Security News for the Week Ending January 9th, 2022
This week’s security news includes:
- Son of Log4j rears its ugly head;
- Model warns women to check your belongings after being tracked by Apple AirTag;
- AMD releases new chip with Microsoft’s Pluton processor;
- New consumer protection laws in 2022;
- SonicWall is the most recent vendor to have Y2K22 bug;
- Over 1,200 man-in-the-middle toolkits available to bypass 2FA;
- Broward Health loses data on 1,357, 879 people to hackers;
- Illinois agency that oversees insurance company liquidation hacked for millions;
- FinalSite ransomware shuts down thousands of school websites;
- Albuquerque and other Bernalillo county systems down due to ransomware;
- Apple iOS in the doghouse again;
- Supply chain attacks are rampant;
- New attack exploits Microsoft software signing verification;
- Security news bites for this week including (a) Don’t copy-past commands from a web page, you can get hacked, (b) German chip factory fire could make shortage worse, (c ) CISA says manufacturing at increased threat during pandemic, (d) don’t get sucked into Instagram copyright infringement scams and (e ) cyberattack in space.