What you need to know about Biden’s new National Cybersecurity Strategy, which aims to provide a framework of what the current administration wants the US federal government, critical infrastructure organizations, and private companies to do...
Popular password manager LastPass suffered a second attack that lasted for over two months. Now new and disturbing information is being released about the attack. Scott discusses the benefits and challenges of using gamification in security...
Twitter is phasing out its free text message two-factor authentication (2FA) and putting the feature behind a paywall, prompting security experts to advise Twitter users to switch to other authentication methods. How data brokers are selling...
Reddit announced that it was the victim of a phishing attack aimed at its employees, resulting in unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. Advice on managing device location-tracking settings to ensure...
In this episode host Tom Eston sits down with Kathleen Smith, Chief Outreach Officer at ClearedJobs.net, to discuss the current state of the job market in the cybersecurity industry. With a recent surge in layoffs, Kathleen provides advice for those...
The attacks on password managers and their users continue as Bitwarden and 1Password users have reported seeing paid ads for phishing sites in Google search results for the official login page of the password management vendors. Not only that, a new...
A hacker discovered a copy of the US No Fly List, which contains the names of people banned from traveling in or out of the US on commercial flights, on an unsecured Jenkins server connected to a commercial airline. Will AI-powered phishing become a...
On this week’s episode, We’re excited to bring you a classic conference talk that Tom Eston gave with co-host Kevin Johnson back in 2009 at DEF CON 17 in Las Vegas. The talk is called “Social Zombies: Your Friends Want to Eat Your...
Facebook has been ordered to pay a fine of $414m by EU regulators who ruled that the company had broken EU law by forcing users to accept personalized ads. The ruling could have a major impact on Facebook’s advertising business in the EU...
Things get worse for LastPass as a security breach in November resulted in the theft of customer data, including encrypted password vaults and unencrypted web addresses. Pig butchering scams, a variation of business email compromise and romance...