Wed.Jul 19, 2023

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How to Shop for an API Security Platform

Data Breach Today

Consider Domains, Features, Ease of Integration, Scalability and Vendor Support API security platforms have become an essential part of any organization's cybersecurity strategy, but with so many options available, it can be difficult to know how to choose the right one. In this article, we'll discuss how to evaluate API security platforms and what factors to consider.

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Citrix warns of actively exploited zero-day in ADC and Gateway

Security Affairs

Citrix is warning customers of an actively exploited critical vulnerability in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway. Citrix is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway that is being actively exploited in the wild.

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Reporting Cyber Incidents Within 72 Hours: Challenges Ahead

Data Breach Today

Many critical infrastructure sector organizations, especially smaller entities, will likely struggle to comply with an upcoming requirement to report cyber incidents to federal regulators within 72 hours - due to an assortment of reasons, said Stanley Mierzwa of Kean University.

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What is Smishing? Definition, Examples and Prevention

IT Governance

Smishing is a type of phishing attack that’s conducted using text message services. These types of scams can target people in their personal and professional lives. Attackers can imitate friends, strangers and organisations, but they can also appear as colleagues and service providers. Indeed, with the rise in remote working and the reliance on mobile devices and instant messaging clients to stay in touch, work-based smishing has become a major threat.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Russian Hackers Probe Ukrainian Defense Sector With Backdoor

Data Breach Today

Novel.NET Backdoor DeliveryCheck Sends a Variety of Secondary Payloads The Russian Turla hacker group has targeted the Ukrainian defense sector and other Eastern European entities with a novel backdoor, dubbed DeliveryCheck, to deploy secondary payloads likely used for espionage, according to security researchers at Microsoft.

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Microsoft Expands Logging Access After Chinese Hack Blowback

Data Breach Today

E3 Licensees Unlock Access to More Cloud Logs After Only E5 Clients Could Spot Hack Microsoft customers will gain access to expanded cloud logging capabilities at no additional cost just days after lower-level customers were unable to detect a Chinese cyberattack. CISA has identified several security logs - critical to detect and prevent threat activity - that currently cost extra.

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Practice Your Security Prompting Skills

Schneier on Security

Gandalf is an interactive LLM game where the goal is to get the chatbot to reveal its password. There are eight levels of difficulty, as the chatbot gets increasingly restrictive instructions as to how it will answer. It’s a great teaching tool. I am stuck on Level 7. Feel free to give hints and discuss strategy in the comments below. I probably won’t look at them until I’ve cracked the last level.

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Ukrainian Police Shutter Propaganda-Spreading Bot Farm

Data Breach Today

Bot Accounts Also Used to Illegally Distribute Ukrainians' Personal Data The Ukrainian Cyber Police dismantled yet another large-scale bot farm spreading Russian propaganda over social media. Cyber police seized nearly 150,000 SIM cards of different mobile operators used in the campaign to create fake social media profiles.

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Reducing Security Debt in the Cloud

Dark Reading

Security debt exists in on-premises data centers as well as in cloud platforms — but preventing it from accumulating in the cloud requires different skills, processes, and tools.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Ukraine’s cyber police dismantled a massive bot farm spreading propaganda

Security Affairs

The Cyber ​​Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled a massive bot farm and seized 150,000 SIM cards. A gang of more than 100 individuals used fake social network accounts to conduct disinformation and psychological operations in support of the Russian government and its narrative on the invasion of Ukraine. The gang used a massive bot farm to distribute illegal content, personal data of Ukrainian citizens and commit frauds.

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3 Ways AI Could Improve Authentication

Dark Reading

As companies navigate how to protect themselves from the onslaught of increasingly sophisticated fraud threats, artificial intelligence will be a critical piece of next-gen authentication.

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Leveraging generative AI on AWS to transform life sciences

IBM Big Data Hub

The exponential leap in generative AI is already transforming many industries: optimizing workflows , helping human teams focus on value added tasks and accelerating time to market. Life sciences industry is beginning to take notice and aims to leapfrog the technological advances. Life sciences industry has—for decades now—moved from the traditional discovery-based drug development to target market-based drug development paradigm.

