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This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with guests Davi Ottenheimer, vp, digital trust and ethics, Inrupt, and Rob Teel, Field CTO, GigaOm

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Australia warns of BADCANDY attacks exploiting Cisco IOS XE

Chinese hackers exploiting Cisco ASA firewalls used by governments worldwide

OpenAI's Aardvark GPT-5 agent finds and fixes code flaws automatically

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AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs

Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Thunderbird could allow for arbitrary code execution

Bitcoin Depot breach exposes data of nearly 27,000 crypto users, More than $40 million stolen from GMX crypto platform

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FBI uncovers Chinese and Huawei misdeeds

5.4 million Twitter accounts available for sale

Microsoft warns that new Windows updates may break printing

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This week's Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, June 6-10, is hosted by Rich Stroffolino with our guest, Renee Guttmann, Former CISO, Campbell Soup, Coca Cola, Time Warner

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Microsoft Teams outage also takes down Microsoft 365 services

Heatwave forced Google and Oracle to shut down in London

Hackers for hire: adversaries employ "cyber mercenaries"

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Microsoft cuts security jobs amidst weakening economy

Is your cute little Neopet leaking your personal data?

Russia disguises malware as Ukrainian app for hacking Russia

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Car GPS tracker exposes location data

Russian malware groups spoof pro-Ukraine apps

MacOS backdoor speaks to the cloud

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Albania hit with cyberattack

Vendors not patching for speculative execution

DARPA looks into open-source

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