Threatpost

APRIL 5, 2021

In this roundtable, security experts focus on smaller businesses offer real-world advice for actionable ways to shore up defenses using fewer resources.

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DXC Technology

APRIL 8, 2021

Many companies are eager to use artificial intelligence (AI) in production, but struggle to achieve real value from the technology. What’s the key to success? Creating new services that learn from data and can scale across the enterprise involves three domains: software development, machine learning (ML) and, of course, data.

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AIIM

APRIL 6, 2021

In a truly all-digital world, there would be no need for printers – or scanners or document couriers. Documents would never need to be printed, and processes would run smoothly from all-electronic input to all-electronic output. This may already the reality for some leading companies, but for most organizations, forms, contracts, agreements, and signoffs are still rooted in wet ink on paper.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 4, 2021

Facebook Says Data Comes from Previously Reported 2019 Incident A security researcher found more than 500 million Facebook records made available for free on the darknet, exposing basic user information including any phone numbers associated with accounts. Facebook says this is “old data” previously reported.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2021

Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible.

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AIIM

APRIL 8, 2021

Document Management is the use of a software application to track digital documents from creation through approval and publication. It serves in many ways to apply a formal governance framework to the document creation and collaborative editing processes. Today document management is generally incorporated as a set of capabilities in a broader enterprise content management (ECM) or information management solution.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 6, 2021

Gemini Advisory Says Russian Cybercriminal Sold Gift Card, Payment Card Data A Russian-speaking cybercriminal recently sold on a darknet forum thousands of stolen payment and gift cards that researchers at Gemini Advisory believe were taken from the now defunct online gift card exchange Cardpool.com.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victim’s customers and partners directly, warning that their data will be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up. This letter is from the Clop ransomware gang, putting pressure on a recent victim named on Clop’s dark web shaming site. “Good day!

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2021

We live in a time where technology is advancing rapidly, and digital acceleration is propelling development teams to create web applications at an increasingly faster rhythm. The DevOps workflow has been accompanying the market shift and becoming more efficient every day – but despite those efforts, there was still something being overlooked: application security.

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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.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2021

Unknown hackers attempted to add a backdoor to the PHP source code. It was two malicious commits , with the subject “fix typo” and the names of known PHP developers and maintainers. They were discovered and removed before being pushed out to any users. But since 79% of the Internet’s websites use PHP, it’s scary. Developers have moved PHP to GitHub, which has better authentication.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 9, 2021

Cisco Talos: Reliance on These Tools Expands Attack Surface The increasing reliance on collaboration tools such as Slack and Discord to support those working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new ways for fraudsters and cybercriminals to bypass security tools and deliver malware, Cisco Talos reports.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 9, 2021

"What a s**t week". I stand by that statement in the opening couple of minutes of the video and I write this now at midday on Saturday after literally falling asleep on the couch. The Facebook incident just dominated; everything from processing data to writing code to dozens of media interviews. And I ran a workshop over 4 half days. And had 2 lots of guests visiting.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. Related: Top execs call for facial recognition to be regulated. The good news is that passwordless technologies are not only ready for prime time, they appear to be gaining traction in ways that suggest we’re on the cusp of a period of wide-scale adoption. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication 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.

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Threatpost

APRIL 9, 2021

Like the Facebook incident earlier this week, the information — including user profile IDs, email addresses and other PII -- was scraped from the social-media platform.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 8, 2021

Group-IB: Administrator, Seller and Buyer Data Also Stolen For the second time in two years, the contents of the darknet payment card marketplace Swarmshop have been removed and posted to a competing underground forum, Group-IB reports. The content includes data on more than 600,000 payment cards as well as administrator, seller and buyer information.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2021

On April 3, a user has leaked the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users in a hacking forum for free online. Bad news for Facebook, a user in a hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, CTO of cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock.

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IT Governance

APRIL 8, 2021

UK organisations were subjected to almost 2,000 cyber attacks a day in the first quarter of 2021, according to a Beaming study. In a study of commercial Internet traffic, it discovered 172,079 cyber attacks against businesses in the first three months of the year, with attacks being registered every 45 seconds on average. This is the highest level of malicious activity seen in the first quarter of a year since Beaming began recording data.

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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.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 8, 2021

Another month, another national government to bring onto Have I Been Pwned. This time it's the Ukrainian National Cybersecurity Coordination Center who now has access to monitor all their government domains via API domain search, free of charge. The Ukraine is now the 13th government to be onboarded to HIBP's service joining counterparts across Europe, North America and Australia.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 9, 2021

ISMG Editors Discuss Hot Topics, Including Health Data Breaches Four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including President Biden’s latest cybersecurity proposals and large vendor-related breaches in healthcare.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 7, 2021

According to Wired , Signal is adding support for the cryptocurrency MobileCoin, “a form of digital cash designed to work efficiently on mobile devices while protecting users’ privacy and even their anonymity.” Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of Signal and CEO of the nonprofit that runs it, describes the new payments feature as an attempt to extend Signal’s privacy protections to payments with the same seamless experience that Signal has offered for encrypted conversations

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 6, 2021

The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 8, 2021

Safe-T Has Partnered with Thales to Bring a New Remote Access Security Solution to the Table. madhav. Thu, 04/08/2021 - 07:38. The global pandemic of 2020 has changed the world around us in drastic and likely permanent ways. One of the most significant effects the pandemic has had on daily life is the need for businesses to support employees choosing to work from home.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 9, 2021

Andy Purdy, the chief security officer for Huawei Technologies USA who formerly worked on the White House staff and in the Department of Homeland Security, discusses cybersecurity best practices.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2021

Cisco announced it will not release security updates to address a critical security vulnerability affecting some of its Small Business routers. Cisco is urging customers that are using some of its Small Business routers to replace their devices because they will no longer receive security updates. According a security advisory published by the company, Cisco Small Business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W Routers are affected by Remote Command Execution vulnerability that resides in the Managem

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Elie

APRIL 5, 2021

We present Spotlight, a large-scale malware lead-generation framework that uses deep-learning to clusters malware famillies to isolate potentially-undiscovered ones and prioritizes them for further investigation.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 9, 2021

A 180-million-year-old Vampire squid ancestor was fossilized along with its prey. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 8, 2021

Report: Builder Allows Cybercriminals to Create Specialized Office Documents Cybercriminal gangs are using a newly uncovered malicious document builder called "EtterSilent" to create differentiated and harder-to-discover malicious documents that can be deployed in phishing attacks. The most recent strike using EtterSilent was launched in late March.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2021

A malware attack against vehicle inspection services provider Applus Technologies paralyzed preventing vehicle inspections in eight US states. Applus Technologies is a worldwide leader in the testing, inspection and certification sector, the company was recently hit by a malware cyberattack that impacted vehicle inspections in eight states, including Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Utah, and Wisconsin.

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