Each week I publish interesting articles and ways to improve your understanding of cybersecurity.
Projects
- Linux Foundation – Introduction to Kubernetes (LF158) – In Progress
- TryHackMe – Splunk: Setting up a SOC Lab
- SANS Holiday Hack Challenge 2024: Snow-maggedon
Videos
Articles
- FBI Warns US Organizations of Fake Emergency Data Requests Made by Cybercriminals – The FBI is seeing an increase in threat actors using fake emergency data requests to harvest information from US companies.
- Halliburton reports $35 million loss after ransomware attack – Halliburton has revealed that an August ransomware attack has led to $35 million in losses after the breach caused the company to shut down IT systems and disconnect customers.
- Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach – Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor.
- Volt Typhoon rebuilds malware botnet following FBI disruption – The Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon has begun to rebuild its “KV-Botnet” malware botnet after it was disrupted by law enforcement in January, according to researchers from SecurityScorecard.
- VMware makes Workstation and Fusion free for everyone – VMware has announced that its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisors are now free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal use.
- Teixeira Is Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison – The disclosures that Jack Teixeira shared on a social media platform raised questions over how a relatively low-ranking Air National Guardsman had access to some of the country’s most sensitive secrets.
- Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records – The U.S. government has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hackers who broke into the systems of AT&T, stealing around 50 billion customer call and text records.
- Two Men Charged For Hacking US Tax Preparation Firms – Two Nigerian nationals, one in Mexico and one in North Dakota, have been charged for hacking into the systems of US tax preparation companies.
- CISA, FBI Confirm China Hacked Telecoms Providers for Spying – CISA and the FBI have confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the networks of telecommunications companies to spy on specific targets.
- Idaho Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Hacking, Data Theft, Extortion – Robert Purbeck was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing the personal information of over 132,000 people.
Podcasts
- Smashing Security 392: Pasta spies and private eyes, and are you applying for a ghost job?
- Smashing Security 393: Who needs a laptop to hack when you have a Firestick?