Security News Update for the Week Ending February 19th, 2023
This week’s news includes:
- Israeli security expert found to be manipulating elections worldwide
- IoT security flaws affect critical infrastructure
- NSA releases guidance on IPv6 Security
- Apple patches actively exploited zero-day in iOS and macOS
- CISA alerts on four zero-days for Windows and iOS
- As I said last week, just because it is useful to you does not mean it is legal
- Russian national with ties to Putin convicted in $90 million insider trading scheme
- Tom Brady and his ex- learned the hard way or cryptocurrency
- How to avoid gift card scams
- Oakland and Modesto California hit by ransomware attack at same time
- Israel’s premier technical university, Technion, hit by ransomware
- Largest Pepsi bottler in US hit by data breach
- Telecommunications companies are target of the day
- Deep fake revenge porn is both easy to get and impossible to stop
- Google trying to keep the money coming in
- Attacks on (critical) industrial infrastructure increase as defenders struggle
- Security news bites for the week ending February 17th, 2023: BlackCat leaks Irish University’s hacked data. Adversarial face recognition. Sanctioned crypto mixer Blender rises from the dead. Kia/Hyundai rolls out software updates as insurers refuse to insure their cars. Threema disputes claims of encryption flaw and EU parliament urges European Commission not to approve new US-EU privacy deal.