Security News Update for October 13, 2024
This week’s news includes:
- China’s ‘Salt Typhoon’ Attacks US Internet Providers
- Hackers Use Bugs in Adobe Commerce and Magento to Steal Payment Information
- Windows 11 24H2 Now Available
- Microsoft Previews Dynamic Privilege Escalation Feature
- Fortinet RCE Being Exploited
- Marriott to Pay $52 Million for Data Breach from 2018
- National Public Data, Data Broker Who Lost Data on 2.9 Billion, Files for Bankruptcy
- FBI Creates Crypto Sting by Creating its Own Token
- Just Because You Are Famous Does Not Mean You Know What You Are Doing
- Happy Birthday Mr. President (Putin) – Hacked Your State Run Media
- American Water, Largest Water/Wastewater Utility, Hacked
- What if the 3rd Party You Picked Was Breached and Didn’t Have the $ to Make You Whole
- Golf Tech Firm Loses Data on 32 Million
- US Likely to Sign Really Bad Cybercrime Treaty
- 13 States Sue TikTok for Being Addictive
- New York Forces Hospitals to Improve Cybersecurity
- Security News for the week ending October 11th, 2024: Microsoft confirms MMC bug being exploited – no patch, AT&T faces porch pirates, likely with inside information, hacker claims Star Health management involved in insurance data breach, cyber insurer says number of claims down, size of claims up and as companies use AI to filter job applicants, applicants use AI to apply to thousands of jobs.