Weekly Cyber Breakdown

June 25th–July 3rd

🔒 How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime (VICE)

🔒 Luta Security Highlights for Zoom Bug Bounty Programs (Luta Security)

🔒 #ShareTheMicInCyber (SplashThat)

🔒 mindedsecurity/behave (WISec and Jennings on GitHub)

🔒 Salesforce invests in security software provider Tanium at $9 billion valuation (CNBC)

🔒 Mask Exemption Cards From the ‘Freedom to Breathe Agency’? They’re Fake (New York Times)

🔒 Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked (BBC News)

🔒 Cyber Essentials Toolkits (CISA)

🔒 During a pandemic, stalkerware becomes even more sinister (CyberScoop)

🔒 Ransomware: Attacks that start with phishing emails are suddenly back in fashion again (ZDNet)

June 18th–June 25th

🔒 Privacy-Focused OS Wants to Know How Facebook and the FBI Hacked it (Motherboard by VICE)

🔒 A domestic violence prevention app backed by Dr. Phil exposed victims’ distress recordings (TechCrunch)

🔒Advisory 2020-008: Copy-paste compromises – tactics, techniques and procedures used to target multiple Australian networks (Australian Government)

🔒 Texts Claim Hack of Encrypted Phone Company Used by Hitmen (Motherboard by VICE)

🔒 US cyber officials try to channel Liam Neeson in responding to coronavirus threats (CyberScoop)

🔒 Here’s what John Bolton had to say about cybersecurity policy in his new book (CyberScoop)

🔒 Feature podcast: Inside BellTrox’s hacker-for-hire operation (Risky.Biz)

🔒 10 (more) free security tools worth a look (CSO Online)

🔒 Prime Minister says Australia is under cyber attack from state-based actor (ZDNet)

🔒 Black Hat research predicts significant changes to security operations post COVID-19 and exploit concerns for 2020 U.S. Election (Security Magazine)

June 11th–June 18th

🔒 The Unbearable Frequency of PewPew Maps (Pylos)

🔒 T-Mobile hit by phone calling, text message outage (TechCrunch)

🔒 In reversal, Zoom says all users will have access to end-to-end encryption (CyberScoop)

🔒 Avon recovering after mysterious cyber-security incident (ZDNet)

🔒 The NSA is piloting a secure DNS service for the defense industrial base (CyberScoop)

🔒Incident Response and Threat hunting with OSQuery and Kolide Fleet (Peerlyst)

🔒 Cyberthreat Real Time Map (Kaspersky)

🔒 NIST Seeks Public Input on Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Services (NIST)

🔒 Here’s what that Capital One court decision means for corporate cybersecurity (CyberScoop)

🔒 The FBI expects a surge of mobile banking threats (HelpNet Security)

June 4th – June 11th

🔒 Facebook Helped the FBI Hack a Child Predator (Vice)

🔒 Black Hat Student Scholarship Program (BlackHat)

🔒 LAPD Got Tech Demos from Israeli Phone Hacking Firm NSO Group (Vice)

🔒 Cyberattacks since the murder of George Floyd (CloudFlare)

🔒 How to Identify Visible (and Invisible) Surveillance at Protests (EFF)

🔒Honda confirms its network has been hit by cyberattack (ZDNet)

🔒 Why spies are targeting vaccine research (Risky.Biz)

🔒 Security is Everybody’s Job – Part 5 – The First Way (SheHacksPurple)

🔒 MoD raises first Cyber Regiment to secure defence networks from cyber threats (Teiss)

🔒 Advanced Protection Against Zero Day Threats and Malware (InfoSecurity Magazine)

May 28th – June 4th

🔒 Security firm leaves more than five billion records exposed on unsecured database (Graham Cluley)

🔒 This matters more: How cyber pros are confronting racism in their own ranks, and beyond (CyberScoop)

🔒 Surprise Capital One court decision spells trouble for incident response (Risky.Biz)

🔒 Surveillance Self Defense (SSD.EFF.ORG)

🔒 This Tool Makes Blurring Protesters’ Faces Incredibly Easy (Vice)

🔒Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers (New York Times)

🔒 Don’t Mix Policing with COVID-19 Contact Tracing (EFF)

🔒 Open-sourcing new COVID-19 threat intelligence (Microsoft)

🔒 Someone is trying to catfish women by pretending to be Paul Nakasone (CyberScoop)

🔒 Iran reports failed cyber-attack on Strait of Hormuz port (ZDNet)

May 20-27th:

🔒 States plead for cybersecurity funds as hacking threat surges (The Hill)

🔒 How to avoid COVID-19 scams (National Cybersecurity Alliance)

🔒 Cyber security review may spell end for Huawei 5G deal (The Guardian)

🔒 Assessments: Cyber Reslience Review (CRR) (CISA)

🔒 Scripting for Hackers (Hackers Arise)

🔒Crooks are using realistic-looking webpage templates to trick you into handing over personal data (ZDNet)

🔒 Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal (Kaspersky)

🔒 NIST Seeks Public Input on Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Services (NIST)

🔒 Security Professionals Conference Online (Educause)

🔒 Winning with Cyber Threat Intelligence: Taking a More Personal View (Tripwire)