Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Agency Would Help Member States Respond to Cyberattacks The European Commission has proposed creating a Joint Cyber Unit to help EU member states respond to and prevent cyberattacks, especially those involving ransomware. The goal is for the unit to begin operations by the end of next year.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldn’t decrypt the data on the devices. This is a story of ingenuity and happenstance, and how one former Secret Service agent helped crack a code that revealed the contours of a global organized crime ring.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Gas Stations as Well as Consumers Seek Damages Colonial Pipeline Co. now faces at least two lawsuits seeking class action status in the aftermath of a ransomware attack in May that led the firm to shut down the operations of a 5,500-mile pipeline for nearly a week.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 23, 2021
The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Related: How ‘PAM’ improves authentication. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act. To boost productivity, they must leverage cloud infrastructure and participate in agile software development.
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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
JUNE 23, 2021
Justice Department Alleges Sites Target US With Disinformation Campaigns The U.S. has seized the domains of 36 websites linked with Iran and Iraq for allegedly publishing disinformation and running malicious influencing campaigns targeting Americans. Those running the sites violated sanctions by not obtaining a license to buy domain names from U.S. companies.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Sponsor of Bill Says Ransomware Attacks Are 'Completely Out of Control' A bill introduced this week in the Australian Parliament would make it mandatory for organizations based in the country to report to the Australian Cyber Security Center any payments they plan to make to ransomware gangs.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The popular cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell, a few hours after Spain’s National Court agreed to extradite him to the US to face charges for tax evasion.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Spanish Court Had Just Authorized McAfee's Extradition to US John McAfee, 75, was found dead in a Spanish prison cell Wednesday, hours after a Spanish court had authorized his extradition to the U.S. to face tax evasion charges, according to multiple news reports.
Troy Hunt
JUNE 23, 2021
Recently, I've been providing a lot of additional government access to Have I Been Pwned. Today I'm happy to welcome the Jamaica Cyber Incident Response Team (JaCIRT), the 22nd national CERT on HIBP and 11th in the last 4 months. They now have full and free API level access to query all government domains belonging to the Caribbean nation.
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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
JUNE 23, 2021
Maximus Corp. Says Personal Information Exposed in Unauthorized Access to App Maximus Corp., a global provider of government health data services, says a data breach exposed the personal information of more than 334,000 Medicaid healthcare providers nationwide.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
Wired is reporting on a company called Mollitiam Industries: Marketing materials left exposed online by a third-party claim Mollitiam’s interception products, dubbed “Invisible Man” and “Night Crawler,” are capable of remotely accessing a target’s files, location, and covertly turning on a device’s camera and microphone.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
3 Experts Describe Lessons Learned How can financial institutions deal with the problem of authorized push payment fraud? Three experts - Karen Boyer of People’s United Bank, Alasdair MacFarlane of NatWest Bank and Dave Excell of Featurespace - offer their insights on best practices.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
The LV ransomware operators repurposed a REvil binary to create their own strain and launch a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). A threat actor known as LV ransomware gang is trying to enter the cybercrime arena, it repurposed a REvil binary almost to create their own strain and launch a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The Sodinokibi/REvil is one of the major ransomware operations in the threat landscape, if conducted many attacks against high-profile targets, including the meat processing giant JB
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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.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JUNE 23, 2021
On 21 June 2021, the European Data Protection Board (“ EDPB ”) published the final Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data (“ Recommendations ”). These long-awaited Recommendations are an extremely important step for the consideration of data transfer related risks and GDPR compliance management within an organisation.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2021
Company finally rolls out the complete fix this week for an RCE flaw affecting some 800,000 devices that could result in crashes or prevent users from connecting to corporate resources.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
D3FEND is a new project promoted by MITRE Corporation to add defensive cybersecurity techniques to the ATT&CK Framework. D3FEND is a new project promoted by MITRE Corporation aimed to add a knowledge graph of cybersecurity countermeasures to the ATT&CK Framework. The project was announced this week by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), it proposes a standard approach for the description of defensive cybersecurity countermeasures for techniques used by threat actors. “D3FEND i
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2021
A pair of zero-days affecting Pling-based marketplaces could allow for some ugly attacks on unsuspecting Linux enthusiasts -- with no patches in sight.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 23, 2021
Researchers found a "novel" class of DNS vulnerabilities in AWS Route53 and other DNS-as-a-service offerings that leak sensitive information on corporate and government customers, with one simple registration step.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2021
The LV ransomware operators likely used a hex editor to repurpose a REvil binary almost wholesale, for their own nefarious purposes.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 23, 2021
The managers are accused of selling tech to Libya and Egypt that was used to to identify activists, read private messages, and kidnap, torture, or kill them.
Dark Reading
JUNE 23, 2021
Having a prevention mindset means setting our prevention capabilities to "prevent" instead of relying on detection and response.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
Palo Alto Networks addresses a critical improper authorization vulnerability (CVE-2021-3044) affecting its Cortex XSOAR security orchestration solution, automation and response (SOAR) platform. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered and addresses a critical improper authorization vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3044, that affects its Cortex XSOAR SOAR platform.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JUNE 23, 2021
INSIGHTS from SENTINEL. jstewart. Wed, 06/23/2021 - 16:11. Author Karine Ganem, Director of Global Field Marketing. At Sentinel Insights 2021, the Thales flagship software monetization conference, industry-leading experts shared their insights on why and how innovative software licensing and packaging—the infrastructure behind the subscription economy—can be rocket fuel for your revenue. .
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20019 , in SonicWall VPN appliances was only partially patched last year and could allow a remote attacker to steal sensitive data. In October last year, experts reported a critical stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5135 , in SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) appliances.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 23, 2021
The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity welcomes the European Commission proposal to launch the new Joint Cyber Unit. The European Commission proposed on Wednesday the creation of a new Joint Cyber Unit that aims at providing a coordinated response to large-scale cyber attacks and crises. The idea of establishing a Joint Cyber Unit (JCU) was first proposed two years ago by European Commission President von der Leyen, it is considered a milestone in reinforcing the European cybersecurity cris
Dark Reading
JUNE 23, 2021
Attackers use emails to prompt victims to call a fraudulent call center, where attackers instruct them to download a malicious file.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
A week after the law enforcement operation that targeted the Clop ransomware operators, the gang is back into action. A week after the international operation conducted by law enforcement that targeted several members of the Clop ransomware gang, the group is back into action. Last week, Ukraine police arrested multiple individuals that are believed to be linked to the Clop ransomware gang as part of an international operation conducted by law enforcement from Ukraine, South Korea, and the US.
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