Weekly Cyber Security News 11/08/2017

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. A number of surprising (possibly) biggish breaches this week. Each one just adds to the extra data out there for the bad guys…

• Big data breach unmasks Bloomberg chat room users Kevin Dugan reports

• Car lease companie’s poor cyber security exposed over 180,000 drivers DutchNews.nl reports

• Data Breach as Office 365 Admin Center Displays Usage Data from Other Tenants Tony Redmond reports

• Top Next-Gen Security Firm Leaking Terabytes of Customer Data From the this-can’t-be-good dept., Catalin Cimpanu reports

• Italian bank UniCredit admits data breaches affecting 400,000 customers Luke Irwin reports

 

The other stuff:

• Aadhaar e-kyc app had 88,000 downloads: Cyber police Rajiv Kalkod?reports

• Arrest Shines Light on Shadowy Community of Good, Bad Hackers

• FireEye Says Network Secure After Analyst Accounts Compromised

• Firefox Makes Adobe Flash Click-to-Activate by Default

• Microsoft to Ban WoSign, StartCom Certificates

• Not exactly the best-laid plan. Spoiler alert: so this probably wasn’t the best-planned crime

• UK government sets out tougher guidelines to protect smart cars from hackers Kylie MacLellan reports

• UK Introduces Data Protection Bill to Replace GDPR After Brexit

• Voting System Hacks Prompt Push for Paper-Based Voting

• WannaCry Hero Garners Security Industry Support Following Arrest

• British Malware Researcher Charged with Allegedly Creating the Kronos Banking Trojan

• Smoke Loader Backdoor Gets Anti-Analysis Improvements

• Spam Rate Hits Two-Year High

• One Million Exposed to Adware via Hijacked Chrome Extension

• Carbon Black Refutes Claims of Flaw in its EDR Product

• Microsoft Fixes 27 Remote Code Execution Flaws Microsoft issued patches for 48 vulnerabilities as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday update, 25 of which were ‘critical.’

• Microsoft Makes Third Attempt at Fixing Old Stuxnet Flaw

• Solar Panel Flaws Put Power Grids at Risk: