Security News Update for January 19, 2025

This week’s news includes:

• TikTok goes dark
• Let’s Encrypt to Start Issuing “Short Lived” Certificates
• FBI Racing to Safeguard Identities of Confidential Informants After AT&T Breach in April
• Hackers Leaked Configs and VPN Credentials for 15,000 FortiGate Devices
• CMMC Q&A
• Fortinet Confirms New Zero-Day Being Exploited
• US Actually Arrests Russian Nationals for Running Crypto Mixers
• BitMEX Fined Another $100 Million for Ignoring US Securities Laws
• What Involvement Should the Board Have in Cyber Breach Response
• Over $2 Million Stolen by Fake Job Scammers
• Allstate Being Sued by Texas AG for Illegally Collecting and Selling Data on 45 Million
• Hackers Steal, Publish Data from D.C. Police Including Gang and HR Data
• The Consequences of allowing data brokers to sell your data
• Cybersecurity 2025  is no better than cybersecurity 20**
• Washington is very busy before January 20th
• Security News for the week ending January 17th, 2025: Is TikTok for sale? Maybe, are all US mail cluster boxes keyed the same, if you think China’s cybersecurity is better than ours – it is not, the Supremes killed TikTok and federal contractors need to take special actions regarding the TikTok ban

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