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Infosec bits for week 33/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Cyberattack forces Houston County schools to postpone opening day [Doug Olenick, Haymarket Media]
  2. Fraudster Brought Back from Kenya to Face Jail Time for Stealing Almost $750,000 from UCSD through a Spear Phishing Campaign [Alexandra F. Foster, US DOJ]
  3. A Campus Culture of Cybersecurity [Julianne Basinger, The Chronicle of Higher Education]
  4. Windows Defender Gets Perfect Scores in Antivirus Test [Nathaniel Mott, Tom’s Hardware]
  5. Apple halts practice of contractors listening in to users on Siri [Alex Hern, The Guardian]
    - see also: Google: More information about our processes to safeguard speech data
  6. I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Listening to Me (click on link to 29 July article) [Jacob Baines, Tenable TechBlog]
  7. Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V [Mohit Kumar, The Hacker News]
  8. Boffins hacked Siemens Simatic S7, most secure controllers in the industry [Pierluigi Paganini, SecurityAffairs]
  9. Extended Validation Certificates are (Really, Really) Dead [Troy Hunt]
  10. Clever Vanity License Plate Backfires On Man, Winds Up With Tons Of Tickets [Dave Basner, iHeartRadio]