Information security threats and attacks are evolving faster than IT generalists can keep up with. If you’re falling behind in your InfoSec news, and need a quick summary, this weekly video can help.
Topics from today’s episode include, more details on an old White House breach, cyber attackers blacking out a French broadcaster, and a funny yet enlightening Snowden interview. Press play to get informed.
(Episode Runtime: 10:38)
Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbtqmNIGsQ
EPISODE REFERENCES:
- Monday: John Oliver Interviews Snowden – Daily Security Byte EP.60
- Tuesday: Fake Government Sites – Daily Security Byte EP.61
- FBI’s PSA advisory on fake government site scam – IC3.gov
- FBI warns of fake government sites stealing your PII – Threat Post
- Wednesday: White House Breach Unveiled – Daily Security Byte EP.62
- CNN on how Russian hackers infiltrated the White House – CNN
- White House attack allegedly did results in theft of sensitive data – CNET
- USA today on White House Breach – USA Today
- Article covering how the breach happened – Help Net Security
- Original story on last years White House Breach – The Washington Post
- Thursday: April Apple Patches – Daily Security Byte EP.63
- Apple’s April Patch Day Summary
- April OS X updates – Apple
- April iOS (8.3) update – Apple
- April Safari updates – Apple
- April Apple TV updates – Apple
- April Xcode updates – Apple
- Latest OS X update fixes over 80 vulnerabilities – ThreatPost
- iOS update fixes Phantom flaw – ThreatPost
- Researcher shares details about OS X root privilege flaw – TrueSecDev
- Apple’s April Patch Day Summary
- Friday: Hackers Pwn TV – Daily Security Byte EP.64
- Alleged ISIS hackers attack TV5Monde – The Guardian
- TV5Monde taken off the air due to cyber attack – ZDNet
- French network blames ISIS for cyber attack – Ars Technica
- TV5Monde expose passwords on a TV broadcast – Ars Technica
EXTRAS:
- How much Infosec truth is in TV? – Engadget
- How stolen data travels through the underground – Help Net Security
- Vulnerability in Dell software gets it marked as malware – Ars Technica
- Bad cyber security legislation could affect InfoSec research – Dark Reading
- Great article on “sinkholing” and its risks – Dark Reading
- Criminals use fake Steam pages to deliver malware – Kotaku
- A Firefox security feature exposed a new vulnerability – Help Net Security
- Many web servers still vulnerable to Heartbleed – Business Insider
- Latest VMware update fixes old Java flaws – Security Week
- CAPTCHAs get more complex – Phys.org
- SMiShers and vishers targeting BECU customers – BECU.org
- A survey suggests attacks are getting more destructive – NBC News
- New IoT devices don’t focus on security (prediction confirmed) – Network World
- Persistent XSS flaw in WP Super Cache plugin affects over 1M – Ars Technica
- Security researchers are the immune system of the digital age – Scientific America
- Article on the FBI’s malware – Gizmodo
- FBI warns that ISIL is exploiting WordPress flaws – IT Pro
- An article arguing that CSI: Cyber helps recruit new security pros – Cyber Defense Review
- Police chief explains why he paid cyber ransom – Ars Technica
- Watering hole attacks target specific users (Drive-bu-login) – High Tech Bridge
- Google ads succumbs to some malvertisers – Network World
- Story on a Russian Hacktivist group against Putin – The Guardian
- No NSA Congressional oversight because they lack clearance – The Intercept
- AlienSpy delivers Citadel (just another downloader) – Threat Post
- Android scareware leverages fear of malicious installers – Help Net Security
- Websense’s 2015 threat report is sobering – Websense
- US government says yes to HTTPS only – EFF
- Beebone malware morphed 19x a day – BBC
- Details on Beebone botnet takedown – Help Net Security
- Apple actually talks about removing Adware from Macs – Apple
- No surprise; people still don’t read EULAs – F-Secure
- InfoSec Europe’s annual threat survey results – InfoSec Europe
- AT&T to pay $25M fine after employee steals 300K SSNs – The Next Web
- More frequent flier accounts hacked (Lufthansa) – Reuters
- DARPA unveils tech to search for crime on the “Dark Web” – Forbes