Security News Update for August 21, 2022
This week’s security news includes:
- Epic Intel Chip Bug meet SQUIP AMD chip bug
- Update on UEFI secure boot bypass bug – much bigger than thought
- iOS 16 Lockdown Mode
- Microsoft fixes some EUFI bootloader vulnerabilities
- Apple patches fifth zero-day so far this year
- Chrome keeps up with Apple – also patches fifth zero-day of the year
- Cisco enterprise firewall patches
- After feds sanction Tornado cash crypto mixer, arrest developer
- Assange lawyers sue CIA for spying on them
- Tips for students going back to school
- Security by design – a great example
- Cisco confirms successful cyberattack but attackers could not do much damage
- Chinese VPN providers exposes 5.7 billion entries
- I can’t believe we hacked the wrong company
- Sextortion victim fights back
- Containing a breach can backfire
- So you think no one would want to attack you
- Security news bites for the week ending August 19th, 2022: Defcon hacker hacks Deere tractor to play Doom. Monero develops fork code to make it more private. Researchers lock and unlock doors remotely – not ones they own. Crooks hack consumers’ brokerage accounts in pump ‘n’ dump schemes and 59% of those surveyed plan on government bailout in case of cyberattacks