February 16th, 2025
- Octogenarian Lawyers in Congress Forgot That Encryption Protects Their Communications Too
- Speaking of Encryption-Apple Eliminates Encrypted Backups in UK in Response to Back Door Demand
- Russian Hackers Tricking Users into Compromising Signal Encrypted Messaging
- US Minerals Company Loses $500k After Crooks Compromised Their Email System
- CMMC Q&A
- Autoruns Tool (Free from Microsoft)
- Argentina President Executes $100 Million+ Meme Coin Rug Pull
- Microsoft Patches Exploited Power Pages Vulnerability
- Judge Says Case Against UnitedHealthcare’s Use of AI to Deny Claims Can go Forward
- DoJ Continues Going After False Security Claims Using False Claims Act
- Hackers Steal A Record $1.4 BILLION From Crypto Exchange
- Newspaper Conglomerate Lee Enterprises Doesn’t Use the R Word in Cyberattack
- Coast Guard Hack Leads to Paycheck Delays, Takes HR Systems Offline
- Cayuga Medical Center Operations Disrupted by Cyberattack
- 1+ TB Data Leak Exposes Billions of IoT Records from Chinese Grow Light Company
- Virginia AG’s Office Hacked – Filing Documents On Paper Now
Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 21st, 2025
This week’s news bites include: is Russia reining in ransomware, Meta confirms project
Waterworth – global undersea cable, 80% of kids under 14 bypass social media platform
restrictions, Musk has to work on his chatbot Grok and Cisco says no zero-days used in largest
telecom attack (Salt Typhoon).
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February 16th, 2025
- As Feds Try to Sanction Huawei Into Submission, Revenue Grows 22 Percent
- Proposed Cyber Chief Has Little Cyber Expertise
- While the UK Tries to Force Apple to Create Back Door Apple Only Gave the UK 4 People’s Data Under Different Law
- CMMC Q&A
- Researchers Discovered Two New CPU Attacks in Apple iDevices
- Cisco Adds Elba and Giglio to its Products
- Fortinet Discloses Second Firewall Authentication Bypass Fixed in January Patches
- House Republicans Launch Group for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation
- Musk’s X Agrees to Pay Trump $10 Million to Settle Trump’s Lawsuit
- South Korea Sex Crime Hub Hacked, Data Leaked
- Lee Enterprises, National Newspaper Publisher Hit by Cyberattack
- zkLend Hacked for Around $9.5 Million
- 1+ TB Data Leak Exposes Billions of IoT Records from Chinese Grow Light Company
- Virginia AG’s Office Hacked – Filing Documents On Paper Now
Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 14th, 2025
This week’s news bites include: anyone can push updates to the DOGE.Gov website, VP calls
for less AI regulation at summit, Congress wants DNI to oppose UK’s order for Apple backdoor,
Trump trades Russian money launderer for Teacher and $100 million in crypto and President
nominates political operative with no cyber experience as national cyber director.
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While ransom payments are down last year, attacks are still going strong? People have
learned that paying the ransom doesn’t necessarily ensure a good outcome. The best
solution is to prevent the attack in the first place. If you need assistance, please contact
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Mitch@CyberCecurity.com
February 9th, 2025
- Sweden Releases Ship Suspected of Cable Sabotage
- Zyxel Won’t Patch Exploited Flaws in End of Life Routers
- CMMC Q&A
- CISA Releases Help for Protecting Against Active Shooters
- AMD Patches Microcode Bug That Asus Let Out of the Bag Weeks Ago
- Russian Cybercriminals Exploiting 7-Zip Flaw
- Netgear Urging Consumers to Patch Their WiFi Routers
- House Lawmakers Seek to Ban DeepSeek
- Pulling the Rug on Rug Pullers
- Coinbase Accused of Allowing More Than $300 Mil in Attacks Against Customers
Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 7th, 2025
This week’s news bites include: Musk aides with no government or cybersecurity expertise play
critical role at OPM, Chinese cyber crooks use SSH backdoor to compromise network devices
and networks, USPS halts, then resumes, accepting packages from China, SolarWinds has
been acquired by PE firm for $4.4 billion and UK Home Office not talking about Apple backdoor
allowing them to eavesdrop on Apple devices worldwide.
Read details here.
Work from Home or Work from Anywhere is convenient but when you are not in control
of your environment’s security, that is a problem – your problem. Need a plan for work
from home? Please contact us.
Mitch
www.CyberCecurity.com
www.TurnkeyCybersecurityAndPrivacySolutions.com
Mitch@CyberCecurity.com
February 2nd, 2025
- Subaru STARLINK Flaw Enabled Remote Tracking and Vehicle Control
- Sweden Seizes Cargo Ship After Another Undersea Cable Damaged
- CMMC Q&A
- NDAA Prohibited Manufacturers
- Android’s New Anti-Theft Setting
- Hackers Can Use GhostGPT to Write Malware for $50
- Magic Packet Attack Against Juniper Firewalls Creates Invisible Backdoor
- KuCoin Pleads Guilty to Violating Money Laundering Rules, Pays $300 Million
- States with Data Broker Laws are Going After Them
- Blockchain’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment Privacy Paradox
- Change Health Breach Victim Count Now Up To 190 Million
- The Gift (or Hack) That Keeps on Giving – The MOVEit Breach
- New York Blood Center Hit by Ransomware
Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 31st, 2025
This week’s news bites include: court rules FISA 702 surveillance of US resident
unconstitutional, president’s firing of intel oversight board could threaten EU-US data transfers,
Europe not messing around with ships sabotaging underwater cables, China hides attacks in
plain sight and OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of stealing IP.
Read details here.
Thinking about implementing a blockchain based database? This is not necessarily
good or bad, but you do need to understand what you are getting into – please contact us
if you need help.
Mitch
www.CyberCecurity.com
www.TurnkeyCybersecurityAndPrivacySolutions.com
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