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As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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Daily Archives: May 20, 2022
The Onion on Google Map Surveillance
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“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.”
Excellent satire.
Greenland hit by cyber attack, finds its health service crippled
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For the past week and a half, Greenland’s health service has reportedly been struggling to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled its IT systems, causing long waiting times and forcing doctors to resort to using pen and paper instead of computers.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Canada bans Huawei, ZTE in 5G networks
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Ottawa government’s move follows similar bans in other English-speaking countries, citing potential security risks to 5G communications networks.
Defining “Reasonable” Security with a Risk Assessment Method
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Enterprises can use CIS RAM v2.1 for IG3 to demonstrate that a risk is reasonable upon experiencing a breach.
Pro-Russian Hackers Hit Critical Government Websites in Italy
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Hacker group Killnet has targeted approximately 50 Italian institutions, including the council of judiciary
Bank refuses to pay ransom to hackers, sends dick pics instead
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I’m not sure if it would be enough for me to switch bank accounts, but I have something of a sneaking respect for the Bank of Zambia…
CVE-2021-30028
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SOOTEWAY Wi-Fi Range Extender v1.5 was discovered to use default credentials (the admin password for the admin account) to access the TELNET service, allowing attackers to erase/read/write the firmware remotely.
DoJ: White Hat Hackers Will No Longer Face Prosecution
rubygem-git-1.3.0-2.el7
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FEDORA-EPEL-2022-d1317f7176
Packages in this update:
rubygem-git-1.3.0-2.el7
Update description:
Security fix for CVE-2022-25648