Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2021
Experts Advise Organizations to Check Password Reset Policies, Take Other Steps The revelation that 533 million previously stolen Facebook account records have been made public on a darknet forum should inspire organizations to take aggressive action to further protect customer data security, some security experts say.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 5, 2021
Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victim’s customers and partners directly, warning that their data will be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up. This letter is from the Clop ransomware gang, putting pressure on a recent victim named on Clop’s dark web shaming site. “Good day!
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2021
Additional Social Security Numbers May Have Been Exposed Capital One is warning additional customers that their Social Security numbers may have been exposed in a massive 2019 breach. Meanwhile, a suspect in the breach is slated to go to trial in October.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 5, 2021
We live in a time where technology is advancing rapidly, and digital acceleration is propelling development teams to create web applications at an increasingly faster rhythm. The DevOps workflow has been accompanying the market shift and becoming more efficient every day – but despite those efforts, there was still something being overlooked: application security.
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
APRIL 5, 2021
Being 'Not Currently Aware' Customer Data Was Stolen Doesn't Mean It's Safe When a breached organization such as Ubiquiti says it is "not currently aware of evidence" that attackers stole customer data, it too often means: "We don't know, because we failed to have in place the robust logging and monitoring capabilities that might have provided us all with real answers.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2021
New Head of Enterprise Cybersecurity Succeeds CISO Jim Routh Less than a year ago, Ariel Weintraub was dabbling in data science as head of security operations and engineering at MassMutual, working under CISO Jim Routh. Now she’s replaced Routh as the new head of enterprise cybersecurity - and she welcomes the challenge.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 5, 2021
The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors: In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals. “When 802.11bf will be finalized and introduced as an IEEE standard in September 2024, Wi-Fi will cease to be a communication-only standard and will legitimately become a full-fledged sensing paradigm,” explains Fra
Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2021
Patient Data Exposed in Several Email-Related Cases As healthcare sector organizations continue to fall victim to phishing incidents, the number of individuals affected by health data breaches involving compromised email accounts continues to rise.
Security Affairs
APRIL 5, 2021
A new report published by Microsoft revealed that 80% of global enterprises were victims of a firmware-focused cyberattack. Microsoft recently published a report that states, titled “March 2021 Security Signals report,” that revealed that more than 80% of enterprises were victims of at least one firmware attack in the past two years. The study pointed out that only 29% of the targeted organizations have allocated budgets to protect firmware.
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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.
Threatpost
APRIL 5, 2021
In this roundtable, security experts focus on smaller businesses offer real-world advice for actionable ways to shore up defenses using fewer resources.
Security Affairs
APRIL 5, 2021
You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, CTO of cyber intelligence firm Hudson Rock.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 5, 2021
Collection is often considered the most technically rigorous and complex phase of eDiscovery—it involves the acquisition of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) from native sources into an eDiscovery platform for investigation or review. Collection is also the stage at which large and unexpected risks, time delays and unnecessary costs can quickly spiral out of … The post Yesterday’s collection woes need not be today’s (or tomorrow’s) problem appeared first on OpenT
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2021
Seeking to take advantage of out-of-work users, malware groups continue to use LinkedIn and business services to offer fictional jobs and deliver infections instead.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 5, 2021
Thales Earns 5-Star Rating in 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide. madhav. Tue, 04/06/2021 - 06:57. CRN, a brand of the Channel Company, publishes its Partner Program Guide every year as a means for solutions providers to learn more about the partner programs operated by some of the industry’s leading technology companies that offer IT products and services including IT manufacturers, software developers, distributors and more.
Threatpost
APRIL 5, 2021
Fake job offers lure professionals into downloading the more_eggs backdoor trojan.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2021
The pandemic's decline won't stop the work-from-home trend nor the implications for cybersecurity, so it's crucial to minimize the threats.
Threatpost
APRIL 5, 2021
Aamir Lakhani, cybersecurity researcher for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, discusses criminals flocking to web server and browser attacks, and what to do about it.
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OpenText Information Management
APRIL 5, 2021
One of the most significant priorities facing healthcare in 2021 is the need for improved security. The rapid move to remote platforms and telehealth has increased the attack surface for cyberattacks targeting healthcare organizations. As a joint alert from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security … The post Security in the healthcare spotlight appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
APRIL 5, 2021
The researcher is offering details on CVE-2020-9922, which can be triggered just by sending a target an email with two.ZIP files attached.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2021
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Threatpost
APRIL 5, 2021
An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts.
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Data Protection Report
APRIL 5, 2021
On April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the question whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA) definition of “autodialer”. encompasses equipment that can “store” and dial telephone numbers, even if the device does not “us[e] a random or sequential number generator.” It does not. To qualify as an “automatic telephone dialing system,” a device must have the capacity either to store a telephone number using a random or sequential generator or to produce a telephone number usin
Threatpost
APRIL 5, 2021
Researchers said the FoundCore malware represents a big step forward when it comes to evasion.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2021
A group related to Chinese-speaking threat group Cycldek is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam.
Zapproved
APRIL 5, 2021
Zapproved's industry-leading legal hold software and our powerful processing & review engine all in one platform: Introducing ZDiscovery.
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Hunton Privacy
APRIL 5, 2021
On April 1, 2021, California’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state’s prohibition on recording calls without consent applies to parties on the call and not just third-party eavesdroppers. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye wrote that California’s penal code “prohibits parties as well as nonparties from intentionally recording a communication transmitted between a cellular or cordless phone and another device without the consent of all parties to the communicati
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2021
Personal information belonging to more than 533 million Facebook users was found available on a cybercrime forum.
National Archives Records Express
APRIL 5, 2021
We will be presenting at an upcoming Federal Acquisition Service Training (FAST) Series on the Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). GSA welcomes you to attend and hear about acquiring services and solutions for Electronic Records Management on April 22nd at 1:00 p.m. EST to discover best practices, tools and techniques to get the most out of your next Electronic Records Management procurement. .
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