Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of December 19, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of December 19th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories. NIST Recommends upgrading from SHA-1 The SHA-1 algorithm has reached the end of its usefulness, according to security experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , and is being put out to pasture. NIST now recommends that IT professionals replace all existing instances of…