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The State Department investigates an alleged breach. The FCC looks at regulating connected vehicles. A big-tech consortium hopes to mitigate AI-related job losses. Google aims to thwart cookie-thieves. SurveyLama exposes sensitive info of over four millions users. Omni Hotels & Resorts is recovering from a cyberattack. A national cancer treatment center suffers a breach. How cyber is approached on...

The Cyber Safety Review Board hands Microsoft a scathing report. Jackson County, Missouri declares a state of emergency following a ransomware attack. The concerning growth of Chinese brands in U.S. critical infrastructure. Malware campaigns make use of YouTube. OWASP issues a data breach warning. Trend Micro tracks LockBit’s faltering rebound. India’s government cloud service leaks personal data....

Google agrees to delete billions of user records. NIST addresses the NVD backlog. India rescues hundreds of citizens from scam jobs in Cambodia. The UK and US agree to collaborate on AI safety. The FTC tracks an explosion in impersonation fraud. A PandaBuy breach exposes over 1.3 million customers. Prudential Financial informs over 36,000 customers of a data breach. A look at safeguarding sensitiv...

The xz backdoor sets the open source community back on its heels. AT&T resets passwords on millions of customer accounts. Researchers track a macOS infostealer. Poland investigates past internal use of Pegasus spyware. The latest Vultur banking trojan grows trickier than ever. We note the passing of a security legend. On our Solution Spotlight, N2K President Simone Petrella talks about “Bits, Byte...

Liji Samuel from NSA sits down to share her exciting career path through the years until she found a job working for as Chief of Standards and Certification at NSA's Cyber Collaboration Center. She starts by sharing that she had always wanted to work in the STEM field, explaining that growing up she was surrounded with older cousins who were choosing STEM careers and it became an interesting topic...

Elad, a Senior Security Researcher from Cycode is sharing their research on "Cycode Discovers a Supply Chain Vulnerability in Bazel." This security flaw could let hackers inject harmful code, potentially affecting millions of projects and users, including Kubernetes, Angular, Uber, LinkedIn, Databricks, DropBox, Nvidia, Google, and many more. The research states "We reported the vulnerability to G...

The Pentagon unveils its cybersecurity roadmap. A major Massachusetts health insurer reveals a massive data breach. Hot Topic reports credential stuffing. Cisco warns of password spraying targeting VPNs. The FS-ISAC highlights the risk of generative AI to financial institutions. The FEC considers efforts to combat deceptive artificial intelligence. A look at Thread Hijacking attacks. Guests Linda...

You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Baptiste Tripard is the Chief Marketing Officer at Alteia. Aiga Stokenberga is the Senior Transport Economist at the World Bank. We explore how Alteia and the World Bank are leveraging AWS's cloud, AI, and space capabilities to monitor critical road networks at scale to support large scale infrastructure investments. From road networks to...

PyPI puts a temporary hold on operations. OMB outlines federal AI governance. Germany sounds the alarm on Microsoft Exchange server updates. Cisco patches potential denial of service vulnerabilities. The US puts a big bounty on BlackCat. Darcula and Tycoon are sophisticated phishing as a service platforms. Don’t dilly-dally on the latest Chrome update. On our Threat Vector segment, host David Moul...

Vice President for Cyber and Information Solutions within Mission Systems at Northrop Grumman, Jennifer Walsmith takes us on her pioneering career journey. Following in her father's footsteps at the National Security Agency, Jennifer began her career out of high school in computer systems analysis. Jennifer notes she saw the value of a college degree and at her parents' urging attended night schoo...

Facebook's Secret Mission to Unmask Snapchat. The White House wants AI audits. Hackers exploit the open-source Ray AI framework. Finnish Police ID those responsible for the 2021 parliament breach. Operation FlightNight targets Indian government and energy sectors. Chinese APT groups target ASEAN entities. A notorious robocaller is rung up for nearly ten million dollars. In our latest Learning Laye...

In honor of Women's History Month, please enjoy this episode of the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42's Threat Vector podcast featuring host David Moulton's discussion with Jacqueline Wudyka about the SEC's Cybersecurity Law. In this episode, join host David Moulton as he speaks with Stephanie Regan, a senior consultant at Unit 42. Stephanie, with a background in law enforcement, specializes in compromis...

An alleged sinister hacking plot by China. CISA and the FBI issued a 'secure-by-design' alert. Ransomware hits municipalities in Florida and Texas. The EU sets regulations to safeguard the upcoming European Parliament elections. ReversingLabs describe a suspicious NuGet package. Senator Bill Cassidy questions a costly breach at HHS. A data center landlord sues over requests to reveal its customers...

