Security News Update for December, 25, 2022
This week’s news includes:
- Godfather banking trojan is back, badder than ever
- Hacked Ring (Amazon) doorbel cams used to record police swatting of victims
- Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition to bar attorneys suing them
- Google rolls out beta for client side encryption for some customers
- Google releases vulnerability scanner for open source software developers
- NVidia patches 29 driver bugs that could lead to device takeover
- EU moves closer to deal with US on data transfer
- Biden signs post quantum cybersecurity bill into law
- Third party service provider attacks continue – Avem health partners
- Guardian newspaper hit by ransomware attack
- Knox College hit by ransomware attack
- 2023 NDAA has cybersecurity features
- Violating privacy and dark pattern rules can be very expensive
- FBI says: use ad blocker software
- Security news bites for this week: Chris Inglis is leaving the White House as cyber director, Rackspace says that email ransomware victims only represent 1% of their business, Infragard membership data on 80,000 for sale, Russians, American smuggle electronics, ammo from America to Russia and Congress passes bill to ban TikTok from Federal devices