Another week, another zero day! The big news this week has Palo Alto releasing a an urgent update to address a zero day, reports of Change Healthcare’s ransomware woes being far from over, and Roku warning that 576,000 accounts have been hacked.
We hope everyone is recovered from a great holiday period (here in the Cayman Islands) and have two week’s worth of news to catch up on! What’s in store? Lots of data breaches, open source tools to identify backdoors in affected XZ libraries, and money laundering via cryptocurrencies.
This week, the most recent FortiEMS exploit has been weaponized, dark web marketplaces were taken down, and unpatchable side-channel vulnerabilities in Apple Silicone.
This week we’ve seen advancement in the AI space, for both good and bad, as well as international organizations identifying email breaches.
This month’s topic focuses on the benefits of transitioning to passwordless authentication.
There are no slow weeks in Cyber. This week we’ve seen some additional disclosure from Microsoft, a serious Fortinet flaw and proof that nobody is invulnerable to being breaches.
Following last weeks headlines this weeks Cyber Bits is a comparably less exciting, but it’s been far from a slow new week in Cybersecurity.
This week’s edition of Cyber Bits virtually crafted its own narrative, and thankfully not all of it was bad news!
We know it’s hard to stay up to date on what the cyber industry is doing. It seems like everyday, there’s a new ransomware strain, data breach, zero-day exploit, and a myriad of other threats. Trust us, it’s even hard for us to stay up to date on it all!
This month’s topic is Tabletop Exercises (“TTX”), Digital Forensics and Incident Response, and the relationship between them.