Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2023
Authorities In Multiple Countries Arrest Operators of 16Shop An international law enforcement operation took down a phishing-as-a-service website that security researchers say was responsible for more than 150,000 phishing domains. The site, 16shop, sold phishing kits that targeted more than 70,000 people in 43 countries.
Jamf
AUGUST 9, 2023
In this webinar series, Aaron Webb explains what security frameworks are, their importance and explains the critical role they play when securing your organization’s environment. This includes the importance of establishing risk management and compliance best practices and how Jamf solutions brings together device management, user identity and endpoint security for a comprehensive security solution based on the security framework that meets your organizational needs.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 9, 2023
From e-waste to conference swag to addressing data center energy consumption, cybersecurity stakeholders need a whole-industry approach to being part of the solution and reducing the risk of climate change.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 6, 2023
LAS VEGAS — One fundamental reason some 7,000 or so IT pros are making the trek here this week is that no one ever wants to get caught in the crossfire of a devastating data breach. Related: A call to regulate facial recognition That said, a few dozen CISOs attending Black Hat USA 2023 will get to experience, hands-on, what it must have been like to be in the crucible of milestone hacks like Capital One, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline.
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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 8, 2023
Rubrik Spent More Than $100M to Acquire the Data Security Posture Management Vendor Rubrik purchased a data security posture management startup backed by Salesforce and SentinelOne to provide visibility into where a company's data lives and who has access. The Laminar buy will help organizations expand beyond network and endpoint security and into cloud and data security.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 9, 2023
A newly patched flaw in Windows Defender allows attackers to hijack the signature-update process to sneak in malware, delete benign files, and inflict mayhem on target systems.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 7, 2023
LAS VEGAS — Penetration testing, traditionally, gave businesses a nice, pretty picture of their network security posture — at a given point in time. Related: Going on the security offensive Such snapshots proved useful for building audit trails, particularly for companies in heavily regulated industries. However, manual pentests never really were very effective at shining a light on emerging cyber exposures of the moment.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2023
So Far, 3 Proposed Class Actions Allege Negligence in Case Affecting 1.3M People Tampa General Hospital is facing at least three proposed federal class action lawsuits filed in recent days following the nonprofit Florida healthcare provider's disclosure late last month of a data theft incident that affected 1.3 million patients and employees.
Data Matters
AUGUST 10, 2023
On July 26, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) proposed new rules for broker-dealers (Proposed Rule 15(1)-2) and investment advisers (Proposed Rule 211(h)(2)-4) on the use of predictive data analytics (PDA) and PDA-like technologies in any interactions with investors. 1 However, as discussed below, the scope of a “covered technology” subject to the rules is much broader than what most observers would consider to constitute predictive data analytics.
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.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
AUGUST 8, 2023
Authors: Carolyn Bigg, Amanda Ge and Venus Cheung On July 24, 2023, the People’s Bank of China (“ PBOC ”) released the Measures for the Management of Data Security in the Business Areas Falling into PBOC’s Jurisdiction (Draft for Comment) (“ Draft Measures” ) for public consultation, which closes on August 24, 2023. The Draft Measures regulate the processing of electronic data collected and generated during the course of business activities that are under the supervision and management of
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 7, 2023
We all get spam emails, and while it’s annoying, it’s not usually anything to worry about. However, getting a huge influx of spam at once is a warning sign. People suddenly getting a lot of spam emails may be the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack. Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Someone leaking, stealing or selling account information can cause a sudden influx of spam emails.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 8, 2023
Cybercrime Group Defrauded Nearly 200,000 Euros Spanish police estimate that a group that mainly targeted ATMs of Spanish national banks using cloned payment cards had fraudulently pocketed nearly 196,000 euros. Authorities arrested three suspected members of the group Sunday in the Spanish coastal city of Valencia.
Collibra
AUGUST 8, 2023
Is your organization excited by the potential of generative AI? As a data practitioner, are you wondering how you’ll navigate your company’s journey to LLM-inspired success? You’re in luck. Recently, Collibra’s Co-founder & Chief Data Citizen, Stijn “Stan” Christiaens, and Accenture’s Cloud First Chief Technologist, Teresa Tung, sat down to chat about the current craze around generative AI and the renewed importance of data.
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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.
