Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
77 Million Individuals' Information Exposed, as More Victims Continue to Be Counted Trackers of the tally of individuals affected by the Clop ransomware group's mass hack attack on MOVEit servers added another 4.5 million patients' data to the ever-ascending total. The incident currently affects more than 2,600 organizations and 77 million individuals.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
OpenAI Board Thwarts Altman's Return, Names Ex-Twitch Boss Emmett Shear Interim CEO OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will lead a new advanced AI research team at Microsoft after OpenAI's board decided not to bring them back, Satya Nadella said. The nonprofit behind ChatGPT opted instead to name longtime Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as its new interim leader Sunday night.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The DarkCasino APT group leveraged a recently disclosed WinRAR zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831. Researchers at cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS analyzed DarkCasino attack pattern exploiting the WinRAR zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831. The economically motivated APT group used specially crafted archives in phishing attacks against forum users through online trading forum posts. “DarkCasino is an APT threat actor with strong technical and learning ability, who is g
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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
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Nearly All OpenAI Employees Threaten to Quit Unless Board That Fired Altman Resigns Emmett Shear's first move as OpenAI's third CEO in three days has been damage control with the AI firm's workers planning a mass exodus over the firing of CEO Sam Altman. But the course correction may be too little, too late as 95% of the staff is demanding that the board that fired Altman resigns.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Drenan Dudley Appointed to Serve as Acting National Cyber Director Drenan Dudley, who previously served as deputy national cyber director for strategy and budget at the Office of the National Cyber Director, will temporarily lead the agency while the White House nominee to serve in a permanent capacity awaits a vote in the Senate.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
US teenager Joseph Garrison pleads guilty to carrying out a credential stuffing attack on a betting website. US teenager Joseph Garrison (19) has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a credential stuffing campaign that targeted user accounts at a fantasy sports and betting website.3 On or about November 18, 2022, the man launched a credential stuffing attack on the Betting Website and gained access to approximately 60,000 accounts.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Proposals Require a CISO, Strong Cyber Controls, 2-Hour Incident Reporting Window New York State will soon seek public comment on sweeping new cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The proposed rules would come with $500 million in requested funding to help the providers step up their security investments to comply with the new requirements.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
China pairs cyber and kinetic attacks in the South Pacific as it continues to wrangle control of the South China Sea.
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
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
'LitterDrifter' Worm Is Designed to Support Large-Scale Collection Operation A hacking group linked to Russian domestic intelligence and known as Gamaredon is deploying a worm dubbed "LitterDrifter" that is spread through thumb drives to attack Ukrainian organizations. LitterDrifter has two functions: automatic propagation and communication with command-and-control servers.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Advanced organizations know their greatest assets are their employees. However, keeping employees happy and engaged can be challenging, especially when considering available resources and the need to meet other organizational goals. An organization is only as strong as its talent pool, so organizations have increasingly embraced talent management as a core component of their overarching strategy.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
HHS HIPAA Settlement With Yonkers, NY Facility Also Includes Corrective Action Federal regulators have smacked a New York medical center with an $80,000 penalty as part of a settlement for a HIPAA privacy breach involving the information of three patients that was exposed to a reporter and distributed nationally during press coverage in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The latest LummaC2 infostealer version includes a novel anti-sandbox trick to avoid detonating when no human mouse movements are detected.
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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.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it isn’t very good yet, but that it will get better.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
CISOs and vendors must work together to keep up with emerging threats and find solutions, says a group of CISOs and security entrepreneurs.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
In 2023, organizations have faced an unprecedented level of pressure to digitally transform with the rise of generative AI as well as imperatives such as sustainability, labor productivity and security. The “ Cloud Transformation Report ,” a new global survey from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), found that many leading enterprises share a common foundation to digital transformation—a clear hybrid cloud strategy.¹ These businesses cite several key benefits to us
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory describing the Scattered Spider cybercriminal gang’s activities.
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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.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Black Friday and Cyber Weekend: Navigating the Tumultuous Waters of Retail Cybersecurity sparsh Tue, 11/21/2023 - 05:01 As global consumers gear up for the much-anticipated shopping bonanza that is Black Friday and Cyber Weekend, retailers brace themselves for the frenzied onslaught of shoppers and the deluge of cyber threats lurking in the shadows.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
CISA expects to extend this program to include up to 100 critical infrastructure entities in its first year.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
If increases in cyberattacks this year are any indication of what to expect in the next six weeks of holiday shopping, we should expect a massive uptick in holiday-related scams.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
New cybersecurity regulations from the FDA outline specific steps that medical device companies must take in order to get their devices approved for market.
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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.
Data Matters
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The tenth edition of Lexology In-Depth: Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity (formerly The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review) provides a global overview of the evolving legal and regulatory regimes governing data privacy and security, at a time when both privacy and security are increasingly challenged by the fast-paced development of technologies such as large language models, generative AI, and self-teaching/self-replicating applications.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Chronicle CyberShield will be offered as a managed service with security monitoring and Mandiant incident response included.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
On November 16, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published its Guidelines 2/2023 on the Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (the “Guidelines”). Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive is most commonly known for establishing the cookie notice and cookie consent requirements in the EU. That said, Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive applies to more than just cookies.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Understanding the risks of generative AI and the specific defenses to build to mitigate those risks is vital for effective business and public use of GenAI.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
We are thrilled to share that IBM is named a Leader in the most recent Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Access Management. IBM is recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. As a team, we’ve been working hard to deliver on a roadmap of identity and access management capabilities that we believe solve the biggest challenges organizations are facing when it comes to managing identities in today’s dispersed, hybrid cloud environments.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Combining a malware sandbox with threat intelligence feeds improves security detection, analysis, and response capabilities.
The Guardian Data Protection
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Patients cannot opt out of personal medical records being shared, albeit anonymised, between NHS bodies The NHS’s new data platform could be derailed by a lack of public trust because patients are being denied the chance to opt out of it sharing their personal medical records, campaigners claim. NHS England will announce on Tuesday that it is handing the £480m contract to operate the new software to the US spy tech firm Palantir , sparking a backlash over privacy and its “murky” past.
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