Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Also: Ransomware Gang Leaks Negotiation Chat With Technical Detail About Attack The stark consequences of ransomware became painfully clear in Australia this week as attackers began releasing data from health insurer Medibank. Also, leaked chat logs reveal how the attackers accessed Medibank's systems.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A nonprofit organization is suing the state of Massachusetts on behalf of thousands of low-income families who were collectively robbed of more than a $1 million in food assistance benefits by card skimming devices secretly installed at cash machines and grocery store checkout lanes across the state. Federal law bars states from replacing these benefits using federal funds, and a recent rash of skimming incidents nationwide has disproportionately affected those receiving food assistance via stat
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Russian-Canadian Mikhail Vasiliev, May Face Up to Five Years of Prison in the US Police in Ontario arrested a dual Canadian-Russian national for his involvement with the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service gang. The United States is asking for the extradition of Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, to face a criminal charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in New Jersey federal court.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A flaw in the ABB Totalflow system used in oil and gas organizations could be exploited by an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary code. Researchers from industrial security firm Claroty disclosed details of a vulnerability affecting ABB Totalflow flow computers and remote controllers. Flow computers are used to calculate volume and flow rates for oil and gas that are critical to electric power manufacturing and distribution.
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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
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
This edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses how Australian health insurer Medibank is facing stark consequences for not paying a ransom to a group of cyber extortionists, how to limit unnecessary cybersecurity exposure during M&A, and how to manage challenges in hybrid environments.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Deadlines Coming Due Under US FTC Consent Order Embattled social media platform Twitter lost its chiefs of security, privacy and compliance, and the resignations put the company and its new owner, Elon Musk, at greater risk of regulatory enforcement. The company signed a binding two-decade agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in May.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy : Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, nonprofit Firefox and others allow the company, TrustCor Systems, to act as what’s known as a root certificate authority, a powerful spot in the internet’s infrastructure that guarantees websites are not fake, guiding users to them seamlessly.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Meta Says Measures Are Already in Place to Prevent the Collection of Sensitive Data A U.S. federal district judge said users would be "shocked to realize" that Facebook collects patient data. Plaintiffs suing the social media giant asked the judge to enjoin the company from intercepting health data and communications through its Pixel web tracking tool embedded into patent portals.
Jamf
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Zero Trust Network Access, part of Jamf Private Access, provides modern threat landscape protection to your entire fleet of macOS, iOS/iPadOS, Android and Windows endpoints, extending secure remote access and “Zero Trust” technology to organizational resources and data – granting access only to endpoints and users that meet your requirements – all others are denied, by default.
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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.
Daymark
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The risk of a ransomware attack continues to increase at a frightening triple-digit annual growth rate. How bad is it? Bad, really bad. Businesses based in the U.S. face a 60% chance of an attack, compared to 31% chance in EMEA and 9% in the Asia-Pack region. As the attackers’ sophistication increases and cybergangs are forming, it is important to understand what the attackers are going after and how to increase your ransomware resilience.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
This week, we discuss a £4.4 million GDPR fine for the construction company Interserve, a data breach affecting 9.7 million customers of Medibank, an unusual GDPR fine for UPS, and Microsoft’s latest software updates. Now available on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud. The post IT Governance Podcast Episode 12: Interserve, Medibank, UPS and Patch Tuesday appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
While every sector is taking strides to improve their security stances against ransomware and other cyberattacks, the latest data shows that for Manufacturing the impacts are huge and the pain is real.
Hanzo Learning Center
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In a recent update to Rule 17a-4 , the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) stepped fully into the 21st century by dropping the requirement that electronic records be stored in a “write once, read many” or WORM format. Instead, broker-dealers can opt to continue using WORM format systems or use dynamic recordkeeping technology that provides an audit trail.
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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.
Micro Focus
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
At Micro Focus, we work hard to unlock the individual potential and collective capability of our workforce by investing in development opportunities. The post Meet Raúl Medina Díaz–Systems Integration and Designer Engineer appeared first on Micro Focus Blog.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In the latest FBI warning, cybercriminals are now impersonating financial institutions' refund payment portals. This effort is to contain victims' personal information with legitimacy.
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Microsoft’s November 2022 Patch Tuesday includes fixes for more than 60 vulnerabilities affecting almost 40 different products, features and roles – including patches for CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 , the ProxyNotShell flaws disclosed last month. “It took Microsoft more than two months to provide the patch, even though the company admitted that ProxyNotShell actively exploited the vulnerabilities in targeted attacks against at least 10 large organizations,” Mike Walters,
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Apple released out-of-band patches for iOS and macOS to fix a couple of code execution vulnerabilities in the libxml2 library. Apple released out-of-band patches for iOS and macOS to address two code execution flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-40303 and CVE-2022-40304 , in the libxml2 library for parsing XML documents. The two vulnerabilities were discovered by Google Project Zero security researchers.
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
We commend vets in cyber, with this slideshow look at how the training and experience of former military personnel can be a big, differentiating asset in cybersecurity environments.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Security researchers see updated tactics and tools—and a tempo change—in the cyberattacks Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency is inflicting on Ukraine.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Lea Kissner was one of three senior executives to quit this week, leaving many to wonder if the social media giant is ripe for a breach and FTC action.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Researchers at Avanan warn that a phishing campaign is using Microsoft’s Dynamic 365 Customer Voice feature to send malicious links. Customer Voice is designed to collect feedback from customers, but attackers are using it to send phony links claiming that the recipient has received a voicemail.
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
KmsdBot takes advantage of SSH connections with weak login credentials to mine currency and deplete network resources, as it gains a foothold on enterprise systems.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
A New Era for the Thales Channel Program. divya. Fri, 11/11/2022 - 05:43. I often define Thales as a channel company — and there’s a lot of pride behind that statement. We put a lot of hard work and effort into ensuring that our channel partners are set up for success when they go to market with our products. But we also know that there’s always things we could be doing better.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Links individual vulnerabilities to those known to have been used in ransomware operations, helping vulnerability management teams prevent potential cyber extortion events with VulnDB.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
The line between criminal and political aims has become blurred, but motivations matter less than the effects of a breach.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Even with employees seeing cyberattacks first-hand and understanding the seriousness of such attacks, organizations have a culture problem where users just don’t care.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Okta Worforce Identity Cloud has all three identity functions – identity access management, identity governance, and privilege access management – under the hood.
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