Sans news bites for February 12, 2024

Fortinet has a bad week with a disclosure of a vulnerability, they also retracted their toothbrush story: Bank of America and the GAO get owned but we do have the B of A blogged, the FCC tells telecom companies they have 7 days to tell us of a breach if customers are affected and more.

Top of the news

Here are the two items that top of th news is covering.

  • Fortinet Ends Rough Week with Another Bug Disclosure
  • FCC: Telecoms Have Seven Days to Disclose Breaches

Forinet, you should be ashamed of yourselves, especially for that toothbrush story.

original blog post and followup blog post


The Rest of the news

Here is the rest of the news coming from the newsletter.

  • International Law Enforcement Operation Takes Aim at Warzone RAT
  • Planet Home Discloses More Details About Ransomware Attack
  • Ransomware Attack Disrupts Online Services at Romanian Hospitals
  • ExpressVPN Disables Split-Tunneling to Fix Unprotected DNS Request Issue
  • Package Repository Security Principles from CISA and OpenSSF
  • French Health Insurance Data Compromised
  • Third-Party Breaches Affect GAO, Bank of America

We covered the Bank of America

blog post

the Express VPN

blog post

and the huge Ransomware attack on Romania hospitals

blog post

right on our blog and linked here for convenience.

I loved the fact that B-of-A did not come clean and said nothing. It was the third party vendor that came clean. B-Of-A, you aught to be ashamed of yourselves, you need to do better.

Read the February 13, 2024                                                       Vol. 26, Num. 12 for complete details on these and the rest I didn’t comment on. Make it a great day!


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