Security News Update for August 14, 2022
This week’s security news includes:
- Epic Intel chip bug
- Google suffers global outage of some services after data center explosion
- Microsoft patches Windows Diagnostics plus several zero days
- Crypto mixer Tornado Cash sent to the showers
- If you plan to hack big, you should be in a country without extradition
- This was an education for one person
- Colosseum Dental hit by cyberattack; 120 offices closed
- Aetna reveals third party vendor ransomware affects 300,000 policy holders
- U.K.’s NHS hit by cyberattack, may take a month to recover
- There is a lesson here for someone
- Denver area colleges closed due to doxing
- Businesses are amazed that people don’t want to be targeted with ads
- Security news bites for the week ending August 12th, 2022: Windows 11 may damage data on some CPUs. Facebook turned over chat messages between mom and daughter now charged over abortion. Professional hacking company Cellebrite hacked, 4 TB of data published. 12 years after Stuxnet, critical infrastructure is still vulnerable. Ouch! 25% of employees don’t care enough to report an incident.