News Wrap: Dentist Offices Hit By Ransomware, Venmo Faces Privacy Firestorm

In this week’s news wrap podcast, editor Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the top news of the week – from ransomware attacks to companies responding to outcry over privacy issues. Top stories include: Ring announced it is working with more than 400 US police departments to streamline...

Malicious App on Google Play Tallies 100 Million Downloads

Call it the case of a good app gone bad! For some time, a handy PDF creator and optical character recognition OCR app available via Google Play offered users utility and convenience. The app, downloaded more than 100 million times, is called CamScanner and allows Android phone owners to snap a...

NCSA Webinar on Cybersecurity for Small Businesses

The National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA and INFOSEC are hosting a webinar to educate small businesses on how to protect against phishing, vishing, and smishing threats. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 from 2-3 p.m. ET. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency CISA...

Launching the Melbourne Scrubbing Centre

We are excited to announce the launch of Akamai's newest scrubbing centre in Australia. While Akamai has been protecting ANZ customers from large and complex DDoS attacks for years, the new Melbourne scrubbing centre will allow us to provide higher resilience and reduce latency for in-region...

CISA Webinar: Holistic Approach to Mitigating Insider Threats

Want to recognize indicators of cybersecurity and physical insider threats? On July 29, 2019, from 2-3 p.m. ET, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will host a webinar providing expert guidance for a holistic approach to detect and deter these threats. Understanding how to preven...

Streamlining Patch Management: Expert Advice

Patch management has been a song of constant sorrows for system administrator. There have been improvements. But still, 80 percent of enterprise systems feature unpatched CVE vulnerabilities, according CA Veracode’s State of Software Security. The good news is, software patching has gotten better...

DHS Webinar: Cybersecurity Threats to the Healthcare Sector

The Department of Homeland Security DHS and the American Hospital Association AHA are conducting a webinar focused on current cybersecurity threats to the healthcare sector. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at 1 p.m. ET. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CI...

Exploring the Top 15 Most Common Vulnerabilities with HackerOne and GitHub

Join vulnerability experts Michiel Prins, cofounder of HackerOne, and Greg Ose, GitHub’s application security engineering manager, as Threatpost editor Tom Spring moderates a discussion on the 15 most common vulnerability types. Registration Required Originally presented in March 2019, this webin...

Apple Issues Silent Update Removing Zoom's Hidden Server

Apple has pushed a silent update to Mac users that removes a hidden web server from Zoom users’ machines. The Zoom web- and video-conferencing service has come under scrutiny for its handling of a zero-day bug CVE-2019–13450 found by researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, which would allow an attacker to...

Intel Patches High-Severity Flaw in Processor Diagnostic Tool

Intel has patched a high-severity vulnerability in its processor diagnostic tool, which could allow local attackers to launch several malicious attacks on affected devices, such as escalation of privilege or denial of service. The Intel Processor Diagnostic tool is a free product that allows user...

Podcast: Dating App Privacy and NASA Cyberattack

Beyond the regular drumbeat of security vulnerabilities and patches this week, a slew of stories covered varying topics ranging from NASA to Tinder. The Threatpost team broke down the most interesting stories of the week, including: A ransomware webinar hosted by Threatpost editor Tara Seals, whi...

News Wrap: Amazon Privacy and Telegram DDoS Attack

Beyond Patch Tuesday, this week was crammed with privacy and security related news. In this week’s Threatpost podcast, editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell discussed the top news from the week. That includes: A federal lawsuit alleging that Amazon is recording children who use its Alexa...

Joomla and WordPress Found Harboring Malicious Redirect Code

Security researchers are warning owners of Joomla and WordPress websites of a malicious redirect script that is pushing visitors to malicious websites. On Thursday, Eugene Wozniak, a security researcher with Sucuri, published a report outlining a rogue hypertext access .htaccess injector found on...

News Wrap: Which Companies Are Doing Privacy Right and Which Aren't?

The Threatpost team breaks down the top data privacy-related news this week, including: Google’s acknowledgement that G Suite passwords had been stored in plaintext – since 2005. The database of golfing app Game Golf left misconfigured, exposing millions of data points on games played plus...

Data Security in the Cloud: How to Lock Down the Next-Gen Perimeter

With businesses continuing their digital migrations to cloud services and applications, IT is finding itself wrestling with how to keep companies’ data safe. The challenge? The cloud has created a next-generation, virtual perimeter. Businesses are using infrastructure-as-a-service IaaS, cloud...

WEBINAR: How to Get Enterprise Cyber Security for your Mid-Sized Organization

High-quality cybersecurity posture is typically regarded as the exclusive domain of the large and heavy resourced enterprises – those who can afford a multi-product security stack and a skilled security team to operate it. This implies a grave risk to all organizations who are not part of this...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...

Reddit Gold: Alice and Bob, Caught in a Web of Lies

Alice and Bob, the beloved or not-so-beloved, depending placeholder characters often used in cryptography examples, have been spotted in the middle of a web of deceit and intrigue by eagle-eyed Redditers. Think lies. Broken hearts. Even…murder. Yep, you heard that right. It all starts with the...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Feb. 22

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring discuss the biggest news of the week ended Feb. 22, including a report about flaws in password managers, and a 19-year-old flaw found in WinRAR. The Threatpost team also discussed an upcoming webinar on Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. ET. Patrick Hevesi of...

Learn How XDR Can Take Breach Protection Beyond Endpoint Security

How do you know whether an attacker has infiltrated your network? Can you really rely on an Endpoint Detection and Response EDR solution to be your go-to technology for identifying security breaches? Endpoint detection and response EDR platform has been an important technology to detect...