Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Also: Hackers Scrooge The North Face Holiday Shipments This week, MongoDB blamed a phishing email for causing unauthorized access to its corporate environment, hackers interrupted VF Corp. holiday shipping, Britain electrical grid operator National Grid dropped a Chinese supplier, German authorities shut down an online criminal bazaar, and more.
AIIM
DECEMBER 21, 2023
As organizations have settled into the business of the business, one thing seems clear: the new workplace is much different than the one we were used to. Remote work and virtual teams are now a prevalent way of working, with on-site employees often the exception rather than the rule. Now that work-from-home has proven to be a viable alternative, C-Suite executives and business owners are less likely to invest in the resources, infrastructure, and space needed for all of their workers to return t
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Also: $3M NFT Trader Theft; Binance's CTFC Settlement This week, Ledger looked to reimburse hack victims, NFT Trader suffered a $3 million theft, the U.S. DOJ announced the first criminal case involving a DeFi smart contract, a court approved Binance's settlement with the U.S. CFTC and a Nigerian court sentenced a pig -butchering scammer.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 21, 2023
An exposed instance contained information for a customer relationship management (CRM) system that likely belongs to Goyzer, a real estate property management software maker, the Cybernews research team has discovered. The data was leaked via a publicly exposed and passwordless MongoDB database, which has since been closed. Businesses employ MongoDB to organize and store large swaths of document-oriented information.
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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
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Cisco Continues Investments in New Cloud Security Offerings With Isovalent Deal Cisco announced plans to acquire another cloud security startup as part of a series of recent acquisitions and investments in the company’s multi-cloud networking capabilities and security offerings, including the major $28 billion acquisition of Splunk.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 21, 2023
A Multitude of Considerations for Entities As Use of Genomic Data Advances The explosion in applications using genomic data - from drug and vaccine development and consumer ancestry testing to law enforcement work - is heightening the need to carefully address critical privacy and security concerns around this sensitive data, government authorities say in a new report.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882, to spread the Agent Tesla malware. Threat actors are exploiting an old Microsoft Office vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), as part of phishing campaigns to spread the Agent Tesla malware. Agent Tesla is a spyware that is used to spy on the victims by collecting keystrokes, system clipboard, screenshots, and credentials from the infected system.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Senate Approves Pentagon Nominees After Republican Lawmaker Drops 10-Month Blockade Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh has been confirmed as the next head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., ended a 10-month protest over a Pentagon policy allowing service members to seek travel reimbursement and paid time off when in need of an abortion.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 21, 2023
ESET fixes a high-severity flaw in Secure Traffic Scanning Feature that could have been exploited to cause web browsers to trust sites that should not be trusted. ESET has addressed a vulnerability (CVE-2023-5594, CVSS score 7.5) in the Secure Traffic Scanning Feature, preventing potential exploitation that could lead web browsers to trust websites using certificates signed with outdated and insecure algorithms.
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
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Exploit for WebRTC Exists in the Wild Google rolled out security updates Wednesday for its Chrome web browser to fix a critical vulnerability exploited in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow bug in the WebRTC framework that allows real-time communication between different browsers and devices.
KnowBe4
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Cybercriminals of the lowest kind breached as many as 800,000 patients and then sent emails threatening to sell their data if they didn’t pay a fee to block it from selling.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The Solntsepek group has taken credit for the attack. They’re linked to the Russian military, so it’s unclear whether the attack was government directed or freelance. This is one of the most significant cyberattacks since Russia invaded in February 2022.
KnowBe4
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Marketplaces such as OLVX are shifting from the dark web to the open web to take advantage of traditional web services to assist in marketing to and providing access to new customers.
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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.
CILIP
DECEMBER 21, 2023
2023 Retrospective: One year at CILIP & 125 years of Chartership 125 years since we received our Royal Charter from Queen Victoria, 2023 has been a year of advocacy, action, and new beginnings for CILIP. To celebrate this century and a quarter of Royal Chartership, we created the CILIP 125, a group of 125 cross-sector librarians and info-pros who have shown outstanding work and talent in our field, that were announced CILIP’s leadership-focussed conference in July.
KnowBe4
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The advent of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) as a monetized business on the Internet has shifted pornography into the realm of undressing anyone you like.
Hanzo Learning Center
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The second part of our 2023 legal tech review series explores the intricate world of data management and collaboration within the legal sector. As the legal industry navigates through the digital transformation, challenges arise in effectively managing and analyzing the ever-growing volumes of collaboration data. This segment delves into how these complexities are being addressed and the role of AI in streamlining data management processes, particularly in the context of pre-litigation scenarios
KnowBe4
DECEMBER 21, 2023
In response to what Google calls “over trust” in the web address lock icon to indicate that a site is authentic and its’ communications are secure, they’ve swapped the lock out in an attempt to engage Chrome users in thinking about their own secure browsing.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Cloud operations are an essential part of everyday business for most companies today. And for some organizations, it can be a significant portion of the budget, which means that without proper oversight or discipline, waste and inefficiencies can cost them a lot of money. It can also result in environmentally inefficient IT operations. OpenText … The post FinOps and GreenOps drive efficient and green spending appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
John Battelle's Searchblog
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Well that was one hell of a year. As I do each December, it’s time to grade my own homework. And the past twelve months certainly started out well. But unless a certain fascistic presidential candidate has a change of heart in the next few days (he won’t), I’m afraid I didn’t break.500 this year (last year I was smokin’ hot , I must say).
Information Matters
DECEMBER 21, 2023
A new study published in Business Horizons explores how emerging artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities can enhance knowledge management within enterprises. It articulates AI’s potential role across fundamental dimensions including creating, Read more The post Artificial Intelligence: An Opportunity to Augment How Companies Manage Knowledge appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 21, 2023
A deep dive into the ICO’s numbers We often hear the terms ‘accidental breach’ and ‘internal threat’, but how common are these phenomena? To find out, we looked at the ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s Office) public data set , specifically looking into four data breach types caused by human error: Data emailed to incorrect recipient. Data posted or faxed to incorrect recipient.
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IG Guru
DECEMBER 21, 2023
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Jamf
DECEMBER 21, 2023
By the end of December 2023, multiple NoMAD projects will become read-only and will no longer be maintained.
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Reshoring manufacturing to the US has been a significant trend in recent years, driven by geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, proximity to customers and markets, eco-system synergies and the need for positive impact on the domestic economy. However, reshoring presents several challenges—mainly workforce, technical and economic issues.
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