Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2021
Researchers Find Fraudsters Pose as HR Execs to Harvest Credentials A recently uncovered phishing campaign used fake COVID-19 vaccination forms - and took advantage of confusion over whether employees will return to their offices this fall - to harvest workers' email credentials, according to analysts with security firm INKY. The malicious messages appear to come from victims' HR departments.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2021
The Boston Public Library was victim of a cyberattack that crippled its computer network, the library revealed in a statement Friday. The Boston Public Library announced on Friday that it was hit by a cyberattack that compromised its computer network. The affected systems were taken offline to prevent the threat from spreading. At the time of the announcement, the library said that there is no evidence that sensitive employee or patron data has been compromised.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2021
Rolle Officials Say They 'Underestimated the Severity' of Attack Local officials with the city of Rolle, located near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, have acknowledged that they initially misjudged the impact of a recent ransomware attack that reportedly led to the leak of residents' data on the darknet.
Data Matters
AUGUST 30, 2021
Through its announcement of settled charges against Pearson plc (Pearson) on August 16, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission signaled its continued, high level scrutiny of companies’ public statements related to data security incidents. 1 Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Pearson agreed to a cease and desist order (Order) and to pay a $1 million penalty. 2 The SEC’s Pearson Order follows its June 2021 announcement that it had settled charges against First American T
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2021
Ongoing Campaign Also Uses Malicious CAPTCHA Verification Page Microsoft is warning of a "widespread" phishing campaign in which fraudsters use open redirect links to lure users to malicious websites to harvest Office 365 and other credentials, according to a recent report. In some cases, the attackers deploy a malicious CAPTCHA verification page.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2021
LockBit Ransomware Gang Takes Credit, Threatens to Release Data Bangkok Airways issued an apology late last week for a data breach that apparently compromised the personally identifiable information for an unstated number of its passengers. The LockBit ransomware gang claimed credit for the attack.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2021
Th e US DoJ announced a new Cyber Fellowship program for training prosecutors and attorneys on cybersecurity. The US DoJ announced a new Cyber Fellowship program for training selected prosecutors and attorneys on cyber threat and threat actors. The course is coordinated through the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2021
Experts: Private Healthcare Entities Struggle with Similar Woes The Department of Defense did not effectively control access to the health information of high-profile personnel, says a new watchdog agency report, which hints that the findings also may indicate ineffective access control over other DoD employees' health records.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2021
In part one of a two-part series, Akamai's director of security technology and strategy, Tony Lauro, lays out what orgs need to know to defend against account takeover attacks.
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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
AUGUST 30, 2021
Agency Contracts With Blockchain Firm AnChain.AI; Experts Weigh In The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will monitor decentralized finance transactions, after contracting with the blockchain cybersecurity firm AnChain.AI. Legal experts suggest this and other recent moves preview increased regulation of the decentralized finance space.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 30, 2021
Robert Chesney wrote up the Solar Winds story as a case study, and it’s a really good summary.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2021
Security Experts Praise Desire to Regulate Market, Cite Complexity Sen. Pat Toomey of the Senate Banking Committee is requesting input from the cryptocurrency and blockchain community to inform future legislation on its security and privacy. Several experts praise efforts to regulate the space, but cite its complexities.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2021
The bug (CVE-2021-33766) is an information-disclosure issue that could reveal victims' personal information, sensitive company data and more.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 30, 2021
With hybrid workplaces here to stay, your workers and new hires expect you to create the best employee experience possible, so they can get their jobs done, wherever they are. You can do this with Microsoft VIVA, which is Microsoft’s new platform to empower employees with insights and resources to stay engaged, focused and productive. … The post Creating workplace experiences that keep employees happy and productive appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2021
The airline announced the breach on Thursday, and the ransomware gang started a countdown clock the next day.
IG Guru
AUGUST 30, 2021
Check out the article here. The post T-Mobile hit with class-action lawsuits over data breach via Fox Business appeared first on IG GURU.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2021
HPE joins Apple in warning customers of a high-severity Sudo vulnerability.
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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.
eDiscovery Daily
AUGUST 30, 2021
As data volumes grow, fortunately so has computer processing power. CloudNine LAW and Explore 7.6 will take advantage of this power boost to amplify your speed to review and production. The import technology behind both LAW’s Turbo Import and Explore uses a computer’s multiple processing cores more efficiently, making processing faster. The application updates will include over 200 enhancements to build upon the already strong, import speeds of LAW and Explore.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2021
Army looking for AI to layer over daycare CCTV to boost ‘family quality of life.’.
eDiscovery Daily
AUGUST 30, 2021
As data volumes grow, fortunately so has computer processing power. CloudNine LAW and Explore 7.6 will take advantage of this power boost to amplify your speed to review and production. The import technology behind both LAW’s Turbo Import and Explore uses a computer’s multiple processing cores more efficiently, making processing faster. The application updates will include over 200 enhancements to build upon the already strong, import speeds of LAW and Explore.
Robert's Db2
AUGUST 30, 2021
Db2 for z/OS packages have been around for a long time - since, I believe, V2R3, back in the early 1990s. Even so, I've found myself talking more about packages to people lately than I have in quite some years. These discussions - conducted in meetings, in phone calls and through email - have highlighted for me some related topics and items of information of which more folks should be aware.
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HID Global
AUGUST 30, 2021
Leveraging Aruba WiFi installations for HID Location Services – Better Together. jschuck. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 11:51.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 30, 2021
One of the most commonly repeated phrases in the security industry is, “Security teams hate their SIEM!”. Related: The unfolding SIEM renaissance. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is not what it was 20 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, SIEMs do take work through deployment, maintenance, and tuning. They also require strategic planning. Yet, much to the chagrin of everyone who believed the vendor hype, they fail to provide the “single pane of glass” for all tasks in security operatio
HID Global
AUGUST 30, 2021
Common PKI Certificate Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them . mchandarana. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 10:57.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2021
Who is behind the massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that hit the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan? The 25 days long DDoS attack against the website of Karapatan was launched by almost 30.000 IP addresses, whereas one third of the addresses originated from devices that there were not running “Open Proxies” or “Tor exits”.
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