Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2020
Cybercrime Fighter Offers Advice on Responding to the Latest Trends Craig Jones, who leads the global cybercrime program for INTERPOL, which facilitates police cooperation among 194 member nations, describes how organizations can improve their use of threat intelligence.
Threatpost
JULY 17, 2020
With limited confirmed information, a raft of theories and circumstantial evidence has come to light as to who was behind the attack and how they carried it out.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2020
Researcher Randy Trzeciak Analyzes the Latest Trends, Offers Fraud Detection Advice As companies lay off employees and deal with financial challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, they're also facing an increase in the number of insider fraud incidents, says Randy Trzeciak, director of the National Insider Threat Center at Carnegie Mellon University, who offers fraud detection tips.
Security Affairs
JULY 17, 2020
Security researchers at Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the mobile network operator Orange. Researchers from Cyble came across a post of Nefilim ransomware operators which were claiming to have stolen sensitive data of Orange S.A., one of the largest mobile networks based in France. The discovery was made by the experts during their regular Deepweb and Darkweb monitoring activity.
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
JULY 17, 2020
Kaspersky: Fraudsters Now Target North America, Europe, Latin America The operators behind a family of Brazilian banking Trojans are expanding their operations to other parts of Latin America as well as North America and Europe, according to Kaspersky. Some of these malware variants have been re-engineered to better avoid security tools.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2020
'Jackpotting' Attacks Apparently Leverage Stolen Software Diebold Nixdorf, a major manufacturer of ATMs, has issued an alert about "jackpotting" or "cash-out" attacks that are draining cash from its machines in several European countries. What makes these attacks unusual?
Security Affairs
JULY 17, 2020
US DHS CISA urges government agencies to patch SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited. The US DHS CISA issued an emergency directive urging government agencies to patch the recently disclosed SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited.
Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2020
CEO, CISO Panel on Innovation, Risk and Lessons Learned From Crisis Management What are the biggest leadership lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic? And what will CEOs and CISOs look back on and say, "Why did we ever do things that way?" Those questions were posed to a panel of cybersecurity leaders, and here are their candid answers.
Threatpost
JULY 17, 2020
Less than 500 machines have been patched since U.S. Cyber Command issued an alert to patch a critical bug that's under active exploit.
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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
JULY 17, 2020
COVID-19 contract-tracing applications that help monitor individuals' possible exposure to those who have tested positive for the virus present a variety of privacy issues that must be addressed, says regulatory attorney Nancy Perkins.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 17, 2020
Concerns about the Chinese government shouldn't be dismissed, experts say. But banning TikTok would be a drastic measure.
Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2020
Data-Sharing Agreement Invalidated; Activists Say US Surveillance Reform Needed Europe's highest court has invalidated the Privacy Shield, a data-sharing agreement between the EU and U.S., on the grounds that the U.S. offers insufficient protection for Europeans' privacy rights. Privacy advocates say the ruling should drive the U.S. to rethink its policies.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 17, 2020
Officials in the three countries believe a state-linked group is trying to steal intellectual property and information about potential vaccine candidates.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2020
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the latest developments in banning Huawei technology from 5G networks. Also featured are discussions of how to respond better to cybercrime and whether we're on the cusp of a digital currency revolution.
Security Affairs
JULY 17, 2020
Iran-linked APT35 group accidentally exposed one of its servers, leaving online roughly 40 GB of videos and other files associated with its operations. Researchers at IBM X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS) discovered an unsecured server belonging to Iran-linked APT35 group (aka ITG18, Charming Kitten , Phosphorous, and NewsBeef ) containing data for many domains managed by the threat actor.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 17, 2020
By tearing down bootleg network switches, researchers found ample opportunity for malice—but no signs of a backdoor this time.
Dark Reading
JULY 17, 2020
Prior to 2020, about 1 in 5 credential attacks targeted video services, but that's nothing compared to the first quarter of 2020, according to newly published data.
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IT Governance
JULY 17, 2020
The ECJ (European Court of Justice) has declared that the EU–US Privacy Shield fails to protect people’s rights to privacy and data protection. The Privacy Shield was adopted in 2015 as way for organisations on both sides of the Atlantic to transfer personal data for commercial reasons. It was intended to address the failures of its predecessor, Safe Harbor, which had been deemed invalid by the ECJ following legal action from the Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems.
Dark Reading
JULY 17, 2020
Researchers publish the results of a four-year investigation and discuss whether the US is ready to secure its largest elections.
Troy Hunt
JULY 17, 2020
I made it to 200! And look at that picture quality too ?? I'm streaming in 1080p rather than 4K and that's absolutely fine for content like this. I've finally gotten on top of the camera setup and the Elgato HDMI dongle to allow the camera to be seen as a webcam over HDMI. I really want to write this up in detail for next week's update because with the new PC as well, I'm super happy with how this all works together.
Schneier on Security
JULY 17, 2020
Motherboard is reporting that this week's Twitter hack involved a bribed insider. Twitter has denied it. I have been taking press calls all day about this. And while I know everyone wants to speculate about the details of the hack, we just don't know -- and probably won't for a couple of weeks.
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Data Matters
JULY 17, 2020
Data is key to innovation, growth, and staying competitive in the payments sector. In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the volume of data maintained and processed by payment service providers. Regulators and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic are imposing increasingly prescriptive cybersecurity regulatory frameworks and closer scrutiny upon companies, while new and escalating cybersecurity threats challenge standard safeguards.
Dark Reading
JULY 17, 2020
Emotet malware has back to action after a four-month hiatus that allowed cybersecurity experts to worry about other things.
Hanzo Learning Center
JULY 17, 2020
At Hanzo, we’ve been talking about Slack and other collaborative communication platforms for the last few years. These dynamic, channel-based applications allow colleagues to stay connected regardless of where or when they’re working. As such, tools like Slack were enjoying steady growth as they gained traction in the workplace as a replacement to email.
Record Nations
JULY 17, 2020
Scanning, imaging, digitizing—all terms used interchangeably when it comes to the process of converting hard-copy documents into new digital ones, and although the final result is the same with all 3 there are still some subtleties that separate them. Learn more in the video below about the specific definitions for what it means to scan […]. The post Document Imaging vs Scanning: What’s the Difference?
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
JULY 17, 2020
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its decision in the case known as “Schrems II”. The decision recognizes the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to transfer personal data outside of the European Union (EU), but invalidates the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US under the EU-US Privacy Shield.
Rippleshot
JULY 17, 2020
Two findings from a recent industry study highlight the benefits AI and machine learning and what role these technologies play in the digital transformation of community banks and credit unions. 1. "New technologies will drive banking transformation over the next 5 years.". 2. "Artificial intelligence will separate the winners from the losers in banking.".
IG Guru
JULY 17, 2020
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