Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2023
ISMG Summit Speaker Phil Englert of H-ISAC on Emerging Security Healthcare Issues Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Summit 2023.
Data Matters
JULY 14, 2023
Just before Americans began their Fourth of July holiday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement Director announced that the division has established two key task forces: the Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies and the Environmental Fraud Task Force. 1 Both task forces will be staffed with attorneys and investigators across the Division of Enforcement with the goal of serving as subject matter experts and prosecuting cases.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2023
State-Linked Spear-Phishing Campaign Targeting Government, Military Personnel Belarus state-linked hackers are targeting government and military entities in both Ukraine and Poland with spear-phishing campaigns that deliver remote access Trojans. Ukrainian authorities say the adversary is focusing on information stealing and remote control of targeted systems.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2023
The source code for the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit has been published on GitHub and experts warn of the risks of proliferation of custom versions. Researchers from ESET discovered in March a new stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI ) bootkit, named BlackLotus , that is able to bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11. Secure Boot is a security feature of the latest Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.3.1 designed to detect tampering with boot loaders, key operating system fi
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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 14, 2023
Also: The Latest Generative AI Use Cases; Software Consolidation Trends In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss the complex task of phasing out magnetic stripe payment cards and why the United States lags behind, the great debate over best of breed vs. a single platform vendor approach, and AI insights from Palo Alto CIO Meerah Rajavel.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2023
Armageddon Campaign Now Capable of Targeting Thousands of Ukrainian Systems at Once Russian hacking group Armageddon has upgraded its skills to simultaneously target several thousand Ukrainian government information systems. CERT-UA said the hackers infected Microsoft Office Word to generate 80 to 120 malicious documents within a compromised system to multiply the infection.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2023
A new malware dubbed AVrecon targets small office/home office (SOHO) routers, it infected over 70,000 devices from 20 countries. Lumen Black Lotus Labs uncovered a long-running hacking campaign targeting SOHO routers with a strain of malware dubbed AVrecon. The malware was spotted the first time in May 2021, but has been operating under the radar for more than two years. “Lumen Black Lotus Labs identified another multi-year campaign involving compromised routers across the globe.
Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2023
Attackers Deploying Remote Code Execution Malware for Information Stealing Researchers are warning of an uptick in attacks using a series of malicious Microsoft Office documents designed to drop LokiBot, an information stealer capable of sweeping up credentials. LokiBot has been active since 2015 and specializes in information stealing through malicious email attachments.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2023
The U.S. CISA warns of two flaws impacting Rockwell Automation ControlLogix that can lead to remote code execution and DoS attacks. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of two vulnerabilities affecting Rockwell Automation ControlLogix EtherNet/IP (ENIP) communication module models that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and trigger a denial-of-service condition.
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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
JULY 14, 2023
BlackBerry Cybersecurity President John Giamatteo on AI Solutions for Defenders Generative AI is growing rapidly as organizations seek ways to transform human tasks. With the ability to process and analyze large volumes of data in real time, AI can empower defenders to detect and respond to threats more effectively, said John Giamatteo, cybersecurity president at BlackBerry.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2023
New insight from blockchain analysis company, Chainalysis, shows that activity involving known ransomware crypto addresses has grown over the last 18 months, despite a downfall of other malicious activity.
Collibra
JULY 14, 2023
At Collibra, we partner with the best technology platforms in the world, including AWS. Today, we’re excited to announce we’ve attained two new AWS Competencies under the AWS Competency Program: the Data and Analytics Competency, and the Government Competency. The AWS Competency Program’s goal is to give AWS customers confidence that the AWS Partner has demonstrated technical expertise and a proven track record in specialty areas across various industries, use cases and workloads.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2023
The quantity of emails involved in scams and cyber attacks continues to grow as credential theft and response-based phishing persist as top attack variants.
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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.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2023
Sicuranex’s PWNPress platform indexed over 15 million WordPress websites, it collects data related to vulnerabilities and misconfigurations Leveraging the extensive Common Crawl dataset and pushing the boundaries of data analysis, cybersecurity firm Sicuranex successfully indexed over 15 million WordPress websites using the PWNPress service. This endeavor involved parsing the entire Web Archive Text (WAT) database, a massive 21 TiB repository, to identify WordPress installations worldwid
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2023
KnowBe4 ranks number one overall on the 2023 Technology Top Workplaces list for the third consecutive year and earns national recognition as an employer of choice!
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2023
A few default guest setting manipulations in Azure AD and over-promiscuous low-code app developer connections can upend data protections.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 14, 2023
The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag across the political divide.
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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.
IG Guru
JULY 14, 2023
Check out the article here. The post How to get started with designing your Information Architecture (IA) via Leadership Through Data first appeared on IG GURU.
Schneier on Security
JULY 14, 2023
Masayoshi Matsumoto is a “master balloon artist,” and he made a squid (and other animals). 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.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2023
Do you need an easy, automated way to provide real-time feedback the moment your users make risky mistakes to help reinforce the training campaigns you manage today?
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2023
A bug in Zimbra email servers is already being exploited in the wild, Google TAG researchers warn.
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Jamf
JULY 14, 2023
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Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2023
Because digital substations are critical elements of electrical systems, they are a prime target for sophisticated cyberattacks.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 14, 2023
Welcome to the July 2023 edition of our e-Invoicing newsletter. In our Hot Topics section read about the exciting new changes coming to our blog for 2023. In “Compliance news and updates” read the latest world news on mandates. In the EU, the European Parliament has provided significant updates to the proposed amendments to the … The post July 2023: E-Invoicing & VAT compliance updates appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2023
We rely on them for communications, military activity, and everyday tasks. How long before attackers really start to look up at the stars?
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OpenText Information Management
JULY 14, 2023
Call centers often face the challenge of increasing the number of interactions while keeping agent staffing at current levels. This situation calls for a revolutionary approach to the way call center agents work. Contact center leaders must empower agents with streamlined workflows, user-friendly interfaces, and powerful features in an agent dashboard to transform call center … The post Elevate your call center’s performance with agent experience software appeared first on OpenText B
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2023
A flaw in the REST API of Cisco's SD_WAN vManage software could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to perform data exfiltration.
Schneier on Security
JULY 14, 2023
The first Republican primary debate has a popularity threshold to determine who gets to appear: 40,000 individual contributors. Now there are a lot of conventional ways a candidate can get that many contributors. Doug Burgum came up with a novel idea: buy them : A long-shot contender at the bottom of recent polls, Mr. Burgum is offering $20 gift cards to the first 50,000 people who donate at least $1 to his campaign.
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