Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Transparency Shortfalls Cited, as WhatsApp Accused of Not Revealing Data Sharing Ireland's privacy law enforcer, the Data Protection Commission, has hit WhatsApp with a 225 million euro ($266 million) fine, finding that it violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation in part by not telling users how it was sharing their data with parent company Facebook.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Ongoing Attacks Disrupt Voip Unlimited and Voipfone Services Voip Unlimited and Voipfone, two Voice over Internet Protocol-based telecom companies in the U.K., report being victims of ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks that have disrupted services.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. The FBI Cyber Division issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn of ransomware attacks targeting the Food and Agriculture sector disrupting its operations, causing financial loss and negatively impacting the overall food supply chain. Small farms, large producers, processors and manufacturers, and markets and restaurants are particularly exposed to ransomware attacks. “Cyber crimi
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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
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Cyber Command and CISA Issue Alerts Cyber Command and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued alerts Friday warning those using Atlassian's Confluence and Data Center products that attackers are actively exploiting the critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2021-26084.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Atlantic Council: Extortion Is an Old Crime; We Have Existing Strategies Ransomware is the result of a criminal blending technology's wonders: networking and encryption. It's a modern day implementation of extortion, a crime as old as time. The Atlantic Council contends lessons from fighting past extortion schemes, such as plane hijackings, could help fight ransomware.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Mandiant researchers spotted a new malware family, dubbed PRIVATELOG, that relies on the Common Log File System (CLFS) to evade detection solutions. FireEye’s Mandiant cybersecurity researchers spotted a new malware family, named PRIVATELOG, that relies on the Common Log File System ( CLFS ) to hide a second-stage payload in registry transaction files to avoid detection.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of data breach trends. Also featured: yet another Microsoft Exchange vulnerability and misconceptions about cybercrime groups.
The Texas Record
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
On August 31, 2021 , the newest edition of 13 TAC §7, otherwise known as Bulletin B , will go live! The updates to 13 TAC §7 are adopted as an administrative rule of the Commission—and are located in the Texas Register. For local governments, this means that all previous versions of 13 TAC §7 will be obsolete, and we recommend your organization accesses the updated rules in order to follow the most updated version of Bulletin B.
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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
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Playbook Leak Reveals Effective Training Program for Less-Sophisticated Affiliates As the United States heads into a holiday weekend, experts are warning that ransomware-wielding attackers are sure to unleash crypto-locking chaos in the coming days, with Conti ransomware attacks in particular having been rising sharply in recent weeks.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
The Conti ransomware operators are targeting Microsoft Exchange servers leveraging recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerability exploits. The Conti ransomware gang is targeting Microsoft Exchange servers leveraging exploits with recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerabilities. ProxyShell is the name of three vulnerabilities that could be chained by an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain code execution on Microsoft Exchange servers.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Experts Warn of Continued Scrutiny in Cryptocurrency Markets The U.S. SEC announced civil action against defunct cryptocurrency lending platform BitConnect for allegedly defrauding investors out of $2 billion. In response, experts say cryptocurrency markets will face continued scrutiny over investor protections, fraud and security.
Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
I'm back from the most epic of holidays! How epic? Just have a scroll through the thread: I’m back! Went offline for most of the last week, pics and stories to follow 🐊 pic.twitter.com/hRUcKMwgGU — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) September 2, 2021 Which the Twitter client on my iPad somehow decided to break into 2 threads: At times this felt like navigating through a scene from Jurassic Park, just with wallabies rather than velociraptors 🦖 pic.twitter.com/VHa4kJw6k
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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
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
DuPage Medical Group Sued After Breach Affecting 655,000 DuPage Medical Group in suburban Chicago has been smacked with a lawsuit following its recent "network outage" health data breach, which was reported to regulators as potentially affecting the protected health information of more than 655,000 individuals. What are plaintiffs alleging?
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Earlier this month Amazon Web Services introduced AWS for Health, an offering of curated AWS services and AWS Partner Network solutions used by thousands of healthcare and life sciences customers globally. AWS for Health provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help organizations increase the pace of innovation, unlock the potential of health data, and … The post AWS for Health and OpenText for Healthcare – Better together appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Report Claims Criminals Are Installing Proxyware Service Security firm Cisco Talos reported this week that cybercriminals have found a new way to make money from their victims, by abusing internet-sharing "proxyware" platforms such as Honeygain and Nanowire to illegally share their victim’s internet connection.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Grant Oviatt, director of incident-response engagements at Red Canary, provides advice and best practices on how to get there faster.
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HID Global
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
The Deadline for Hospital Future Act (KHZG) Funding is Swiftly Approaching. mzillig. Fri, 09/03/2021 - 12:21.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Cybercriminal enterprise is mass testing millions of usernames and passwords per day in a hunt for loyalty card data.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Looking forward to Labor Day? So are ruthless gangs of cybercriminals.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Managing mobile devices and its growing complexities shouldn’t be a constant source of stress for organizations. Integrating Oomnitza with Jamf Pro to successfully manage devices while providing insight into device health leverages technology in ways that keeps devices performing optimally and data safeguarded while ensuring compliance.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
The financially motivated group looked to steal payment-card data from a California-based point-of-sale service provider.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
As remote work has become the new normal, remote access to business-critical software has become the norm and needs to be supported on any platform and any device. With OpenText™ Exceed TurboX (ETX) 12.0.4, OpenText is introducing a new universal client for remote access from any platform and any device. The performance of remote access … The post What’s new in OpenText Exceed TurboX 12.0.4 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Jon D. Paul has written the fascinating story of the HX-63, a super-complicated electromechanical rotor cipher machine made by Crypto AG.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
In the competitive business world, the responsiveness of business applications plays a vital role in business success. As volumes of business users and transactions grow, responsiveness becomes a concern if the underlying environment does not support the load. This can even lead to business downtime in persistent load scenarios as a backlog of requests builds … The post Performance considerations for cloud services provisioning: Infrastructure services appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies that we have ever experienced. Yet, the deployment of AI continues to raise legal and ethical questions that institutions are struggling to solve, with a continuous effort to regulate without over-regulating. Are businesses ready for the AI revolution? To gain deeper insight into AI issues and opportunities, and to understand business readiness for AI transformation, we invite you to complete our global AI Survey.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
In our first blog, I discussed performance parameters for cloud services that were specific toinfrastructureApart from infrastructure services, though, cloud providers also provide value-added services that can be used to manage and augment non-functional performance requirements of business applications. This blog describes performance parameters for cloud services that are specific to two value-added services: performance … The post Performance considerations for cloud services provision
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Black Hat is a hacker-themed board game.
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