Data Breach Today
APRIL 16, 2020
Meanwhile, Zoom Continues Security Overhaul With Bug-Bounty Reboot, Geo-Fencing One measure of the popularity of the Zoom teleconferencing software: Cybercrime forums are listing an increasing number of stolen accounts for sale, which attackers could use to "Zoom bomb" calls and push malicious files to meeting participants. Security experts describe essential defenses.
AIIM
APRIL 16, 2020
Thanks to the internet and the connected world we live in, working remotely is increasing in popularity for a good reason ! The benefits of working from home have been good for both organization and their employees. On the one hand, organizations can hire talent despite the geographical issue and provide a flexible work schedule, minimized exposure to germs, and so on!
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 16, 2020
Government-Sponsored Groups Have Attempted to Steal Nearly $2 Billion, US Officials Say The State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information about North Korean-sponsored hacking campaigns, according to an advisory released this week by several U.S. agencies about the ongoing threat these campaigns pose to financial institutions and others.
Troy Hunt
APRIL 16, 2020
Hot on the heels of onboarding the USA government to Have I Been Pwned last month , I'm very happy to welcome another national government - Iceland! As of today, Iceland's National Computer Security Incident Response Team ( CERT-IS ), now has access to the full gamut of their gov domains for both on-demand querying and ongoing monitoring. As with the USA and Iceland, I expect to continue onboarding additional governments over the course of 2020 and expanding their access to meaningful data about
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
APRIL 16, 2020
As healthcare organizations navigate the COVID-19 crisis, they should take critical steps to improve their security posture and third-party security risk governance, says consultant Brenda Ferraro, the former CISO at Meritain Health, an Aetna subsidiary.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 16, 2020
Australia Doesn't Have a Great Record Running Big Technology Projects Can you "big tech" a way out of a pandemic? Many governments around the world are trying, and Australia is joining the herd with a contact tracing app. But Australia has a splotchy record of large government tech projects, including in health, that may result in low voluntary adoption of an app.
Security Affairs
APRIL 16, 2020
Linksys has reset passwords for all its customers’ after learning on ongoing DNS hijacking attacks aimed at delivering malware. Crooks continue to launch Coronavirus-themed attacks , in the last weeks, experts observed hackers hijacking D-Link and Linksys routers to redirect users to COVID19-themed sites spreading malware. Hackers compromise D-Link and Linksys routers and change DNS settings to redirect users to bogus sites proposing a fake COVID-19 information app from the World Health O
Lenny Zeltser
APRIL 16, 2020
SpiderFoot is a tool for gathering Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and threat intelligence about IPs, domains, e-mail addresses, and other research targets from many data sources, including services such as Shodan and Have I Been Pwned. Steve Micallef, the tool’s author, offers a free, open source version of SpiderFoot. His team also provides an affordable commercial SaaS version, SpiderFoot HX , which you don’t need to host and which offers additional functionality.
Security Affairs
APRIL 16, 2020
The United States agencies released a joint advisory warning of ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by North Korea-linked hackers to the global financial sector. The U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, and Homeland Security, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint advisory that is warning organizations worldwide about the ‘significant cyber threat’ posed by the North Korean nation-state actors to the global banking and financial institutions.
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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.
Threatpost
APRIL 16, 2020
More ransomware operators are setting up pages where they threaten to publish compromised data from victims - an added pressure for victims to pay the ransom.
Security Affairs
APRIL 16, 2020
The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) was victim of a malware-based attack that caused an outage recently. The shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) discloses a malware-based attack that took place on April 10. The incident affected the company’s data center and took down its website, msc.com , and its myMSC customer and vendor portal. “ The incident was confined to MSC’s headquarters in Geneva only and affected the availability of some of MSC’s digit
Threatpost
APRIL 16, 2020
Cisco stomped out a critical vulnerability in its IP Phone web server that could enable remote code execution by an unauthenticated attacker.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 16, 2020
In these uncertain times, organizations need the ability to adjust their plans and forecasts in real time to address changing demands and maintain business continuity. Lengthy, labor-intensive, siloed planning processes, often the result of using spreadsheets or sub-par planning software, are too costly for today’s businesses. As the situation becomes more complex, organizations need to adopt solutions that create more intelligent workflows (increasing efficiencies and accuracy) and produce reli
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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.
