Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
Gemini Advisory Says Russian Cybercriminal Sold Gift Card, Payment Card Data A Russian-speaking cybercriminal recently sold on a darknet forum thousands of stolen payment and gift cards that researchers at Gemini Advisory believe were taken from the now defunct online gift card exchange Cardpool.com.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 6, 2021
Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your online accounts wherever feasible.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
Webinar | Securing Remote Workers: Using SASE to Maintain Visibility and Maximize Efficiency View this webinar as we discuss how organizations throughout EMEA maintain security and visibility as employees and customers work from home, and manage the added responsibility this places on the CISO and security team.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 6, 2021
As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. Related: Business-logic attacks target commercial websites. SMBs are tapping into cloud infrastructure and rich mobile app experiences, making great leaps forward in business agility, the same as large enterprises.
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 6, 2021
View this webinar as we discuss how can organizations throughout Africa maintain security and visibility as employees and customers work from home, and manage the added responsibility this places on the CISO and security team.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
Four More Health Plans Report They, Too, Were Affected Months after the December cyberattack on Accellion's File Transfer Appliance, the identities of more healthcare sector entities that were affected continue to come to light. The latest victims to be revealed include four health plans.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 6, 2021
The encrypted messaging app is integrating support for MobileCoin in a bid to keep up with the features offered by its more mainstream rivals.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
Conti Ransomware Gang Hit Scottish Environment Protection Agency on Christmas Eve How much does it cost to recover from a ransomware attack? For the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which was hit by the Conti ransomware-wielding gang on Christmas Eve, reported cleanup costs have reached $1.1 million. SEPA is still restoring systems and has refused to pay any ransom.
Threatpost
APRIL 6, 2021
Cyberattackers are actively exploiting known security vulnerabilities in widely deployed, mission-critical SAP applications, allowing for full takeover and the ability to infest an organization further.
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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
APRIL 6, 2021
Cisco’s Elias Levy on the Leap From EDR to XDR and What It Means Exponentially more devices on the network mean proportionately less visibility. This is reality for most enterprises today, and it’s changed the role of endpoint security solutions. Elias Levy of Cisco discusses emerging technologies and strategies, including the rise of XDR.
IT Governance
APRIL 6, 2021
With the UK edging towards the end of lockdown, we are all eager to make plans and get the most out of our renewed freedom. But before you rush off to buy festival or theatre tickets, you should check whether you’re dealing with a scammer. Fraudsters also have a plan for those who are happy in the comfort of their own home, creating a fake promotion to win a PlayStation 5.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
Meanwhile, Agency Continues to Investigate SolarWinds Attack Cybersecurity weakness persist throughout the U.S. Department of Energy's unclassified networks, including those of the National Nuclear Security Administration, according to an inspector general audit.
Daymark
APRIL 6, 2021
Cloud security is a constant concern for organizations of every size. Stopping malicious actors from accessing your company’s systems and data is a top priority, but is made difficult by the number of different exploit techniques coupled with the sophistication of the attacks. One area of particular concern is legitimately compromised user credentials.
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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.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 6, 2021
Letter to Twitter, Google, Others Asks About Selling Information to Foreign Governments A bipartisan group of senators has sent a letter to Google, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T and online advertising firms and networks raising national security concerns about the selling of citizens' personal data, which could end up in the hands of foreign governments.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 6, 2021
A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones it. What’s clever about this scam is that the victim is an Uber driver and the scammer is the passenger, so the driver is naturally busy and can’t see what the scammer is doing.
Threatpost
APRIL 6, 2021
CVE-2021-21982 affects a platform designed to secure private clouds, and the virtual servers and workloads that they contain.
Information Governance Perspectives
APRIL 6, 2021
With #AI looming ahead, we may even have to redefine what work is. Man is no longer the scale, the ruler, the canon. The post Artificial Intelligence: Emerging from the Dense Digital Fog appeared first on Rafael Moscatel.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 6, 2021
On-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released, security SAP security firm Onapsis warns. According to a joint study published by Onapsis and SAP, on-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released. Threat actors perform reverse-engineering of the SAP patches to create their own code to exploit recently addressed vulnerabilities and use them to target SAP installs.
Threatpost
APRIL 6, 2021
New details of negotiation between attackers and officials from Broward County Public Schools emerge after a ransomware attack early last month.
Dark Reading
APRIL 6, 2021
The idea of monetizing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks dates back to the 1990s. But the rise of DDoS-for-hire services and cryptocurrencies has radically changed the landscape.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 6, 2021
The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 6, 2021
Not only the European Commission, but many other organizations of the European Union have been targeted by a cyberattack in March. A European Commission spokesperson confirmed that the European Commission, along with other European Union organizations, was hit by a cyberattack in March. The authorities did not disclose any details about the type of threats that hit the institutions either the alleged threat actors behind the attack. “A range of European Union institutions including the Eur
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 6, 2021
WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence committee about the progress of recent years and the work that remains.
Dark Reading
APRIL 6, 2021
Recent Trickbot campaigns and at least three common banking Trojans all attempt to infect systems using malicious macros in Microsoft Office documents created using EtterSilent.
Threatpost
APRIL 6, 2021
A massive operation offers access to hacked camera feeds in bedrooms and at hotels.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 6, 2021
The Ryuk ransomware epidemic is no accident. The cybercriminals responsible for its spread have systematically exploited weaknesses in enterprise defenses that must be addressed.
Security Affairs
APRIL 6, 2021
Rockwell Automation has recently addressed nine critical vulnerabilities in its FactoryTalk AssetCentre product with the release of version v11. The American provider of industrial automation Rockwell Automation on Thursday informed customers that it has patched nine critical vulnerabilities in its FactoryTalk AssetCentre product. FactoryTalk AssetCentre provides customers with a centralized tool for securing, managing, versioning, tracking and reporting automation-related asset information acro
Dark Reading
APRIL 6, 2021
The 2021 Pwn2Own is among the largest in its history, with 23 separate entries targeting 10 products.
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