Security News Update for July 20, 2025
This week’s news includes:
- After Getting Outed, Microsoft Says Stopped using Chinese Engineers to Support DoD
- CUI Q&A
- United Natural Foods (UNFI) Says Ransomware Cost Them $400 Million in Lost Sales Alone
- Cisco Wins Again – 3 “10”s in a Row
- DoD Gets $250 Million a Year to Improve Offensive Cyber in New Tax & Spend Bil
- Flaw in Windows Server 2025 Allows Hackers to Generate Passwords for Every Managed Service Account in an Active Directory Forest
- Are You Ready to Comply With the Colorado AI Act?
- Is AI a Silver Bullet for Software Developers?
- Louis Vuitton Breach Affects Customers in Multiple Countries
- Seychelles Commercial Bank Hacked, Gigabytes of Tax-Haven Personal Data Sold
- Maryland Dermatology and Virginia Imaging Practices Lose 3 Million Patient Records
- Profits Over Safety – American Rail Industry
- Google, Amazon, others make money from scummy “nudify” apps
- A billion here (in crypto theft), a billion there – after a while, it adds up
- Security News for the week ending July 18th, 2025: DOGE staffer leaked private xAI API key, reading terms of service – necessary but not fun, TikTok Global sues ByteDance for $58 billion over sale, China’s rare elements are hot stuff – hot as in stolen and Meta investors settle with Zuckerberg over $8 billion privacy lawsuit.
- Vendor Risk Management Should be High on Your Priority List