Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 5, 2021
BlackMatter, HelloKitty and REvil Among Groups Targeting VMware's ESXi Hypervisor Hypervisors under fire: BlackMatter, HelloKitty and REvil are among the ransomware groups targeting instances of VMware's ESXi. In one case investigated by security firm Sophos, after first accessing a TeamViewer account, attackers left an organization's ESXi environment crypto-locked just three hours later.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Malware has been around for nearly 40 years, longer even than the World Wide Web, but ransomware is a different kind of threat, capable of crippling a company and damaging or destroying its critical data. And the threat is growing. Estimates vary, but a recent FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report found an almost 10-fold increase in ransomware attacks between mid-2020 and mid-2021.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Head of NSA, Cyber Command Says US Will Continue to Battle Ransomware for Years Some of the highest-ranking cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government discussed the pervasive threat of ransomware on Tuesday, likening it to a clear issue of national security with the ability to inflict measurable damage on major world powers.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
An unnamed ransomware gang used a custom Python script to target VMware ESXi and encrypt all the virtual machines hosted on the server. Researchers from Sophos were investigating a ransomware attack when discovered that the attackers employed a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. In the attack investigated by the experts, ransomware operators encrypted the virtual disks in a VMware ESXi server only three hours after the initial intrusion.
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
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Agency Issues Best Practices for Communicating Device Vulnerabilities The Food and Drug Administration has issued a new best practices document for healthcare industry stakeholders and government agencies to use when communicating medical device vulnerabilities to patients and caregivers.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) contain actionable details that can help address your security concerns. Here's how to get more from CVE data.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Spending money you hadn’t budgeted to hire experts to clean up an unexpected mess is at the bottom of every manager’s wish list, but in the case of a cyber attack as damaging as ransomware , turning incident response over to a pro may be the best thing you can do. Let’s examine five key reasons to pay an expert to help recover from ransomware: Contractual obligations.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
OCTOBER 5, 2021
A The data sharing code (“ Code ”), published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ ICO ”), enters into force today (5 October 2021) following its publication on 14 September 2021. The Code is a statutory code of practice made under section 121 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and seeks to provide a guide for organisations about how to share personal data in compliance with data protection law.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 5, 2021
On September 29 and 30, 2021, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation convened hearings on how to better protect consumer and children’s privacy. The first hearing, titled “ Protecting Consumer Privacy ,” examined how to better safeguard consumer privacy rights. Chaired by Sen. Cantwell, the hearing highlighted the Senator’s push to create a privacy and data security enforcement bureau at the Federal Trade Commission and invest significant federal resources into the age
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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.
CGI
OCTOBER 5, 2021
From our interviews with executives in the 2021 CGI Voice of Our Clients, we see that digital leaders are more aligned, collaborative and innovative. They also are better at leveraging their ecosystem of partners and are more agile in implementing change. Figure 1 shows the movement of key business agility capabilities based on our analysis of 2021 interview data, compared with 2020.
The Guardian Data Protection
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Big tech now encourages us to monitor everything from our heart rate to our glucose levels via smartphones and watches. How much privacy have we lost to the promise of self improvement - and is it time to stop? First we counted our steps, then our heartbeats, blood pressure and respiratory rates. We monitored our sleep, workouts, periods and fertility windows.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 5, 2021
"National security" concerns led former CEO Kevin Mandia to call the NSA when FireEye discovered its breach in late 2020.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Experts discovered many misconfigured Apache Airflow servers exposed online that were leaking sensitive information from prominent tech firms. Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform used by many organizations worldwide for automating business and IT tasks. Researchers from security firm Intezer have discovered many misconfigured Apache Airflow servers exposed online that were leaking sensitive information, including credentials, from several tech companies. “These un
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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.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 5, 2021
This post has been updated for 2021. Passwords are the most common authentication tool used by enterprises, yet they are notoriously insecure and easily hackable. But even when passwords are secure, it’s not enough. Recently, hackers leaked 87,000 Fortinet VPN passwords , mostly from companies who hadn’t yet patched a two-year-old vulnerability. At this point, multi-factor authentication (MFA) has permeated most applications, becoming a minimum safeguard against attacks.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Syniverse service provider discloses a security breach, threat actors have had access to its databases since 2016 and gained some customers’ credentials. Syniverse is a global company that provides technology and business services for a number of telecommunications companies as well as a variety of other multinational enterprises. The company is a privileged target for threat actors that could hit the firm to access their customers’ information.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Whether it's about sharing your Netflix login or getting your affairs in order, here are tips for convincing your loved ones to organize and protect their accounts too.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Boffins devised a new technique, dubbed LANtenna, to exfiltrate data from systems in air-gapped networks using Ethernet cables as a “transmitting antenna.” Security researchers from the Cyber Security Research Center in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) devised a new data exfiltration mechanism, dubbed LANtenna Attack , that leverages Ethernet cables as a “transmitting antenna” to steal sensitive data from air-gapped systems.
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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
OCTOBER 5, 2021
A Hiscox report has found that spending on cybersecurity from businesses has doubled since 2019. Tomáš Vystav?l, Chief Product Officer at 2N TELEKOMUNIKACE, investigates why access control has become such an important asset in the fight against cybercrime.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The popular researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unprotected 10 TB database belonging to the UK newspaper The Telegraph.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The open-source project has rolled out a security fix for CVE-2021-41773, for which public cyberattack exploit code is circulating.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The dark web marketplace White House Market shuts down its operation, last week its operators announced that they were retiring. The dark web marketplace White House Market shuts down its operation, the announcement was published on a dread forum. The admin of White House Market, mr white, explained that it has decided to halt the operation because he has reached his goal, likely in terms of profits.
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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.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 5, 2021
One easily disproved conspiracy theory tied the ~six-hour outage to a supposed data breach tied to a Sept. 22 hacker forum ad for 1.5B Facebook user records.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Mandiant's new software-as-a-service offerings tap into the company's extensive threat intelligence capabilities to help cybersecurity teams detect and respond to ransomware attacks and data breaches.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at ThycoticCentrify, offers a 7-step practical IR checklist for ensuring a swift recovery from a cyberattack.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The slightly "good" news? Security professionals are a little less concerned about certain threats than last year, according to Dark Reading's "State of Incident Response 2021" report.
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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.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Three security vulnerabilities in Axis video products could open up the door to a bevy of different cyberattacks on businesses.
Micro Focus
OCTOBER 5, 2021
I am Dr. James D. Borderick, and I look after the Competitive Benchmark research for Micro Focus, which I have been doing for over five years. I wish to share some very interesting statistics with our followers regarding satisfaction with consulting. How do we Measure Consulting? Micro Focus uses double-blind competitive benchmarking to gauge how well.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 5, 2021
The Compound cryptocurrency exchange accidentally botched a platform upgrade and distributed millions in free COMP tokens to users - then threatened to dox the recipients.
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