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NEW TECH: Votiro takes ‘white-listing’ approach to defusing weaponized documents

The Last Watchdog

Melissa was hidden in a weaponized Word document that arrived as an email attachment. Votiro is a Tel Aviv-based security startup that is pioneering a new white-listing approach to help companies mitigate their exposure to weaponized email and document-distributed malware. The key takeaways: Productivity vs. security.

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

The stolen information allegedly included names and identifying information, hashed passwords, security questions and answers, family information, Social Security numbers, lab results, health insurance information, doctor’s names, and medical conditions, among other things.

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£60 million in recovery costs for Norsk Hydro after refusing ransom demand

IT Governance

TrendMicro’s analysis into the ransomware found that it was the same system administration tool abused by the likes of SOREBRECT and Bad Rabbit. Employees were left to file paperwork manually and share documents via fax machines. The BBC reported that “There were people from sales who were drafted in to do production line work.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #19 [Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

KnowBe4

Blog post with links: [link] [FASCINATING READING] Google: "We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI" "The text is a very recent leaked document, which was shared by an anonymous individual on a public Discord server who has granted permission for its republication. The document is only the opinion of a Google employee, not the entire firm.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears

KnowBe4

In one case, an executive cut and pasted the firm's 2023 strategy document into ChatGPT and asked it to create a PowerPoint deck. In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company.