Security News Update for February 4, 2024
- This week’s news update includes:
- The New War – Ukraine Claims to Have Destroyed 280 Russian Servers and 2 Petabytes of Data
- FBI Warns of Tech Support and Other Scams Using in Person Couriers to Collect Money and Precious Metals
- Midnight Blizzard is Not a New Dairy Queen Treat
- Fulton County, Georgia Suffers Power Outage and Cyber Attack
- Hyperverse Founder Sam Lee Charged with Defrauding Crypto Customers of $1 Billion+
- Meta Adds Protections for Children in Face of Being Sued by 42 AGs
- NY AG Goes After Citi for Failing Basic Protections of Consumers’ Accounts
- Insurance Broker Hacked – Compromises 1.5 Million Employees Data
- Blackbaud Settles with FTC Over Breach Affecting Millions
- Another Chicago Hospital Announces a Cyberattack
- Even Taylor Swift is victim of deep fake porn
- What is a software bill of materials anyway?
- OMB says President will veto Senate’s attempt to kill new cyber breach reporting rules
- Security News for the Week Ending February 2nd, 2024: Myanmar cyber crime bosses handed over to China, score one for the good guys as German police seize $2.1 billion in crypto, Apple patches VR googles even before they are released, score another one for the good guys – FBI recovers nearly $3 mil and everyone wants free money – especially hackers, but also taxpayers.