Security News Update for May 5, 2024
This week’s news includes:
- A new video blog on DoD’s DFARS 7012 class waiver
- Russia’s APT28 Exploiting Old, Unpatched Print Spooler Bug
- Block and Cash App Accused of Funding Terrorism
- Cost of Doing Business with the DoD
- Apple Does Not Always Remove Fake Apps
- Microsoft Confirms that April Update May Break VPN Connectivity
- One of Two Reasons People Buy Bitcoin
- Healthcare’s Version of Colonial Pipeline – The ChangeHealth Breach
- UnitedHealth Tells Senate They Have Now Implemented MFA Everywhere
- Belarus Secret Service Website Still Down Two Months After Being Hacked
- Kansas City’s Traffic/Weather Monitoring and Alerting System Down After Cyberattack
- Dropbox: Breach (Bad) and Breach Handling (Good)
- Cloud Vendors say “know your customer” rule is hard
- Guess what? You can’t trust cyber crooks
- US says Russia exploiting weak security at water, wastewater plants
- Security News for the Week Ending May 3rd, 2024: cyberattack ramifications: chain closes all stores to contain attack, deepfake of principal’s voice: AI frames principal, here is why ransomware attacks won’t go away: 91% of victims paid, Microsoft overhauls security – again and lawsuits against AI companies continue to grow