Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Successful AI Implementation Requires a Secure Foundation, Attention to Regulations The private sector's frenzy to incorporate generative AI into products is leading companies to overlook basic security practices, a Google executive warned Tuesday. "Most people are still struggling with the basics," said John Stone, whose title at Google Cloud is "chaos coordinator.
The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Creating ever smarter security software to defend embattled company networks pretty much sums up the cybersecurity industry. Related: The security role of semiconductors Cutting against the grain, Flexxon , a Singapore-based supplier of NAND memory drives and storage devices, arrived at Black Hat USA 2023 calling for a distinctive hardware approach to repelling cyber attacks.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Also: The CISO's Role in AI Rollouts; Responding to Ransomware; Liability Concerns This week, ISMG editors covered the hot topics at ISMG's London Cybersecurity Summit 2023, including the technical landscape of AI, executive liability, incident response strategies in the face of a global ransomware attack and how to build personal resilience to avoid burnout.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Fletcher Previn, SVP and CIO at Cisco, returned to JNUC to enlighten us about Cisco’s employee choice program. Previn presents data gathered from Cisco’s workforce of 130,000 people over the 12 months of the program, diving into the impact the program had on their employees’ happiness and performance, IT department and security strength of the business.
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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 20, 2023
Talon Is in Line for a 9-Figure Deal Just 29 Months After Emerging From Stealth Last year's winner of RSA Conference's prestigious Innovation Sandbox contest could soon be acquired by Palo Alto Networks, according to Calcalist. The platform security behemoth is in advanced negotiations to purchase enterprise browser startup Talon Cyber Security for $600 million, Calcalist said.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
HHS: North Korean-Sponsored Group Is Exploiting Critical Zoho ManageEngine Flaw Federal authorities are warning of "significant risk" for potential attacks on healthcare and public health sector entities by the North Korean state-sponsored Lazarus Group involving exploitation of a critical vulnerability in 24 Zoho ManageEngine products.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Researchers discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nagios XI network and IT infrastructure monitoring and management solution. Researchers discovered four vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-40931, CVE-2023-40932, CVE-2023-40933, CVE-2023-40934) in the Nagios XI network and IT infrastructure monitoring solution that could lead to information disclosure and privilege escalation.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Cabinet Ministers Call on Facebook to Stop Rollout of Encrypted Messaging A day after the British Parliament approved a bill intended to eradicate child abuse content, cabinet officials called on social media giant Meta to halt a rollout of end-to-end encryption. Meta hasn't provided assurances that it will safeguard users, charged Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
A supposed exploit for a notable RCE vulnerability in the popular Windows file-archiving utility delivers a big sting for unwitting researchers and cybercriminals.
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
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
These Hackers May Equal or Surpass Threat Posed by Russian Hackers, Researchers Say Chinese-speaking hackers associated with criminal activity have redoubled efforts to target compatriots with malware to remotely control victim computers, pointing to a worrying surge in financially driven activity in the Sino cyber underworld, say researchers at Proofpoint.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Finnish police announced the takedown of the dark web marketplace PIILOPUOTI which focuses on the sale of illegal narcotics. Finnish Customs announced the seizure of the dark web marketplace Piilopuoti as part of an international law enforcement operation. The dark web marketplace PIILOPUOTI has been active since May 18, 2022. “The site operated as a hidden service in the encrypted Tor network.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
M&A Gives WatchGuard Clients More Visibility Into East-West Traffic, Cloud Activity WatchGuard purchased a Massachusetts company to extend network detection and response capabilities traditionally reserved for high-end enterprises to the midmarket through MSPs. The deal gives WatchGuard clients more visibility into east-west network traffic and activity taking place on the cloud.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
A cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court (ICC) disclosed a cyberattack this week, its systems were compromised last week. The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that threat actors have breached its systems last week. The experts at the International Criminal Court discovered the intrusion after having detected anomalous activity affecting its information systems.
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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
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The group's use of malware that forces Windows computers to reboot into Safe Mode before encrypting files is noteworthy, advisory says.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
GitLab rolled out security patches to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5009, that can be exploited to run pipelines as another user. GitLab has released security patches to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5009 (CVSS score: 9.6), that allows an attacker to run pipelines as another user. The issue resides in GitLab EE and affects all versions starting from 13.12 and prior to 16.2.7, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.4. “An issue has been
IBM Big Data Hub
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Few technologies have taken the world by storm the way artificial intelligence (AI) has over the past few years. AI and its many use cases have become a topic of public discussion no longer relegated to tech experts. AI—generative AI, in particular—has tremendous potential to transform society as we know it for good, boost productivity and unlock trillions in economic value in the coming years.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings in 2013 to 3.5 million in 2021, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. The number of unfilled jobs leveled off in 2022, and remains at 3.5 million in 2023, with more than 750,000 of those positions in the U.S.
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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.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The latest data from IBM shows that the average cost of a data breach has gone up by 2% to a whopping $4.45 million. You would think that in the cybersecurity industry, people would be all about safety and security, right? I mean, it's literally in the name.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The CISO's role has grown far beyond supervising Patch Tuesday to focus on prevention and response and to cover people, processes, and technology.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Now entering its third year in business, the phishing platform, Classicam, represents the highest evolution of an “as a service” cybercrime, aiding more than 1000 attack groups worldwide.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The group known as "Cyber Avengers" has targeted other Israeli services in the past and often publishes technical details of its hits.
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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.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
There’s been a surge of Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency scams on TikTok, BleepingComputer reports. The scammers inform the victims that they can claim their reward after spending a small amount of bitcoin (about $132) to activate their account.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The GitLab code hijacks computer resources to mine Dero cryptocurrency as part of a larger cryptomining operation.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
New data on the state of cyber insurance shows that it’s becoming more difficult to get a policy, and the organizations obtaining one share that circumstances could cause denial of claims.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The bug has a CVSS score of 9.6 and allows unauthorized users to compromise private repositories.
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KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
New SMS-based phishing attack uses a new smishing kit-as-a-service to impersonate the U.S. Postal Service intent on trick victims into giving up credit.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
A linguist analyzes whether GPT will improve the notoriously agrammatical scam — or finally render it a thing of the past.
IBM Big Data Hub
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
For the last three years, IBM has worked with two-time champion Eli Manning to help spread the word about our partnership with ESPN. The nature of that partnership is pretty technical, involving powerful AI models—built with watsonx —that analyze massive data sets to generate insights that help ESPN Fantasy Football team owners manage their teams.
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