Major US Cyber Legislation, VMware Source Code Leak, and Hotmail Hacks
This week’s security news round-up video is full of scary Cyber legislation, major network and organization breaches, and a couple of important security updates. If you’re too busy to follow the barrage of security news every day, let WatchGuard’s Security Week in review video summarize it for you.
Would you rather read? No problem. You’ll find links to all these stories in the reference section.
By the way, this week’s stories continued to develop as I produced this episode. Unfortunately, I had to sneak in a quick video update about the CISPA bill during production. I won’t give it all away, but I can say CISPA is one step closer to reality. Watch below for details. (Episode Runtime: 6:54)
Direct YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZUKfEvZvY
Episode References:
- CISPA Stories
- CISPA threatens net freedom – Tech Watch
- Concerns about CISPA Bill – InfoWorld
- Whitehouse raises concerns over CISPA – Computer World
- UPDATE: CISPA Passes the House – PC World
- Breaches/Attacks
- NOIC Oil facility hit with computer worm – TechWorld
- VMware source code leak – Ars Technica
- VMware security note confirms leak – VMware
- Security Updates
- Firefox 12 fixes flaws, adds silent update – Computer World
- Hotmail password reset hack – ZDNET
- Hotmail password reset advisory with details – Vulnerability Lab