This week's security news covered topics from biometrics, to nation-state cyber teams, to big data breaches, to new vulnerabilities. How's the average network Joe to keep up? Let my weekly video help by quickly summarizing the important stuff. Today's show covers a US healthcare data breach, a new OpenSSL update, and the US CISA law. You'll find it all in this week's video, and … [Read more...]
CISA Passes Committee- Daily Security Byte EP.49
A US Senate intelligence committee quietly passed the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing Act (CISA) last week with a landslide vote of 14 to 1. While the bill is supposed to support security intelligence sharing between the government and private organizations, many think it's more about surveillance. Watch the video to learn my thoughts, and share yours before the bill becomes … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 61 – InfoSec UK 2013
AP Twitter Hack, Serial Offenders, and InfoSec UK This week's security highlights video comes a bit early due to my travels in London to attend InfoSec UK. If you're looking for a quick summary of the week's top security news, this is the vlog for you. In today's video, I share a few themes from the biggest security conferences in Europe, news of the AP twitter feed hijack, … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 60 – Oracle CPU
Router Hacks, WordPress Attack, and Huge Oracle Update During a week of such tragedy, it's hard to give much thought to network and information security (InfoSec). Yet, we must stay vigilant, lest abhorrent cyber criminals leverage such tragedies against us in social networking campaigns. In this week's InfoSec news summary, I cover Oracle's quarterly Critical Patch Update … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Security Week in Review: Episode 59 – Android PlaneSploit
CISPA, Game Dev Breaches, and Android Plane Hack Though I'm traveling in Singapore for a security conference, I still found a few spare minutes for my weekly InfoSec news summary. This week I cover some Bitcoin mining malware, CISPA returning from the ashes, some game related network attacks, and most interestingly, an Android smartphone hacking an airplane. For the details, … [Read more...]
