Data Breach Today
MAY 12, 2023
Undetected Cloud Misconfiguration Exposed Vehicle Information for Over Ten Years Toyota on Friday disclosed that it exposed online for a decade car location data belonging to more than two million Japanese customers. The data by itself cannot be used to identify individual car owners, the carmaker said. Also exposed: video taken outside the vehicle with an onboard recorder.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 12, 2023
On May 5, 2023, New York Attorney General Letitia James released proposed legislation that seeks to regulate all facets of the cryptocurrency industry. Entitled the “Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency, and Oversight (CRPTO) Act,” if enacted the bill would substantially expand New York’s oversight of crypto enterprises conducting business in the Empire State, including as to matters involving privacy and cybersecurity.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 12, 2023
Attackers Target both Ukraine and pro-Russian Actors A newly uncovered hacking group with a string of cyberespionage successes is targeting Ukrainian and pro-Russian targets alike. Malwarebytes in a Wednesday dubs the threat actor "Red Stinger," saying the group is the same as the "Bad Magic" threat actor revealed by Kaspersky in March.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 12, 2023
On May 4, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new actions to promote responsible American innovation in artificial intelligence (“AI”). The Administration also met with the CEOs of Alphabet, Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI as part of the Administration’s broader, ongoing effort to engage with advocates, companies, researchers, civil right organizations, not-for-profit organizations, communities, international partners, and others on critical AI issues.
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
MAY 12, 2023
Also: APAC Privacy Law Trends; Another Company Bans ChatGPT In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss how the Feds have dismembered Russia's 'Snake' cyberespionage operation; the ongoing debate over privacy laws and regulations in the APAC region; and why more companies are banning the use of generative AI tool ChatGPT.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 12, 2023
CISO Amit Basu Shares Practical Steps to Test Cyber Resilience Cyber resilience is "even more critical in the post pandemic world," said Amit Basu, CISO of International Seaways. The NIST framework is a useful tool for developing, testing and maintaining cyber resilience, but too often security teams neglect the "detect" and "respond" functions, he added.
Schneier on Security
MAY 12, 2023
Ted Chiang has an excellent essay in the New Yorker : “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” The question we should be asking is: as A.I. becomes more powerful and flexible, is there any way to keep it from being another version of McKinsey? The question is worth considering across different meanings of the term “A.I.” If you think of A.I. as a broad set of technologies being marketed to companies to help them cut their costs, the question becomes: how do we keep those technologies fro
Data Breach Today
MAY 12, 2023
A recently proposed federal rule would prohibit healthcare organizations from disclosing to law enforcement patient information related to obtaining or providing an abortion. If enacted, it will address longstanding loopholes in healthcare privacy, said attorney Kathleen McGee.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 12, 2023
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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
MAY 12, 2023
Crosspoint's $11.50-Per-Share Bid Comes 31 Months After Endpoint Vendor Went Public Crosspoint Capital Partners has joined Thoma Bravo and others in the take-private cybersecurity spree, agreeing to buy endpoint security vendor Absolute Software for $657 million. The deal will allow Absolute Software to expand from asset visibility and control to endpoint resilience and access.
Security Affairs
MAY 12, 2023
The leak of the source code of the Babuk ransomware allowed 9 ransomware gangs to create their own ransomware targeting VMware ESXi systems. SentinelLabs researchers have identified 10 ransomware families using VMware ESXi lockers based on the source code of the Babuk ransomware that was leaked in 2021. The experts pointed out that these ransomware families were detected through H2 2022 and H1 2023, a circumstance that suggests that an increasing number of threat actors is using the source code
Data Breach Today
MAY 12, 2023
Broadcom's Mary Ann Furno on Authentication Changes, How Orgs Adapt to Challenges Network boundaries have dissipated while changes in regulation and customer approaches to trust now require more advanced authentication and the ability to treat each authentication in relation to its specific risk level. Broadcom's Mary Ann Furno discusses these issues.
Security Affairs
MAY 12, 2023
Email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated, how is changing the Email Security Landscape? For over a decade, email has been a common source of cybersecurity threats. During that time, email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated. What started as notes from Nigerian princes that needed large sums of money to help them get home has evolved into bad actors that use refined social engineering tactics to convince the receiver to unknowingly share important information.
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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.
Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
Dubbed "ChattyGoblin," the China-backed actors use chatbots to scam Southeast Asian gambling companies.
Security Affairs
MAY 12, 2023
Swiss electrification and automation technology giant ABB suffered a Black Basta ransomware attack that impacted its business operations. Swiss multinational company ABB, a leading electrification and automation technology provider, it the last victim of the notorious Black Basta ransomware group. The company has more than 105,000 employees and has $29.4 billion in revenue for 2022.
Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
The privilege escalation flaw is one in thousands that researchers have disclosed in recent years.
Security Affairs
MAY 12, 2023
U.S. CISA and FBI warned of attacks conducted by the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang against the education sector in the country. The FBI and CISA issued a joint advisory warning that the Bl00dy Ransomware group is actively targeting the education sector by exploiting the PaperCut remote-code execution vulnerability CVE-2023-27350. The Bl00dy ransomware has been active since May 2022, it has been the first group that started using the leaked LockBit ransomware builder in attacks in the wild.
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Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
One long-awaited security move caused a ripple effect in the cybercrime ecosystem.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 12, 2023
A global fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) enterprise needed to modernize its product portfolio, focusing on high-growth categories like pet care, coffee and consumer health. Its aggressive sustainability goals included achieving net zero emissions by 2050, making all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2025 and investing more than USD 3 billion globally over several years to drive momentum.
Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
Regulators should apply a healthy skepticism to generative AI developments to guarantee a competitive marketplace.
Jamf
MAY 12, 2023
Jamf support for digital employee badges is now available via SwiftConnect, integrated with Jamf Trust, for iOS and coming soon for Android
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Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
Retired hardware and forgotten cloud virtual machines are a trove of insecure confidential data. Here's how to ameliorate that weakness.
IG Guru
MAY 12, 2023
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Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
The Technology Innovation Institute’s year-long cryptographic challenge invites participants to assess concrete hardness of McEliece public-key encryption scheme.
Collibra
MAY 12, 2023
After speaking with over 20 clients about data quality in modern data pipelines, I am eager to share my insights on the pros and cons of internal (in-memory) processing versus external (API-based) DQ engine integration. Organizations are increasingly adopting diverse technologies to maintain data quality, making it difficult to choose the most effective strategy.
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Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
Black Hat Asia's NOC team gives a look inside what's really happening on the cyber front during these events.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 12, 2023
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that provides organizations with scalability, security, availability and performance while keeping their IT infrastructure management needs at bay. It was launched in 2006 as the first AWS service and manages data as objects instead of a file hierarchy or blocks within sectors and tracks.
Dark Reading
MAY 12, 2023
The deal will enhance the capabilities of both companies and provide customers with a more comprehensive way to protect their digital assets.
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