Jamf
APRIL 16, 2020
We show how Jamf School can assist in providing the best learning experience for all students using Apple technology in the classroom or remote.
Data Protection Report
APRIL 16, 2020
Last week, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“ DPC ”) published its much anticipated guidance note on cookies and similar tracking technologies (the “ Guidance ”). It also published a report following a “cookie sweep” that took place between August 2019 and December 2019 of 38 data controllers (the “ Report ”). The cookie sweep requested information from the data controllers and examined the deployment of cookies on their websites to understand how and whether they were complying with the
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 16, 2020
The drastic changes we’re experiencing in our personal and professional lives would have been impossible to imagine just a year ago when we shared this blog about CEOs becoming more actively involved in data security conversations in the boardroom. Now, our new reality demands these questions are asked and answered by C-suite executives who must be certain about data security in uncertain times.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 16, 2020
The now-patched flaws found in the popular internet-connected baby bed underscore the importance of getting security right.
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IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 16, 2020
The current environment provides an unprecedented challenge for businesses across the globe. More than ever, there is a need to quickly analyze insights and make fast decisions as the market changes. As demands for real-time data increase, businesses with strapped resources need to make advanced analytics capabilities more available and accessible to anyone.
Threatpost
APRIL 16, 2020
Alleged Windows flaw allows for remote code execution and is being flogged for $500,000.
Dark Reading
APRIL 16, 2020
What happened in Atlanta is worth studying because it was one of the earliest cases of a major city ransomware attacks and because it came out the other side stronger and more resilient.
Threatpost
APRIL 16, 2020
A honeypot experiment shows just how quickly cybercriminals will move to compromise vulnerable cloud infrastructure.
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Troy Hunt
APRIL 16, 2020
Spiders! Ok, not your normal start to a weekly update but yeah, we had a bit of an infestation this week which did take the mind of other current events for a while. Much of what's happened beyond that this week has resulted in various tweet storms; the Zoom credential stuffing situation, the Coronavirus tracking app (holy cow that has some "robust" debate around it) and the (seemingly endless) thread of progress as I build up my Ubiquiti network.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 16, 2020
This one isn't even related to contact tracing: On March 17, 2020, the federal government relaxed a number of telehealth-related regulatory requirements due to COVID-19. On April 3, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-43-20 (the Order), which relaxes various telehealth reporting requirements, penalties, and enforcements otherwise imposed under state laws, including those associated with unauthorized access and disclosure of personal information through telehealth medi
Dark Reading
APRIL 16, 2020
An epidemiologist-turned-CTO describes the parallels between the spread of a computer virus and the real-world coronavirus.
Reltio
APRIL 16, 2020
A Responsive Data Strategy is Critical Now More Than Ever. As the market conditions evolve, Global 2000 companies need to pivot quickly to respond to changing business needs. Political, Environmental, Social, and Technological (PEST) trends frequently put companies in situations where they have to evolve their business models to address customer, competitive, or regulatory requirements.
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DXC Technology
APRIL 16, 2020
Businesses have been doing some form of partnering for decades, but as companies seek to modernize and turn their organizations into digital enterprises, partnering has become more important than ever. With all the different technologies and systems that have to integrate, digital transformation can’t happen unless all parties are in sync and cooperating with one […].
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 16, 2020
On April 3, 2020, the Brazilian Senate approved Bill of Law (“PL 1179/2020”), which includes a number of emergency measures intended to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, one provision delays the effective date of the Brazilian Data Protection Law ( Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais , “LGPD”) until January 2021. Fines and sanctions for companies that fail to comply with the LGPD are now scheduled to become effective August 2021.
Threatpost
APRIL 16, 2020
A never-before-seen RAT is targeting Azerbaijan energy companies with various tools aimed at stealing credentials and exfiltrating valuable data.
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