Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Fisher Price Chatter Special Edition Rather than children using their imagination to make a call with these toys – an adult, with little care for security added Bluetooth for that real call experience on the playschool toy. Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has privacy flaw • The Register
Chinese regulator pauses partnership with Alibaba – BBC News Alibaba Cloud in trouble with Beijing for Log4J annoucement • The Register I found this video on YouTube that has a good in-depth description of the Log4j problem. It will keep you up speed with all the acronyms, shells, code etc.
The Ellume – COVID-19 Home Test (ellumehealth.com) was tested and found to not be very secure. Worse compromised data was passed onto an agency vetting people entering into the USA depending on their COVID-19 status. Of course a Bluetooth-using home COVID test was cracked to fake results • The Register
Belgian defence ministry admits attackers accessed its computer network by exploiting Log4j vulnerability • The Register As if you needed reminding that if the Log4j vulnerability impacts you, you need to take action.
The Home Office is insisting that the Police National Computer was not compromised, via an attack on Dacoll (an MSP). Police National Computer not pwned by Clop ransomware crims • The Register
