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.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 6, 2024
A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature's historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to the growing sense that the feature is a “dumpster fire.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Redmond Calls Tenable Report Evidence of Customers Misconstruing Azure Service Tags Microsoft is calling security research asserting a high-severity vulnerability exists in Microsoft Azure evidence that customers should better configure their cloud environments. An attacker with an Azure instance could obtain access to company resources by sending customizable HTTP requests.
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.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Also: Hacker Sells Data Obtained Through Snowflake Attack This week, Microsoft deprecated NTLM authentication, a hacker put apparently stolen Snowflake data up for sale, Ticketmaster confirmed its breach, Cisco patched Webex vulnerabilities, pro-Russian hacktivists claimed a DDoS attack in Spain and Kaspersky launched a free virus removal tool for Linux.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
DOJ and FTC to Launch Antitrust Investigations Into Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission reportedly reached an agreement Thursday that will allow U.S. regulators to move forward with long-anticipated antitrust investigations into the leading developers of commercial artificial intelligence products.
KnowBe4
JUNE 6, 2024
Social engineering scams can come through any communications channel (e.g., email, web, social media, SMS, phone call, etc.). They can even come in the mail as the Nextdoor warning below shares.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Austrian Privacy Group Lodges Complaints With 11 European Regulators Against Meta Meta's plan to train artificial intelligence with data generated by Facebook and Instagram users faces friction in Europe after a rights group alleged it violates continental privacy law. Austrian privacy organization NOYB said it lodged complaints against Meta with 11 European data regulators.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 6, 2024
ZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off.
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The complexity of financial data, the need for real-time insight, and the demand for user-friendly visualizations can seem daunting when it comes to analytics - but there is an easier way. With Logi Symphony, we aim to turn these challenges into opportunities. Our platform empowers you to seamlessly integrate advanced data analytics, generative AI, data visualization, and pixel-perfect reporting into your applications, transforming raw data into actionable insights.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
Wiz Hits Back With Counterclaims, Says Orca Copied Patented Cloud Security Features In a clash of cloud security titans, Wiz denied all claims made by rival Orca Security of patent infringement and unauthorized use of proprietary information. Instead, Wiz said Orca copied its technological advancements and used confidential information to enhance its own products.
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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2024
CERT-UA Says Threat Actor 'Vermin' Used Syncthing Application Ukrainian cyber defenders say Russian intelligence hackers operating from the occupied Donbas city of Luhansk targeted military email inboxes with an info stealer. A group tracked as UAC-0020 - also known as "Vermin" - deployed a malware strain dubbed "Spectr" as part of a spear-phishing campaign.
Security Affairs
JUNE 6, 2024
A new Linux variant of the TargetCompany ransomware family targets VMware ESXi environments using a custom shell script. A new variant of the TargetCompany ransomware group uses a custom shell script as a means of payload delivery and execution, this is the first time the technique was observed in the wild. The script was also used for data exfiltration, the stolen data are sent to two different servers so the ransomware actors have a backup of the information.
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Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.
KnowBe4
JUNE 6, 2024
More than a quarter (26%) of organizations around the world provide no security awareness training for their employees, according to a survey by Hornetsecurity. The researchers found that smaller companies in particular tend to lack security training programs.
The Guardian Data Protection
JUNE 6, 2024
Tech firm earlier committed to storing less data about individuals in response to privacy concerns Google will delete everything it knows about users’ previously visited locations, the company has said, a year after it committed to reducing the amount of personal data it stores about users. The company’s “timeline” feature – previously known as Location History – will still work for those who choose to use it, letting them scroll back through potentially decades of travel history to check where
KnowBe4
JUNE 6, 2024
Coordinated efforts between law enforcement agencies across nine countries has resulted in a major disruption of a threat group’s malware and ransomware operations.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 6, 2024
The US is using a World War II law that bans aircraft photography of military installations to charge someone with doing the same thing with a drone.
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Troy Hunt
JUNE 6, 2024
I just watched back a little segment from this week's video and somehow landed at exactly the point where I said "I am starting to lose my patience with repeating the same thing over and over again" (about 46 mins if you want to skip to it), which is precisely how I wanted to start this post. In running HIBP for the last 10 and a bit years, there have been so many breaches where people have asked for the data within them beyond just the email address to be made available.
Security Affairs
JUNE 6, 2024
Researchers believe the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service is a rebranded version of the Knight ransomware operation. Cybersecurity experts who analyzed the recently emerged ransomware operation RansomHub speculate that is is a rebranded version of Knight ransomware. Knight, also known as Cyclops 2.0, appeared in the threat landscape in May 2023. The malware targets multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS, ESXi, and Android.
CILIP
JUNE 6, 2024
Honorary Fellowships 2024 - Nominations Open Honorary Fellowship has been awarded by CILIP and its predecessor the Library Association since 1896. It is the highest recognition given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the library and information world. Members are invited to put forward nominations by the close of play 30th July following the criteria and using the nominations form listed on the Honorary Fellowship page Nominating someone for honorary fellowship is a way for
eDiscovery Daily
JUNE 6, 2024
By Rick Clark The Future Lawyer 2024 Conference was held in Boston, MA, and hosted by Ropes & Gray LLP in their Prudential Tower offices. This two-day event hosted private practicing attorneys the first day and corporate in-house personnel the second day. The law firm day topics hovered mostly on how Generative and Predictive AI are gaining more steam in the legal industry, with the corporate agenda track more focused on change management.
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Jamf
JUNE 6, 2024
Learn about Apple device and app compliance in aviation, focusing on security compliance management, challenges and solutions with Jamf Pro
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 6, 2024
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is at a crossroads. Related: Can IAM be a growth engine? A new Forrester Trends Report dissects ten IAM trends now in play, notably how AI is influencing IAM technologies to meet evolving identity threats. IAM is a concept that arose in the 1970s when usernames and passwords first got set up to control access mainframe computers.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 6, 2024
Eliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JUNE 6, 2024
How You Can Prevent Breaches like Snowflake in the Future andrew.gertz@t… Thu, 06/06/2024 - 14:36 Recently, major data breaches at accounts with Snowflake highlight how something as easy to implement as Multi-Factor Authentication could have helped prevent unauthorized access to millions of data records. There were signs that something was afoot with Snowflake accounts as the Australian Signal Directorate issued an alert about increased cyber threat activity targeting Snowflake customers.
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