk issues fixes for Enterprise vulnerability Git identity spoof tricks Claude into approving bad code Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-cisco-webex-warning-splunks-enterprise-fix-git-spoof-tricks-claude/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Happy Friday. Hope there isn't a fresh security questionnaire sitting in your in...

OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber McGraw Hill breach due to Salesforce misconfig Signed adware operation disables antivirus Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-openais-gpt-5-4-cyber-mcgraw-hill-blames-salesforce-for-breach-signed-adware-disables-antivirus/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor At some point, every fast-growing SaaS team hits the same wall. The trust cent...

Ransomware rivals turn on each other Fake Ledger app drains millions in crypto US Treasury wants access to Mythos Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-ransomware-drama-faked-ledger-app-treasury-wants-mythos/   Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Your trust center was a great start. But if your team is still manually answering questionnaires and fielding sales questio...

Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities Anodot hack leaves breached companies facing extortion wolfSSL library flaw enables forged certificate use Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-claude-mythos-previews-capabilities-anodot-breached-companies-face-extortion-wolfssl-flaw-enables-forged-certificates/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Three tools to manage custo...

A quick announcement: we're moving our Department of Know livestream to Fridays at 4pm ET/1 pm PT. The format will remain the same. We hope to see you there.

Adobe patches months-old Reader zero-day Critical Marimo flaw now under active exploitation Hackers claim control over Venice anti-flood pumps Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-adobe-patches-zero-day-marimo-flaw-exploited-venice-flood-threat/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Still manually filling out security questionnaires even though you have a trust center?...

Google API keys in Android apps expose Gemini endpoints Acrobat Reader zero-day flaw exploited since December Cryptocurrency ATM company Bitcoin Depot reports cyberattack Check out our show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-android-api-exposure-acrobat-reader-zero-day-bitcoin-depot-cyberattack/ Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Vanta Risk and regulation ramping up—and custome...

Ransomware knocks Dutch healthcare vendor offline APT28 is keeping busy  CIA quietly elevated its cyber espionage division Check out our show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-chipsoft-popped-apt28-updates-cia-cyber-espionage-elevation/   Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Vanta Risk and regulation ramping up—and customers expect proof of security just to do business. Vanta's...

Anthropic announces Project Glasswing U.S. seeks to slash CISA funding Russia-linked hackers hijack routers for passwords Check out our show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-anthropics-project-glasswing-cisa-funding-in-doubt-routers-hijacked-for-passwords/ Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Vanta Risk and regulation ramping up—and customers expect proof of security just to do...

Drift says exploit was North Korean intelligence operation GitHub used in multi-stage attacks targeting South Korea Data leak threatened after Die Linke attack Check out our show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-drift-blames-exploit-on-north-korea-github-attacks-target-south-korea-die-linke-breach-threatens-data-leak/ Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Vanta Risk and regulati...

Link to  episode page This week's Department of Know is hosted by Sarah Lane, with guests Jack Kufahl,  CISO,  Michigan Medicine , and  Adam Palmer , CISO,  First Hawaiian Bank . Missed the live show? Check it out  on YouTube . Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta Risk and regulation ramping up—and customers expect proof of security just to do business. Vanta's automation brings compliance, risk, and...

36 Malicious npm packages exploited to deploy persistent implants Hundreds of millions to be cut from CISA in proposed budget Hackers exploit React2Shell in automated credential theft campaign Check out our show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-malicious-npm-packages-cisa-budget-cuts-hackers-exploit-react2shell/ Huge thanks to our episode sponsor, Vanta Risk and regulation ram...

250,000 affected by data Breach at Texas hospital CISA says, "patch Citrix NetScaler bug by Thursday" Researchers uncover mining operation using ISO lures  Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-texas-hospital-breach-cisa-orders-netscaler-patch-iso-file-rat-warning/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker Security controls fail when they break the business. Successful...

Apple pushes new patches over DarkSword FBI: US surveillance hack is major incident Cisco code stolen in Trivy-linked breach Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-apple-pushes-new-patches-over-darksword-fbi-us-surveillance-hack-is-major-incident-cisco-code-stolen-in-trivy-linked-breach/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker Detection-based security assumes you'll ca...

HTTP client introduces malicious dependency TeamPCP testing the open source supply chain Claude source code leaked Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-axios-poisoned-teampcp-details-claude-code-leaked/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker Least privilege isn't about distrusting users — it's about limiting blast radius. Many attacks succeed because malware inherit...

macOS Terminal gets ClickFix attacks Russian court sentences 'Flint' over card fraud CareCloud probes data breach Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-macos-terminal-clickfix-attacks-russian-court-sentences-flint-carecloud-probes-data-breach/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker Ransomware doesn't need to be sophisticated if it's allowed to execute. A growing numb...

Link to episode page This week's Department of Know is hosted by  Rich Stroffolino with guests Dennis Pickett , vp, CISO, RTI International , and Jacob Combs , CISO, Tandem Diabetes Care Thanks to our show sponsor, ThreatLocker Many security strategies still assume everything is allowed until proven malicious. Attackers understand that model well. That's why more organizations are rethinking endpo...

FBI confirms theft of director's personal emails Lloyds customer data exposed in IT glitch Hundreds of valid API keys discovered on the Web  Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-fbi-email-theft-lloyds-bank-glitch-api-keys-running-loose/ Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker Most breaches don't start with a zero-day — they start because something unexpected was allo...