Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 17, 2023
No Patch Available; Thousands Infected by IOS Software XE Web User Interface Flaw Cisco issued an urgent warning Monday about a critical vulnerability in one of its modular operating system's web interfaces that is designed for routers, switches and other appliances. Hackers exploited the IOS XE software UI to gain admin rights that give them full control of compromised devices.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Amir Golestan , the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S., Canada, and parts of the Ca
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Attackers' MO: Data Exfiltration, Followed by Network and Hardware Disruption Amplifying kinetic attacks, Russian hackers in recent months have hit at least 11 telecommunications firms in Ukraine with a barrage of "destructive" malware designed to exfiltrate data, steal social media account credentials, destroy IT systems and disrupt operations, the Ukrainian government says.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions madhav Wed, 10/18/2023 - 05:25 This month is Cyber Security Awareness Month , highlighting how far security education needs to go in order to enable a secure interconnected world. Technology continues to improve our lives – but at the same time the risks continue to grow.
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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
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Experts Say Technique is A Good Start, but Cannot Guarantee Safety Watermarking is a core part of a White House trustworthiness initiative to bind companies into observing steps to guarantee the safety of AI products. The problem, say AI experts, is that watermarking is as likely to fail as succeed. Watermarking removal tools are available on the open internet.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 17, 2023
IBM Blames 'Technical Method' for Allowing Unauthorized Access to Patient Info IBM says the personal information of 631,000 people was compromised by a "technical method" that allowed unauthorized access to a third-party database used by a Johnson & Johnson patient medication support platform. IBM said the problem has been fixed, but two lawsuits have already been filed.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Online voting is insecure, period. This doesn’t stop organizations and governments from using it. (And for low-stakes elections, it’s probably fine.) Switzerland—not low stakes—uses online voting for national elections. Ed Appel explains why it’s a bad idea: Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 17, 2023
MI5 Warns of 'Share Rise' in Cyberespionage Nation-state hacks against Western start-ups are surging in a bid by competitor nations to glean intellectual property, warns the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. The stolen data was likely used to fast-track technological and military capabilities within adversary nations, alliance members say.
Imperial Violet
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Chrome 118 (which is rolling out to the Stable channel now) contains support for creating and accessing passkeys in iCloud Keychain. Firstly, I’d like to thank Apple for creating an API for this that browsers can use: it’s a bunch of work, and they didn’t have to. Chrome has long had support for creating WebAuthn credentials on macOS that were protected by the macOS Keychain and stored in the local Chrome profile.
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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
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Cybercrime Expert Al Pascual on the Types of Scams Banks Often Overlook Each year, financial scams cost banks up to $400 million in losses. Despite heavy investments in anti-fraud technology, banks are struggling to protect customers. Bank impersonation scams continue to be the most widely used approach for duping banking customers, said cybercrime expert Al Pascual.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The move by the e-commerce kahuna to offer advanced authentication to its 300+ million users has the potential to move the needle on the technology's adoption, security experts say.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Threat actors exploited the recently disclosed zero-day flaw (CVE-2023-20198) in a large-scale hacking campaign on Cisco IOS XE devices. Threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed critical zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2023-20198 ) to compromise thousands of Cisco IOS XE devices, security firm VulnCheck warns. Cisco this week warned customers of a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score 10), in its IOS XE Software that is actively exploited in attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 17, 2023
X is promoting Community Notes to solve its disinformation problems, but some former employees and people who currently contribute notes say it’s not fit for that purpose.
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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.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 17, 2023
What is the impact of ransomware on organizations? One employee’s mistake can cost a company millions of dollars. Studies show that human error is the root cause of more than 80% of all cyber breaches, whether malicious or unintended. The recent debilitating cyberattacks on casino and resort giants MGM and Caesars are no exception. How can just one employee mishap cost a company millions?
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Updating your browser when prompted is a good practice, just make sure the notification comes from the vendor themselves.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between since May 2023. The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm (UAC-0165) has compromised eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023, reported the Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA). According to public sources, the threat actors targeted ICS of at least 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers leading to the disruption of their servic
IBM Big Data Hub
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Heavy industries, particularly cement, steel and chemicals, are the top greenhouse gas emitting industries, contributing 25% of global CO2 emission. They use high temperature heat in many of their processes that is primarily driven by fossil fuel. Fighting climate change requires lowering heavy industry emissions. However, these industries face tremendous challenges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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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.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 17, 2023
A threat actor dubbed “Void Rabisu” used social engineering to target attendees of the Women Political Leaders (WPL) Summit that was held in Brussels from June 7 to 8, 2023, Trend Micro has found.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Once ethics guardrails are breached, generative AI and LLMs could become nearly unlimited in its capacity to enable evil acts, researchers warn.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Phishing tests are the catalyst to achieve a sustainable security culture within your organization. They are actually the start of a virtuous cycle that helps you move up to the highest maturity level.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The ClearFake campaign uses fake browser updates to lure victims and spread RedLine, Amadey, and Lumma stealers.
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AIIM
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Learn about paradata and how it can be used for documenting AI processes.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Popular cyber insurers are claiming that cybercriminals made ransomware attacks popular again in 2023 after a slight break in 2022.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Myanmar’s military junta is increasing surveillance and violating basic human rights. The combination of physical and digital surveillance is reaching dangerous new levels.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Three Easy Ways to Improve DevSecOps with Thales and Red Hat divya Tue, 10/17/2023 - 14:47 For many DevOps enthusiasts, the need to insert security considerations directly into the development cycle was often overlooked. After all, DevOps arose and gained popularity with its ability to empower developers to deliver software faster. Putting security into the forefront of the DevOps process is not always straightforward at first and can be something DevOps teams struggle to get off the ground.
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IBM Big Data Hub
OCTOBER 17, 2023
In a research brief defining “5 trends for 2023,” the IBM Institute for Business Value reports, “In 2023, rapid response is the new baseline. Uncertainty is expected and complexity is compounding. As threats materialize on multiple fronts, organizations must reduce the time from insight to action.” 1 Business and data analysts are intimately familiar with the growing business need for precise, real-time intelligence.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The two countries agree to share financial services information and provide cross-border training and best practices.
The Guardian Data Protection
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Data supplied to Biobank is not for sale, it’s not for trivial or suspect use, it’s for the good of humankind – and yet I had to jump through hoops to offer it I delight in messages from UK Biobank , making me feel useful for minimal effort. Back in 2006, with half a million others aged between 40 and 69, I signed up to this magnificent project, the world’s most advanced genetic database.
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