Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Researchers Say Trojan's Developers Devising Ways to Spread Trojan to More Devices Security researchers have found that the developers of the Emotet Trojan have created a new way to spread it to more victims - attackers are using unsecured WiFi networks as a way to deliver the malware to more devices.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
I recently watched a webinar by Jason Baron called " Vanishing Acts: The Challenge of Dealing with Ephemeral and Self-Destructing Messaging Apps in the Workplace. " Jason's a really smart guy and has written about ephemeral messaging in business before. While I agree with him generally, I think information professionals, and especially those in government or highly regulated sectors, really need to think about the risks involved with the use of these apps.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Researchers Describe a Wide Variety of Tactics As fears about the coronavirus continue to spread, cybercriminals are using the health crisis to send phishing emails using a variety of tactics to a broader range of targets.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Cloud computing is now touching all aspects of information technology, and document and data archiving is no exception. When it comes to security, cost savings, reliable services and scalability, there is no bigger advantage than storing your most valuable assets in the cloud. But migrating to the cloud is more complex than simply moving your … The post 5 key things to consider when migrating to the cloud appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Analysis: Equifax Failed on Security, But Only Governments Can Hold Each Other to Account Who's surprised Chinese military hackers allegedly hacked Equifax? For a foreign power that continues to attempt to amass personal information on its adversaries, targeting a business that gets rich by buying and selling Americans' personal data remains an obvious play.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Although NIST's new privacy framework is agnostic toward any particular privacy law, "it gives organizations building blocks to help them meet any obligations under any particular law or jurisdiction" says Naomi Lefkovitz, a NIST senior privacy adviser.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
A security expert discovered that the Cosmetic firm Estée L auder exposed 440 million records online in a database that was left unsecured. The security expert Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database belonging to the Cosmetic firm Estée L auder that contained 440,336,852 records. Estée L auder is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of p restige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care p roducts, it owns multiple brands, distributed internationally through both digital
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Hiring third party investigators to bolster your AML and Compliance team? Here's four things to consider before you pick up the phone. Money Laundering investigators are in high demand: banks and other financial institutions have spent almost two decades hiring more and more of them.
ARMA International
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Instructions in a policy statement that amount to micro-management confuse rather than clarify the requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen them – policy statements so detailed that they list the steps required. Take the following example, excerpted from a real policy (as are the others below): Business areas must set aside time every year to review their classification structure for currency and accuracy.
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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.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG sold equipment to governments and militaries around the world for decades after World War II. They were owned by the CIA: But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company's devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
I don't know exactly why the recent uptick, but lately I've had a bunch of people ask me if I've tried the Brave web browser. Why they'd ask me that is much more obvious: Brave is a privacy-focused browser that nukes ads and trackers. It also has some cool built-in stuff like the ability to create a new private browsing window in Tor rather than just your classic incognito window that might ditch all your cookies and browsing history but still connect to the internet directly from your own IP ad
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Equifax. Anthem. Marriott. OPM. The data that China has amassed about US citizens will power its intelligence activities for a generation.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
As businesses' daily operations become more dependent on cloud services, ransomware authors will follow to maximize profits. The good news: Many of the best practices for physical servers also apply to the cloud.
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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 Shostack
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
My course, “ Repudiation in Depth ” is now live on Linkedin Learning. This is the fourth course I’ve created, starting with “ Learning Threat Modeling “, and courses on “ spoofing “, “ tampering “, and now, repudiation. (You can probably see where this is going, and I’m making great strides towards the goal.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Middleware data was exposed, which can create a secondary path for malware through which applications and data can be compromised.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
According to IBM, OT attacks increased by over 2000 percent in 2019, most of them involved the Echobot IoT malware. IBM’s 2020 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index report analyzes the threat landscape in 2019, the experts observed a spike in the number of OT attacks. According to IBM X-Force, attacks targeting operational technology (OT) infrastructure increased by over 2000 p ercent in 2019 compared to 2018, and most of them involved the Echobot malware.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
2020 ends a decade, and the new year prompted me to think “Wow it’s been two decades since we started Vormetric.” And the mission we started then still applies now. Data security is still a problem. I remember when we were pioneering our first use case to prevent “root or administrator” from seeing data they weren’t cleared to see, yet be able to do their job.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Unauthorized use of customer information by Woori Bank, ‘crime act’ for customers. The bank changed 23,000 passwords in 2018 without consent. It is controversial that Woori Bank changed the p assword s of 23,000 customer dormant accounts without consent in July 2018. The accounts are deactivated if there is no transaction for one year after their opening.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
One analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies than its left-wing counterpart.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Adobe February 2020 Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 42 vulnerabilities in five products, dozens of them rated as critical severity. Adobe February 2020 Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 42 vulnerabilities in Framemaker, Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player, Digital Editions and Experience Manager products. Most of the vulnerabilities (21) affect the Windows version of the Framemaker document processor.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Continued investment in our platform and partners rings in latest version of Jamf Pro.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. Enjoy it! ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ~ Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini. ( SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, hacking).
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
US officials allege that Huawei has backdoors in its technology. The US knows firsthand how powerful those can be.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Dell addresses a flaw in the Dell SupportAssist Client software that could allow local attackers to execute arbitrary code with Administrator privileges. Dell released a security update to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5316 , in its SupportAssist Client software. The flaw could be exploited by local attackers to execute arbitrary code with Administrator privileges on affected systems.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The high-severity vulnerability could enable denial of service, privilege escalation and information disclosure.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Crypto AG made millions selling encryption devices to more than 120 countries, which unknowingly transmitted intel back to the CIA.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The Italy-based cryptocurrency exchange Altsbit announced that it has suffered a security breach that led to the theft of its customer’s funds. Crypto-currency exchange Altsbit recently disclosed a security breach, the company claimed that hackers have stolen almost all its customers’ deposits. . Dear users, Unfortunately we have to notify you with the fact that our exchange was hacked during the night and almost all funds from BTC, ETH, ARRR and VRSC were stolen.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Infection vectors were evenly divided among phishing, vulnerability exploitation, and unauthorized credential use in 2019.
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