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Infosec bits for week 29/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Monroe College hacked, $2 million in Bitcoin demanded as ransom [Rocco Parascandola (interesting name!) and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News ]
    - see also: Monroe College Hit With Ransomware, $2 Million Demanded – with interesting note that “The United States Conference of Mayors to make a non-binding agreement to not pay ransomware demands going forward”
  2. Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears [Cathrin Schaer, Zero Day]
    - see also: Increasing transparency and customer control over data
    - see also: Microsoft Office brings you new privacy controls
  3. British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breach [BBC News]
  4. HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide [Carlie Belmer, Null Sweep]
  5. GnuPG 2.2.17 released to mitigate attacks on keyservers [Werner Koch, GnuPG]
    - with ref from last week: SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack
  6. Samba Project tells us “What’s New” – SMBv1 Disabled by Default [Rob VandenBrink, SANS Internet Storm Center]
  7. How to securely erase the data off your iPhone or iPad, Android device, Windows PC, hard drives, SSDs, and flash drives [Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Zero Day]
  8. Adventures building a Self Driving RC Car [Rahul]
    - I know, not directly security-related but it’s cool (and we’re allowed to end our list with something a bit off-topic ;))