Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Also: FBI Warns About Work-From-Home Scammers Demanding Crypto This week, Robinhood said it will acquire Bitstamp in a $200 million deal, a senior promoter of the Forcount crypto Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty, crypto scammers targeted work-from-home job seekers, and Tether and CoinGecko warned of crypto phishing attacks.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 5, 2024
Digital rights management ( DRM ) has come a long way since Hollywood first recognized in the 1990s that it needed to rigorously protect digital music and movies. By the mid-2000s a branch called enterprise digital rights management ( EDRM ) cropped up to similarly protect sensitive business information. Today, businesses amass vast amounts of business-critical data – at a pace that’s quickening as GenAI takes hold.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2024
Panel Discusses Trends in Ransomware, Application Security and Generative AI Information Security Media Group editors are live at InfoSecurity Europe Conference 2024 in London with an overview of opening-day activities and hot topics including the latest ransomware trends, software security, election security and artificial intelligence risks.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 4, 2024
Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.
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It’s no surprise that Apache Cassandra has emerged as a popular choice for organizations of all sizes seeking a powerful solution to manage their data at a scale—but with great power comes great responsibility. Due to the inherent complexity of distributed databases, this white paper will uncover the 10 rules you’ll want to know when managing Apache Cassandra.
Security Affairs
JUNE 5, 2024
Cisco addressed vulnerabilities that were exploited to compromise the Webex meetings of the German government. In early May, German media outlet Zeit Online revealed that threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the German government’s implementation of the Cisco Webex software to access internal meetings. In March, the German authorities admitted the hack by Russia-linked actors of a military meeting where participants discussed giving military support to Ukraine. “In early May 2024, Ci
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The Last Watchdog
JUNE 3, 2024
When Log4J came to light in 2021, Kinnaird McQuade , then a security engineer at Square , drew the assignment of testing endpoints at some 5,000 users of the popular mobile payments service. Related: The big lesson from Log4J “It took us eight hours to run the scan and I was sweating it because these were all small family businesses that depended on Square, and if any of them got popped, it would be real people that were affected,” McQuade told me.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 5, 2024
A WIRED investigation, based on more than 22 million flight coordinates, reveals the complicated truth about the first full-blown police drone program in the US—and why your city could be next.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 4, 2024
Interesting story of breaking the security of the RoboForm password manager in order to recover a cryptocurrency wallet password. Grand and Bruno spent months reverse engineering the version of the RoboForm program that they thought Michael had used in 2013 and found that the pseudo-random number generator used to generate passwords in that versionand subsequent versions until 2015did indeed have a significant flaw that made the random number generator not so random.
Data Matters
JUNE 6, 2024
On 21 May 2024, the Council of the European Union approved the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (the “ AI Act ”). This is the final stage in the legislative process and comes after the EU Parliament voted to adopt the legislation on 13 March 2024. This final vote clears the path for the formal signing of the legislation and its publication in the Official Journal of the EU in the coming weeks.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr
Security Affairs
JUNE 3, 2024
Personal information of hundreds of British and EU politicians is available on dark web marketplaces. According to research conducted by Proton and Constella Intelligence, the email addresses and other sensitive information of 918 British MPs, European Parliament members, and French deputies and senators are available in the dark web marketplaces. 40% of 2,280 official government email addresses from the British, European, and French Parliaments were exposed, including passwords, birth dates, an
Data Breach Today
JUNE 3, 2024
ShinyHunters Advertises Data Set of '30 Million Customers' for $2 Million A hacker is selling the purported data of 30 million customers of Spanish multinational bank Santander for $2 million on a criminal online forum the FBI recently attempted to shut down. Sample data posted online suggests the data set is genuine.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 4, 2024
When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners’ hands.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 31, 2024
AI has the potential to revolutionize industries and improve lives, but only if we can trust it to operate securely and ethically. Related: The key to the GenAI revolution By prioritizing security and responsibility in AI development, we can harness its power for good and create a safer, more unbiased future. Developing a secured AI system is essential because artificial intelligence is a transformative technology, expanding its capabilities and societal influence.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 3, 2024
Last week, major security vendors Check Point and Okta both notified customers of threats, and an old Fortinet vulnerability reared its head when researchers published a proof of concept for it. Spoofed browser upgrades download malware onto victims’ computers, and threat actors have been actively exploiting a Linux kernel vulnerability. Check your vendors’ security bulletins regularly, and make sure your team is following security news to patch issues as soon as they arise.
