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Cybersecurity Weekly: Active phishing attacks, breach blamed on password reuse, insecure smart lights

New phishing attacks target U.N. and enterprise executives. Bed Bath & Beyond blames their breach on password reuse. A new study finds smart light bulbs contain serious security gaps. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Equifax default password discovered, NordVPN data breach, Army retires floppy disks

A default admin password was used to "secure" sensitive data at Equifax. NordVPN suffered a data breach, exposing private encryption keys of some of its users. The U.S. Army moves on from an 8-inch floppy disk computing system. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Hacker reveals black market credit cards, Linux Sudo flaw discovered, RDP honeypot experiment

An anonymous hacker reveals 30% of the stolen credit cards on the black market. A Sudo flaw has been discovered that allows all Linux users run commands as root. A cybersecurity blogger experiments with an RDP honeypot. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Lessons learned: The Capital One breach

The Capital One breach was accomplished by a former AWS employee who took advantage of a misconfigured firewall used by Capital One to protect their AWS depl

Cybersecurity Weekly: "Nice guy" hacker attacks Tom's, programmer hacks hackers, 60,000 records breached after phishing incident

A hacker encourages others to spend more time outside. A hacked programmer retaliates by hacking hackers who hacked him. A phishing incident results in a leak of personal information for 60,000 patients. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Kaspersky busts hacker group, German police raid dark web bunker, Baltimore had no backups before ransomware attack

Kaspersky busts a hacking group using their own AV. German police raid a dark web bunker, shutting down more than 200 servers. The city of Baltimore reports that it had no backups when it was hit with ransomware back in May 2019. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Adolescent hacking study, DoorDash breach, Outlook file extension blacklist

A study decodes how kids get into hacking. DoorDash loses personal records of 5 million clients and drivers. Outlook plans to add 38 more file extensions to its blacklist. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Model response to cyber attack, Ecuador data leak, whistleblower phishing site

Arizona schools demonstrate the model response to a malware attack. A marketing analytics company leaks deep profiles of the entire Ecuador population. A new phishing attack targets the whistleblower submission site for The Guardian. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Phishing attack sniffed out, facial recognition ban, more ransomware

Philadelphia law firms fend off phishing attacks involving fake clients. California follows San Francisco by passing a statewide bill to ban police use of facial recognition. Ransomware cripples multiple organizations, including Rockford, IL, public schools and Entercom Communications. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Ransomware denial, addressing the gender skills gap, audio deepfakes

A Massachusetts city declines a $5.3 million ransomware demand, opting to restore from backup instead. An Irish staffing company works to close the cybersecurity skills gap for migrant women. The first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deepfakes. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.