Week in Review: Disabling Microsoft Defender, corrupted power inverters, bipartisan training bill
Link to episode page This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guest George Finney, CISO, The University of Texas System – check out George’s new book plus all his other achievements at his website, WellAwareSecurity. Thanks to our show sponsor, Conveyor Still spending hours maintaining a massive spreadsheet of Q&A pairs or using RFP tools to answer security questionnaires? Conveyor’s AI doesn’t need hand-holding and gets you accurate answers every time with limited knowledge base maintenance. It reads directly from your connected sources—documents, wikis, websites, Confluence, Google drive, and even your Conveyor trust center. You don’t maintain a knowledge base. You connect to one. And our AI does the rest for you. See what real auto-fill magic looks like at www.conveyor.com All links and the video of this episode can be found on CISO Series.com
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Signal shutters Recall, Windows Server vulnerability, pathology lab breach
Signal adds Recall blocker Critical Windows Server 2025 dMSA vulnerability warning Pathology lab suffers data breach Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Still spending hours maintaining a massive spreadsheet of Q&A pairs or using RFP tools to answer security questionnaires? Conveyor’s AI doesn’t need hand-holding and gets you accurate answers every time with limited knowledge base maintenance. It reads directly from your connected sources—documents, wikis, websites, Confluence, Google drive, and even your Conveyor trust center. You don’t maintain a knowledge base. You connect to one. And our AI does the rest for you. See what real auto-fill magic looks like at www.conveyor.com Find the stories behind the headlines at CISOseries.com.
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Kettering Health outage, Lumma disrupted, Opexus "major lapse"
Ransomware attack knocks out Kettering Health Lumma malware operation disrupted Federal agencies impacted by “major lapse” at Opexus Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Half-baked AI answers to security questionnaires are worse than no answer at all. Conveyor’s AI gets it right the first time—with market-leading accuracy rates and full citations for every response. Because “good enough” doesn’t cut it when you’re filling in questionnaires daily. Accuracy isn’t just a feature—it’s the foundation. Because we know that when AI gets it wrong, you’re stuck with more work. If AI isn’t living up to its promise with other tools, check out Conveyor at www.conveyor.com
US DOJ opens investigation into Coinbase's recent cyberattack Dutch government passes law to criminalize cyber-espionage Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor What if your sales team could answer security questions themselves—without blowing up your Slack or email every 10 minutes? With Conveyor, they can. Conveyor is the trust center and security questionnaire automation tool your infosec friends love to use. Whether through Slack or the Conveyor app, sales and presales teams can easily get AI-generated answers to any customer security question, with your pre-set rules and reviews in place. Free up your team and keep deals moving at www.conveyor.com
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Legal Aid breached, patients at risk from cyberattacks, 23andMe buyer
UK’s Legal Aid Agency breached NHS patients put at risk from cyberattacks 23andMe has a buyer Huge thanks to our sponsor, Conveyor Ever spent an hour in a clunky portal questionnaire with UI from 1999 just to lose your work because it timed out? Conveyor’s got you. Our browser extension completes questionnaires in the most tedious portals for you by auto-importing all the questions and generating AI answers. For popular portals, it can go full autopilot and fill in reviewed answers into the portal on one click. You shouldn’t have to fight a portal just to prove your security posture. Learn more at www.conveyor.com.