Security News Update for the Week Ending July 9, 2023
This week’s news includes:
- California court delays enforcement date of VPRA but not effective date
- Cryptocurrency exchange Bianance is the next crypto-domino to fall
- Clash of the titans – Zuck’s Threads vs. Elon’s Twitter
- Unpatched WordPress sites using Ultimate Member plugin at risk of hacker creating secret accounts
- Hundres of thousands of Fortinet firewalls remain unpatched
- Google changes privacy policy – such as it is
- False Claims Act used against mortgage company – whistle blower gets $4 Mil
- Sweden tells companies to stop using Google Analytics
- Another lawsuit filed over MOVEit breach
- More states are requiring age verification for access to adult sites
- Poly Network, a crypto bridge, exploited again – this should be no surprise
- Taiwan Semiconductor blames third party for breach and $70 million ransom demand
- CISA has a new program to tighten ICS security
- TSA wants to expand use of facial recognition to hundreds of airports
- Oregon appeals court strikes down secret recording ban
- Security News bits for the week: Twitter limits the number of Tweets you can see per day, Microsoft and OpenAI being sued for $3 billion over scraping, MOVEit victims now exceed 16 million and counting, GPS company hit with product liability lawsuit over role in murder and when did you last patch your solar panels