Welcome to IT Pro's News in Review, a weekly bite-sized bulletin of the top tech stories of the week, for the week ending 22 April, 2022.
This week's stories:
- Millions of Lenovo laptops thought to be vulnerable to newly discovered UEFI malware attacks
- EE reaches new aggregated 5G speed milestone
- Okta concludes investigation into alleged LAPSUS$ security breach
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Bigger salaries, more burnout: Is the CISO role in crisis?In-depth CISOs are more stressed than ever before – but why is this and what can be done?
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Cheap cyber crime kits can be bought on the dark web for less than $25News Research from NordVPN shows phishing kits are now widely available on the dark web and via messaging apps like Telegram, and are often selling for less than $25.
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Amazon confirms employee data compromised amid 2023 MOVEit breach claims – but the hacker behind the leak says a host of other big tech names are also implicatedNews Millions of records stolen during the 2023 MOVEit data breach have been leaked
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Nearly 70 software vendors sign up to CISA’s cyber resilience programNews Major software manufacturers pledge to a voluntary framework aimed at boosting cyber resilience of customers across the US
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Lenovo patches ThinkPad, Yoga, IdeaPad UEFI secure boot vulnerabilityNews Mistakenly used drivers could allow hackers to modify the secure boot process
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Lenovo ThinkPads vulnerable to privilege escalation exploit, researchers warnNews A component running on the popular business computers is vulnerable to a chained exploit that grants full access to attackers
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Lenovo banned from installing bloatware on its laptops after SuperfishNews Lenovo also agrees to FTC security audits, on top of a $3.5 million fine
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Lenovo makes security blunder with 12345678 passwordNews Lenovo's file-sharing app had three other security flaws too, researchers find
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Facebook warns of new Superfish threatNews The fake security certificate used by the Lenovo-installed adware can be re-used by hackers, says social network
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High Court instructs ISPs to block counterfeit sitesNews Virgin Media, BT, EE, BSkyB and TalkTalk have all been directed to block access to the sites selling fake goods
