Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
UNC5325 Can Remain in Hacked Devices Despite Factory Reset and Patches Chinese threat actors are continuing to persist after exploiting the recent Ivanti Connect Secure VPN vulnerability even after factory resets, system upgrades and patches. The threat actor, UNC5325, is adept at "living off the land" techniques, warned threat intelligence firm Mandiant.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Malicious hackers are targeting people in the cryptocurrency space in attacks that start with a link added to the target’s calendar at Calendly , a popular application for scheduling appointments and meetings. The attackers impersonate established cryptocurrency investors and ask to schedule a video conference call. But clicking the meeting link provided by the scammers prompts the user to run a script that quietly installs malware on macOS systems.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
We Need Low-Cost, High-Volume Weapons Systems to Prevail in Future Conflicts Has the U.S. created the wrong war machine? Developing and deploying advanced military technologies involves balancing the desire to improve national security with the need to navigate the ethical, strategic and existential challenges these technologies present.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Analyzing the Email Security Landscape and exploring Emerging Threats and Trends. In the ever-shifting digital arena, staying ahead of evolving threat trends is paramount for organizations aiming to safeguard their assets. Amidst this dynamic landscape, email stands as a primary battleground for cyber defense. VIPRE Security Group’s latest report, “Email Security in 2024: An Expert Insight into Email Threats,” delves into the cutting-edge tactics and technologies embraced by cy
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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 28, 2024
Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Decline as Russia-Ukraine War Continues Russia's war of conquest against Ukraine grinds onward, but the number of self-proclaimed hacktivists appears to be dwindling as the strategy of temporarily disrupting the availability of high-profile websites has failed to sustain enthusiasm. Groups such as KillNet are still mostly a nuisance.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
New Order Tasks Department of Justice With Developing Data Transfer Protections U.S. President Joe Biden is set to sign Wednesday an executive order aimed at preventing the large-scale transfer of Americans' sensitive personal data to countries including China. The order will set off a rule-making process spearheaded by the Department of Justice.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Russian cyberspies are compromising Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to evade detection, warns a joint advisory published by authorities. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command, and international partners released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn that Russia-linked threat actors are using compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters (EdgeRouters) to evade detection in cyber operations worldwide.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Rivals Say Microsoft Restricts Competition Around Identity. Will Regulators Agree? Microsoft once again finds itself in the crosshairs of antitrust regulators, this time for practices around its Entra ID identity management tool. The European Commission is probing whether Microsoft prevents customers from buying security software that competes with its own, The Information said.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Sourcing is getting smarter. To start, many organizations have already pivoted from a tactical to a strategic sourcing mindset—which can make all the difference when it comes to gaining and retaining a competitive advantage. Why? Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives.
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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 28, 2024
BioCatch's Seth Ruden on How Defenders Can Keep Up With Evolving Fraud Scams First-party fraudsters have shifted their focus from credit card fraud to deposit scams. In this evolving threat environment, financial institutions face new challenges from the increased use of synthetic identities and the difficulties in classifying first-party fraud, said BioCatch's Seth Ruden.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Managed DNS is where a third-party hosts and optimizes your DNS resolution architecture to provide the fastest, most secure, most reliable experience. Perhaps the easiest way to explain it is by looking at the opposite scenario: what if you don’t have a managed DNS service in place? Every query in the Domain Name System (DNS) follows the same logic to resolve IP addresses.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Feds Issue Alert as Change Healthcare Hack Affects Medicare, CVS Caremark, MetLife BlackCat claimed on its dark web site that it is behind the biggest healthcare hack so far the year - exfiltrating 6 terabytes of "highly selective data" relating to "all" Change Healthcare clients, including Tricare, Medicare, CVS Caremark, MetLife and more.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Pharmaceutical giant Cencora suffered a cyber attack and threat actors stole data from its infrastructure. Pharmaceutical giant Cencora disclosed a data breach after it was the victim of a cyberattack. Cencora, Inc. , formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, is an American drug wholesale company and a contract research organization that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001.
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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 Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Credential Stuffing Plummets, More Malicious Requests Detected Amid Huge Investment Okta's 90-day push to improve its security architecture and operations following a crippling October 2023 data breach delivered quick results, CEO Todd McKinnon said. Okta over the past quarter reduced credential stuffing attempts and malicious bot traffic for its largest customers by more than 90%.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
I have been working in cybersecurity for a long time, since 1987, over 35 years. And, surprisingly to many readers/observers, I often say I have not seen anything new in the hacker/malware space since I began. The same threats that were a problem then are the same problems now.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Newly-released data covering cyberthreats experienced in 2023 sheds some light on how very different last year was and paints a picture of what to expect of cyber attacks in 2024.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
On February 23, 2024, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) reported that it had ordered public service providers Serco Leisure, Serco Jersey and associated community leisure trusts (jointly, “the Companies”) to stop using facial recognition technology (“FRT”) and fingerprint scanning (“FS”) to monitor employee attendance. According to the ICO, the Companies, who process biometric data as controllers or joint controllers in 38 leisure facilities, failed to demonstrate the necessit
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
A phishing campaign is targeting users in Mexico with tax-themed lures, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The phishing emails direct users to a website that attempts to trick them into downloading a new strain of information-stealing malware called “TimbreStealer.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
On February 20, 2024, The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (“CIPL”) and Theodore Christakis, Professor of International, European and Digital Law at University Grenoble Alpes, released a comprehensive study titled The “Zero Risk” Fallacy: International Data Transfers, Foreign Governments’ Access to Data and the Need for a Risk-Based Approach.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
According to IBM X-Force’s latest Threat Intelligence Index , 30% of all cyber incidents in 2023 involved abuse of valid credentials. X-Force’s report stated that abuse of valid credentials exceeded phishing as a top threat for the first time.
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OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
HIPAA taught us important lessons on how we interact with healthcare data, but it was a global pandemic that forced us to collectively go to data grad school. Understanding where data lives and how we interact with this massive amount of information helps to unlock quality of care, interoperability between disparate systems and mitigate downstream … The post Exceptional patient experiences start with smarter data appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
New analysis of a phishing campaign shows how cybercriminals use brand impersonation of the platforms they need to compromise accounts and takeover legitimate services.
erwin
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
At Sparkle, we’re a holistic data partner helping organizations increase their data maturity in a strategic yet pragmatic way. One of the key ingredients to ensure data is really embedded in an organization, and one of the key enablers to increase the strategic impact of data, is the setup of a successful data governance program. While the essence of success in data governance is people and not technology, having the right tools at your fingertips is crucial.
Collibra
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The Collibra Data Intelligence Platform delivers trusted data for every user, every use case and across every source. But building a platform that has flexibility to work across these different customer environments is hard. This is where the Collibra Edge component comes in. Its role is to bridge the customer’s data sources in a secure and performant manner to provide rich functionality for the Collibra Data Intelligence Platform.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
HID Global
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Both PKI and FIDO authenticators eliminate the need for passwords and offer a seamless experience for end users by using asymmetric encryption.
IG Guru
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Check out the story here. The post Waymo’s self-driving cars keep hitting things, including a cyclist, a gate and a pickup via Ottawa Citizen first appeared on IG GURU.
Daymark
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Over the past few months, Microsoft has slowly rolled out Copilot for Microsoft 365 through their many channels, making it available to all customers. As I mentioned in my last blog, "Copilot for Microsoft 365 – What You Need to Know," there are still some prerequisites for purchasing, including a minimum term of 1 year, however, the minimum purchase quantity of 300, which was a limiting factor for most, has been eliminated.
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