July 31, 2022
- Jury Delivers $7 Billion Verdict Against Charter Cable due to Bad Security Practices
- Spanish Radiation Sensor Hack Was an Inside Job
- Microsoft Resumes Blocking VBA Macros
- Uber Settles with Feds Over Lying About 2016 Breach
- Digital Exhaust Opt Out Guide, Version 3.0
- T-Mobile Will Pay $350 Mil + $150 Mil to Settle Breach Lawsuits
- Hackers Leak Data from Evangelical Organizations Who Supported Overturning Roe
Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 29th, 2022
This week’s security news: TSA updates cybersecurity guidelines for pipeline operators. How
long does it take for hackers to start scanning for vulnerabilities? Federal court database
breach much bigger than admitted. Ransomware attacks may be falling as victims stop paying.
Apple network traffic routed through Russia for 12 hours.
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July 22, 2022
- Did Russian Hackers Blow Up a Texas Gas Pipeline?
- Okta May Expose Passwords Unencrypted as Part of a Device to Device Sync
- Sonicwall Releases Emergency SQL Injection Patch
- CISA Says Patch Actively Exploited WINDOWS 11 Bug
- Oracle Releases 349 Patches This Week, Including 230 RCE Bugs
- Apple Ships Urgent Security Patches
- FCC “Asks” Mobile Carriers About Data Privacy Practices
- Romanian Malware Hosting Provider Extradited to the US
- NCUA Proposes Rule Keep Up With the Rest of the Financial Industry
- Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers
- Healthcare AR Vendor Hit by Ransomware; Affects 600+ Medical Providers
Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 22nd, 2022
This week’s security news: San Francisco cops want real-time access to private security
cameras for surveillance, if it is too good to be true, …, Interesting social engineering trick could
land victim in jail, implications of FCC’s proposed new broadband standard and EU has strict
privacy laws, well sometimes.
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July 15, 2022
- Can Your Firewall and/or Endpoint Protection Software See Into Encrypted Traffic
- Windows 8.1 Now Shows Full-Screen End of Support
- Honda Tries to Downplay Hacker Remote Unlock/Start on Some 2022 Cars
- Google Releases Emergency Chrome 103 Update for Actively Exploited Vulnerability
- Joshua Schulte: Guilty on All Charges
- FCC Looks to RaIse The Definition of Broadband
- Unknown Hacker Steals Data on 1 BILLION Chinese Citizens
- Healthcare AR Vendor Hit by Ransomware; Affects 600+ Medical Providers
- French Telecom Provider La Poste Mobile Hit By Ransomware Attack
Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 15th, 2022
This week’s security news: Experian users say their account has been hacked, was Hunter
Biden’s iCloud account was hacked, yet more UEFI firmware vulnerabilities, yet another Colorado
election official faces felony charges and Cruise’s robot car outages are jamming up San
Francisco.
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July 10, 2022
- Microsoft Rolls Back Office Macro Block
- A Different Type of Privacy Risk
- Google Releases Emergency Chrome 103 Update for Actively Exploited Vulnerability
- TikTok/ByteDance Dances Around User Data Privacy
- FBI Educational Tri-Folds
- Russian Space Research Institute Hacked
- Unemployment and Labor Websites Down in up to 40 States Due to Vendor Hack
- Publisher Macmillan Shuts Down Systems Due to Cyberattack
- Is This One Too Small to Report?
Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 10th, 2022
Here is the security news for this week: ZuoRAT hijacks SOHO routers, HackerOne bug bounty
service fires employee for stealing bugs and selling them, UK is trying to pass a law to detect
CSAM in encrypted content, FTC affirms the right to repair – your barbeque and what part of
cryptocurrency is risky don’t you understand.
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July 1, 2022
- OpenSSL 3 is Possibly a Bit Too Open
- NIST Releases Automated Secure Configuration Guidance for macOS
- Researchers Disclose 56 Vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Software
- Feds Fine E-Y $100 Million For Falsifying Audits, Cheating
- If You Have Teenagers, You Need to Watch This With Them
- Slovak Telecom Hit by Cyber Attack
- Breach Reveals Names, Addresses of Every Concealed Carry Holder in California
Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 1st, 2022
Here is the security news for this week: Russia cyber attacks Lithuania after the government
refuses to let Russian coal and steel trains through, China targets rare earth competitors, feds
working on national privacy law, even the Supreme Court isn’t immune to hackers and Walmart
is sued for turning a blind eye to money laundering.
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