Data Breach Today
JANUARY 2, 2024
Holiday Leaks Could Result in More Digital Identity Theft and Fraud, Report Warns Hackers celebrated the year-end holidays with a malicious "Free Leaksmas" posting on the dark web, releasing 50 million stolen consumer records, including credit card information. Researchers said the leaked data can be used for identity theft and fraud.
AIIM
JANUARY 2, 2024
The value of information governance is obvious to many business and IT leaders. But like confronting an attic that is full of junk, the task of organizing and governing disorganized data can seem overwhelming. Maybe that’s why too many technology and business decision-makers put information governance on the back burner, there to be ignored until a crisis arises and there is a frantic push to find critical information quickly.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 2, 2024
Eagers Says It Doesn't Know Full Extent of Hack But Has Started Contacting Victims Brisbane-based retail group Eagers Automotive is investigating a cyberattack that disrupted parts of its regional operations and compromised the personal information of some of its customers. Eagers said Tuesday it doesn't know the full extent of the hack, but it has started notifying customers.
The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 2, 2024
In today’s digital landscape, organizations face numerous challenges when it comes to mitigating cyber risks. Related: How AI is transforming DevOps The constant evolution of technology, increased connectivity, and sophisticated cyber threats pose significant challenges to organizations of all sizes and industries. Here are some of the key challenges that organizations encounter in their efforts to mitigate cyber risks in the current environment.
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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
JANUARY 2, 2024
Belarusian Cyber-Partisans Claim New Year's Weekend Attack Wiped Servers, Backups Over the New Year's holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists shut down the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups of BelTA. The group said its actions had been retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 2, 2024
Forrester's Sandy Carielli Shares Highlights From API Security Report Forrester analyst Sandy Carielli highlights key API security aspects in Forrester's report titled The Eight Components of API Security," which covers governance, discovery, testing, authentication and protection from API breaches as many organizations are grappling with the maturity of these areas.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 2, 2024
Ukraine’s SBU revealed that Russia-linked threat actors hacked surveillance cameras to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Kyiv. Ukraine’s SBU announced they shut down two surveillance cameras that were allegedly hacked by the Russian intelligence services to spy on air defense forces and critical infrastructure in Kyiv. The surveillance cameras were located in residential buildings and were used to monitor the surrounding area and a parking lot.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 2, 2024
NewYork-Presbyterian Disabled Website, Patient Portal Trackers in 2022 State regulators fined a New York hospital $300,000 to settle privacy violations related to the organization's prior use of tracking tools in its websites and patient portal. Regulators said the hospital violated HIPAA rules in sharing patient information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 2, 2024
JinxLoader is a new Go-based loader that was spotted delivering next-stage malware such as Formbook and XLoader. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Symantec warned of a new Go-based malware loader called JinxLoader, which is being used to deliver next-stage payloads such as Formbook and XLoader. The name of the threat comes from a League of Legends character.
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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
JANUARY 2, 2024
109 Banks to Participate in Simulated Cyberattacks to Assess Cyber Resiliency The European Central Bank beginning this month will conduct cyber stress tests on banks to determine their resilience against cyberattacks. The agency is requiring 109 banks in Europe to perform vulnerability assessments and incident response evaluations by mid-2024.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 2, 2024
A team of researchers released a suite of tools that could help victims to decrypt data encrypted with by the Black Basta ransomware. Independent security research and consulting team SRLabs discovered a vulnerability in Black Basta ransomware’s encryption algorithm and exploited it to create a free decryptor. The Black Basta ransomware group has been active since April 2022 , like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 2, 2024
TikTok seems to be skewing things in the interests of the Chinese Communist Party. (This is a serious analysis, and the methodology looks sound.) Conclusion: Substantial Differences in Hashtag Ratios Raise Concerns about TikTok’s Impartiality Given the research above, we assess a strong possibility that content on TikTok is either amplified or suppressed based on its alignment with the interests of the Chinese Government.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 2, 2024
Researchers discovered an SSH vulnerability, called Terrapin, that could allow an attacker to downgrade the connection’s security. Security researchers from Ruhr University Bochum (Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Jörg Schwenk) discovered a vulnerability, called Terrapin ( CVE-2023-48795 , CVSS score 5.9), in the Secure Shell (SSH) cryptographic network protocol.
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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.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 2, 2024
Cybersecurity exists to protect people and their information. In our recent discussion on Security Masterminds, Julie provided unique insights on putting people at the center of cybersecurity.
CILIP
JANUARY 2, 2024
Can AI read for you & should it? Dr Beth Montague-Hellen, CILIP LGBTQ+ Network Chair, shares how ChatGPT, can, can't, and should help you with your research as an academic librarian This story is featured on the AI Hub Publish or perish culture in academia creates an ever increasing need to publish, and generates vast quantities of written material, but can any researcher or student possibly hope to read everything?
KnowBe4
JANUARY 2, 2024
Every person and organization is different and requires slightly different methods and ways of learning. But every person and organization can benefit by more frequent security awareness training (SAT).
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 2, 2024
If you're at high risk of being targeted by mercenary spyware, or just don't mind losing iOS features for extra security, the company's restricted mode is surprisingly usable.
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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.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 2, 2024
While the number of reported vulnerabilities sometimes decrease over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, active and potential exploits are no less threatening. During the past couple weeks, Google has seen multiple vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in Chrome. SonicWall researchers discovered that an Apache patch was incomplete, still permitting authentication bypass in open-source ERP software Apache OfBiz.
IG Guru
JANUARY 2, 2024
Check out the standard here. The post ISO adopted ISO/IEC 42001, Information technology, Artificial intelligence, Management system standard first appeared on IG GURU.
The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 2, 2024
I know nothing online is private. I also won’t be able to resist taking photos of my cute baby. Can a privacy girly have it all? I spent my teen years baring my soul on Blogger, Xanga, Friendster and Myspace, well before there was widespread acceptance and knowledge of the ways companies already did and would increasingly collect and share my data. The idea that there was no such thing as a free service and that, in fact, the cost of doing business with digital platforms is relinquishing control
HID Global
JANUARY 2, 2024
From increased efficiency & real-time visibility to cost reduction & heightened security, the benefits of passive RFID are numerous & elevate operations success.
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eDiscovery Daily
JANUARY 2, 2024
By Rick Clark It’s evident that the legal eDiscovery industry is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the ever-expanding data varieties, volumes, and the velocity in growth for varieties and volume, especially in the last year.) For instance, there are 20 million text/chat messages sent every minute. * The intersection of these three data Vs has not only posed unique challenges but has also paved the way for innovative solutions and a paradigm shift in how data is reviewed in the leg
Unwritten Record
JANUARY 2, 2024
Every year, around this time, many people’s minds turn towards New Year’s Resolutions. Things like saving more money, learning a new skill, and better self-care are timeless classics when it comes to resolutions. So, we here in the Cartographic Branch would like to offer up some patents related to resolution keeping, just in case you need ideas for the coming year!
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