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Russia-linked APT28 and crooks are still using the Moobot botnet

Security Affairs

“Apart from the EdgeRouter devices, we also found compromised Raspberry Pi and other internet-facing devices in the botnet. . “We attribute the NTLMv2 hash relay attacks and the proxying of credential phishing to Pawn Storm, while the pharmaceutical spam looks to be related to the infamous Canadian Pharmacy gang.”

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

Hackers send offensive, sexual messages to Chicago suburban school districts (unknown) ‘Beyond troubling’ emails sent from hacked teacher’s account (1) South African firm Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data (unknown). In other news….

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

McDonald’s is building AI solutions for customer care with IBM Watson AI technology and NLP to accelerate the development of its automated order taking (AOT) technology. Not only will this help scale the AOT tech across markets, but it will also help tackle integrations including additional languages, dialects and menu variations.

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Why You Need to Tune EDR to Secure Your Environment

eSecurity Planet

For example, the marketing department in a pharmaceutical company should never be trying to access the drug research data, and the warehouse employees of an e-commerce company should not be trying to access employee personal information from the file server’s human resources (HR) folders. Hackers Are Prepared for Generic Installations.

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French Data Protection Authority Issues 2008 Annual Activity Report

Hunton Privacy

The CNIL is increasingly engaged in assisting companies to ensure individuals’ privacy rights as part of diverse technology projects like Streetview, Bluetooth advertising and implementation of an electronic pharmaceutical database. On May 13, 2009, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible. But how might it actually happen? And how might we defend ourselves? Here’s the CBS evening news : CBS: Nearly a quarter of a million people lost power in this small Ukrainian city when it was targeted by a suspected Russian attack last December.