IT Governance
AUGUST 7, 2023
Welcome to our August 2023 catches of the month feature, in which we explore the latest phishing scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. This month, we have a pair of stories about Microsoft. The first looks at an alarming rise in phishing scams that impersonate the tech firm, while the second discusses a new security feature that’s designed to protect users from password compromise.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 8, 2023
Palo Alto, Calif., Aug. 8, 2023 – SandboxAQ today announced Sandwich, an open source framework and meta-library of cryptographic algorithms that simplifies modern cryptography management. With an intuitive, unified API, Sandwich empowers developers to embed the cryptographic algorithms of their choice directly into their applications and to change them as technologies and threats evolve – without rewriting code.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 11, 2023
Also: Crypto's Bonnie and Clyde Plead Guilty; Hackers Hacking Hackers In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss the White House's debut of a $20 million contest to exterminate bugs with AI, a New York man admitting to being behind the Bitfinex hack, and a new malware campaign that is targeting newbie cybercriminals in order to steal sensitive information.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2023
Zoom changed its terms of service requiring users to allow AI to train on all their data without giving them an opt-out option. Zoom updated its terms of service and informed users that it will train its artificial intelligence models using some of its data. The update will be effective as of July 27, and accepting the ToS users will give Zoom the right to utilize some aspects of customer data for training its AI models.
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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 8, 2023
We would like to call your attention to three recent releases from our office. First, the GRS team has recently produced an updated version of the machine-implementable GRS file. This update adds a new field containing the full disposition instruction in text form. We produce this version of the GRS as a resource for agencies. Agencies can upload the CSV file into their records management systems as an aid to applying the GRS to their records.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 8, 2023
LAS VEGAS — Shadow IT and BYOD security exposures have long bedeviled businesses – ever since the iPhone and Dropbox first came on the scene. Covid 19 only intensified the problem of how to securely manage the personally owned devices and unvetted apps employees gravitate to. At Black Hat USA 2023 , taking place here this week, suppliers of unified endpoint management ( UEM ) solutions collectively will lay out a roadmap for resolving Shadow IT and BYOD once and for all.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2023
Information From 2004 to 2020 Exposed for High School Students, Teachers and Others Colorado's Department of Higher Education is warning that it suffered a ransomware attack in June, in which attackers stole personal data on current and past students and teachers, dating from 2004 to 2020. While the state has yet to wrap its probe, the victim count could be massive.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2023
Experts found 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that displayed advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. Recently, researchers from McAfee’s Mobile Research Team discovered 43 Android apps in Google Play with 2.5 million installs that loaded advertisements while a phone’s screen was off. The experts pointed out that this behavior violates Google Play Developer policy , in impacts the advertisers who pay for Ads that will be never displayed to the users, a
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 11, 2023
Most social engineering scams search out their potential victims, often sending emails to known email addresses, sending chat messages to them or calling known phone numbers. The attackers take an active role in seeking out and making contact with their victims. For that reason, we often say that everyone needs to be initially suspicious of any unrequested contact, no matter how it arrives, that is requesting an action that if performed by the receiver, could harm their or their organization’s i
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 9, 2023
New York, N.Y., Aug.9, 2023 – Today, the Fireblocks Cryptography Research Team announced the findings of multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in some of the most used cryptographic multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, including GG-18, GG-20, and implementations of Lindell 17. If left unremediated, the exposures would allow attackers and malicious insiders to drain funds from the wallets of millions of retail and institutional customers in seconds, with no knowledge to the user or vendor.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2023
Loss of 470 Workers Is Cybersecurity Industry's Second-Largest Workforce Reduction Rapid7 will lay off close to 1 in 5 of its employees in cuts that amount to the second-largest round of layoffs of any pure-play cybersecurity company since worries about an economic downturn began percolating in spring 2022. The vendor will reduce its 2,623-person staff by 18%.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 8, 2023
The LockBit ransomware group threatens to leak medical data of cancer patients stolen from Varian Medical Systems. The LockBit ransomware group claims to have hacked the healthcare company Varian Medical Systems and threatens to leak the medical data of cancer patients. Varian Medical Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services medical devices and software products for treating cancer and other medical conditions worldwide.
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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
AUGUST 9, 2023
As the retirement countdown for the current version of PCI is now less than six months, a new standard for password length, complexity, and change frequency may create some risk.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 10, 2023
In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Today, four teens picked up where they left off.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 11, 2023
In this episode of CyberEd.io's podcast series "Cybersecurity Insights," Aaron Cockerill of Lookout discussed the benefits and concerns associated with generative AI and how to solve challenges related to zero-day attacks, misconfigurations, the cyber skills gap and privacy.
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