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China's APT41 Linked to WyrmSpy, DragonEgg Mobile Spyware

Dark Reading

Nation-states see the opportunity in targeting people directly through their mobile phones, in this case with sophisticated Android surveillanceware.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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From content chaos to information-led transformation

OpenText Information Management

“Employees suffering from information overload tune out and check out.”[1] The realities of modern work have forced organizations to rapidly adapt to new ways of working, as well as new risks. To master modern work, organizations must do more than simply manage the high volumes of information generated day to day, they must also assess … The post From content chaos to information-led transformation appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Microsoft Relents, Offers Free Key Logging to All 365 Customers

Dark Reading

Industry pushback prompts Microsoft to drop premium pricing for access to cloud logging data.

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Farage joins explosion in people using subject access requests

The Guardian Data Protection

SARs from employees have become standard in work disputes and are increasingly used by public figures Nigel Farage’s claim that his account at the prestigious bank Coutts was closed because of his political values has been bolstered by a report from the bank’s reputational risk committee that he obtained via a subject access request (SAR), an increasingly common tool – some would say weapon – used by individuals in dispute with organisations.

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Seed Group Brings Resecurity Options to UAE Region

Dark Reading

UAE's Seed Group is partnering with Resecurity to expand cybersecurity options in the Middle East and Africa.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Build, Access, Analyze: Introducing ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub)

Archive-It

by the Archiving & Data Services team Since 2020 the Internet Archive has been hard at work developing an exciting new service – ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub). ARCH represents a combination of the Internet Archive’s experience supporting computational research for more than a decade with efforts like Archive-It Research Services, broader Internet Archive data services, and our recent collaboration with the Archives Unleashed team at the University of Waterloo and York University

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Leverage Threat Intelligence, AI, and Data at Scale to Boost Cyber Defenses

Dark Reading

By combining these leading-edge tools, security professionals can amplify the impact of their security strategies.

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Archive-It Partner News, July 2023

Archive-It

Introducing ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) ARCH, In-Browser Visualization We are excited to announce the public availability of ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub ), a new research service that helps users analyze digital collections computationally at scale. ARCH represents a combination of the Internet Archive’s experience supporting computational research for more than a decade (providing dataset service integrations like Archive-it Research Services) and a collaboration with the Archi

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Black Hat Offers PenTesting Certification Exam

Dark Reading

The new independent exam track at Black Hat USA will feature an opportunity for attendees to take a practical exam to be certified in penetration testing.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Build, Access, Analyze: Introducing ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub)

Archive-It

by the Archiving & Data Services team Since 2020 the Internet Archive has been hard at work developing an exciting new service – ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub). ARCH represents a combination of the Internet Archive’s experience supporting computational research for more than a decade with efforts like Archive-It Research Services, broader Internet Archive data services, and our recent collaboration with the Archives Unleashed team at the University of Waterloo and York University

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KnowBe4 Partners With Egress to Enhance Organizations' Inbound and Outbound Email Security Defenses

Dark Reading

Egress also launches adaptive security architecture, which dynamically adjusts email security controls based on aggregated data including KnowBe4's user risk score.

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Archive-It Partner News, July 2023

Archive-It

Introducing ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub) ARCH, In-Browser Visualization We are excited to announce the public availability of ARCH (Archives Research Compute Hub ), a new research service that helps users analyze digital collections computationally at scale. ARCH represents a combination of the Internet Archive’s experience supporting computational research for more than a decade (providing dataset service integrations like Archive-it Research Services) and a collaboration with the Archi

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Study: Africa Cybersecurity Improves but Lacks Cross-Border Frameworks

Dark Reading

While cybersecurity preparedness in Africa is on the upswing, the continent still lacks agreements on international security standards and sharing threat intel.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.

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MY TAKE: As network perimeters shift and ecosystems blend, the role of MSSPs solidifies

The Last Watchdog

Deepening interoperability of AI-infused systems – in our buildings, transportation grids, communications systems and medical equipment — portend amazing breakthroughs for humankind. Related: The coming of optical infrastructure But first businesses must come to grips with the quickening convergence of their internal and external computing resources.

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SophosEncrypt Ransomware Fools Security Researchers

Dark Reading

The ransomware-as-a-service offering was first assumed to be a red-team exercise before being detected for true malicious activity.

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Top API Security Tools 2023

eSecurity Planet

APIs (application programming interfaces) allow applications to communicate with each other, a critically important function in the digital age. Their importance also makes them an attractive target for cyber criminals — according to Akamai, API and application attacks tripled last year. API security tools help protect the integrity of APIs and keep them safe from common attack vectors like local file inclusion (LFI), cross-site scripting ( XSS ) and SQL injection (SQLi).