Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
23 Million Individuals' Personal Details Exposed, Notifications Collectively Show More details about victims of the Clop crime group's zero-day attacks on users of the widely used MOVEit file transfer software continue to come to light. Researchers now report that at least 455 organizations were hit directly or indirectly, exposing data for at least 23 million individuals.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2023
Paris, France, July 27, 2023 – CrowdSec , the pioneering open source and collaborative cybersecurity company, today released its Q2 2023 Majority Report , a comprehensive community-driven data report fueled by the collective efforts of its thousands of users. Key takeaways from the report include the rise of IPv6 as well as the role of VPN in cybercriminal activities.
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Krebs on Security
JULY 25, 2023
Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online.
Weissman's World
JULY 26, 2023
“The more we automated, the more time we had to add other value. The kind only a human can provide.” – Jeffrey Henning, Chief Research Officer, Researchscape International One of the biggest worries about the advent of AI revolves around the potential the technology has to take away people’s jobs. And as you may know,… Read More » AI Won’t Take Your Job – Even if You Want it To The post AI Won’t Take Your Job – Even if You Want it To appeared first on Holly Group.
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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
JULY 26, 2023
Rules Approved in 3-2 Party Line Vote, Will Take Effect in December for Large Firms U.S. federal market regulators adopted rules Wednesday that require publicly traded companies to disclose most "material cybersecurity incidents" within four business days of determining materiality. The rules were approved on a party line vote after 70 minutes of discussion and debate.
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Imperial Violet
JULY 28, 2023
Last week’s blog post was rather long, and had a greater than normal number of typos. (Thanks to people who pointed them out. I think I’ve fixed all the ones that were reported.) This was because I saw in reviews that iOS 17’s voice recognition was supposed to be much improved, and I figured that I’d give it a try. I’ve always found iOS’s recognition to be superior to Google Docs and I have an old iPad Pro that’s good for betas. iOS’s performance remains good and, yes, I think it’s better than i
OpenText Information Management
JULY 27, 2023
Are information sprawl, data access and security concerns holding back workforce productivity? Will the seemingly endless amounts of information that can be generated by AI only exacerbate information overload? Is cloud adoption creating siloes of information and adding complexity? These information management challenges and how to overcome them were discussed by a panel of industry … The post Webcast: Today’s biggest information management challenges appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
JULY 27, 2023
Privatise Will Add DNS Filtering, Content Filtering, ZTNA to Coro's SASE Platform SMB cybersecurity platform Coro purchased an early-stage Israeli startup to bring network connectivity to its SASE offering for midmarket organizations. Coro said its buy of Jerusalem-based Privatise will give Coro clients a secure way to connect, manage and filter out malicious content.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2023
New York, NY, July 27, 2023 – QBE North America today announced the launch of a cyber insurance program with new MGA, Converge, acting as program administrator. The program will be broken down into two separate distribution structures, each with a distinct revenue focus and cyber security data access formation. •ConvergeElements™ offers primary and excess cyber coverage through select agents and brokers for companies with up to $100 million in revenue.
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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.
CGI
JULY 27, 2023
While much attention on artificial intelligence (AI) has been focused on the commercial sector, AI and the public sector is a perfect fit. In fact, there are many use cases already for using AI to digitalize government services, including improving water quality for communities to helping answer constituent and health worker questions.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 24, 2023
A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
A 12-Month Subscription to FraudGPT Costs $1,700 Cybercriminals are using an evil twin of OpenAI's generative artificial intelligence tool Chat GPT. It's called FraudGPT, it's available on criminal forums, and it can be used to write malicious code and create convincing phishing emails. A similar tool called WormGPT is also available.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 26, 2023
Seattle, Wash., July 26, 2023 — Protect AI , the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, today announced it has closed a $35M Series A round of funding. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures.
