Wednesday Jun 14, 2023

Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-SEPT-13 Mudge Testimony, Albania Cyberattacks, Vice Society

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here.

The team from Splunk discussed the latest cybersecurity news, including:

- Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, testified in a Senate committee hearing about security concerns he claims the company ignored.

- Albania reports a second cyberattack that officials attribute to the Iranian government.

- CISA issues an alert about the Vice Society ransomware group targeting the education sector.

- Ransomware groups are switching to the tactic of intermittent encryption.

- CISA is requesting public feedback about its forthcoming incident reporting rules.

- Researchers at Norton Labs found that more than 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisers.