Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2023
In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Insights," Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, discusses ways that discriminative AI technology can filter out all of the noise from the massive volume of alerts from a portfolio of cybersecurity tools.
Jamf
AUGUST 18, 2023
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2023
Kaspersky Falls From Leaderboard as Deliberate Decision Made to Nix Russian Firms Recorded Future has joined CrowdStrike and Google atop Forrester's external threat intelligence services rankings, while Kaspersky tumbled from the leaders category. Leading threat intelligence providers have expanded into adjacent use cases such as brand protection and vulnerability management.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
A flaw impacting the file archiver utility for Windows WinRAR can allow the execution of commands on a computer by opening an archive. WinRAR is a popular file compression and archival utility for Windows operating systems. The utility is affected by a now-fixed high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-40477 (CVSS score 7.8), that can allow remote execution of arbitrary code on a computer by opening a crafted RAR archive.
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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 18, 2023
Also: Highlights from BlackHat 2023; Latest Cybersecurity M&A Activity In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity and privacy issues including highlights of interviews at Black Hat 2023, lessons learned from the success of the Lapsus$ cybercrime group's attacks and why Check Point is buying startup Perimeter 81 for $490 million.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2023
DPRK Hackers Likely Won't Match 2022 Record But Remain Formidable Thieves North Korea is on track to have a middling year of cryptocurrency theft despite Pyongyang's constant demand for ready cash. Hackers deployed by the totalitarian regime have stolen $200 million in cryptocurrency this year, far less than the country's banner year of cryptocurrency theft in 2022.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
#OpFukushima: The famous collective Anonymous has launched cyberattacks against Japan nuclear websites over Fukushima water plan. The hacker collective Anonymous has launched cyberattacks against nuclear power-linked groups in Japan as part of an operation called #OpFukushima. The campaign was launched to protest against the Government’s plan to release the treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2023
Version Uses Open-Source Communication Framework Tool for Lateral Movement Microsoft identified a new variant of BlackCat ransomware malware that uses an open-source communication framework tool to facilitate lateral movement. BlackCat, also known as Alphv, is a Russian-speaking criminal group suspected of being a successor to DarkSide and BlackMatter.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
A massive social engineering campaign is targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server to steal their login credentials. ESET researchers uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server since April 2023. Zimbra Collaboration is an open-core collaborative software platform. The campaign is still ongoing and is targeting a wide range of small and medium businesses and governmental entities.
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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2023
Targets Include Small and Medium Businesses and Government Agencies Threat actors are on a phishing spree targeting users of Zimbra Collaboration email suite, in particular small and medium businesses and government agencies. Security firm Eset on Thursday revealed the ongoing campaign, writing that the hackers behind it have been active since at least April.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2023
An international law enforcement operation across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 cybercriminals. A coordinated law enforcement operation conducted by INTERPOL and AFRIPOL across 25 African countries has led to the arrest of 14 suspected cybercriminals and the identification of 20,674 suspicious cyber networks. The operation demonstrates the surge in cybercriminal activities in the region.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 18, 2023
During my two years as the CEO of a Public Company , Bloomberg became one of my go-to sources for financial news. I am still subscribed and today found an interesting story from Drake Bennett in New York.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 18, 2023
The Digital Operational Resilience Act , or DORA, is a European Union (EU) regulation that created a binding, comprehensive information and communication technology (ICT) risk-management framework for the EU financial sector. DORA establishes technical standards that financial entities and their critical third-party technology service providers must implement in their ICT systems by January 17, 2025.
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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.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2023
Interesting research: “ An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs “: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the years, as their use grew, techniques to defeat or bypass CAPTCHAS have continued to improve. Meanwhile, CAPTCHAS have also evolved in terms of sophistication and diversity, becoming increasingly difficult to solve for both bots (machines) and humans.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
If rule writing for SIEMs isn't managed properly, it can lead to false positives and misconfigurations, which create extra work for the SOC team.
Data Matters
AUGUST 18, 2023
On July 18, 2023, Oregon joined the growing league of states that have passed a comprehensive data privacy framework. Signed into law by Gov. Tina Kotek, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (the Act), or SB 619 , is the product of a multi-year effort by the state Consumer Privacy Task Force formed by Oregon Attorney General Ellen F. Rosenblum, comprising 150 consumer privacy experts from various industries.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
In this Dark Reading News Desk segment, Brendan O'Connor, CEO and Co-Founder of AppOmni describes some of the biggest security challenges for securing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
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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.
National Archives Records Express
AUGUST 18, 2023
Hurricane Hilary has rapidly intensified into a Category 4 storm and is headed toward Southern California and the Southwestern United States. Hilary is expected to produce rainfall amounts of 3 to 6 inches, with isolated maximum amounts up to 10 inches, across portions of the Baja California Peninsula through Sunday night. Flash flooding, locally significant, will be possible.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
Interpol- and Afripol-led crackdown disrupts cybercrime ecosystem responsible for some $40 million in losses to victims.
The Guardian Data Protection
AUGUST 18, 2023
Leading author of FoI Act says system weakened by government and civil servants’ resistance to openness A leading author of the UK Freedom of Information Act has called for a parliamentary review into the system after serious data breaches by police forces in responses to FoI requests. The call by Lord Clark of Windermere, designer of New Labour’s 1998 proposals that laid the groundwork for the law , comes after accusations that Rishi Sunak’s government is failing to disclose information under t
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
CISA's public-private partnership produces RMM strategies to shore up critical infrastructure and to educate the MSPs that provide remote access to them.
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IG Guru
AUGUST 18, 2023
Check out the press release here. The post NIST Drafts Major Update to Its Widely Used Cybersecurity Framework first appeared on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
In this Dark Reading News Desk segment, Sysdig's Anna Belak discusses how the boom in cloud services and applications expanded the definition of what constitutes an endpoint.
CILIP
AUGUST 18, 2023
Connecting town and gown through the library CILIP Conference 2023 landed in Birmingham in July, bring people together to discuss new developments, share ideas and make new connections. The main theme was leadership – but speakers and delegates did not always fit into a traditional notion of leadership. Instead. it was about recognising that anyone can be a leader, no matter what their job title.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
In this Dark Reading News Desk segment, Jim Ivers and Natasha Gupta of Synopsys discuss application security posture management and software consolidation.
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Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2023
Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce : It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups, which include the Mild Fish Sauce for Kids and Mild Fish Sauce for Silver Ages. It also has a Vegan Fish Sauce. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
Neglecting security of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and other routing protocols has created multiple vulnerabilities that must be addressed.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2023
In this Dark Reading News Desk segment, Mike Wyatt and John Ayers of Cyderes discuss how artificial intelligence has already been weaponized against businesses and consumers.
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