Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Apps Masquerade as Google Security Plug-In and Document Viewer North Korean state hacking group Kimsuky is developing Android malware targeted at South Korean users by disguising the apps as legitimate apps including a Google security plug-in and a document viewer. Seoul-based cybersecurity company S2W dubs the apps FastFire, FastSpy and FastViewer.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Here’s a frustrating reality about securing an enterprise network: the more closely you inspect network traffic, the more it deteriorates the user experience. Related: Taking a risk-assessment approach to vulnerabilities. Slow down application performance a little, and you’ve got frustrated users. Slow it down a lot, and most likely, whichever knob you just turned gets quickly turned back again—potentially leaving your business exposed.
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KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Michael Kan at PCMag had the scoop: A hacker is already circulating one phishing email, warning users they'll need to submit some personal information to keep the blue verified checkmark for free.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Underwater cables keep the internet online. When they congregate in one place, things get tricky.
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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.
IG Guru
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
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Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A 26-year-old Ukrainian man is awaiting extradition from The Netherlands to the United States on charges that he acted as a core developer for Raccoon , a popular “malware-as-a-service” offering that helped paying customers steal passwords and financial data from millions of cybercrime victims. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the defendant was busted in March 2022, after fleeing mandatory military service in Ukraine in the weeks following the Russian invasion.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 29, 2022
The Slovak and Polish parliaments were hit by a massive cyber attack, and the voting system in Slovakia’s legislature was brought down. A massive cyber attack hit the Slovak and Polish parliaments, reported the authorities. The cyber attack brought down the voting system in Slovakia’s legislature. “The attack was multi-directional, including from inside the Russian Federation,” reads a statement published by the Polish Senate.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones. The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summari
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Services from Boeing Subsidiary Jeppesen Affected By Ongoing Incident Distribution of airspace safety notices are affected by a cyber incident at Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen, the nature of which the company won't disclose. "At this time we have no reason to believe that this incident poses a threat to aircraft or flight safety," a company spokesperson said.
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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.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Responding to a recent surge in AI-generated bot accounts, LinkedIn is rolling out new features that it hopes will help users make more informed decisions about with whom they choose to connect. Many LinkedIn profiles now display a creation date, and the company is expanding its domain validation offering, which allows users to publicly confirm that they can reply to emails at the domain of their stated current employer.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Cisco addressed multiple flaws impacting its products, including high-severity issues in identity, email, and web security solutions. Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities impacting some of its products, including high-severity flaws in identity, email, and web security products. The most severe vulnerability addressed by the IT giant is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-20961 (CVSS score of 8.8), that impacts the Identity Services Engine (ISE).
Troy Hunt
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
I've been investing a heap of time into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) lately, ranging from all the usual stuff (namely trawling through masses of data breaches) to all new stuff, in particular expanding and enhancing the public API. The API is actually pretty simple: plug in an email address, get a result, and that's a very clearly documented process.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 31, 2022
North Carolina Organization Also Facing Pending Privacy Lawsuit Related to Pixel A second healthcare entity is self-reporting its use of Facebook Pixel in web patient portals as a data breach to federal regulators. North Carolina-based WakeMed Health and Hospitals told federal regulators it disclosed to the social media giant patient information of half a million individuals.
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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.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A 25-year-old Finnish man has been charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy company and its patients. Finnish authorities rarely name suspects in an investigation, but they were willing to make an exception for Julius “Zeekill” Kivimaki , a notorious hacker who — at the tender age of 17 — had been convicted of more than 50,000 cybercrimes , including data breaches, payment fraud, operating botnets, and calling in bomb threats.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The ransomware group LockBit 3.0 claimed to have stolen data from the French defence and technology group Thales. Thales is a global high-tech leader with more than 81,000 employees worldwide. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential to the development of our societies, by placing people at the heart of decision-making.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The software giant also recorded an increase in attacks on IT services companies as state-backed threat actors have adapted to better enterprise defenses and cast a wider net, Microsoft says.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Cloud Company Says User Accounts Were Not Breached, Just GitHub Code Repositories DropBox is the latest company to have employees fall for phishing emails tricking them into supplying login credentials and a one time password to threat actors. Hackers got away with copies of 130 code repositories. The company says it's speeding up an internal transition to Web Authentication.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
On October 18, 2022, the European Commission published a report , titled Information Frictions and Public Policies: Approaching the Regulation and Supervision of Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) (the “Report”). The Report discusses the need to adapt existing policy frameworks to account for the change brought about by DeFi to the underlying information structure upon which financial services are provided.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 30, 2022
According to the Daily Mail, Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss ‘s personal phone was hacked by Russian spies. The personal mobile phone of British Prime Minister Liz Truss was hacked by cyber spies suspected of working for the Kremlin, the Daily Mail reported. According to the British tabloid, the cyber-spies are believed to have gained access to top-secret exchanges with key international partners as well as private conversations with his friend, the British Conservative Party polit
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Welcome to our October 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 102 security incidents throughout the month, which is the second largest figure so far this year – trailing only August (112). By contrast, comparatively little personal data was breached, with our figures confirming that at least 9,990,855 records were compromised.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 29, 2022
Hacking Group Uses a New Backdoor Called Danfuan Threat actors are using Internet Information Services - Microsoft's extensible web server software - to deliver a previously undocumented dropper that is being used to install a new backdoor and other tools. The group dubbed Cranefly uses a new backdoor called Danfuan, researchers say.
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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.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Organizations should update to the latest encryption (version 3.0.7) as soon as possible, but there's no need for Heartbleed-like panic, security experts say.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
ConnectWise has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting Recover and R1Soft Server Backup Manager (SBM). According to the advisory published by ConnectWise , the vulnerability is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute remote code or directly access confidential data.
Daymark
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Microsoft recently held its annual Ignite Conference where they announced over 100 updates to its suite of cloud services and products. Daymark was on the ground at the Convention Center in Seattle to explore the innovations and engage with Microsoft on the latest changes. 100 updates is a lot to digest! Here are our thoughts on 5 important ones worth paying attention to. 1.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Company Settles Shareholder Lawsuit for $26M SolarWinds, maker of network management software famously hacked by the Russian government, may be the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after staff made a preliminary determination in its favor. The company says it will contest the staff recommendation.
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Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 31, 2022
People have suspected this for a while, but Apple has made it official. It only commits to fully patching the latest version of its OS, even though it claims to support older versions. From ArsTechnica : In other words, while Apple will provide security-related updates for older versions of its operating systems, only the most recent upgrades will receive updates for every security problem Apple knows about.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 31, 2022
A critical flaw in the cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub could’ve allowed attackers to takeover other repositories. The cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub has addressed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by threat actors to takeover the repositories of other users. The vulnerability was discovered by Checkmarx that called the attack technique RepoJacking.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
You might remember that several months and a handful of prime ministers ago, the government proposed an overhaul of data protection law. The efforts stemmed from complaints over the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , which was adopted by the UK on the precipice of Brexit. Its critics, led by Boris Johnson, said that the requirements were too strict and forced organisations to create excessive amounts of documentation.
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