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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.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2023
Wiz researchers discovered two Linux vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu kernel that can allow an unprivileged local user to gain elevated privileges. Wiz Research discovered two privilege escalation vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629, in the OverlayFS module in the Linux distro Ubuntu. According to the researchers, the flaws impact 40% of the users of the popular Linux distribution.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 24, 2023
Helping our customers build for the future through smarter modernization New product updates are now available within Application Modernization & Connectivity (AMC) – OpenText’s marketing leading solution for COBOL and mainframe application development, deployment, and modernization as well as mainframe host access and security. Latest OpenText of Cloud Editions includes updates to its COBOL, Mainframe … The post What’s new in Application Modernization & Connectivity appeared fi
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
The Generative AI Tool Can Write Bug Reports - Just Not Useful Ones Natural language models aren't the boon to auditing many in the Web3 community hoped that generative artificial intelligence tools would be. After a burst of optimism, the consensus now is that AI tools generate well-written, perfectly formatted - and completely worthless - bug reports.
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2023
Hackers have three key pathways — the OS, apps, and malware — for leveraging the popular home fitness equipment as initial access for data compromise, ransomware, and more
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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.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2023
Experts warn of a severe privilege escalation, tracked as CVE-2023-30799 , in MikroTik RouterOS that can be exploited to hack vulnerable devices. VulnCheck researchers warn of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-30799 (CVSS score: 9.1), that can be exploited in large-scale attacks to target over 500,000 RouterOS systems. “MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue.
National Archives Records Express
JULY 24, 2023
Digital scanning operations, Preservation Labs, Archives 2: Jerry Thompson. National Archives Identifier 184341178 On June 7, 2023, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) conducted a webinar on digitizing permanent records to comply with the requirements in 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E, providing valuable insights into best practices and guidelines.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
Guidehouse Security Director on Solutions to Stem Social Engineering Attacks With social engineering attacks escalating, security organizations should embrace better cybersecurity awareness training to protect their organizations against insidious schemes, said Barry Coatsworth, director of risk, compliance and security at Guidehouse.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 27, 2023
In this series of blogs, we have been considering the following key points that help to not only manage resistance but to convert resistance into support: Consider resistance as a natural reaction to change Distinguish between hesitancy and resistance Detect signs of resistance Identify the root causes of resistance Manage resistance Communicate, communicate, communicate Convert … The post Convert resistance into support when implementing software appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Security Affairs
JULY 22, 2023
Researchers warn of several DDoS botnets exploiting a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-28771 in Zyxel devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers warned of multiple DDoS botnets exploiting a vulnerability impacting multiple Zyxel firewalls. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a command injection issue that could potentially allow an unauthorized attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable devices.
HID Global
JULY 25, 2023
At HID, we take pride in the intellectual and innovative contributions resulting from the hard work of our employees, whether it be through our R&D teams or other employees throughout the organization.
Data Breach Today
JULY 24, 2023
Vendor Cuts Valuation by $800M to Get Funding From Generation Investment Management OneTrust hauled in $150 million a year after laying off 950 employees but had to slash its valuation by $800 million to seal the deal. The Atlanta-based company intends to use the proceeds to accelerate its growth and fulfill customer demand for trust intelligence software.
IT Governance
JULY 27, 2023
Fraudsters have countless tricks up their sleeves to bypass security measures and access sensitive information. In most cases, this refers to cyber crime, but scammers might also gain physical access to their premises in tailgating attacks. Although it’s a much bolder method – given that a criminal could get caught in the act – many organisations don’t protect their physical perimeter in the same way that they stay safe online, presenting opportunities for attackers to strike.
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Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2023
FraudGPT is another cybercrime generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is advertised in the hacking underground. Generative AI models are becoming attractive for crooks, Netenrich researchers recently spotted a new platform dubbed FraudGPT which is advertised on multiple marketplaces and the Telegram Channel since July 22, 2023. According to Netenrich, this generative AI bot was trained for offensive purposes, such as creating spear phishing emails, conducting BEC attacks, cracking too
OpenText Information Management
JULY 24, 2023
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are continuously seeking innovative ways to extract valuable insights from vast amounts of information. Gone are the days when a company could get by with waiting hours or even days for ETL processes to move and transform carefully chosen data into ideal structured forms to answer already known questions.
Data Breach Today
JULY 25, 2023
Thales-Imperva Deal Will Create a $2.66B Cyber Behemoth With Strength in Apps, Data Thales has agreed to purchase Imperva for $3.6 billion to enter the application and API security market and expand its footprint in data security. The deal will add a robust web application firewall along with capabilities in API protection and data discovery and classification to Thales' portfolio.
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