Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
MGM Resorts Continuing to Be Extorted by the Same Alphv/BlackCat Ransomware Group Casino and hotel giant Caesars Entertainment is warning customers that their personal details were stolen in a recent hack attack. After successfully shaking down Caesars for a ransom, the same attackers are continuing to extort MGM Resorts, claiming to have crypto-locked its EXSi hypervisors.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operators have used their leak site to "set the record straight" about the MGM Resorts cyberattack. Meanwhile, more attacks abusing Okta could be likely.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Data Minimization and Encryption Mitigate Fallout, Says FS-ISAC's Teresa Walsh The Clop ransomware group's zero-day attack on MOVEit software was its fourth data theft campaign targeting secure file transfer users. Organizations can combat such attacks by using data minimization and encryption - among other defenses, says Teresa Walsh, global head of intelligence for FS-ISAC.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Caesars Entertainment announced it has paid a ransom to avoid the leak of customer data stolen in a recent intrusion. Caesars Entertainment is the world’s most geographically diversified casino-entertainment company. It is the largest gaming company in the United States, with over 50 casinos and hotels in 13 U.S. states and five countries. The company also owns and operates a number of other businesses, including a golf course management company, a travel agency, and a marketing firm.
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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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Generative AI holds great potential for many amazing applications in healthcare, but it's critical to establish a strong framework before deploying it, said Barbee Mooneyhan, vice president of security, IT and privacy of Woebot Health, a provider of AI-driven online mental health services.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Noisy 'Peach Sandstorm' Password Spraying Campaign Is Followed by Stealth Iranian state threat actor "Peach Sandstorm" is growing in sophistication, warns Microsoft in an alert about a campaign of password hacking targeting the satellite, defense and pharmaceutical sectors. The group's newfound polish is reflected in what the hackers did after establishing persistence.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. Following last month’s news that Microsoft was the most impersonated brand in phishing scams in Q2 2023 – which is hardly surprising given its popularity – this month we discuss three more Microsoft-based scams: two involving Teams and one exploiting Word.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
ByteDance-Owned App Fined for Violating Children's Privacy TikTok will pay Irish data privacy regulators 345 million euros to settle allegations it violated the privacy of underage users. A TikTok spokesperson said the company disagreed with Irish Data Protection Commission, calling the violations based on features that no longer exist.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Escalating incursions into military base infrastructure, telecom networks, utilities, and more signal that Beijing is laying the groundwork for mass disruption.
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.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Also; The 'Quantum Divide'; Global AI Regulatory Trends In the latest weekly update, four editors at ISMG discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues, including how to keep assets secure in the quantum era, when common usernames pose a cybersecurity threat, and how to strike the right balance between regulation and innovation in AI.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The Russian national Dariy Pankov, aka dpxaker, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and computer fraud. The Russian national Dariy Pankov (28), aka dpxaker, is the author of the NLBrute malware. The man has been extradited to the United States from Georgia. In February 2023, Pankov was charged with conspiracy, access device fraud, and computer fraud.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Why You Should Consider a Cloud-Native Firewall Service How does an organization achieve peace of mind with security while overcoming the challenges of complex hybrid and multi-cloud networks? Here are the top reasons why your organization should consider implementing a cloud-native firewall service to protect your AWS environments and applications.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
A report from cybersecurity consultancy Savanti reveals that board members are facing challenges in understanding cyber risks , and this has important implications for businesses.
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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.
CGI
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
AI provides an opportunity to retrain the workforce on more complex and challenging work, including additional AI tool applications to further increase efficiency and improve the customer experience. The magnitude of near-term impact will vary by operational area.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Interesting article on technologies that will automatically identify people: With technology like that on Mr. Leyvand’s head, Facebook could prevent users from ever forgetting a colleague’s name, give a reminder at a cocktail party that an acquaintance had kids to ask about or help find someone at a crowded conference. However, six years later, the company now known as Meta has not released a version of that product and Mr.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The maintainers of the widely used library recently patched multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities that attackers could have abused to, ahem, curse targets with malicious code and escalate privileges.
The Guardian Data Protection
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Irish data regulator says platform put 13- to 17-year-old users’ accounts on default public setting, among other breaches TikTok has been fined €345m (£296m) for breaking EU data law in its handling of children’s accounts, including failing to shield underage users’ content from public view. The Irish data watchdog, which regulates TikTok across the EU, said the Chinese-owned video app had committed multiple breaches of 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.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
A new report takes an exhaustive look at how cybersecurity professionals see the current and future state of attacks, and how well vendors are keeping up.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
For months, the Iran-backed APT has carried out waves of password spray attacks attempting to authenticate to thousands of environments across multiple targets worldwide.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Two links on how to properly clean squid. I learned a few years ago, in Spain, and got pretty good at it. 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.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Ransomware becoming less of a factor as threat actors extort businesses with payment options that are less than regulatory fines.
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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.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Do you want to bridge the gap between IT, cybersecurity, and the business to enhance collaboration and integration? Are you seeking a solution to align cybersecurity efforts with business goals?
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The shared responsibility model was good enough to cover the first years of the cloud revolution, but the model is showing its limitations. Shared fate is a more mature model for the future of cloud security.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
The United States FBI, NSA, and CISA have released a joint report outlining the various social engineering threats posed by deepfakes.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
This incident bears notable resemblance to an attack that occurred just last month affecting London's Metropolitan Police, raising concerns over UK cybersecurity safeguards for public safety.
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KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Out of the over 350 brands regularly impersonated in phishing attacks, Microsoft continues to stand out because they provide attackers with one unique advantage over other brands.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Trust is the crucial bridge between security and people, but excessive or misguided trust can pose serious security risks.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Establishing urgency through a false need to “upgrade” or lose services, this new attack takes advantage of the widespread use of the popular accounting app to attract victims.
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