August 28, 2022
- Early Draft of California Privacy Regulations
- Federal Privacy Legislation
- Oracle Sued Over Privacy Violations
- Colorado’s Mesa County Election Deputy Pleads Guilty to Tampering, Agrees to Testify Against Her Boss, Tina Peters
- North Korean Hackers Try to Fool Security Researchers- Here is How
- Hackers Stole $1.2 Billion From Acala’s Liquidity Pool Crashing the Crypto
- India’s Federal Police and Banking Records Exposed
- California FInes Sephora $1.2 Million for Privacy Violations
- Liberty Counsel Breach Just Got Bigger
Security News Bites for the Week Ending August 26th, 2022
This week’s security news: Mozilla says 18 of 25 pregnancy apps tested-privacy not included.
NSO Group CEO resigns, NSO lays off 100. Israeli phone hacking firm shared client data with
Japan without telling clients. City of Portland gave hacker $1.4 million in oopsy. Researchers
discover 8-year-old vulnerability in Linux kernel.
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August 21, 2022
- Epic Intel Chip Bug Meet SQUIP AMD Chip Bug
- Update on UEFI Secure Boot Bypass Bug – Much Bigger Than Thought
- Microsoft Fixes Some UEFI Bootloader Vulnerabilities
- Apple Patches Fifth Zero-Day so far This Year
- Chrome Keeps Up With Apple – Also Patches Fifth Zero-Day of the Year
- Cisco Enterprise Firewall Patches
- After Feds Sanction Tornado Cash Crypto Mixer, Arrest Developer
- Assange Lawyers Sue CIA for Spying on Them
- Tips for Students Going Back to School
- Security by Design – A Great Example
- Cisco Confirms Successful Cyberattack but Attackers Could Not do Much Damage
- Chinese VPN Provider Exposes 5.7 BILLION Entries
- I Can’t Believe We Hacked the Wrong Company
Security News Bites for the Week Ending August 19th, 2022
This week’s security news” Defcon hacker hacks Deere tractor to play Doom. Monero develops
fork code to make it more private. Researchers lock and unlock doors remotely – not ones they
own. Crooks hack consumers’ brokerage accounts in pump ‘n’ dump schemes and 59% of
those surveyed plan on government bailout in case of cyberattacks. Read the details here.
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proceed, please contact us.
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August 12, 2022
- Google Suffers Global Outage of Some Services After Data Center Explosion
- Microsoft Patches Windows Diagnostics Plus Several Zero Days
- Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Sent to the Showers
- If You Plan to Hack Big, You Should Be in a Country Without Extradition
- This Was an Education for One Person
- Colosseum Dental Hit by Cyberattack; 120 Offices Closed
- Aetna Reveals Third Party Vendor Ransomware affects 300,000 policy holders
- U.K.’s NHS Hit by Cyberattack, May Take a Month to Recover
Security News Bites for the Week Ending August 12th, 2022
This week’s security news: Windows 11 may damage data on some CPUs. Facebook turned
over chat messages between mom and daughter now charged over abortion. Professional
hacking company Cellebrite hacked, 4 TB of data published. 12 years after Stuxnet, critical
infrastructure is still vulnerable. Ouch! 25% of employees don’t care enough to report an
incident. Read the details here.
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proceed, please contact us.
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August 5, 2022
- Reminder: New FTC Safeguards Rule Goes Into Effect in Less Than 6 Months
- One NIST Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Cracked on a Single PC
- Slack forces Password Reset
- NIST Revises Compliance Guides for HIPAA Security Rule
- VMWare Urges Users to Patch Authentication Bypass Bug
- FDIC Issues Advisory on Insurance and Crypto
- Opendoor Agrees to Pay $62 Million Fine for Consumer Fraud
- Want to Learn More About NIST’s Password Recommendations?
- Nomad Crypto Bridge Loses $200 Million in Cyber Attack
- Neopets Hacked – 69 Million Accounts Compromised
- Indiana Neurology Practice Leaked Info on 360,000 Patients Due to Ransomware
Security News Bites for the Week Ending August 5th, 2022
This week’s security news: US emergency alert system has a ‘minor’ bug. Maker of smart locks
forgot to validate SSL (TLS) certificates. NY financial regulator (DFS) strikes again. Samsung
creates “nosy tech support mode” and T-Mobile and Security – those two words cannot be used
in the same sentence.
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