South Korea investigates a substantial leak of military intelligence to the north. Google fixes a Workspace authentication weakness. Wiz identifies an API authentication vulnerability in Selenium Grid. The UK’s Science Secretary warns Britain is highly vulnerable to cyber threats. Global shipping faces a surge in cyber attacks. Apple has resolved the iCloud Private Relay outage. Google Chrome offers to scan encrypted archives for malware. Barath Raghavan and Bruce Schneier examine the brittleness of modern IT infrastructure. Guest Brian Gumbel, President and COO at Dataminr, joins us to discuss the convergence of cyber-physical realms. Rick Howard previews his latest CSO Perspectives episode on the state of Zero Trust. Teaching AI crawlers some manners.

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CyberWire Guest

Guest Brian Gumbel, President and COO at Dataminr, joins us to discuss the convergence of cyber-physical realms. Cybersecurity is no longer just a matter of protecting data on servers or computers, a cyber-attack can have tangible, real-world consequences.

CSO Perspectives

This week on N2K Pro’s CSO Perspectives podcast, host and N2K CSO Rick Howard focuses on “The current state of zero trust.” Hear a bit about it from Rick and Dave. You can find the full episode here if you are an N2K Pro subscriber, otherwise check out an extended sample here.

Selected Reading

South Korea Reports Leak From Its Military Intelligence Command (New York Times)

Crooks Bypassed Google’s Email Verification to Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services (Krebs on Security)

Selenium Grid Instances Exploited for Cryptomining (SecurityWeek)

UK ‘desperately exposed’ to cyber-threats and pandemics, says minister | UK security and counter-terrorism (The Guardian)

Cyber attacks on shipping rise amid geopolitical tensions (Financial Times)

Apple Fixes iCloud Private Relay After Extended Outage (MacRumors)

Chrome now asking for ZIP archive passwords to help detect malicious files (Cybernews)

The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness (Lawfare)

AI crawlers need to be more respectful (Read the Docs)

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