Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
SEC: Executives Left in Dark About Vulnerability in File-Sharing System Title insurance company First American Financial Corp. will pay the SEC a $488,000 penalty as a result of a data breach revealed two years ago. Information security staff members were aware of the vulnerability in the company's EaglePro document-sharing system for five months but failed to fix it, the SEC reports.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 21, 2021
Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
Attackers Exploited VPN Flaw at Nuclear Agency The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, a South Korean organization, confirms it was recently hacked, apparently by a North Korean group that exploited a VPN vulnerability.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA was hit by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang that also published more than 700GB of stolen data. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published on its leak sites more than 700GB of data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. The group published the link to 13 password-protected archives, allegedly containing sensitive data stolen from the chipmaker. “!
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
JUNE 21, 2021
Clinic Says It Regained Control of Network, Data Reproductive Biology Associates, an Atlanta-based clinic operator, and its affiliate, MyEggBank North America, report their systems were hit by a ransomware attack in April but say they regained control of their network and data after contacting the attackers.
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Schneier on Security
JUNE 21, 2021
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology has a new report: “ Machine Learning and Cybersecurity: Hype and Reality.” Here’s the bottom line: The report offers four conclusions: Machine learning can help defenders more accurately detect and triage potential attacks. However, in many cases these technologies are elaborations on long-standing methods — not fundamentally new approaches — that bring new attack surfaces of their own.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
Threat actors in January attempted to poison the water at a US facility, a circumstance that highlights the importance of cybersecurity for water and wastewater utilities. The news that a threat actor in January attempted to poison the water at a facility in the U.S. made the headlines and highlights the importance of protecting critical infrastructure from hackers.
Threatpost
JUNE 21, 2021
Cleanup in aisle "Oops": The supermarket chain said that it misconfigured two cloud databases, exposing customer data to public scrutiny.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JUNE 21, 2021
Authors: Carolyn Bigg , Venus Cheung, Fangfang Song. China’s Data Security Law (“ DSL ”) has come into force and takes effect on 1 September 2021. The speed of its passing has left multinational businesses scrabbling to understand the key compliance obligations. While many of the practical compliance steps will be detailed in measures and guidelines to be published over the coming weeks and months, here’s what we already know: 1.
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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.
Threatpost
JUNE 21, 2021
Chipmaker patches nine high-severity bugs in its Jetson SoC framework tied to the way it handles low-level cryptographic algorithms.
Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2021
Attackers target companies' container supply chain, driving a sixfold increase in a year, aiming to steal processing time for cryptomining and compromise cloud infrastructure.
Threatpost
JUNE 21, 2021
An unsophisticated campaign shows that the pandemic still has long legs when it comes to being social-engineering bait.
Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2021
The SEC has sent out letters to some investment firms and publicly listed companies seeking information, Reuters says.
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Threatpost
JUNE 21, 2021
Approximately 38,000 of RBA's customers had their embryology data stolen by a ransomware gang.
Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2021
The school district has spent seven months and a reported $8.1 million recovering from the November attack.
Threatpost
JUNE 21, 2021
… until you reset network settings and stop connecting to a weirdly named network, that is. FUD is spreading. iOS Wi-Fi demolition is not.
CGI
JUNE 21, 2021
Using scenario planning to help supply chains bounce back. Before drawing conclusions about the resilience of manufacturing supply chains, we must first establish how they will bounce back from over a year of intense pressure and change. pooja.cs@cgi.com. Mon, 06/21/2021 - 01:46.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2021
Reproductive Biology Associates says the data of 38,000 patients may have been compromised in the April cyberattack.
Record Nations
JUNE 21, 2021
As June 2021 comes to a close, the future of remote work still seems up in the air. While the United States seems to be keeping Covid-19 at bay, other countries are still struggling to get the virus under control. States are beginning to re-open, and employees are starting to return to the office. At […]. The post The Future of Remote Work (2021) appeared first on Record Nations.
Docuware
JUNE 21, 2021
DocuWarians is a blog feature that introduces you to the people behind the product. In this post, Gigi Kelso, Manager of Collections and Accounts Receivable tells us about her experience working with and without digital document management.
IG Guru
JUNE 21, 2021
Check out the article here. The post Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space? via Gizmodo appeared first on IG GURU.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 21, 2021
Ransomware has been a problem for decades, so why is government just now beginning to address it?
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The British intelligence agency MI5 seized Boris Johnson ‘s phone over concerns related to the availability of his number online for the last 15 years. The British Security Service, also known as MI5, has seized the mobile devices used by PM Boris Johnson over concerns that were raised after the discovery of the availability of its number online for the last 15 years.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 21, 2021
On June 21, 2021, following a public consultation, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published the final version of its recommendations on supplementary measures in the context of international transfer safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) (the “Recommendations”). The EDPB released its first draft of the Recommendations in November 2020, following the Schrems II judgement.
The Schedule
JUNE 21, 2021
Please Join us! We have an informative and lively session planned! Register here. DESCRIPTION Agenda: 1. RMS Committee Annual Overview (Jessika Drmacich, Chair; Krista Oldham, Vice-Chair) 2. Panel Discussion: “Presidential Records and Presidential Transitions: The View from NARA” Presidential Records and Presidential Transitions: The View from NARA Two National Archives leaders who work closely with the White House will be joining us to talk about how the Presidential Records Act rea
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Data Matters
JUNE 21, 2021
On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline experienced a ransomware cyberattack on its corporate network. This attack, attributed to the DarkSide hacking group, led the company to temporarily halt the operation of its pipeline network—causing fuel shortages throughout the East Coast. Although highly publicized, the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack is not unique.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
Bills Address Criminal Penalties, School District Protection and More Republican and Democratic lawmakers have recently introduced several cybersecurity-related bills seeking to address issues ranging from imposing tougher penalties for cybercriminals to improving protection of school districts.
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