Some of the items we’ve covered before or just recently.
At the top of the list, is the new data privacy act which I questioned. I found the article and it sounds great, but will it get adopted? Here is my blog post on that.
Also later in the news, they covered the 340k folk whose socials and other pieces of info may have been pilfered.
Also within the news, Home Depot did confirm their breach, and my blog post is here on that as well.
I don’t know why they didn’t cover the parental application which exposed children’s info and how it could be used later in whatever attackers may want to use them for. That blog post is here.
Speaking of federal data This blog post was the first I saw on the issue so we’ll see how it goes.
The top of the news included:
- US Legislators Draft Nationwide Data Privacy Act
- Acuity Confirms Their GitHub Repositories Were Breached
- D-Link NAS Vulnerability Affects End-of-Life Devices
- Help Us Improve NewsBites (survey)
Here is the rest of the news.
- Optical Product Manufacturer Discloses Cybersecurity Incident
- German State Switches from Microsoft Windows to Linux
- Home Depot Data Breach Impacts Employees
- HHS Alert Warns of Healthcare Sector IT Help Desk Social Engineering Schemes
- Google V8 Sandbox Aims to Prevent Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities from Spreading
- NYC Payroll Website Not Available Outside of City Intranet
- US DoJ Data Exposed in Third-Party Breach
Read the entire news bites for April 9, 2024 with this link.
I love news bites, it covers items i may not see. So keep up the great work.
We’ll see you all again soon!
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