Security News Update for January 26, 2025

This week’s news includes:

• Hunter Biden Laptop Data Available on Internet – with Additions and Modifications
• US Needs to Be More Aggressive in Countering Chinese Hacking
• CMMC Q&A
• What is the Future of TikTok
• Toronto School Board Says 40 Years of Student Data Compromised in PowerSchool Breach
• SonicWall SMA1000 AMC and CMC Users – Patch Now
• The Downside of Being Breached – Powerschool Faces 23 Lawsuits Seeking Class Status
• President Fires Cyber Safety Review Board
• Financial Institutions in EU Have New Cyber Rules Called DORA
• President Signs EO to Study Creating a Cryptocurrency Reserve
• Melania Launches memecoin, Tanks Trump’s – Crypto Bros Wondering What Gives
• Check Your DNS Settings
• Fintech ‘Willow Pays’ Breach Revealed Financial Information of 241,000
• Ongoing “Service Interruption” at Government Contractor Conduent Impacts Benefits
• Texas Investigates Insider Breach, Theft of Benefits Funds
• Hackers Steal 400 GB of Data from American Standard
• US Defense Contractor Stark Aerospace Hacked by INC Ransom Group
• Homeland security nominee (now secretary) bashes CISA, says it should be smaller, more nimble
• Patching is hard; procrastinating is dangerous
• AMD has a problem – and so may you
• Security News for the week ending January 24th, 2025: great AI tool with a large dose of Chinese propaganda and censorship, Chinese behind massive SMS spam scams, president pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, administration tells Democrats on intelligence oversight board to resign and the war against Meta in Europe continues

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