Security News for the Week Ending May 29, 2022
This week’s security news includes:
- DHS/CISA Updates Emergency Directive 22-03 to add two new VMware bugs
- Broadcom announces plan to buy VMware
- Microsoft rolling out new security settings to millions of accounts
- Feds fine Twitter $150 million for privacy violations
- Spain vows to tighten control over their spy agencies
- Credit card skimmers are switching techniques to hide
- Chicago Public Schools throws Battelle under the school bus
- Canadian healthcare organization compromised data back to 1996
- Hacker leaks massive dump from XinJiang concentration camps
- Millions of MGM customer data dumped again – this time for free
- Two factor authentication is not security magic
- US sets up multi-agency anti-ransomware task force
- Most organizations don’t follow best backup practices
- Security news bites for the week ending May 27th, 2022: yet another Russian military asset catches fire, GM hit by credential stuffing attack, Quad nations pledge to collaborate more on cybersecurity, more ransomware move to extortion and CISA adds 75 more bugs to the actively exploited/must patch list