--- title: Cyber Security Monthly News – April 2019 description: Coeo's monthly cyber security round-up. Security concerns have risen this month around the government’s controversial plan to allow Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. image: https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Old_Blog_Images/2017/05/Security_thumb.jpg --- [![](https://www.coeo.com/wp-content/themes/coeo/images/logo.svg)](https://blog.coeo.com/) +44 (0)20 3051 3595 | [info@coeo.com](mailto:info@coeo.com) | [Client portal login](https://my.coeo.com) # Cyber Security Monthly News – April 2019 # The Coeo Blog ![Roberto Marras](https://blog.coeo.com/hubfs/Profile%20photos/RobertoCircle.jpg) Security concerns have risen this month around the government’s controversial plan to allow Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which is accused of being a gateway for China to spy on Western nations, [build the UK's 5G network](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48032286). Former defence secretary Gavin Williamson, who was sacked for disclosing these plans, [denies the Huawei leak](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48129280).   ## **SQL Server Updates:** - [SQL Server 2019 Community Technology Preview 2.5 (CTP 2.5)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/sql-server-ver15-release-notes?view=sqlallproducts-allversions) – April 23, 2019 - [Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2014 SP3](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4491539/cumulative-update-3-for-sql-server-2014-sp3) – April 16, 2019 - [Cumulative Update 17 for SQL Server 2014 SP2](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4491540/cumulative-update-17-for-sql-server-2014-sp2) – April 16, 2019   ## **Windows Updates:** Over 30 critical security updates for Windows have been released in April 2019. [Click here to see the full list](https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/releasenotedetail/18306ed5-1019-e911-a98b-000d3a33a34d).   ## **In the News:** Facebook revealed that [millions of Instagram Users’ Passwords were stored in plain text](https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/instagram-password-plaintext.html) and [contacts from 1.5 million email accounts were collected without users’ permission](https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/facebook-email-database.html). Docker Hub, one of the largest cloud-based library of Docker container images, has suffered a data breach and asked users to reset passwords. [Find out more here](https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/docker-hub-data-breach.html). [See how](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/worlds-biggest-data-breach-just-tip-iceberg-dark-web-dangers/) organised hackers may use the so called ‘Collection #1’, a collection of 773 million records on a hacking forum, to prepare cyber-attacks. The UK’s cyber security agency won’t automatically share data breaches information with the country’s data privacy regulator. 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