Krebs on Security
APRIL 10, 2024
On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com , which until very recently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Survey: SMBs, Charities Mostly Targeted With Phishing, Online Impersonation in 2023 Cybercriminals launched 7.78 million attacks against U.K. businesses and nearly 1 million against charity organizations, according to the latest U.K. government survey report. But fewer than half of those firms reported the incidents to authorities, something researchers say is a concerning trend.
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WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2024
Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Wisconsin Nonprofit Says Attackers Also Tried to Encrypt Systems, But They Failed A Wisconsin nonprofit managed care organization is notifying nearly 534,000 individuals that their protected health information was copied and stolen in a recent attack by a "foreign ransomware gang" that also attempted - but failed - to encrypt the group's IT systems.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2024
Fortinet addressed multiple issues in FortiOS and other products, including a critical remote code execution flaw in FortiClientLinux. Fortinet fixed a dozen vulnerabilities in multiple products, including a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) issue, tracked as CVE-2023-45590 (CVSS score of 9.4), in FortiClientLinux. The vulnerability is an Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’) issue that resides in FortiClientLinux.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2024
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin disclosed a data breach that impacted over 500,000 individuals. The Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC-SCW) is a non-profit organization that provides health insurance and medical care services to its members in the Madison metropolitan area of Wisconsin. The organization disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack, the incident impacted 533,809 individuals.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Russia, Ukraine, China and US All Top 'First-Ever World Cybercrime Index' A new study published by researchers from the universities of Oxford and New South Wales ranks Russia at the top of a global list of cybercrime hot spots and says Ukraine, China, the United States, Nigeria and Romania are home to a majority of global cybercriminal activity.
Jamf
APRIL 10, 2024
Jamf Routines — widely announced at Jamf’s Spring Event — is now available to Jamf Business and Enterprise Plan customers in the U.S. Read on to learn how Jamf Routines automates workflows, the templates that are available today and why we created it.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
NYC's New Chatbot, Hallucinating LLMs Just Can't Be Fixed, Says Linguistics Expert Employers can now fire an employee who complains about sexual harassment, take a cut of their workers' tips and serve customers cheese nibbled on by rats: at least according to advice doled out by New York City's AI chatbot meant to help small business owners navigate the city's bureaucratic maze.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2024
Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April 2024 addressed three Critical vulnerabilities, none actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April 2024 addressed 147 vulnerabilities in multiple products. This is the highest number of fixed issues from Microsoft this year and the largest since at least 2017.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Proofpoint Spots Novel Threat Against German Organizations A financially motivated threat group used a script apparently coded by artificial intelligence to download an info stealer onto victim computers. The script, used to load the Rhadamanthys info stealer, contains "grammatically correct and hyper specific comments above each component of the script.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2024
AT&T confirmed that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. AT&T revealed that the recently disclosed data breach impacts more than 51 million former and current customers and is notifying them. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Buying CDR Startup Gem Will Help Wiz Address Needs of SecOps, Incident Responders Wiz bought a cloud detection and response startup founded by a longtime Israeli Military Intelligence leader to address security operations and incident response use cases. The deal will bring Wiz's chops in securing infrastructure and cloud environments together with Gem's expertise inside the SOC.
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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 Matters
APRIL 10, 2024
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Spring 2024 National Meeting (Spring Meeting) March 15 through 18, 2024. This Sidley Update summarizes the highlights from this meeting in addition to interim meetings held in lieu of taking place during the Spring Meeting. Highlights include proposed updates to the regulatory review process for affiliated investment management agreements, continued discussion of considerations related to private equity ownership of insurers, an
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2024
Why Moving to the Cloud Is a Strategic Gain for Federal Agencies Cloud adoption is on the rise across the U.S. government, and there are many reasons why moving to the cloud is a strategic gain for federal agencies. Here are tips on how to leverage secure cloud computing to gain network-level control from anywhere.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 10, 2024
IDC estimates that 750 million cloud native will be built by 2025. Where and how these applications are deployed will impact time to market and value realization. The reality is that application landscapes are complex, and they challenge enterprises to maintain and modernize existing infrastructure, while delivering new cloud-native features. Three in four executives reported disparate systems in their organizations and that a lack of skills, resources and common operational practices challenge
Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2024
Last week I posted a short memorial of Ross Anderson. The Communications of the ACM asked me to expand it. Here’s the longer version.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2024
Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April 2024 addressed three Critical vulnerabilities, none actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April 2024 addressed 147 vulnerabilities in multiple products. This is the highest number of fixed issues from Microsoft this year and the largest since at least 2017.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 10, 2024
PCI DSS 4.0: The Compliance Countdown – A Roadmap Through Phases 1 & 2 madhav Thu, 04/11/2024 - 05:17 While compliance mandates can sometimes feel burdensome, PCI DSS 4.0 presents an opportunity to future-proof your payment card security. Its heightened focus on flexibility and risk-based controls empowers organizations to tailor security measures more closely to their individual needs.
IG Guru
APRIL 10, 2024
Check out the article here. The post NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate National Vulnerability Database via Infosecurity Magazine first appeared on IG GURU.
Enterprise Software Blog
APRIL 10, 2024
With every release comes a set of release notes that reflects the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You’ll find the notes useful to help determine the resolution of existing issues from a past release and as a means of determining where to test your applications when upgrading from one version to the next. Release notes are available in both PDF and Excel formats.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2024
As technology evolves and our dependence on digital systems increases, the cybersecurity threat landscape also rapidly changes, posing fresh challenges for organizations striving to protect their assets and data. The battle between cybersecurity defenders and malicious actors rages on in the vast digital expanse of today’s interconnected world.
Enterprise Software Blog
APRIL 10, 2024
With every release comes a set of release notes that reflects the state of resolved bugs and new additions from the previous release. You’ll find the notes useful to help determine the resolution of existing issues from a past release and as a means of determining where to test your applications when upgrading from one version to the next. Release notes are available in both PDF and Excel formats.
Collibra
APRIL 10, 2024
We’re excited to announce a new addition to the Collibra platform: Collibra Data Notebook. This innovative capability is the result of our acquisition of Husprey and represents a significant step forward in empowering data citizens to work more efficiently and collaboratively within Collibra. In today’s data-driven landscape, organizations are grappling with increasing data volumes and the proliferation of siloed tools.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2024
An attempt to reauthorize Section 702, the so-called crown jewel of US spy powers, failed for a third time in the House of Representatives after former president Donald Trump criticized the law.
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