Security News for the Week Ending February 6, 2022
This week’s items include:
- FBI and CIA purchased NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware
- Microsoft continues to enhance Edge Chromium security
- Facebook learns that people do care about their privacy and it will cost them $10 B this year
- FCC revokes China Unicom’s license to operate in the U.S.
- Kronos is still dealing with the effects of the ransomware attack
- Prepare your school for a cyber attack with limited resources
- Delta Electronics, vendor to Apple, Tesla and others hit by ransomware
- DeFi company Qubit is begging hackers to give back the $80 mil in crypto they stole
- Unsecured AWS storage leaks 3 terabytes of PII for security company Securitas
- News Corp, parent of WSJ, Dow Jones and others hit by two year long cyberattack
- Are you prepared for the insider threat?
- Lithium battery fires threaten the existence of recycling
- The Cyber Safety Review Board gets its first case (Log4j)
- News bites for this week: : (a) who is interested in attacking my little website, (b) CISA is getting aggressive on patching flaws, (c ) NSO Group has an evil twin, (d) DoJ charges 6 Indian call centers with scamming Americans and (e) stalkers are silencing Apple AirTags used to stalk victims