Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2019
$117.5 Million Settlement Would Be Largest Ever for a Data Breach, Plaintiffs Say Yahoo is hoping a revamped proposed breach-related settlement will pass muster with a federal judge who rejected the first one for myriad reasons, including high attorney fees and a lack of transparency. The settlement totals $117.5 million, just ahead of health insurer Anthem's $115 million settlement.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 10, 2019
As long as cyber attacks continue, financial institutions will remain a prime target, for obvious reasons. Related: OneSpan’s rebranding launch. Outside of giants JP Morgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and U.S. Bancorp, the remainder of the more than 10,000 U.S. firms are comprised of community banks and regional credit unions. These smaller institutions, much like the giants, are hustling to expand mobile banking services.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2019
Nearly one-quarter of the global cybersecurity workforce is now made up of women. But women still face significant compensation and other career challenges, according to a new study. Mary-Jo de Leeuw of (ISC)2 shares analysis.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Security researchers discovered weaknesses in WPA3 that could be exploited to recover WiFi passwords by abusing timing or cache-based side-channel leaks. Security researchers discovered weaknesses in WPA3 that could be exploited to recover WiFi passwords by abusing timing or cache-based side-channel leaks. One of the main advantages of WPA3 is that it’s near impossible to crack the password of a network because it implements the Dragonfly handshake, Unfortunately, we found that even with W
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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
APRIL 10, 2019
Report Describes Technical Sophistication of the Threat A new type of malware, dubbed TajMahal, offers its users a host of espionage techniques, including the ability to steal documents sent to a printer queue and pilfer data from a CD, Kaspersky Lab reports. But researchers have only identified one victim so far.
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IT Governance
APRIL 10, 2019
This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. Originally published June 2017. On 25 May 2018, the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) superseded the UK’s DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998. With the Regulation expanding the definition of personal data, many organisations were uncertain as to what the new definition includes. The scope of personal data.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before. Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks aimed at Internet of Things (IoT) devices. w
Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2019
Interesting scheme : It all starts off with a fairly bog standard gallery style certificate. Details of the work, the authenticating agency, a bit of embossing and a large impressive signature at the bottom. Exactly the sort of things that can be easily copied by someone on a mission to create the perfect fake. That torn-in-half banknote though? Never mind signatures, embossing or wax seals.
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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.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2019
Bill takes aim at tactics used to convince people to give up their personal data, designing games that addict kids, and more.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Microsoft Patches Windows Privilege Escalation Flaws Exploited in Attacks. Microsoft has released its April 2019 Patch Tuesday updates that address over 70 vulnerabilities, including two Windows zero-day flaws. Microsoft has released the April 2019 Patch Tuesday updates that address 74 vulnerabilities, including two Windows zero-days under active attack.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2019
Third parties such as ad, search engine, and analytics firms often have access to guest name, address, phone numbers, credit cards and other data, Symantec says.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Yomi’s malware engine implements a multi-analysis approach that is able to exploit both: static analysis and behavioral analysis, enjoy it” Nowadays malware represents a powerful tool for cyber attackers and cyber criminals all around the world, with over 856 million of distinct samples identified during the last year it is, with no doubt, one of the major kinds of threat that companies and organizations are tackling to keep running their business without losing resources, time, money, sha
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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.
Adam Levin
APRIL 10, 2019
A security analysis of 30 major banking and financial apps has shown major security holes and a lax approach to protecting user data. The analysis was conducted by the Aite Group, which looked at mobile apps in eight categories: retail banking, credit cards, mobile payment, healthcare savings, retail finance, health insurance, auto insurance and cryptocurrency.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky Lab uncovered a highly sophisticated spyware framework dubbed TajMahal that was involved in cyberespionage campaign for at least last 5 years. Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky discovered a highly sophisticated spyware framework, dubbed TajMahal , that has been used in cyber operations for at least last 5 years.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2019
As crowdsourced security-testing surges in popularity, companies need to implement safe harbor provisions to protect good-faith hackers -- and themselves.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2019
Attorney general William Barr will have tremendous sway over how much of the Mueller report the public can see. Right now, it doesn't look promising.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2019
Researchers analyzed 55.5 million emails and found one out of every 99 messages contains a phishing attack.
IT Governance
APRIL 10, 2019
On 6 July 2016, the EU officially adopted the NIS Directive (Directive on security of network and information systems) and gave each EU member state just under two years to implement its requirements into national law. At the time of the deadline, only eleven countries had managed to do this, but what’s the current situation? We take a look at the NIS Directive implementation tracker to find out.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab over 60,000 stolen profiles are offered for sale on an invitation-based private marketplace called Genesis Store. More than 60,000 stolen profiles are offered for sale in the underground marketplace Genesis Store, it includes browser fingerprints, web site user logins and passwords, cookies, and credit card information.
IT Governance
APRIL 10, 2019
On 14 September 2019, the PSD2 (Second Payment Services Directive) will take effect, overhauling the way people pay for goods and services across the EU. The legislation has been implemented to prevent fraud and to keep customers’ payment details secure during in-store, online and card-not-present transactions. It does this in two main ways. Strong authentication.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2019
FireEye Mandiant incident responders reveal a new attack by the hacking group that previously targeted a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in 2017.
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 10, 2019
We define security operations centers (SOCs), including how they should be designed, run and staffed, and the technologies needed to make them work.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
Minnesota Department of Human Services announced to have suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people. Minnesota Department of Human Services suffered a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people. The state Department of Human Services notified lawmakers Tuesday the incident.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2019
In only the second known attack of the Russia-linked malware, which shut down an oil refinery in 2017, another Mideast target has been hit.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2019
Malware campaign, which finds and exfiltrates a user's contact list and banking credentials, could potentially grow to global proportions.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2019
At the Security Analyst Summit, Threatpost editor Tara Seals catches up with Joe FitzPatrick, researcher with Securing Hardware, to discuss supply chain threats.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2019
SAP released the April 2019 Security Patch Day that is included 6 Security Notes, two of which address High severity flaws in Crystal Reports and NetWeaver. SAP released 6 Security Notes as part of the April 2019 Security Patch Day, two of which address High severity flaws in Crystal Reports and NetWeaver. SAP April 2019 Security Patch Day addressed a High risk information disclosure issue in Crystal Reports tracked as CVE-2019-0285 (CVSS Base Score: 7.5).
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