Security Affairs
JUNE 5, 2024
Zyxel Networks released an emergency security update to address critical vulnerabilities in end-of-life NAS devices. Zyxel Networks released an emergency security update to address three critical flaws in some of its NAS devices that have reached end-of-life. An attacker can exploit the vulnerabilities to perform command injection attacks and achieve remote code execution.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2024
Sophos Finds 3 Clusters of Activity Dating at Least to May 2023 A government agency in a country that has repeatedly clashed with China over Beijing's territorial ambitions in the South China Sea was the subject of a prolonged cyberespionage campaign that used previously undetected backdoors and partially overlaps with known Sino state threat actors.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 1, 2024
Data breaches at Ticketmaster and financial services company Santander have been linked to attacks against cloud provider Snowflake. Researchers fear more breaches will soon be uncovered.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 4, 2024
In today's digital age, cybersecurity threats are an ever-present danger for organizations of all sizes. While sophisticated technology solutions are critical in defending against cyber threats, they are only part of the equation. Cybersecurity is not just about having the right tools; it's also about having the right people and processes in place. This is where Tabletop Exercises (or incident response simulations), come into play.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 3, 2024
A piece I coauthored with Fredrik Heiding and Arun Vishwanath in the Harvard Business Review : Summary. Gen AI tools are rapidly making these emails more advanced, harder to spot, and significantly more dangerous. Recent research showed that 60% of participants fell victim to artificial intelligence (AI)-automated phishing, which is comparable to the success rates of non-AI-phishing messages created by human experts.
Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2024
Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed the Ticketmaster data breach that compromised the data of 560 million customers. ShinyHunters, the current administrator of BreachForums , recently claimed the hack of Ticketmaster and offered for sale 1.3 TB of data, including full details of 560 million customers, for $500,000. Stolen data includes names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales, and order details.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 4, 2024
IBM, Rubrik, Palo Alto & CrowdStrike All Bought into DSPM. Will Tenable Join Them? IBM, Rubrik, Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike entered the red-hot data security posture management market with nine-figure deals announced between May 2023 and March 2024. Now, Tenable reportedly wants a piece of the action as it eyes the purchase of Eureka.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 6, 2024
The number of alleged hacks targeting the customers of cloud storage firm Snowflake appears to be snowballing into one of the biggest data breaches of all time.
KnowBe4
JUNE 4, 2024
The NIS2 Directive, also known as the Network and Information Security Directive, is a crucial piece of legislation designed to enhance cybersecurity and protect critical infrastructure across the European Union (EU). Building on the previous NIS Directive, it addresses its shortcomings and expands its scope to improve security requirements, reporting obligations, and crisis management capabilities.
Troy Hunt
JUNE 2, 2024
What a week! It was Ticketmaster that consumed the bulk of my time this week with the media getting themselves into a bit of a frenzy over a data breach that at the time of recording, still hadn't even been confirmed. But as predicted in the video, confirmation came late on a Friday arvo and since that time we've learned a lot more about just how bad the situation is.
Security Affairs
JUNE 4, 2024
The RansomHub ransomware group added the American telecommunications company Frontier Comunications to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company Frontier Communications. The RansomHub group claims to have stolen 5GB of data from the telecommunications giant.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2024
Firm Claims Safe Security Competed Unfairly, Engaged in 'Skullduggery' SecurityScorecard accused Safe Security and former employee Mary Polyakova in a civil complaint of stealing confidential customer information and engaging in unfair competition. The lawsuit seeks to protect SecurityScorecard's trade secrets and recover monetary damages.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 4, 2024
Generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot are becoming part of everyday business life. But they come with privacy and security considerations you should know about.
KnowBe4
MAY 31, 2024
Security awareness training (SAT) and simulated phishing works to significantly reduce cybersecurity risk. We have the data, customer testimonials and government recommendations to prove it.
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