Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2023
Latest Tally of Clop Campaign Victims: 670 Organizations, 46 Million Individuals The fallout from the Clop cybercrime group's mass theft of data from MOVEit servers continues to increase. Colorado's state healthcare agency alone is now notifying 4 million affected individuals. The latest tally of victims has reached 670 organizations and 46 million individuals.
Weissman's World
AUGUST 14, 2023
Q: “Aioli? What’s aioli?” A: “It’s just mayonnaise.” Q: “What’s information governance?” A: That’s the topic of today’s edition of Speaking Of! Join me and Elizabeth Weeks of the Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan as we discuss the need to know our audiences and communicate in their terms. Just as restaurateurs do when telling uninitiated… Read More » IG Needs a Makeover (or, It’s Just Mayonnaise) The post IG Needs a Makeover (or, It’s Just Mayonnaise) appeared first on
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2023
Multiple Challenges Can Delay Breach Response and Notification, Experts Say A Georgia healthcare system is notifying over 180,000 individuals of a data compromise involving a hack first detected a year ago, in which attackers accessed and copied a range of patient information. The incident spotlights growing breach response and notification challenges some entities face.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 14, 2023
John Clifton Davies , a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investment schemes, has a brand new pair of scam companies that are busy dashing startup dreams: A fake investment firm called Equity-Invest[.]ch , and Diligere[.]co.uk , a scam due diligence company that Equity-Invest insists all investment partners use.
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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
AUGUST 14, 2023
Legion Partners Calls on Identity Verification Provider to Reduce Costs, Find Buyer An activist investor urged identity verification and e-signature provider OneSpan to cut costs, return more money to shareholders and find a buyer for the company. "We strongly believe there are numerous strategic and financial parties interested in acquiring OneSpan," Legion Partners said Monday.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2023
Vulnerabilities Found in CyberPower and Dataprobe Products Multiple vulnerabilities in data center power management systems and supply technologies enable threat actors to gain unauthorized access and perform remote code injection. The attackers can chain multiple vulnerabilities to gain full access to data center systems.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 14, 2023
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclose a data breach after MOVEit attack on IBM. The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) disclosed a data breach that impacted more than four million individuals. The incident is the result of a MOVEit attack on IBM, threat actors accessed the personal and health information of the impacted individuals. “After IBM notified HCPF that it was impacted by the MOVEit incident, HCPF launched an in
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2023
The Different Types of API Attacks and Best Practices for API Security Real-time protection against API attacks is nonnegotiable for the protection of any web application or digital service that relies on application programming interfaces. Here are some of the most common types of API attacks and strategies for protecting against them in real time.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 14, 2023
Experts warn of ongoing attacks, dubbed Xurum, targeting e-commerce websites using Adobe’s Magento 2 CMS. Akamai researchers warn of ongoing attacks, dubbed Xurum, targeting e-commerce websites running the Magento 2 CMS. The attackers are actively exploiting a server-side template injection issue, tracked as CVE-2022-24086 , (CVSS score: 9.8), in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2023
Second Round of Layoffs Comes 6 Months After Secureworks Eliminated 9% of Employees Secureworks has executed its second round of layoffs since February, axing 15% of its workforce as the company pursues high-growth products and improved operating margins. The company will reduce its 2,149-person staff by roughly 322 positions as it seeks break-even adjusted EBITDA by January 2024.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 14, 2023
We previously reported independently on PDF-based phishing attacks skyrocketing and the rise of SEO attacks. A recent research study found that the combination of both is quite common. Most worryingly, PDF-based SEO attacks are poorly detected by common defense mechanisms such as blocklists, ad blockers or even crowdsourced antivirus services VirusTotal.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2023
Attack Underscores Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Russian-speaking ransomware hackers may be responsible for deploying malware onto the network of an electric utility in southern Africa in an attack researchers say underscores heightened risks of industrial ransomware attacks. An unknown actor deployed a variant of SystemBC malware dubbed DroxiDat.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 14, 2023
For the fourth consecutive year, we received a Tech Cares Award from TrustRadius! This fourth annual award celebrates companies that have gone above and beyond to provide strong Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2023
Adopting these recommendations will help SMBs and public-sector agencies that must deal with the same questions of network security and data safety as their larger cousins, but without the same resources.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 14, 2023
Law firms are being targeted by a large number of social engineering attacks involving the Gootloader malware delivery tool, according to researchers at Trustwave.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 14, 2023
I've been teaching my 13-year old son Ari how to code since I first got him started on Scratch many years ago, and gradually progressed through to the current day where he's getting into Python in Visual Studio Code. As I was writing the new domain search API for Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) over the course of this year, I was trying to explain to him how powerful APIs are: Think of HIBP as one website that does pretty much one thing; you load it in your browser and search through data bre
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 14, 2023
No one likes the hassle of dealing with patch management or vulnerability management , but it is universally agreed that security breaches are far worse. Many organizations try to proactively patch and manage vulnerabilities to prevent attackers from gaining any foothold. Google announced this week that it will now push out weekly security updates to Chrome to help make users more secure.
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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.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 14, 2023
The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story : The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be after anything they could get their hands on—plans, capabilities, assessments of military shortcomings, according to three former senior U.S. officials, who were among a dozen current and former U.S. and Japanese officials interviewed, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matte
KnowBe4
AUGUST 14, 2023
TL;DR - The future of finance is intertwined with artificial intelligence (AI), and according to SEC Chair Gary Gensler, it's not all positive. In fact, Gensler warns in a 2020 paper —when he was still at MIT—that AI could be at the heart of the next financial crisis, and regulators might be powerless to prevent it.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2023
Company's experience highlights the tightrope tech organizations walk when integrating AI into their products and services.
IG Guru
AUGUST 14, 2023
Check out the article here. The post Google’s Jigsaw was trying to fight toxic speech with AI. Then the AI started talking via Fast Company first appeared on IG GURU.
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2023
State's Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is the latest to acknowledge an attack by the Russian group's ongoing exploitation of third-party systems.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 14, 2023
The rise of generative AI has surfaced many new questions about how the technology will impact the workforce. Even as AI becomes more pervasive in business, people are still a core competitive advantage. But business leaders are facing a host of talent-related challenges, as a new global study from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) reveals , from the skills gap to shifting employee expectations to the need for new operating models.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2023
Messaging from joint summit in Saint Petersburg amounts to little more than "diplomatic subterfuge," observers note.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 14, 2023
Maintaining the Optimal Blend for Digital Success madhav Tue, 08/15/2023 - 04:57 Operating in an increasingly challenging digital landscape, organizations must maintain a delicate balance between user experience, security, and privacy in every interaction. Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) plays a key role in this narrative – and this eBook explores exactly how.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2023
Abandoned sites — like Wordpress — are easy to break into, offer a legitimate looking cover, and can remain active for longer than average.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 14, 2023
The wide-ranging scams, often disguised as game promotions, can all be linked back to one network.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2023
The industry's understanding of mobile or client-side security is too limited, leaving many mobile apps vulnerable. Don't let these three myths lead you astray.
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