Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Researchers Find Unprotected Unitronics Devices Here's one reason why Iranian state hackers may have been able to target Israeli-made pressure-monitoring controllers used by American water systems: Nearly 150 of the controllers are exposed to the internet - and some still use the default password 1111.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Until earlier this week, the support website for networking equipment vendor Juniper Networks was exposing potentially sensitive information tied to customer products, including which devices customers bought, as well as each product’s warranty status, service contracts and serial numbers. Juniper said it has since fixed the problem, and that the inadvertent data exposure stemmed from a recent upgrade to its support portal.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
US, UK, South Korea and India Most Targeted for Election Interference, Experts Warn With over 1 billion people across more than 50 countries - including the U.S., the U.K. and India - due to hold elections this year, one open question remains: How can nations combat adversaries who attempt to influence elections or otherwise interfere via physical, cyber or operational means?
AIIM
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Artificial Intelligence is a key focus of AIIM's new strategy , which the AIIM Board of Directors debuted in January 2024. So it's only fitting that AI take the lead at the AIIM Conference 2024 in San Antonio, Texas, April 3-5.
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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
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
UK AI Safety Institute Says LLMs Can't Give Novice Hackers Advanced Capabilities Large language models may boost the capabilities of novice hackers but are of little use to threat actors past their salad days, concludes a British governmental evaluation. "There may be a limited number of tasks in which use of currently deployed LLMs could increase the capability of a novice.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Final Rule for 42 CFR Part 2 Changes Aims to Improve Patient Care Coordination The Department of Health and Human Services has finalized regulations to better align federal requirements for the confidentiality of substance use disorder records with privacy protections afforded under HIPAA. The aim is to improve care coordination while enhancing sensitive data protections.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking ( NPRM ) implementing Executive Orders (EO) 13984 and 14110 to prevent “foreign malicious cyber actors” from accessing U.S. infrastructure as a service products 1 (IaaS Rule). The IaaS Rule seeks to strengthen the U.S. government’s ability to track “foreign malicious cyber actors” who have relied on U.S.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
2 Men Arrested in Malta, Nigeria for Hawking Malware on Hacking Forums Since 2012 Federal authorities have seized internet domains and arrested two men in Malta and Nigeria who they say served as sales and customer service reps for a dark web business that sold RAT malware to cybercriminals over a 12-year period, leading to the "takeover and infection of computers worldwide.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
What the Common Vulnerability Scoring System is, how to use it, limitations and alternatives, and key changes in CVSS v4.0 Our senior penetration tester Leon Teale has more than ten years’ experience performing penetration tests for clients in various industries all over the world. In addition, he’s won hackathon events in the UK and internationally, and is accredited for multiple bug bounties.
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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.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The National Group Will Develop Guidelines for AI Safety, Security and Red-Teaming Officials said the Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium will provide a "critical forum" for the public and private sectors as the federal government aims to use input from more than 200 stakeholders across public society to develop AI safety and security standards.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Researcher demonstrated how to exploit a signed Minifilter Driver in a BYOVD attack to terminate a specific process from the kernel. Exploiting a signed Minifilter Driver that can be used to used the BYOVD attack technique to a program able to terminate a specific process from the kernel. Exploiting a vulnerable Minifilter Driver to create a process killer Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) is a technique that uses a vulnerable driver in order to achieve a specific goal.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Joe Sullivan Also Discusses Identity Management, AI, State of Information Sharing In the latest weekly update, Joe Sullivan, CEO of Ukraine Friends, joins three editors at ISMG to discuss the challenges of being a CISO in 2024, growing threats from disinformation, vulnerabilities in MFA, AI's role in cybersecurity, and the obstacles to public-private information sharing.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Fortinet warns that the recently discovered critical remote code execution flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN, tracked CVE-2024-21762, is being actively exploited. Fortinet is warning that the recently discovered critical remote code execution vulnerability in FortiOS SSL VPN, tracked as CVE-2024-21762 (CVSS score 9.6), is actively exploited in attacks in the wild.
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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.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
A new report shows massive increases in browser attacks in the second half of 2023, with over 31,000 threats specifically designed to bypass security solution detection.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Ivanti warns customers of a new authentication bypass vulnerability in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateway devices. Ivanti has warned customers of a new high-severity security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-22024 (CVSS score 8.3), in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateway devices that could allow attackers to bypass authentication.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The widely reported story last week that 1.5 million smart toothbrushes were hacked and used in a DDoS attack is false. Near as I can tell, a German reporter talking to someone at Fortinet got it wrong , and then everyone else ran with it without reading the German text. It was a hypothetical, which Fortinet eventually confirmed. Or maybe it was a stock-price hack.
IG Guru
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Check out the story here. The post Patchwork Using Romance Scam Lures to Infect Android Devices with VajraSpy Malware via the Hacker News first appeared on IG GURU.
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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.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), through a new requirement of Item 1.05 of the 8-K, requires that all regulated companies report significant cybersecurity breaches within four business days of determining that the incident was “material”.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
On February 8, 2024, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced the priority topics for its inspections in 2024. In 2024, the CNIL will focus its investigations on the following priority topics: Data Collection for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. As millions of individuals are expected to travel to France for the Olympic and Paralympic Games this year, the CNIL will focus on verifying the measures that are deployed for security purposes ( e.g. , the use of QR codes for restr
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
“Had this all been contrived? Had his life become a game in which everyone knew the rules but him?” An exclusive excerpt from 2054: A Novel.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Hunton Andrews Kurth is hosting a webinar discussing the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed revisions to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule ( i.e. , the COPPA Rule) on February 20, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. (ET). Hunton partners Phyllis Marcus and Lisa Sotto will discuss the FTC’s recent proposal to strengthen federal protections for children’s privacy and the implications of the new changes, if enacted, for organizations.
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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.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Google’s Gemini launch. As hype escalated around the debut of ChatGPT more than a year ago, I predicted that OpenAI and Microsoft would rapidly develop consumer subscription service models for their nascent businesses. Later that year I wrote a piece speculating that Google would inevitably follow suit. If Google was smart, and careful, it had a chance to become “ the world’s largest subscription service.” From that piece: Google can’t afford to fall behind as its closest
Information Matters
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Cloud ERP provider Acumatica showcased new capabilities and celebrated customer growth at its annual summit this week. The event highlighted Acumatica’s focus on customer feedback to drive product development. “Our Read more The post Acumatica Unveils New Features, Celebrates Customers at Annual Summit appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
Docuware
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Digitalization has fundamentally changed the leadership role. Authoritarian bosses, micromanagement and hierarchical thinking are a thing of the past. This is because traditional management structures can’t respond quickly to constantly changing market conditions and new customer demands. Instead, today’s leaders are called upon to exercise their emotional intelligence as well as business savvy and coach rather than give orders.
Information Matters
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
A new report by Information Services Group (ISG) finds that advancements in generative AI are starting to reshape the European market for intelligent automation, though hype remains high. The ISG Read more The post GenAI Reshaping Europe’s Intelligent Automation Landscape appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
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eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
A next generation firewall (NGFW) performs deep packet inspection to check the contents of the data flowing through the firewall. Unlike more basic firewalls that only check the header of data packets, NGFWs examine and evaluate the payload data within the packet. This deep packet inspection provides the basis for the various NGFW features that improve malware blocking.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Amusing story about a penguin named “Squid.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
John Battelle's Searchblog
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Vint Cerf is one of the most recognizable figures in the pantheon of Internet figures – and as he enters his ninth decade of a remarkable life, one of its most accomplished. I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Cerf last month as part of the “ Rebooting Democracy in the Age of AI” lecture series hosted by the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University.
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