Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Cybersecurity Officials Recommend Immediate Patching to Fix Serious Flaws Large enterprises, including government and educational organizations, are being warned to immediately update their WS_FTP Server, built by Progress Software, to fix serious flaws being actively exploited by attackers. Secure file-transfer software remains a top target, especially by extortionists.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Many organizations — including quite a few Fortune 500 firms — have exposed web links that allow anyone to initiate a Zoom video conference meeting as a valid employee. These company-specific Zoom links, which include a permanent user ID number and an embedded passcode, can work indefinitely and expose an organization’s employees, customers or partners to phishing and other social engineering attacks.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
MSSP, MDR Provider Lost Nearly 75% of Value During 8+ Years of Singtel Ownership The private equity arm of ex-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's advisory firm agreed to purchase managed detection and response vendor Trustwave for $205 million. The deal will allow Singtel to refocus its business in APAC and boost shareholder value by optimizing resource allocation.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Surrounded by the invisible hum of electromagnetic energy, we’ve harnessed its power to fuel our technological marvels for decades. Related: MSFT CEO calls for regulating facial recognition tech Tesla’s visionary insights from 1900 hinted at the potential, and today, we bask in the glow of interconnected networks supporting our digital lives.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Continued Operation of 3 Connecticut Hospitals Now in Question An August cyberattack on a national hospital chain may make medical care in underserved areas of Connecticut even harder to obtain now that a would-be buyer said it's having second thoughts about going through with the deal. The Rhysida group claimed responsibility for an attack on Prospect Medical.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
LIBE Committee Chair Seeks Clarifications from EU Home Affairs Minister The head of a key European Parliament committee said he's concerned about media reports suggesting that a proposal mandating that instant messenger apps scan for CSAM was crafted under the influence of an American tech foundation and a non-profit with ties the British and U.S. government.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Once they compromise an victim with an initial ransomware attack, threat actors are ready to deploy a secondary attack with a different strain, which could leave even more damage.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Expert: Maximum Severity Vulnerability Demands Immediate Patching Progress Software is again sending customers on a scramble to install emergency patches, this time for its secure FTP server software. The advisory comes months after hackers took advantage of a zero day in the company's MOVEit file transfer software in a hacking campaign affecting tens of millions.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. Threat actors stole a database containing the list of users of the portal of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ). The European Telecommunications Standards Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization based in Europe.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Lazarus Group's "LightlessCan" malware executes multiple native Windows commands within the RAT itself, making detection significantly harder, security vendor says.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Experts warn of threat actors actively exploiting CVE-2023-40044 flaw in recently disclosed flaw in Progress Software’s WS_FTP products. Progress Software recently warned customers to address a critical severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-40044 (CVSS score 10), in its WS_FTP Server software which is used by thousands of IT teams worldwide.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
PCI DSS v4.0 is the future of the payment card industry's information security standard, but businesses must continue to look beyond this guidance and engage in proactive strategies of their own.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A recent attack on an undisclosed Spanish aerospace company all started with messages to the company's employees that appeared to be coming from Meta recruiters, via LinkedIn Messaging. ESET researchers uncovered the attack and attributed it to the Lazarus group, particularly a campaign dubbed Operation DreamJob. This campaign by the Lazarus group was aimed at defense and aerospace companies with the goal of carrying out cyberespionage.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
Data Protection Report
OCTOBER 2, 2023
We have published an article, EU: An overview of the European digital strategy, explaining the aims and key components of the EU digital strategy, outlining at a high-level key legislation that has been published in this space in the past three years and highlighting the way in which the various legislative instruments interact with each other and with European data privacy rules.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The National Logistics Portal (NLP), a newly launched platform to manage all port operations in India, left public access to sensitive data, posing the risk of a potential takeover by threat actors. On September 24th, researchers discovered that the NLP platform was exposing sensitive credentials, secrets, and encryption keys via publicly available JS files.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 2, 2023
DomainTools is tracking an increase in SMS phishing (or “smishing”) campaigns impersonating the US Postal Service (USPS). The text messages inform recipients that there’s a problem with their delivery address and they need to click on a link to resolve the issue.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Norway wants to permanently ban the owner of Facebook and Instagram from collecting sensitive user data across Europe, saying its current policies violate GDPR rules.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The NSA is starting a new artificial intelligence security center: The AI security center’s establishment follows an NSA study that identified securing AI models from theft and sabotage as a major national security challenge, especially as generative AI technologies emerge with immense transformative potential for both good and evil. Nakasone said it would become “NSA’s focal point for leveraging foreign intelligence insights, contributing to the development of best practices g
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.
CILIP
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Know your rights in the rising tide of budget cuts CILIP is offering public librarians a free step-by-step guide to challenging cuts and service reductions in your public libraries. Libraries are at the frontline of providing vital services to communities, and as a result, are often in the first line of fire when it comes to cuts. Shortly after announcing special measures on Birmingham Council, last month, libraries along with other essential council services were put under review.
IBM Big Data Hub
OCTOBER 2, 2023
As a healthcare activist, a mom to a fertility preservation miracle, a business owner and a cancer survivor, Alice Crisci has dedicated her life to ending the spread of health misinformation. She founded MedAnswers and its telemedicine spinout, Ovum Health , with the hopes of providing increased access to family-building solutions like pre-pregnancy, prenatal and postnatal healthcare.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The royal takedown was a brief but effective PR stunt for Russia's most notorious hacktivist group.
IBM Big Data Hub
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) including large language models (LLMs) has inspired organizations in every industry to consider how AI can drive innovation. Leaders are increasingly recognizing the power of AI as well as its potential limitations and risks. It’s critical that leaders think carefully about how AI is created and applied and take a human-centric, principled approach to each use case.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The rapid growth of APIs creates a widening attack surface and increasing unknown cybersecurity risks.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Victims of the MOVEit breach continue to come forward. But the full scale of the attack is still unknown.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
The Menorah malware can upload and download files, as well as execute shell commands.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Supply chain visibility is crucial for retailers dealing with the twin challenges of volatile demand and spiraling costs. Disruption is the new watchword as retailers have seen customer demand increase (46%). At the same time, demand has become less predictable (31%). At the other end of the retail supply chain, suppliers are more expensive (53%) … The post Greater visibility key to managing the modern retail supply chain appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Demand for digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) surges in the Middle East, a new IDC report finds. Is automation the answer?
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