Security News Update for February 12th, 2023
This week’s update includes:
- Amazon to (finally) block public access to S3 buckets by default – but only for new buckets
- Potential side effect of ban on TikTok by government/corporate entities
- VMWare ESXi under new attack, says CISA: prevents recovery
- NIST announces standard for IoT encryption and hashing
- Google rolls out Bard to compete with Microsoft’s $10 billion investment in ChatGPT
- One more time – multiple new security flaws in OpenSSL
- In honor of Valentine’s Day
- Irish University hit by ransomware, closes campuses
- Online grocery service, Weee! hacked, leaks 1 million+ accounts
- Regal Medical Group ransomware exposes patient data of 3.3 million
- Is your website breaking the law?
- Almost 80% fear software stack breach
- Do your employees’ phones support emergency alerts
- Security news bites for the week ending February 10th, 2023: If you think the Chinese balloon incident is a major wake-up call… European police hack encrypted messaging app, arrest dozens. Auto dealers are prime targets for hackers. Hackers are going old school and in the AI wars, google loses $100 billion in valuation while users flock to Microsoft.