Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2019
Suspects Accused of Receiving Bitcoins Worth Millions for Referral Fees The DeepDotWeb portal, which provided a guide to darknet marketplaces, has been shut down and its alleged administrators arrested. Police say the suspected lead administrator, an Israeli based in Brazil who has been arrested at a Paris airport, amassed bitcoins for referral fees worth millions of dollars.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 8, 2019
Android users – and I’m one – are well-advised to be constantly vigilant about the types of cyberthreats directed, at any given time, at the world’s most popular mobile device operating system. Related: Vanquishing BYOD risks Attacks won’t relent anytime soon, and awareness will help you avoid becoming a victim. It’s well worth it to stay abreast of news about defensive actions Google is forced to take to protect Android users.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2019
Turla Cyber Espionage Group's 5-Year Campaign Hit Three Targets, ESET Warns A sophisticated nation-state spy network has quietly exploited a backdoor in Microsoft Exchange servers that gave attackers unprecedented access to the emails of at least three targets over five years, security firm ESET warns.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 8, 2019
No matter how reliant we ultimately become on cloud storage and streaming media, it’s hard to image consumers ever fully abandoning removable storage devices. There’s just something about putting your own two hands on a physical device, whether it’s magnetic tape, or a floppy disk, or a CD. Today, it’s more likely to be an external drive, a thumb drive or a flash memory card.
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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
MAY 8, 2019
This Time, City Hit with RobbinHood Malware Baltimore is recovering from another ransomware attack - the second in a little over a year. This time, officials say, the city was attacked by RobbinHood malware.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2019
Freedom Mobile Customer Data Was Unprotected and Unencrypted, Researchers Say An unsecured database belonging to Canadian mobile operator Freedom Mobile exposed personal details and unencrypted payment card data, according to two security researchers who discovered the data. The database has since been secured, with Freedom Mobile blaming the error on a third-party provider.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MAY 8, 2019
The first GDPR fine was issued in Italy by the Garante for the lack of implementation of privacy security measures following a data breach on the so-called Rousseau platform operating the websites of the Movimento 5 Stelle party. The fact of the case relating to the Rousseau platform. Several websites affiliated to the Italian political party Movimento 5 Stelle are run, through a data processor, through the platform named Rousseau.
Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2019
Former Employee at Contractor Damaged Oregon Medicaid System After Losing Job A former Hewlett Packard Enterprise worker has pleaded guilty to intentionally damaging an Oregon Medicaid system and causing it to fail a few days after he was laid off by the vendor. What can others learn from this insider incident?
Elie
MAY 8, 2019
Keras Tuner is a hypertuning framework made for humans. It aims at making the life of AI practitioners, hypertuner algorithm creators and model designers as simple as possible by providing them with a clean and easy to use API for hypertuning. Keras Tuner makes moving from a base model to a hypertuned one quick and easy by only requiring you to change a few lines of code.
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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.
Data Breach Today
MAY 8, 2019
Cryptocurrency Exchange Confirms 7,000 Bitcoins Stolen Hackers stole 7,000 bitcoins, valued at about $41 million, from Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the company confirmed Wednesday. The incident is the latest in a string of thefts from cryptocurrency exchanges around the world.
Schneier on Security
MAY 8, 2019
Evil Clippy is a tool for creating malicious Microsoft Office macros: At BlackHat Asia we released Evil Clippy, a tool which assists red teamers and security testers in creating malicious MS Office documents. Amongst others, Evil Clippy can hide VBA macros, stomp VBA code (via p-code) and confuse popular macro analysis tools. It runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.
Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2019
Threat actors are exploiting a Jenkins vulnerability (CVE-2018-1000861) disclosed in 2018 to deliver a cryptocurrency miner using the Kerberods dropper. SANS expert Renato Marinho uncovered an ongoing malicious campaign that is targeting vulnerable Apache Jenkins installs to deliver a Monero cryptominer dubbed Kerberods. According to the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, attackers are exploiting the CVE-2018-1000861 vulnerability in the Stapler HTTP request handling engine used by Jenkins
Schneier on Security
MAY 8, 2019
In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since, then the vulnerabilities and tools have been used by both government and criminals, and put the NSA's ability to secure its own cyberweapons seriously into question.
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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.
Dark Reading
MAY 8, 2019
Criminals are also going after cloud-based email accounts, according to Verizon's '2019 Data Breach Investigations Report.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 8, 2019
What makes an algorithm mistake a helicopter for a gun? Researchers think the answer has to do more with man than machine.
IT Governance
MAY 8, 2019
Most GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance projects start with a gap analysis. A gap analysis is a popular method of assessing compliance against the requirements of the Regulation. It’ll help you identify and prioritise the areas that you should address. What does a gap analysis involve? A gap analysis is performed by an individual with in-depth expertise of the GDPR’s requirements, and a deep understanding of the practical realities of implementing suitable processes, controls a
Micro Focus
MAY 8, 2019
Maintaining COBOL code, especially apps of tens of thousands of lines or more, can sometimes feel like a chore. With Micro Focus’ COBOL development products Visual COBOL and Enterprise Developer however, this a relatively painless and productive experience thanks to rich editing tools that significantly speed up the job of fixing and developing new COBOL.
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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
MAY 8, 2019
The world has embraced digital technology, but cybercrime is putting a serious dent in corporate finances, the FBI finds.
DXC Technology
MAY 8, 2019
Organizations with a high “Analytics IQ” have strategy, culture and continuous-improvement processes that help them identify and develop new digital business models. Powering these capabilities is the organization’s move from ad hoc to operationalized analytics. Seamless data flow Operationalized analytics is the interoperation of multiple disciplines to support the seamless flow of data, from initial […].
Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2019
Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins ) from Binance. Binance is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed that the hackers stole the bitcoins from a hot wallet that contained roughly 2 percent of the exchange’s total holdings.
Threatpost
MAY 8, 2019
The incident is only the latest in a string of disturbing horror stories of guests finding live, recording cameras hidden in their Airbnb flats.
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Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Yomi the Malware Hunter has successfully completed the on-boarding in the VirusTotal MultiSandbox Program ! Official VirusTotal Announce: [link]. Yoroi can now contribute to the fight against malware threats sharing its analysis with Chronicle Security, the Alphabet’s subsidiary author of the notorious VirusTotal Threat Intelligence platform: one of the most widely used community platforms all around the world.
Threatpost
MAY 8, 2019
Having appropriate security configurations requires your applications, servers and databases to be hardened in accordance with best practices.
Dark Reading
MAY 8, 2019
Defendants allegedly earned kickbacks for sales of illegal contraband, including hacking tools and malicious code.
DXC Technology
MAY 8, 2019
Does your smartphone support augmented reality (AR)? There’s a decent chance you don’t know! I had to check to see if mine did, which it didn’t until I downloaded Google’s ARCore AR platform. (Apple’s equivalent is ARKit.) While some older smartphones may not support these AR platforms, those that do offer users the opportunity to […].
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 8, 2019
One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges got hit, as thieves nabbed $40 million of bitcoin—along with user two-factor codes and API tokens.
Threatpost
MAY 8, 2019
Cloud misconfigurations, business email compromise (BEC) and intellectual property theft are all up in the Verizon DBIR 2019 from last year.
Security Affairs
MAY 8, 2019
Android May 2019 Patches address critical vulnerabilities in the Google operating system, including 4 remote code execution flaws. Google released May 2019 patches address 8 critical flaws in Google operating system, including 4 remote code execution vulnerabilities. . Google is not aware of attacks in the wild exploiting these flaws. According to the advisory released by Google, the most severe bug affects the Media framework.
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