Microsoft flaws fuel global breaches.

Microsoft issues emergency updates for zero-day SharePoint flaws. Alaska Airlines resumes operations following an IT outage. The UK government reconsiders demands for Apple iCloud backdoors. A French Senate report raises concerns over digital sovereignty. Meta declines to sign the EU’s new voluntary AI code of practice. A new report claims last year’s CrowdStrike outage disrupted over 750 hospitals. The World Leaks extortion group has breached Dell’s Customer Solution Centers. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) issues a critical warning about two severe security flaws in Aruba Instant On Access Points. A single compromised password leads to a UK transport company’s demise. An AI assistant falls for fake metadata magic. 

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Selected Reading

Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say (The Washington Post)

Microsoft releases emergency patches for SharePoint RCE flaws exploited in attacks (Bleeping Computer)

Alaska Airlines requests all flights to be grounded: FAA (ABC News)

UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption (Financial Times)

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US’ (Brussels Signal)

Meta snubs the EU’s voluntary AI guidelines (The Verge)

At Least 750 US Hospitals Faced Disruptions During Last Year’s CrowdStrike Outage, Study Finds (WIRED)

Dell confirms breach of test lab platform by World Leaks extortion group (Bleeping Computer)

HPE warns of hardcoded passwords in Aruba access points (Bleeping Computer)

Weak password allowed hackers to sink a 158-year-old company (BBC News)

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