Head of Cyber Governance with Red Sift, Dr. Rois Ni Thuama shares the circuitous route of her career into cyber governance. She notes the route "looks really clean, but actually it was a bit more Jeremy Bearimy." While at Trinity College, Rois was moved to be part of history unfolding in South Africa and pause her studies. While there, she began making music videos and wildlife documentaries. Upon...

A supply chain attack targets python developers. Russia targets German political parties. Romanian and Spanish police dismantle a cyber-fraud gang. Pwn2Own prompts quick patches from Mozilla. President Biden nominates the first assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy at the Pentagon. An influential think tank calls for a dedicated cyber service in the US. Unit42 tracks a StrelaStealer surg...

Senior security researcher from Secureworks Marcelle Lee shares her career journey into cybersecurity and how she helps solve hard problems in her daily work. Marcelle came into cybersecurity not through any traditional path. She describes her route from a different field and starting in cyber at her local community college through a grant program. Marcelle took full advantage of the opportunities...

Liviu Arsene from CrowdStrike joins to discuss their research "HijackLoader Expands Techniques to Improve Defense Evasion." The research has found that HijackLoader continues to become increasingly popular among adversaries for deploying additional payloads and tooling. In their analysis of a recent HijackLoader sample, CrowdStrike researchers discovered new techniques designed to increase the def...

Advanced wiper malware hits Ukraine. Nemesis gets dismantled. Apple deals with an unpatchable vulnerability. FortiGuard rises to the rescue. CISA and FBI join forces against DDoS attacks. US airlines data security and privacy policies are under review. Hackers hit thousands in Jacksonville Beach. Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of Xage Security  sits down to discuss CISA's 2024 JCDC priorities. And Hotel ke...

In honor of Women's History Month, please enjoy this episode of the International Spy Museum's SpyCast podcast featuring part 2 of Andrew Hammond's discussion with Dr. Ursula Wilder of the Central Intelligence Agency. Summary Dr. Ursula Wilder (LinkedIn) joins Andrew (X; LinkedIn) to discuss the intersections between psychology and intelligence. Ursula is a clinical psychologist with over two deca...

The House Unanimously Passes a Bill to Halt Sale of American Data to Foreign Foes. The U.S. Sanctions Russian Individuals and Entities for a Global Disinformation Campaign. China warns of cyber threats from foreign hacking groups. A logistics firm isolates its Canadian division after a cyber attack. Ivanti warns of another critical vulnerability. Researchers find hundreds of vulnerable Firebase in...

Principal in PricewaterhouseCoopers Cyber Risk and Regulatory Practice, Sloane Menkes, shares her story of how non-linear math helped to shape her life and career. Sloane credits a high school classmate for inspiring her mantra "What is the 2%?" that she employs when she feels like things are shutting down. She talks about her experiences in calculus class at the US AIr Force Academy that helped t...

The White House Mobilizes a National Effort to Shield Water Systems from Cyber Threats and Announces Major Investment in U.S. Chip Manufacturing. The U.S. and Allies Issue Fresh Warnings on China's Volt Typhoon Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure. Microsoft Streamlines 365 Services with a Unified Cloud Domain. Ukrainian authorities take down a credential theft operation. LockBit claims anothe...

In honor of Women's History Month, please enjoy this episode of the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42's Threat Vector podcast featuring host David Moulton's discussion with Jacqueline Wudyka about the SEC's Cybersecurity Law. In this episode of Threat Vector, we dive deep into the new SEC cybersecurity regulations that reshape how public companies handle cyber risks. Legal expert and Unit 42 Consultant J...

A SIM-swapper faces prison and fines. Here come the class action suits against UnitedHealth Group. Aviation and Aerospace find themselves in the cyber crosshairs. A major mortgage lender suffers a major data breach. A look at election misinformation. The UK shares guidance on migrating SCADA systems to the cloud. Collaborative efforts to contain Smoke Loader. Trend Micro uncovers Earth Krahang. Tr...

CEO and Founder of KeyCaliber, Roselle Safran, takes us on her circuitous career journey from startup to White House and back to startup again. With a degree in civil engineering, Roselle veered off into a more technical role at a startup and she says "caught the startup bug." After convincing a hiring manager that she could learn on the job, she transitioned to computer forensics and started on t...