News for the week of 2024-03-25

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Cyberattack targeting Apple iPhones, iPads, iWatches…

If you see multiple notifications about resetting your password when you weren’t trying to reset your password, do not touch them. Find some other channel to contact Apple support. Even if you correctly press “don’t allow” over and over, all it takes is one slip to press “allow” and lose your account.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/

 

Heads up for anyone in hurricane country: Florida, Louisiana, east Texas. This could be a very bad year for hurricanes.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/explosive-atlantic-hurricane-season-predicted-for-2024-accuweather-experts-warn/1633944

 

65 million current and former AT&T customers just had their passwords posted online, as well as name, address, phone, DOB, and SSN. Data is from 2019, so change your password if you’ve had the same password since then. Not much you can do about the other data lost unfortunately.

AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online

 

Close call on Linux cybersecurity this weekend. Someone spent years compromising Linux cybersecurity so that they could remotely break into any Linux server. The bad software made it into development/unstable releases of major Linux distributions this March and was discovered on Friday Mar 29. Anyone running these versions needs to update immediately and consider the possibility that someone has already broken in.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/