Security News Update for August 7, 2022
This week’s security news includes:
- New DRX Safeguards Rule goes into effect in less than 6 months
- One NIST post-quantum encryption candidate cracked on a single PC
- Slack forces password reset
- NIST revises compliance guide for HIPAA security rule
- VMWare urges customers to patch authentication bypass bug
- FDIC issues advisory on insurance and crypto
- Opendoor agrees to pay $62 million fine for consumer fraud
- Learn more about NIST’s password recommendations
- Nomad crypto bridge loses $200 million in cyber attack
- Neopets hacked – 69 million accounts compromised
- Indiana neurology practice hacked – leaks info on 360,000 patients
- All Writs Act lives
- Secure by design
- The CMMC conundrum
- Security news for the week ending August 5th, 2022: US emergency alert system has a ‘minor’ bug. Maker of smart locks forgot to validate SSL (TLS) certificates. NY financial regulator (DFS) strikes again. Samsung creates “nosy tech support mode” and T-Mobile and Security – those two words cannot be used in the same sentence.