Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
Social Media Firm Says Fraudsters Executed Their Cryptocurrency Scam Within a Day The hackers who hijacked 130 high-profile Twitter accounts as part of a cryptocurrency scam earlier this month used a telephone-based spear-phishing attack to obtain employee credentials, the social media company says.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 31, 2020
Bitcoin payments and IP addresses led investigators to two of the alleged perpetrators in just over two weeks.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
More Devices Affected by 'Ripple20' Vulnerabilities Federal regulators have issued another round of security alerts about vulnerabilities in medical device products from several manufacturers, including an update on those affected by so-called "Ripple-20" flaws earlier identified in the Treck TCP/IP stack.
Threatpost
JULY 31, 2020
Three have been charged in alleged connection with the recent high-profile Twitter hack - including a 17-year-old teen from Florida who is the reported "mastermind" behind the attack.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
Operating System Vendors Rushing Out Patches A vulnerability that can impede the boot-loading process of an operating system could potentially affect billions of Linux and Windows machines, according to Eclypsium. The flaw, called "BootHole," could enable an attacker to gain near total control of an infected device.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
Florida Teen, 2 Others Charged in Connection With Compromising 130 Accounts A Florida teenager was arrested and two others were charged in connection with hacking 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to pull off a cryptocurrency scam, prosecutors say.
Record Nations
JULY 31, 2020
Among all the various methods and formats, tape backups stand alone as one of the most cost-efficient and long-lasting options for backing up data. Learn more in this video or the transcript below about what a backup tape rotation and vaulting scheme is, its benefits, the different kinds of tape, and most importantly the individual […]. The post The Guide to Backup Tape Rotation and Vaulting Schemes appeared first on Record Nations.
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
Software Vendor 'Normalizes Hacking,' Fails to Account for Notification Delay How many different shades of bizarre is the data breach notification issued by software vendor Blackbaud? Over the course of three paragraphs, Blackbaud normalizes hacking, congratulates its amazing cybersecurity team, and says it cares so much for its customers that it paid a ransom to attackers.
PerezBox
JULY 31, 2020
Content filtering is one of the most under utilized tools in creating safe browsing experiences. A few years back, while on one of our many walks around the office, Daniel. Read More. The post Content Filtering with CleanBrowsing appeared first on PerezBox.
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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
JULY 31, 2020
Attacks Target Government Agencies and a Variety of Others The FBI is warning that attacks using a ransomware variant called Netwalker have increased since June, targeting government organizations, educational entities, healthcare firms and private companies in the U.S. and elsewhere. Phishing campaigns spreading the malware are using COVID-19 themes as a lure.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 31, 2020
On July 27, 2020, the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC”) designated the Industry Traceback Group (“ITG”) as the FCC’s official consortium for coordinating efforts to trace illegal robocalls. The ITG is a collaboration of wireline, wireless, VoIP and cable industry companies, led by USTelecom, with the mission of tracing and identifying the source of illegal robocalls.
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the hacking of Dave, a mobile banking app. Plus: Sizing up the impact of GDPR after two years of enforcement and an assessment of IIoT vulnerabilities.
Security Affairs
JULY 31, 2020
For the first-ever time, the EU has imposed economical sanctions on Russia, China, and North Korea following cyber-attacks aimed at the EU and its member states. The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on a Russia-linked military espionage unit, as well as companies operating for Chinese and North Korean threat actors that launched cyber-attacks against the EU and its member states.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Dark Reading
JULY 31, 2020
The attack earlier this month started with a spear-phishing attack targeting Twitter employees, the company says in a new update.
Security Affairs
JULY 31, 2020
Red Hat is warning customers to not install the package updates released to address the BootHole vulnerability due to possible problems reported by the users. This week, firmware security company Eclypsium reported that billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader issue (CVE-2020-10713), dubbed BootHole , that can be exploited to install a stealthy malware.
Threatpost
JULY 31, 2020
Threatpost editors break down the top themes, speakers and sessions to look out for this year at Black Hat 2020 - from election security to remote work and the pandemic.
Security Affairs
JULY 31, 2020
Cisco addressed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) network management platform. Cisco addressed this week some critical and high-severity vulnerabilities impacting its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) network management platform. One of the most security issues is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3382.
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
JULY 31, 2020
A team of researchers from Georgia Tech find a new attack technique that targets properties in Node.js and plan to publicly release a tool that has already identified 13 new vulnerabilities.
Schneier on Security
JULY 31, 2020
Notice the copy of Data and Goliath just behind the head of Maine Senator Angus King. This demonstrates the importance of a vibrant color and a large font.
Dark Reading
JULY 31, 2020
A University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy initiative will build a database of cybersecurity volunteers.
Threatpost
JULY 31, 2020
Researchers uncovered a disinformation campaign aiming to discredit NATO via fake news content on compromised news websites.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Dark Reading
JULY 31, 2020
Three individuals aged 17, 19, and 22 have been charged for their alleged roles in the massive July 15 Twitter attack.
Threatpost
JULY 31, 2020
The corporate-travel leader has confirmed an attack that knocked systems offline.
Robert's Db2
JULY 31, 2020
Over the years, I have posted several entries to this blog that have covered various aspects of Db2 for z/OS high-performance DBATs (examples are entries posted in 2016 and 2013 ). Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working with a Db2 for z/OS administrator who is engaged in implementing high-performance DBAT functionality for the first time at his site.
Threatpost
JULY 31, 2020
The flaws have been confirmed by Grandstream, but no firmware update has yet been issued.
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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.
Dark Reading
JULY 31, 2020
Security teams can learn a lot from the current pandemic to make modern hybrid business networks stronger and more resilient. Here's how.
Troy Hunt
JULY 31, 2020
Unfortunately, our run of good luck here down in Aus has taken a bit of a turn COVID wise. Not so much in my home state, but the southern states have been copping it so this week, I pulled the pin on snowboarding. For folks overseas, that might sound like it would have been a risky proposition anyway, but only two and a half weeks ago the entire state of New South Wales had 5 active cases out of 8.1M people.
IG Guru
JULY 31, 2020
Check out the link to the article here. The post Gephardt: Protecting yourself from cybersecurity risks while working from home via KSL.com appeared first on IG GURU.
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