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Victim companies have a combined revenue of around $550m

Club of rich countries wants to improve cross-border data flows

Insider was bribed by the Middle East kingdom

Excessive workload is the most common contributing factor

The company confirmed the data does not include any credit card information

There are these.

Squid is performing a concert in London in February.

If you don’t know what their music is like, try this or this or this.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

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The most recent iPhone update—to version 16.1.2—patches a zero-day vulnerability that “may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.1.”

News:

Apple said security researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which investigates nation state-backed spyware, hacking and cyberattacks, discovered and reported the WebKit bug.

WebKit bugs are often exploited when a person visits a malicious domain in their browser (or via the in-app browser). It’s not uncommon for bad actors to find vulnerabilities that target WebKit as a way to break into the device’s operating system and the user’s private data. WebKit bugs can be “chained” to other vulnerabilities to break through multiple layers of a device’s defenses.

Improper network slice management may enable attackers to access data from different network slices

The bill still needs to receive approval from the US House of Representatives