Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2019
Cryptocurrency Market Slide Makes In-Browser Mining Less Appealing Browser-based cryptocurrency miners are falling out of favor as virtual currency prices remain low, IBM says. But the company says malware-based miners are coming back, including fileless ones that rely on Powershell. Here's the lowdown.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 8, 2019
Almost exactly one year ago, KrebsOnSecurity reported that a mere two hours of searching revealed more than 100 Facebook groups with some 300,000 members openly advertising services to support all types of cybercrime, including spam, credit card fraud and identity theft. Facebook responded by deleting those groups. Last week, a similar analysis led to the takedown of 74 cybercrime groups operating openly on Facebook with more than 385,000 members.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2019
Senate Panel Says Company Lacked Strong Security Culture Before Massive Data Breach The lack of a strong security culture at Equifax - especially compared its two main competitors - was a key factor contributing to its 2017 data breach that exposed the personal records of 145 million Americans, according to a 71-page Congressional report.
IT Governance
APRIL 8, 2019
Although organisations are devoting more resources to cyber security in order to tackle the growing threat of data breaches, 87% say they don’t have the budget to meet their needs, a new report has found. According to the EY Global Information Security Survey 2018–19 , organisations are forced to focus on the fundamentals of defence and neglect more advanced processes.
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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
APRIL 8, 2019
Healthcare organizations need to plan ahead for the financial burden of data breaches stemming from cyberattacks and also take preventive steps to help minimize those expenses, says attorney Laura Hammargren of the law firm Mayer Brown.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2019
Myke Lyons of ServiceNow on Tackling Social Engineering Threats Phishing remains one of the most significant attack vectors, and security automation, orchestration and response, or SOAR, can help minimize the threat, says Myke Lyons of ServiceNow.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2019
Kaspersky Lab reported that hundreds of users have been targeted with malware over the past month as part of a recent Roaming Mantis campaign. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that hundreds of users have been targeted with malware over the past month as part of a new campaign associated with Roaming Mantis gang. Roaming Mantis surfaced in March 2018 when hacked routers in Japan redirecting users to compromised websites.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 8, 2019
Prescriptive analytics helps identify the best course of action that can enable businesses to achieve organizational goals. Although figuring out what you should do is a crucial aspect of business, the value of prescriptive analytics is often missed. There is still an inclination to “go with the gut” when looking at an array of possible scenarios. Read on to understand what prescriptive analytics is, how it relates to predictive analytics, and why it is critical to businesses today.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2019
Researchers at Emsisoft developed a decryptor for the Planetary Ransomware family that could allow victims to decrypt their files for free. Good news for the victims of the Planetary Ransomware, security firm Emsisoft has released a decryptor that allows victims to decrypt their files for free. The name Planetary ransomware comes from the use of the names of planets for the extensions the malicious code adds to the file names of encrypted files (i.e.mira,yum , Pluto, or.
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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.
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2019
Using e-mail addresses and passwords from compromised sites, attackers most often targeted retail sites, video-streaming services, and entertainment companies, according to Akamai.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 8, 2019
Ever-increasing volumes of information have changed the way manufacturers operate. More and more, manufacturers are adopting digital twins to help their organizations shift to digital-driven asset management. Last week, I shared how digital twins are transforming business through five use cases for digital twins in the Manufacturing industry. Today I’d like to share three production … The post Production and predictive maintenance use cases for digital twins in manufacturing appeared first
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2019
Attacks from insiders often go undiscovered for months or years, so the potential impact can be huge. These 11 countermeasures can mitigate the damage.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 8, 2019
Last month, the NSA released Ghidra , a software reverse-engineering tool. Early reactions are uniformly positive. Three news articles.
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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.
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2019
Small business face the same security challenges as large enterprises but with much smaller security teams. Here are 8 things to do to get the most from yours.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 8, 2019
Assets are the lifeblood of the energy industry. As new layers of change – including deregulation, new legislation, new market entrants, new consumption patterns – impact the sector, enterprise asset management becomes key to the profitability and long-term sustainability for many oil and gas and utility companies. Effectively harnessing the data and information within the … The post Enterprise asset management puts focus on content for energy companies appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2019
Consumer router models allowed authenticated users to take unrestricted remote control over TL-WR940N and TL-WR941ND routers.
TAB OnRecord
APRIL 8, 2019
In a two-part blog post we are exploring the benefits and business case of records management outsourcing. In last week’s blog post we looked at the business benefits delivered by outsourcing the management of your active file rooms. These included, cost savings, increased revenue, and process efficiencies. Today, we discuss the top three things you should be looking for in the team that will be managing your records.
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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.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
APRIL 8, 2019
By Joonas Dammert. Background. The Finnish Parliament has approved the new general Act on the Secondary Use of Social Welfare and Health Care Data (Laki sosiaali- ja terveystietojen toissijaisesta käytöstä, based on government proposal HE 159/2017) in March 2019. The Act shall become effective within the following weeks. The Act is a welcome change to the old regime where national provisions concerning the subject matter have been scattered into different regulations, namely the Patient’s Rights
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2019
Researchers said that they discovered new Mirai samples in February 2019, capable of infecting devices powered by a broadened range of processors.
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2019
Small business face the same security challenges as large enterprises but with much smaller security teams. Here are 8 things to do to get the most from yours.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2019
Bahrain, 08.04.2019 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks , and NGN International, a global system integrator, analyzed cybersecurity landscape in Gulf countries in 2018. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified compromised credentials of 7 306 users from the Gulf countries in 2018 and detected the total of 138 978 compromised cards issued by the Gulf countries’ banks.
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WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 8, 2019
Researchers had already found a spyware app called Exodus plaguing Android. Now it's shown up on iPhones, too.
Micro Focus
APRIL 8, 2019
Like many others hitting the blog, Mark Plant has just returned from the Micro Focus Universe in Vienna. A favorite city covered by one of his favorite artists Leonard Cohen and his classic Take this waltz. Did he find a bar where the boys have stopped talking because they’ve been sentenced to death by the. View Article.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2019
The developer, marketer, direct-seller, and wholesaler of indoor garden systems, AeroGrow International, suffered a payment card data breach. AeroGrow International, a developer, marketer, direct-seller, and wholesaler of indoor garden systems, recently notified customers of a payment card data breach. The incident impacted the company website. “On March 4, 2019, AeroGrow learned that an unauthorized person may have acquired, through the use of malicious code, the payment card information
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2019
The surveillance tool was signed with legitimate Apple developer certificates.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2019
A new inquiry aims to determine whether contracts between Microsoft and EU organizations violate GDPR.
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2019
Three recent spam campaigns are pretending to be from ADP and Paychex; in reality, the malicious emails are spreading the TrickBot trojan.
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2019
Italian firm appears to have developed spyware for lawful intercept purposes, Lookout says.
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