Security News Update for the Week Ending December 18, 2022
This week’s news updates include:
- Cisco discloses high-severity IP phone bug including exploit code
- Microsoft suspends several third party developer accounts that signed malicious code
- GitHub rolls out secret scanning for all public repositories
- Apple wants to keep up with the cool kids – patches tenth zero-day of 2022
- Microsoft’s December update patches two zero-days, including one being exploited
- Utah and Alabama join other state governments in banning TikTok on gov computers
- SEC charges crew of social media influencers with $100 million fraud
- Six pillars of dev-sec-ops
- Rackspace continues to slog through recovery efforts
- Common Spirit Health releases update on cyber attack
- Another day, another Uber breach
- Former crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman arrested
- Researchers say Russians manipulating alt-right social media also
- Justice system can’t deal with AirTag stalking as class action filed
- Security news bites: Rackspace tells its 300,000 customers that the impact of ransomware was limited due to their great incident response (not?), Twitter dissolved trust and safety council, free speech is good – sort of, Microsoft to disable Internet Explorer in February and TikTok could be banned by new bill.