The CyBUr Smart Morning News Update

November 10, 2023: Friday Op-Ed

Today's Op-Ed refers to my latest Substack article and discusses the need to more cyber incident post-mortems, like what Okta did this week.
Thought/comments/dissenting opinions welcome at darren@thecyburguy.com or at linkedin.com/in/darrenmott
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November 9, 2023

Welcome to the November 9, 2023 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.
Listens and shares are appreciated.
Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to darren@thecyburguy.com
The articles referenced in this podcast:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/adobe_ai_israel_hamas_war_pics/
https://cybernews.com/security/despite-pledges-ransoms-here-to-stay/
https://cybernews.com/news/chatgpt-down-major-outage-wordlwide/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-ransomware-gangs-hack-casinos-via-3rd-party-gaming-vendors/
https://www.scmagazine.com/resource/24-hour-recovery-how-an-american-business-beat-ransomware
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/08/ransomware-attack-stages/
https://www.csoonline.com/article/1229409/us-launches-shields-ready-campaign-to-secure-critical-infrastructure.html
 

November 8, 2023

Welcome to the November 8, 2023 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.
Listens and shares are appreciated.
Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to darren@thecyburguy.com
The articles referenced in this podcast:
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/north-korea-linked-bluenoroffs-macos-malware-variant-targets-financial-firms
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/atlassian-bug-escalated-10-unpatched-instances-vulnerable
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/transform-says-ransomware-data-breach-affects-267-000-patients/
https://securityaffairs.com/153778/security/soldiers-of-solomon-hacked-israel-flour-plant.html
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/07/hitman_for_hire_jail/?td=rt-3a
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/data-breach-singapores-marina-bay/
https://rentahitman.com/
 

November 7, 2023

Welcome to the November 7, 2023 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.
Listens and shares are appreciated.
Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to darren@thecyburguy.com
The articles referenced in this podcast:
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/06/okta-support-compromised-service-account/
https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/google-warns-of-hackers-absing-calendar.html
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-looney-tunables-linux-bug-steal-cloud-creds/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-will-roll-out-mfa-enforcing-policies-for-admin-portal-access/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-sanctions-russian-who-laundered-money-for-ryuk-ransomware-affiliate/
https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/new-jupyter-infostealer-version-emerges.html
https://www.scmagazine.com/news/new-gootbot-strain-of-gootloader-malware-stokes-ransomware-fears
 

November 6, 2023

Welcome to the November 6, 2023 edition of the CyBUr Smart Morning News Update. Your morning cyber news hit with some education and opinion thrown in for good measure.
Listens and shares are appreciated.
Feel free to email comments, suggestions, criticisms, or tips to darren@thecyburguy.com
The articles referenced in this podcast:
https://cybernews.com/news/ace-hardware-systems-down-cyberattack/
https://cybernews.com/news/henry-shein-ransom-attack-alphv-blackcat-negotiations/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-breach-134-customers-exposed-in-october-support-system-hack/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-find-my-network-can-be-abused-to-steal-keylogged-passwords/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-12713229/Active-cyber-insurers-combat-scourge-ransomware.html?ITO=applenews-us