February 27, 2022
- Sextortion is on the Rise Again
- FBI Guide on Lessening Digital Exhaust
- Watchguard Issues Patch for Cyclops Blink Vulnerability
- FCC Proposes Largest Ever Fine for Robocalling – $45 Million
- Does Your Identity Theft Protection Policy Cover Theft of Cryptocurrency Assets?
- Getting Your SOC 2 as a SaaS Company
- 7 Steps to Prepare for Russian Cyberattacks
- Freight Forwarder Expeditors Shuts Down Global Operations After Ransomware
- Axis Camera Giant Still Recovering from Cyber Attack
- Cookware Giant Meyer Says Cyberattack Included Stealing Employee Data
Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 25th, 2022
The security news for the week ending February 25th is: (a) scammers figure out how to fake out
facial biometrics, (b) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the IT industry, (c) Anonymous
declares cyberwar on Russia, (d) and then there is the other team and (e) Oracle gets to play
with the big boys – finally.
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February 20, 2022
- Beware When Superbowl Ads Use QR Codes
- While India Bans Chinese Apps due to Security, the U.S. …
- Hackers Planted Fake Digital Evidence on Devices Belonging to Activists
- CISA Releases List of Free Cybersecurity Tools and Services
- Google Chrome Enhanced Safe Browsing Mode
- Google Issues Emergency Chrome Patch for Active Zero Day
- Apparently Losing Your Investment Isn’t the Only Cryptocurrency Worry
- GiveSendGo Hacked – Donors to Canadian Truckers’ Convoy Leaked at DDoS Site
- Navy Engineer and Wife Sentences for Selling Nuclear Secrets to Another Country
- CaptureRX Considers Bankruptcy if Breach Settlement Not Approved
Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 18th, 2022
This week’s security news bites include (a) Missouri prosecutor wisely decides Governor is not
tech-smart, (b) new tool renders pixelating useless, (c) five Canadian banks’ online systems go
down at once, (d) dad takes down town’s Internet to stop his kids from using their phones at
night and (e) Russia continues to make token efforts to reduce cyberattacks.
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February 13, 2022
- Puma-Kronos Breach Continues Focus on Third Party Risk Management
- WSJ Reports that Two Months After Log4j, Developers are Still Downloading Thousands of Packages a Day Vulnerable to Attack
- Ford Will Shut Down or Cut Production at 8 North America Plants Due to Lack of Chips
- Apple Releases Patch for Active Zero-Day
- DoD Makes Another Right Turn on CMMC
- Meta (Facebook) Says it may be Forced to Shut Down Facebook and Instagram in EU
- Equifax Settles Yet Another Lawsuit from 2017 Breach for $425 Million
- Biden Continues Tough on China Policy
- State of Washington, Department of Licensing, Breached
- Vodaphone Portugal Struggles to Restore Service
- Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 11th, 2022 Here is the news for this week: (a) Google reduced account takeovers by 50% by mandating 2FA, (b) Attacks on crypto continue – $320 million in Ethereum stolen, (c) Apple says that it won’t do biz with companies that use conflict minerals, (d) French Data Protection Authority says Google Analytics violates GDPR, (e) Senators say CIA is collecting bulk data on US citizens and (f) Schools (and others) will pay more for cyber insurance. Read the details here.
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February 6, 2022
- FBI Purchased Pegasus Spyware; CIA Helped Djibouti Gov Get It
- Microsoft Continues to Enhance Edge Chromium Security
- Apparently, People Care About Privacy – Costing Facebook $10 Billion
- FCC Revokes China Unicom’s License to Operate in the US
- I Guess Kronos Was Not Really Recovered from Their Ransomware
- How to Prepare Your School for a Cyberattack with Limited Resources
- Delta Electronics, Vendor for Apple, Tesla, HP and Dell, Hit by Cyberattack
- Qubit Finance Cybersecurity Strategy is Begging Hackers to Give Back the Money
- Unsecured AWS Server Exposed 3 TB of Airport Employee Records
- News Corp Hacked for Two Years by Chinese
- Are you prepared for the insider threat?
- Lithium battery fires threaten the existence of recycling
- DHS Cyber Safety Review Board gets its first case
- Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 4th, 2022: This week’s security news bites: (a) who is interested in attacking my little website, (b) CISA isgetting aggressive on patching flaws, (c ) NSO Group has an evil twin, (d) DoJ charges 6 Indiancall centers with scamming Americans and (e) stalkers are silencing Apple AirTags used to stalkvictims. Read the details here.
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