Risks Digest 30.29

Saturday, 13th May 2017

• Fiat Chrysler Recalls 1.2 Million Ram Pickups Over Faulty Software
• Today's Massive Ransomware Attack Was Mostly Preventable—Here's How To Avoid It
• Dozens of countries hit by huge cyberextortion attack
• A British researcher says he found a kill switch for the malware crippling computers worldwide
• Hackers Use Tool Taken from NSA in Global Attack
• Indicators Associated With WannaCry Ransomware
• WARNING: Antivirus sites may be helping to SPREAD the current global malware ransomware WannaCry attack!
• Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26,000 So Far
• The Joy of Tech comic: The Internet of ransomware things!
• Vehicle lien recorded in name of cartoon characters
• Cochrane Report on IHealth EHR: Lessons for engaging users to provide QA feedback
• Microsoft patches Windows XP to fight ‘WannaCrypt’ attacks
• Malware and The Cloud
• “How the Macron campaign slowed cyberattackers”
• Counter intelligence in the French elections - this changes cybersecurity forever.
• Facebook takes to newspapers to teach UK users how to spot "fake news"
• “HP computer owners: Check for the MicTray Conexant keylogger”
• MUST READ "Open MIC" report: Corporate responsibility in an age of alternative facts—with emphasis on Facebook and Google
• China Is on Track to Fully Phase Out Cash
• Sony PlayStation leads to the arrest of 15 member gang
• UK Telecomms Service Stopped by Bureaucracy
• Crash with Impact
• NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet
• Confidential patient data breach at NYC's Bronx Leb Hospital
• Security Alert from Intel concerning Business-grade Processors with detection tool— followup
• “Supply chain attack on HandBrake video converter app hits Mac users”
• The FCC says an attack—not John Oliver—hampered its website
• U.S. military cyber operation to attack ISIS last year sparked heated debate over alerting allies
• Re: Someone hacked every tornado siren in Dallas. It was loud.
• Progress To Date on Deepwater Horizon
• Re: The Lost Picture Show
• Re: Man gets fined for discovering an engineering flaw
• Re: Senseless Government Rules Could Cripple the Robo-Car Revolution
• Re: Bobby Tables and electoral fraud