Clorox’s Chief Information Security Officer, Amy Bogac, has stepped down following a major cyberattack in August. This week, Israel also faced a surge in cyberattacks from BiBi malware. Meanwhile, the US FCC has proposed a Cybersecurity Program for Schools. The UK ICO warned shoppers about smart device security ahead of Black Friday. A pro-Palestine APT group launched a cyberespionage campaign. The FBI dismantled the IPStorm botnet, and VMware revealed an authentication bypass flaw in its Cloud Director appliances.
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Security firm ESET has found the first known example of a Linux UEFI bootkit, a type of malware that infects the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface.
