Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Honeypot Hits Reinforce Need for Strong Passwords and Multifactor Authentication Honeypot data collected by CISO Jesse La Grew highlights how attackers continue to target default usernames - including for SSH - together with weak passwords to gain brute force remote access to their targets. Here are essential username, password and remote service practices for combating such attacks.
The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
In an era of global economic uncertainty, fraud levels tend to surge, bringing to light the critical issue of intellectual property (IP) theft. Related: Neutralizing insider threats This pervasive problem extends beyond traditional notions of fraud, encompassing both insider threats and external risks arising from partnerships, competitors, and poor IP management.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Judge Dismisses Some Plaintiff Claims But Allows Proposed Class Action to Advance A federal judge has given the green light for attorneys to proceed with a consolidated class action lawsuit against Meta that accuses the social media giant of intercepting sensitive health information with its Pixel tracking tools used in numerous healthcare websites and patient portals.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Zscaler ThreatLabz detailed a new malware loader, named HijackLoader, which has grown in popularity over the past few months HijackLoader is a loader that is gaining popularity among the cybercriminal community. The malware is not sophisticated, however, unlike other loaders, it has a modular structure that allows supporting code injection and execution.
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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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge 'Holistic' View of Ransomware Ecosystem Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British government said Monday. Tackling variants "is akin to treating the symptoms of an illness.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Vectors Includes Teams Phishing and Malvertising Advertising on Russian-language criminal forums is paying off for the author of the DarkGate malware as reflected by a spike in infections, including an unusual phishing campaign on Microsoft Teams to deliver the loader through HR-themed social engineering chat messages.
The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
San Francisco, Calif. — Traceable AI, the industry’s leading API security company, today released its comprehensive research report – the 2023 State of API Security: A Global Study on the Reality of API Risk. Despite APIs being critical to the modern enterprise, until now, there has not been an extensive, global study offering a panoramic view of the API security landscape.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Google rolled out emergency security updates to address a new Chrome zero-day (CVE-2023-4863) actively exploited in the wild. Google rolled out emergency security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4863, is the fourth actively exploited zero-day fixed by Google in 2023.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The robot revolution began long ago, and so did the killing. One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined that it was not going fast enough. And so twenty-five-year-old Robert Williams was asked to climb into a storage rack to help move things along. The one-ton robot continued to work silently, smashing into Williams’s head and instantly killing him.
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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
U.S. CISA adds vulnerabilities in Apple devices exploited to install NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on iPhones to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the security vulnerabilities chained in the zero-click iMessage exploit BLASTPASS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
State and local governments in the US are scrambling to harness tools like ChatGPT to unburden their bureaucracies, rushing to write their own rules—and avoid generative AI's many pitfalls.
IBM Big Data Hub
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
We are in the midst of an AI revolution where organizations are seeking to leverage data for business transformation and harness generative AI and foundation models to boost productivity, innovate, enhance customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge. IBM and AWS have been working together since 2016 to provide secure, automated solutions for hybrid cloud environments.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The U.K. and U.S. governments sanctioned 11 more individuals who were alleged members of the Russia-based TrickBot cybercrime gang. The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanctioned eleven more individuals who are members of the Russia-based Trickbot cybercrime group. The sanctions were provided by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
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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.
HID Global
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Discover how banks utilize fingerprint biometrics to enhance security & user experience. Learn more about the benefits and best practices for this technology.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Cyberattackers are tapping the legitimacy of the Web-based data-visualization tool in a campaign aimed at stealing credentials and defrauding hundreds of business users.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Researchers at Truesec are tracking a phishing campaign that’s distributing the DarkGate Loader malware via external Microsoft Teams messages.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
As the law's October 2023 transition deadline approaches, it's critical for organizations doing business in Rwanda to understand its requirements and implications.
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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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Container security is the combination of cybersecurity tools, strategies, and best practices that are used to protect container ecosystems and the applications and other components they house. Containers are unique computing environments that lend many different advantages to users, but their design can also introduce new kinds of security vulnerabilities and challenges.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Archrivals face off in the cyber plane, as opportunistic hackers prey on the unpatched and generally negligent.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Thales 2023 Data Threat Report: The Increased Telco Cybersecurity Challenges in the 5G Era madhav Tue, 09/12/2023 - 05:15 Telecommunications firms have always faced a unique set of security challenges. The rapid shift to higher levels of digitization has meant they have much more dispersed infrastructure and data to protect. The substantial changes in the 5G ecosystem bring new dimensions to the telecom threat landscape and opportunities for malicious actors to exploit network security vulnerabi
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Passkeys and multifactor authentication aren't enough for combating infostealer malware, which can exfiltrate corporate data before anyone knows an attack happened.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Planning and managing your cloud ecosystem and environments is critical for reducing production downtime and maintaining a functioning workload. In the “Managing your cloud ecosystems” blog series, we cover different strategies for ensuring that your setup functions smoothly with minimal downtime. Previously, we covered keeping your workload running when updating worker nodes , managing major, minor and patch updates , and migrating workers to a new OS version.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Changing your approach when you realize you could be more efficient pays dividends, especially in six areas of your cybersecurity program.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
With the increase in government directives related to digital technology, such as the NARA memorandum to transition federal agencies to electronic records and the Modernizing Government Technology Act, the public sector is experiencing increasing pressure to modernize. Many government departments worldwide continue to depend on outdated technology and applications.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Known security vulnerabilities in the enterprise products allowed unauthorized access through a public-facing application, US Cyber Command said.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Jamf Trust on Android and macOS now provides additional information when accessing internet from captive portals. This blog discusses how Jamf Trust handles captive portals by allowing access to web traffic and notifying the user of ZTNA status.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Custom PowerShell scripts are being deployed against geofenced targets in Australia, Belgium, and Poland to exfiltrate data.
CGI
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
The impetus to accelerate digitization is growing in the transport and logistics industry. In light of today’s digital expectations, becoming data-driven is vital. However, the 2023 Voice of Our Clients (VOC) research reveals that organizational readiness and access to high-quality data and IT talent remain hurdles that transport and logistics companies must strive to overcome.
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