Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Godaddy.com , the world’s largest domain name registrar, recently addressed an authentication weakness that cybercriminals were using to blast out spam through legitimate, dormant domains. But several more recent malware spam campaigns suggest GoDaddy’s fix hasn’t gone far enough, and that scammers likely still have a sizable arsenal of hijacked GoDaddy domains at their disposal.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Dharma/CrySiS, GandCrab and Globelmposter Strains Most Prevalent, Study Finds Ransomware victims who opted to pay for the promise of a decryption key forked over an average of $6,733 in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to ransomware incident response firm Coveware. It says strains such as SamSam and Ryuk, which demand higher-than-average ransoms, are increasingly common.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. A new type of cyber attack was used for the first time against the Metro Bank, threat actors are leveraging known flaws in the SS7 signaling protocol to intercept the codes sent via text messages to customers to authorize transactions.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
New York Fed Provides Technical Assistance Aimed at Recovering Lost $81 Million Bangladesh Bank, supported by the New York Fed, has filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court to try to recover $81 million stolen via one of the biggest online bank heists in history. But the Philippine bank the lawsuit targets has dismissed the case as a "political stunt" designed to shift blame.
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.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Security experts identified nearly 500,000 Ubiquit devices that may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Security experts are warning Ubiquit users of a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that threat actors had been targeting Ubiquiti installs exposed online.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Security experts identified nearly 500,000 Ubiquity devices that may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Security experts are warning Ubiquity users of a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that threat actors had been targeting Ubiquity installs exposed online.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Client-Side Patches Due This Week to Fix 'FacePalm' Snooping Bug Apple says it has engineered a server-side fix for a flaw in its FaceTime messaging app and plans to issue a patch for clients this week. The patches will resolve a situation jokingly dubbed "FacePalm" that revealed a bug-reporting gap.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Researchers at Trend Micro discovered at least 29 malicious photo editing and beauty apps that were able to perform several malicious activities. Crooks continue to abuse Google Play store to distribute malicious apps, this time experts at Trend Micro discovered at least 29 malicious photo editing and beauty apps that were stealing users’ photos.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Join Dion Hinchcliffe as he stars in his first comic book, leading the charge to uncover the keys to a trusted, business-ready analytics foundation to know, trust, and use your data.
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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.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Armed with an impressive bag of exploits and other tricks for propagation, researchers believe the new trojan could be the catalyst for an upcoming, major cyber-offensive.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
A 20-year-old college student that has stolen more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks gets a 10 years jail sentence. Joel Ortiz, a young hacker (20) who stole more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency by hijacking victims’ phone numbers has pleaded guilty for “ SIM swapping ” attacks. The college student accepted a sentence of 10 years in prison for SIM hijacking attacks against at least 40 victims.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
In December 2018, the European Commission published its report on the second annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield (the “Report”). The Report concluded that the Privacy Shield “continues to ensure an adequate level of protection” for personal data transferred from the EU to the US. However, the Commission did identify a number of recommendations from the first annual review which still required implementation including the appointment by the US of a permanent ombudsperson to oversee complain
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The number of data breaches dropped overall, but the amount of sensitive records exposed jumped to 446.5 million last year, according to the ITRC.
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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.
Quest Software
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Software-defined secondary storage is helping IT teams turn enterprise backup and recovery on its head. Watch how QoreStor deduplication can help.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
RapidMiner, TIBCO Software, SAS and KNIME are among the leading providers of data science and machine learning products, according to the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant report.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The Wired headline sums it up nicely -- " Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics ": In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, and put him in the role of privacy policy manager. On Tuesday of this week, lawyers Nate Cardozo, of the privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Robyn Greene, of New America's Open Technology Institute, announced they also are going in-house at Facebook.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
QuadrigaCX Bitcoin exchange announced to have lost USD 145 million worth of cryptocurrency because the only person with access to its cold storage has died. QuadrigaCX, the major Bitcoin exchange in Canada announced to have lost CAD 190 million (USD 145 million) worth of cryptocurrency because the only person with access to its cold (offline) storage wallets has died.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Cayosin brings together multiple strands of botnet tech and hacker behavior for a disturbing new threat.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Despite several threat actors stating they are behind a massive 773M credential dump, researchers believe they have found the real distributor.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
If you absolutely have to have Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant in your home, heed the following advice.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Referencing the Dalai Lama, the spam campaign is targeting recipients of a mailing list run by the Central Tibetan Administration.
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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.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Team from University of Missouri take wraps off Dolus, a system 'defense using pretense' which they say will help defend software-defined networking (SDN) cloud infrastructure.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Easy and secure rarely go together. See how Jamf changes that with software deployments and app patching.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The Healthcare sector has been slow to embrace digital transformation but it is now catching up with other industries. Research shows that Healthcare systems came behind only High Tech and Retail when it came to digital penetration over the past three years. As healthcare companies look to digitally transform their business to improve operating efficiencies … The post Why electronic lab document delivery is the low hanging fruit of digital transformation appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
One of the most impactful technology trends we will see in 2019 is broad enterprise technology transition to self-service models.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. A new type of cyber attack was used for the first time against the Metro Bank, threat actors are leveraging known flaws in the SS7 signaling protocol to intercept the codes sent via text messages to customers to authorize transactions.
Micro Focus
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
What is it? Even the casual sports fan has seen the effects of momentum on the ebbs and flows of a sporting event. When one team has momentum, they seem to have everything go their way and are firing on all cylinders. This phenomenon came to be known in the 1960s as “The Big Mo.” . View Article.
Adam Shostack
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
I hate reviewing books by people I know, because I am a picky reader, and if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. I also tend to hate management books, because they often substitute jargon for crisp thinking. So I am surprised, but, here I am, writing a review of Kip Boyle’s “ Fire Doesn’t Innovate.” I’m giving little away by saying the twist is that attackers do innovate, and it’s a surprisingly solid frame on which Kip hangs a
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