Data Breach Today
APRIL 13, 2021
Tom Kellermann of VMware Carbon Black on Fraud Trends and Essential Defenses Brokerage account takeover, supply chain attacks, destructive attacks and those that seek to manipulate time or time stamps are among the latest threats uncovered in the new Modern Bank Heists report authored by Tom Kellermann at VMware Carbon Black.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 13, 2021
Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server — the same systems that have been besieged by attacks on four separate (and zero-day) bugs in the email software over the past month. Redmond also patched a Windows flaw that is actively being exploited in the wild.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 13, 2021
NSA Calls on Exchange Customers to Update Immediately Microsoft issued patches for its on-premises Exchange Server software, addressing four new critical vulnerabilities discovered by the National Security Agency. A zero-day vulnerability in Desktop Window Manager was also disclosed and patched.
AIIM
APRIL 13, 2021
Technology and apps that are helping to prevent illness, accidents, and crime also happen to collect a vast amount of personal data. Similarly, some of the video conferencing and collaboration platforms that we knowledge workers are all too familiar with are now using artificial intelligence to recognize participants and their behaviors. Are these new features a boost to efficiency and convenience or simply the latest attempt by providers to push the boundaries between convenience and intrusion?
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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
APRIL 13, 2021
ODNI: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran Can Launch Disruptive Attacks China, Russia, North Korea and Iran continue to pose significant cybersecurity threats to the U.S. because each is capable of launching disruptive attacks, according to a report published Tuesday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 13, 2021
Confusion Over Hacking, Scraping and Amassing Highlights Data Lockdown Imperative Criminals love to amass and sell vast quantities of user data, but not all such data sets necessarily pose a fresh risk to users. Even so, the ease with which would-be attackers can amass data - and sometimes private details - highlights the imperative for organizations to keep it better secured.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 13, 2021
News : President Biden announced key cybersecurity leadership nominations Monday, proposing Jen Easterly as the next head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and John “Chris” Inglis as the first ever national cyber director (NCD). I know them both, and think they’re both good choices. More news.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 13, 2021
Chad Wolf Confirms Attackers Gained Access to His Unclassified Email Accounts Chad Wolf, the former acting secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, has confirmed the accuracy of an earlier news report saying that the SolarWinds supply chain attackers gained access to his unclassified DHS email accounts, which included calendar details.
Security Affairs
APRIL 13, 2021
The exploit code for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices that run the Surveillance Station video management system is available online. An exploit for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices was publicly released. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-2501, is a stack-based buffer overflow issue that affects QNAP NAS devices running Surveillance Station versions 5.1.5.4.2 and 5.1.5.3.2. &
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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 13, 2021
Criminal Services Facilitate Cybercrime Gangs' Rapid Access to Hacked Sites Initial access brokers continue to ply their trade, selling immediate access to hacked sites to make it easier for gangs to steal data and crypto-lock systems. But researchers say an overabundant supply of access credentials appears to be driving down the prices being commanded on cybercrime forums and markets.
Security Affairs
APRIL 13, 2021
An Indian security researcher has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a vulnerability impacting Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. The Indian security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal has publicly released a proof-of-concept exploit code for a recently discovered vulnerability that affects Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers (i.e.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 13, 2021
Report: Healthcare and Government Organizations Particularly at Risk Forescout Research Labs and the Israeli security firm JSOF have found nine Domain Name System vulnerabilities affecting four TCP/IP stacks that, if exploited, could lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks - potentially on millions of devices.
Information Governance Perspectives
APRIL 13, 2021
Companies know the vast repositories of data they generate and store are valuable, but extracting that value is difficult. With classification tools using machine learning and applying policy expertise, we can shine some light on dark data. #analytics #darkdata #retention #data #ironmountain. The post Analytics: Illuminating the Physical Realm of Dark Data appeared first on Rafael Moscatel.
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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 13, 2021
The Latest Victim: DC Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan A recent cyberattack on a Washington-based health plan, which the company believes was carried out by a foreign cybercrime group, is the latest in a series of hacking incidents targeting health insurers.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 13, 2021
Information access, use and governance has always been a major challenge for organizations – that has grown exponentially with the increasingly hybrid workforce. As ECM morphed to Content Services, OpenText has been guiding customers to successfully modernize operations through deep integration of content to business process. But the rate of change is only accelerating, and organizations need to be able to pivot and adapt faster through technology solutions that are quicker and simpler to deploy
Security Affairs
APRIL 13, 2021
Security experts disclosed nine flaws, collectively tracked as NAME:WRECK, affecting implementations of the DNS protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks. Security researchers disclosed nine vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as NAME:WRECK, that affect implementations of the Domain Name System protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks running on at least 100 million devices.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 13, 2021
Around the world, our customers are using information to anticipate trends and outmaneuver their competition, seizing new opportunities and winning market share. With the world’s broadest set of information management solutions, OpenText™ is helping these customers grow into highly integrated, digital organizations. Today, I am excited to announce the release of OpenText Cloud Editions (CE)?
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 13, 2021
Adobe has addressed security vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Bridge, and RoboHelp. Adobe has fixed ten security vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Bridge, and RoboHelp. Seven vulnerabilities have been rated as critical, some of them could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Data Protection Report
APRIL 13, 2021
Apple, in centralizing control over data collected on iOS, is rejecting apps from the App Store, essentially 50,000 apps at a time. For example, the App Store recently rejected updates to an app that used a third party software development kit (“SDK”) from Adjust. As a result of the SDK and according to Apple (as reported by Forbes ): “[Your app]…collects user and device information to create a unique identifier for the user’s device [via fingerprinting] … Per section 3.3.9 of the Apple Develop
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 13, 2021
Identity Management Day Underpins the Importance of Securing Digital Identities. sparsh. Tue, 04/13/2021 - 13:57. Thales is happy to participate in the first-ever Identity Management Day which is held on 13 April 2021. The purpose of this event is to raise awareness and “educate business leaders, IT decision-makers, and the general public about the importance of managing and securing digital identities.”.
Dark Reading
APRIL 13, 2021
Researchers uncover a fresh set of nine vulnerabilities in four TCP/IP stacks that are widely used in everything from powerful servers and firewalls to consumer IoT products.
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Threatpost
APRIL 13, 2021
The security bugs could open the door for arbitrary code-execution and full takeover of targeted machines.
Dark Reading
APRIL 13, 2021
With APIs predicted to be the most common attack vector by 2022, an API-first security strategy is critical now more than ever.
Threatpost
APRIL 13, 2021
How this class of vulnerabilities will impact millions connected devices and potentially wreck the day of IT security professionals.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 13, 2021
Forensic investigators and examiners are overwhelmed with the amount of evidence they must collect and examine, case logs are growing, and their investigative capacity is being hampered. They need solutions that are easy to use, provide seamless workflows, and can find evidence that is difficult to uncover so that they can get to the truth … The post Announcing OpenText Security and Protection Cloud CE 21.2 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Threatpost
APRIL 13, 2021
An update to Google’s browser that fixes the flaw is expected to be released on Tuesday.
Dark Reading
APRIL 13, 2021
Microsoft today patched 114 CVEs to address the Exchange Server flaws, more than 50 remote code execution vulnerabilities, and one zero-day.
Security Affairs
APRIL 13, 2021
The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. The Swedish Sports Confederation is the umbrella organisation of the Swedish sports movement, it was hacked by Russian military intelligence in a campaign conducted between December 2017 and May 2018, officials said.
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