Sam Fay

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.

Cybersecurity Weekly: Worm eradication, Instagram hack demonstration, massive iPhone hack

French police remove the Retadup worm from 850,000 PCs with the help of Avast. A white hat hacker demonstrated how to hack over one million Instagram accounts. A slew of security incidents and breaches, including Foxit PDF reader, DDS Safe and Apple’s iPhone. All this, and more, in this week’s edition of Cybersecurity Weekly.