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Infosec bits for week 47/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Give Me Security, Give Me Convenience, or Give Me Both! [Joe Galanek, EDUCAUSE]
    - see also: Education before Regulation: Empowering Students to Question Their Data Privacy
  2. Ransomware forces New Mexico school district to scrub 30,000 devices [Colin Wood, Scoop News Group]
  3. Major ASP.NET hosting provider infected by ransomware [Catalin Cimpanu, Zero Day]
  4. Who Do You Believe? Conflicting Stories About Pemex Ransomware Attack Impacts [Bruce Sussman, SecureWorld / Seguro Group]
    - see also: Mexico’s Pemex Oil Suffers Ransomware Attack, $4.9 Million Demanded
  5. Google Enlists Outside Help to Clean Up Android’s Malware Mess [Lily Hay Newman, WIRED / Condé Nast]
    - see also: The App Defense Alliance: Bringing the security industry together to fight bad apps
  6. Microsoft vows to ‘honor’ California’s sweeping privacy law across entire US [Makena Kelly, The Verge / Vox Media]
  7. Amazon fixes Ring Video Doorbell wi-fi security vulnerability [Danny Palmer, Zero Day]
  8. Trend Micro hit with insider attack [Doug Olenick, SC Magazine / CyberRisk Alliance]
  9. Google: You can trust us with the medical data you didn’t know we already had [Updated] [Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica / Condé Nast]
  10. OUCH! Newsletter: Shopping Online Securely [Lenny Zeltser (guest editor), SANS Security Awareness]
  11. The Way America Votes Is Broken. In One Rural County, a Nonprofit Showed a Way Forward. [Jessica Huseman, ProPublica]