Security news update for September 18, 2022
This week’s news includes:
- Not a great week for Uber – lying about an old breach, investigating a new breach
- Major WFH/WFA risk to businesses – employees viewing pirated contents
- CISA warns of water tank management system attack
- FBI warns of risks of using unpatched medical devices
- It’s 10 PM, do you know where your passwords are?
- Microsoft stores Teams auth tokens in the clear, might patch it in the future
- US to step up semiconductor export restrictions
- Is the proposed national privacy law a good thing?
- Kentucky town knocked off the Internet due to cyberattack
- Texas Oakbend Medical Center struggling to come back online after two weeks
- The secret weapon in cyber litigation
- What does Apple’s elimination of iPhone SIM cards mean – the good and the bad
- White House issues cybersecurit guidelines for agencies and contractors
- Security News Bites for the week ending September 16th: One more time a vendor admits their hardware is buggy and they are not going to fix it. Google completes $5 billion purchase of Mandiant. Microsoft issues last warning about authentication changes. Mandiant says North Korea spreading trojanized versions of software and botched cyber attack turns into physical attack and lands the attacker in jail