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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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The Microsoft Exchange Attack Saga Continues

eSecurity Planet

While Microsoft released a series of security updates on March 2, in order to address the discovered vulnerabilities, they felt the need to simplify the mitigation process for their customers in order to attain herd immunity across the world. It is important to note that the simplified tool is not a replacement for the security updates.

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A Flurry of Recent Cybersecurity Activity from the Trump Administration

Data Matters

For example, in 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) partnered with Microsoft to disrupt more than 1,400 Citadel botnets. Products should be secured during all stages of the lifecycle ,” as it is too easy to assemble botnets when devices lack the ability for effective patching or “remain in service after vendor support ends.”.