Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
CEOS and CISOs on Responding to the Multichannel Fraud Spike Fraud explodes in tough times, and do times come any tougher than they have with COVID-19? In this latest Cybersecurity Leadership panel, CEOs and CISOs describe their efforts to spot and stop emerging fraud schemes involving synthetic IDs, social engineering and greater insider risks.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 11, 2020
2020 has been a most challenging year, and food insecurity has dramatically increased over the last year globally. In Canada alone: 2 Million households experienced moderate to severe food insecurity (Stats Canada) 34% of those relying on food banks are children (Stats Canada) 1 in 8 people who access food banks are employed (Food Banks … The post OpenText funds 4 million meals this holiday season appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Security Affairs
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector. The US CISA and the FBI warned about the increase in ransomware attacks targeting the US K-12 educational sector aimed at data theft and disruption of distance learning services. The number of attacks surged at the beginning of the 2020 school year. “The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten t
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Experts Say Attack is Textbook Example of Hack and Extort Campaign A 4GB data archive belonging to Panasonic India has been released by a hacker who waged an extortion plot. The company says no highly confidential data was revealed, but a look at the data suggests otherwise.
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.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Facebook has suspended some accounts linked to APT32 that were involved in cyber espionage campaigns to spread malware. Facebook has suspended several accounts linked to the APT32 cyberespionage that abused the platform to spread malware. Vietnam-linked APT group APT32 , also known as OceanLotus and APT-C-00, carried out cyber espionage campaigns against Chinese entities to gather intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis.
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Threatpost
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Point-of-sale terminal vendors Verifone and Ingenico have issued mitigations after researchers found the devices use default passwords.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Agency Says Ransomware, Trojans, DDoS Attacks Are Most Concerning CISA is warning that local K-12 school districts are increasingly under assault by cyberthreats targeting vulnerable networks that are disrupting physical and virtual education throughout the U.S. The top security problems include ransomware, Trojans and other malware, as well as DDoS attacks.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Cybersecurity Group — I’m a member — has released its cybersecurity policy agenda for the next four years. The next administration and Congress cannot simultaneously address the wide array of cybersecurity risks confronting modern society. Policymakers in the White House, federal agencies, and Congress should zero in on the most important and solvable problems.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Commission Also Considers Banning China Telecom From U.S. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has upheld its designation of Chinese telecom company Huawei as a national security threat, rejecting the firm's appeal of the ruling. Meanwhile, it's starting proceedings that could revoke China Telecom's permission to provide communications services within the U.S.
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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.
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Well this is different; a weekly update bereft of neon studio lighting and instead done from the great outdoors, complete with all sorts of animal noises and a (probably) drunk green tree frog. I picked one of my favourite travelling companions to join me this week, a little guy I last did one of these with in a very different environment back in Oslo earlier this year.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Microsoft: Thousands of Devices Infected With the Ad-Injecting Malware Microsoft security researchers are tracking a new family of browser modifiers dubbed Adrozek that is installed on an individual device and can modify four widely used browsers - Edge, Chrome, Yandex and Firefox - to inject ads into their search results.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Facebook shut down accounts and Pages used by two separate threat groups to spread malware and conduct phishing attacks.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Preventing & Managing Data Leaks The average number of parties with whom an enterprise shares sensitive information is 583, according to the Ponemon Institute.View this webinar to learn about the breadth and implication of third-party data leaks.
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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.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Attackers are targeting students and faculty alike with malware, phishing, DDoS, Zoom bombs and more, the FBI and CISA said.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of why the FireEye breach is a wake-up call for the cybersecurity industry. Also featured: Monero cryptocurrency scams; key considerations for cloud security.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The Adrozek ad-injecting browser modifier malware also extracts device data and steals credentials, making it an even more dangerous threat.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 11, 2020
What critical factors should organizations consider before taking the step of paying extortionists a ransom in hopes of regaining access to systems or avoiding the release of data in the wake of a ransomware attack? Former FBI special agent Vincent D'Agostino provides guidance.
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Dark Reading
DECEMBER 11, 2020
On any given day it's hard to ensure that outside companies and individuals adhere to an organization's security practices and policies. But when it's the holidays and, oh, a global pandemic, companies need to be extra vigilant.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
DECEMBER 11, 2020
When it comes to privacy, Spain has a very special connection with the right to be forgotten. After all, the epic battles in the administrative and judicial struggle started in Spain between Facebook and Mr Mario Costeja played a significant role in shaping what is now the erasure right enshrined in the GDPR and several other features of the EU laws on this point.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Spotify is informing users that their personal information might have been accidentally shared with some of its business partners. Spotify is informing users that their personal information might have been inadvertently shared with some of its business partners for several months. The company filed a notice of breach notice with the California Attorney General.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 11, 2020
As cybersecurity incidents gain sophistication, to ensure we are assessing security postures effectively, it is critical to copy real-world adversaries' tools, tactics, and procedures during testing activities.
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Security Affairs
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Interview with Massimiliano Brolli, Head of TIM Red Team Research, which is a team of experts that focus on zero-day hunting. For some time now we have been witnessing a series of undocumented vulnerabilities issued by a TIM IT Security laboratory called Red Team Research RTR, which already has 31 new CVEs to date in about a year. A small, all-Italian “Project Zero” that aroused attention among professionals, because a new CVE is published every eleven days, which is not bad at all.
IG Guru
DECEMBER 11, 2020
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Jamf
DECEMBER 11, 2020
As of macOS 11 Big Sur, the app management experience on Mac is now noticeably more similar to iOS app management. What’s new for Mac?
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Gamers can expect to be prime targets over the holidays as COVID-19 rages on. Here's some advice on how to keep hackers at bay.
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Threatpost
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The malware takes aim at PostgreSQL database servers with never-before-seen techniques.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Ransomware attacks reported against US K-12 schools jumped from 28% in January through July to 57% in August and September.
IG Guru
DECEMBER 11, 2020
REGISTRATION LINK Microsoft Teams was introduced as a Slack competitor in 2017, and by April 2020 had surpassed 75 million daily active users. The bulk of its user base comes through paid Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365) subscriptions, and its use has skyrocketed since the pandemic resulted in the need to work remotely. It offers […]. The post Webinar: Taming the Beast – A Case Study in Microsoft Teams Governance on December 15, 2020 12pm MST via ARMA Mile High Denver Chapter appeared
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