Weekly Cyber Security News 08/02/2024

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news.

While low probability of attack, this one obviously is hard to detect so worth looking at:

• Critical flaw in Shim bootloader impacts major Linux distros

And this one, wow, a nice hardware hack:

• Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

This one made me laugh, journalists not quite checking what they are told and thinking they have a scoop…

• No, 3 million electric toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack