Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
Vulnerability Affects Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 and S7-1500 CPU Siemens has released patches for certain automation products that have a critical memory protection vulnerability, which attackers could exploit to run arbitrary code to access memory areas, enabling them to read sensitive data and use it to launch further attacks.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 1, 2021
Cybercriminals use various techniques for conducting cyberattacks. One such popular way to infiltrate a system is Pharming. It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. Related: Credential stuffing explained. The term Pharming is a combination of two words Phishing and Farming. It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
World's Largest Meat Supplier Says Servers Hit in North America and Australia The world's largest meat supplier, JBS, says an "organized cybersecurity attack" has led it to shut down servers in North America and Australia. Experts say a prolonged outage could have a noticeable impact on the global supply of meat. The company has yet to disclose if the attack involved ransomware.
AIIM
JUNE 1, 2021
What is the future of work? That’s hard to say. But one thing seems certain: Disruption lies ahead. Driven by innovations in technology, shifting business strategies, and evolving definitions of success, the workplace is changing fast. As the adoption of things like process automation, AI, and Machine Learning continue to accelerate, so will the pace of change in the workplace.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
Unique Wire's Brian Feucht on the Inherent Challenges of Data on Mobile Devices Retrieving data from a mobile device is complicated technically and legally. How does one navigate the shoals of legal precedent and privacy law? Brian Feucht of Unique Wire discusses the state of the art of digital forensics.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
Experts Say Ransomware Hasn't Slowed Down Since Colonial Pipeline The White House says on Tuesday it has contacted Russia regarding the ransomware attack against JBS SA, the multinational meat producer. It's a positive sign of more aggressive action by the U.S. government after Colonial Pipeline, but experts say the ransomware scourge is clearly business as usual.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 1, 2021
On May 25, 2021, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP submitted its response (in English and in Mandarin ) to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (“NPC”) of the People’s Republic of China on the updated version of the Draft Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”). As we previously reported , CIPL provided comments to the NPC on the initial draft of the PIPL in November 2020.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
Analysts Size Up Potential Impact of Attacks on Police Departments As more cities see their police departments targeted with ransomware attacks, some analysts are voicing concerns that the attacks, which could lead to inaccessible systems and potentially compromised evidence, could impede criminal prosecutions.
Jamf
JUNE 1, 2021
An exciting day in the Mac compliance and security world, Jamf launches Compliance Reporter, providing more visibility into Mac activity for threat hunting purposes and compliance checks.
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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
FBI and CISA Continue to Probe Campaign That Targeted Marketing Firm The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has seized two domains that were used during a recent phishing campaign that targeted a marketing firm used by the U.S. Agency for International Development - USAID - to send malicious messages to thousands of potential victims.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 1, 2021
Hackers targeting JBS USA have disrupted meat processing facilities around the world, just one month after the Colonial Pipeline attack caused fuel distribution havoc.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
Unauthorized Access and Malware Also Among Top Causes, UK Privacy Watchdog Reports Phishing, ransomware and unauthorized access continue to be the leading cyber causes of violations of data protection rules and personal data breaches, Britain's privacy watchdog reports. U.K. authorities say that breach reporting to regulators and law enforcement agencies remains relatively steady.
Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2021
The popular Russian hacker Pavel Sitnikov was arrested by Russian authorities on charges of distributing malware via his Telegram channel. Pavel Sitnikov (@Flatl1ne), a prominent figure of the hacking underground, was arrested earlier this month by Russian authorities on charges of distributing malware via his Freedom F0x Telegram channel. The Russian hacker is a member of multiple underground hacking communities where he offered for sale the source code of multiple malware strains, including Al
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2021
Reporting of COVID-19 Statistics Interrupted SmiNet, Sweden’s infectious diseases database, was temporarily shut down last week by the country’s public health agency, Folkhälsomyndigheten, following several attempted cyber intrusions. The shutdown interrupted the reporting of COVID-19 statistics.
Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2021
White House spokeswoman speculates threat actors behind the JBS ransomware attack have a Russian origin. The American food processing giant JBS Foods, the world’s largest processor of fresh beef, was forced to shut down production at multiple sites worldwide following a cyberattack. The cyberattack impacted multiple production plants of the company worldwide, including facilities located in the United States, Australia, and Canada.
CGI
JUNE 1, 2021
Making sustainability a differentiator in global trade finance (part 2). This CGI blog post discusses three key motives driving sustainability in finance. pooja.cs@cgi.com. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 08:12.
Threatpost
JUNE 1, 2021
Companies relying on their cyber-insurance policies to pay off ransomware criminals are being blamed for a recent uptick in ransomware attacks.
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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.
The Guardian Data Protection
JUNE 1, 2021
Senior doctors call on colleagues not to share personal data, in effort to buy time to raise awareness of plans Senior GPs have called on colleagues to refuse to hand over patients’ personal data to NHS Digital, in a move they hope will buy time to raise awareness of plans to place all medical records in England on a central database. All 36 doctors’ surgeries in Tower Hamlets, east London, have already agreed to withhold the data when collection begins on 1 July, the Guardian understands.
Threatpost
JUNE 1, 2021
Some criminals package exploits into bundles to sell on cybercriminal forums years after they were zero days, while others say bounties aren't enough.
Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2021
“Prometheus” and “Grief” – a multi-billion dollar ransomware market obtained two new emerging players. In today’s world, information and data means money and the people that are stealing the information have now reached new levels of sophistication. The number of cases reported has exploded in the last few years and continue to grow rapidly.
Threatpost
JUNE 1, 2021
Global food distributor JBS Foods suffered an unspecified incident over the weekend that disrupted several servers supporting IT systems and could affect the supply chain for some time.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 1, 2021
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Adam Shostack
JUNE 1, 2021
People sometimes ask me about my recording setup, and I wanted to share some thoughts about recording good learning content. The most important thing I’ve learned is the importance of conceptualizing what you want it to look like. The other thing I’ve learned is that the more expensive gear is usually more expensive for decent reasons, and it’s easy to be penny-wise and pound foolish.
Data Matters
JUNE 1, 2021
Last year, to address the increasing overlaps between data protection and antitrust enforcement, the UK launched the Digital Regulatory Cooperation Forum ( DRCF ). The DRCF brings together the four UK regulators most involved in digital matters ( i.e. , the Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ), the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ), the Office of Communications ( Ofcom ) and the Financial Conduct Authority ( FCA )).
Threatpost
JUNE 1, 2021
Mobile ad fraud has always been a challenge for network operators in all parts of the globe, but the pandemic has made users more vulnerable than ever before due to the sheer amount of time they now spend with their devices.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2021
The American food processing company and meat producer JBS Foods was forced to shut down production at multiple sites worldwide following a cyberattack. The American food processing giant JBS Foods, the world’s largest processor of fresh beef, was forced to shut down production at multiple sites worldwide following a cyberattack. The cyberattack impacted multiple production plants of the company worldwide, including facilities located in the United States, Australia, and Canada.
Dark Reading
JUNE 1, 2021
The company says recovery from the attack may delay transactions with customers and suppliers.
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 1, 2021
In the first blogs, we focused on the Identify, Govern, and Control functions of the NIST Privacy Framework. In this segment, I’m going to focus on the Communicate function. The increased regulatory focus on privacy issues of late has given greater rights to individuals who want to know what data companies have about them. And … The post NIST Privacy Framework – The Communicate function appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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