Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2019
Readiness, Morale, Investigations and Recruitment at Risk as Standoff Persists The U.S. government shutdown is impacting agencies integral to the nation's cybersecurity readiness, and experts fear its long-term impact on the country's cyberattack response capabilities, as well as the risk that it will drive away desperately needed new cybersecurity talent from entering public service.
IT Governance
JANUARY 11, 2019
Germany’s BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) has come under fire for its alleged mishandling of a security incident in which the personal details of almost a thousand public figures, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were stolen and published online. . The authority reportedly discovered the leak in December 2018, but didn’t notify the Federal Crime Office until Friday, 4 January 2019. .
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2019
Chinese Hackers Stole From Indian Unit of Italian Firm In a case of business email compromise, Chinese hackers stole $18.6 million from the Indian arm of Tecnimont SpA, an Italian engineering company, through an elaborate cyber fraud scheme that included impersonating the firm's chief executive.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 11, 2019
Victims of the PyLocky Ransomware can use a tool released by security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group to decrypt their files for free. I have good and bad news for the victims of the PyLocky Ransomware. The good news is that security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco Talos group released a decryption tool that allows them to decrypt their files for free.
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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
JANUARY 11, 2019
Politicians' All-Star Password Picks: '123' and 'ILoveYou' German officials say the suspect behind the mega-leak of politicians' and celebrities' personal details exploited their weak passwords to access email, social media and cloud service accounts. What can the security industry do to help address the password problem?
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2019
A Juniper Research analysis of why card-not-present fraud will continue to grow leads this week's edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: Updates on a Neiman Marcus breach lawsuit settlement and a German hacking incident.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 11, 2019
The British hacker Daniel Kaye has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the cyberattack on Liberian telecom firms. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (29) has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for the 2016 attack that took down telecommunications services in Liberia. Kaye pleaded guilty in December to two charges under the Computer Misuse Act and one charge of possessing criminal property.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2019
European Court of Justice Gets Non-Binding Legal Opinion From Advocate General Europe's "right to be forgotten" should not apply worldwide, but only inside the EU, according to a nonbinding opinion issued to the European Court of Justice by one of its advocate generals regarding a case that arose from a dispute between France's data privacy watchdog and Google.
IT Governance
JANUARY 11, 2019
It’s widely accepted that people are the weakest part of any organisation’s security defences. You can spend months designing flawless processes and you can invest in state-of-the-art technology to detect threats, but these both only work if the people using them know what they’re doing. That’s why information security policies are arguably the most important part of an organisation’s defence.
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.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2019
Customer lifecyle data management can play an important role in cracking down on fraud tied to the growth in real-time P2P payments, says David Barnhardt of the security firm GIACT.
The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 11, 2019
Proposals to charge firms for data said to have been revealed by badly redacted court papers Facebook staff discussed charging companies for access to user data, before ultimately deciding against such a policy, according to reports. The internal discussions were revealed due to improperly redacted court documents, released as part of Facebook’s lawsuit against American software developer Six4Three last year.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 11, 2019
Hacktivist Martin Gottesfeld Also Ordered to Pay Restitution A hacktivist who launched distributed denial-of-service attacks on Boston Children's Hospital and another local facility in 2014 has received a lengthy prison sentence and must pay restitution. But will the outcome of the case deter other hackers?
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 11, 2019
Nice work : One attraction of a vein based system over, say, a more traditional fingerprint system is that it may be typically harder for an attacker to learn how a user's veins are positioned under their skin, rather than lifting a fingerprint from a held object or high quality photograph, for example. But with that said, Krissler and Albrecht first took photos of their vein patterns.
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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.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 11, 2019
Ave Maria Malware – Phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The Cybaze -Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an Italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The malicious emails try to impersonate a supplier’s sales office sending invoices and shipping orders confirmations.
Troy Hunt
JANUARY 11, 2019
Well, it's one more sunny weekly update then snow time again so I've gone particularly beachy today. I'm also particularly breachy , talking about a massive combo list I'm presently pondering for inclusion in HIBP. These lists are frequently used for account takeover attacks against the likes of Spotify which is the subject of this week's blog post.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 11, 2019
A new CSA report addresses the issue of breach responsibility as more organizations move ERP application data the cloud.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 11, 2019
The technology industry, much like technology itself, is full of possibility. Mei Dent, VP Engineering at OpenText™ knows first-hand how varied and inspiring a career in the tech industry can be. Having joined OpenText in 1995, Mei has now become a prominent leader in the company and a big proponent of diversity and inclusion – … The post Technology is a team sport appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Jamf
JANUARY 11, 2019
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Threatpost
JANUARY 11, 2019
As the shutdown continues into its 21st day, dozens of.gov websites haven't renewed their TLS certificates.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 11, 2019
Among the problems: TLS certificates are expiring and websites are becoming inaccessible.
Threatpost
JANUARY 11, 2019
A penetration testing tool called Modlishka can defeat two-factor authentication in the latest 2FA security issue. We asked a roundtable of experts what it all means.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 11, 2019
Mondelez files lawsuit after Zurich rejects claim for damages from massive ransomware attack.
Threatpost
JANUARY 11, 2019
The latest malware from TA505 has been seen targeting banks, retailers and restaurants with two different versions.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 11, 2019
A class-action suit over a 2015 attack demonstration against a Jeep Cherokee can move forward, US Supreme Court rules.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 11, 2019
Security researchers suspect that Iran has spent the last two years pilfering data from telecoms, governments, and more.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 11, 2019
Security leaders must stay on top of a fast-moving world of cloud deployment options.
Threatpost
JANUARY 11, 2019
The app was developed by legitimate Chinese manufacturing giant TCL.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 11, 2019
As organizations continued to see data volumes explode and an increasing number of employees need access to critical information, data cataloging considerations shifted from being a department level concern to an enterprise critical issue.
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