Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Attackers Send a Leaked Password as 'Proof' Victim Was Hacked Scammers behind an ongoing "sextortion" campaign have been emailing a legitimate password - likely from a publicly leaked list - to victims with a threat to release a compromising video of the recipient unless they pay up in bitcoins, Barracuda Networks warns.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Organisations are always looking for ways to improve their cyber security defences, but they often overlook the value of enrolling their employees on cyber security training courses. Here are three reasons to consider it: Reduce the risk of data breaches. If you want to keep your organisation secure, you need your employees to know what they’re doing.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Ransomware-as-a-Service Operation Joins Forces With Fallout Exploit Kit A slick ransomware-as-a-service operation called Kraken Cryptor has begun leveraging the Fallout exploit kit to help it score fresh victims, researchers from McAfee and Recorded Future warn. Absent offline backups, victims have little chance of recovering from its crypto-locking attacks.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Organisations are always looking for ways to improve their cyber security defences, but they often overlook the value of enrolling their employees on cyber security training courses. Here are three reasons to consider it: Reduce the risk of data breaches. If you want to keep your organisation secure, you need your employees to know what they’re doing.
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
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Advisory Council Seeks Changes in Law to Help Smaller Healthcare Providers Improve Security An advisory council is again urging the Department of Health and Human Services to allow certain donations of cybersecurity technology and services to smaller healthcare providers. Greg Garcia of the council, who will keynote ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Security Summit in New York, explains why.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 31, 2018
At a time when security professionals are faced not only with a barrage of threats, but with a myriad of threat intelligence data sources, it can be challenging to know when to stop an investigation. Join DomainTools Senior Security Engineer Tarik Saleh to learn essential methodologies from a blue team perspective.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The unexplained and seemingly paranormal are actually a year-round phenomenon in IT Security. This year has been no exception. The shrieks and screams coming from CISOs and their staffs over malware has led to zombie-like stares. Because the never-ending battle against the evil forces of the dark web continues with regard to ransomware and its ghoulish close cousins – leakware and scareware.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Banks have a new tool available for developing cyber risk management programs. In an interview, architects of the Financial Services Sector Cybersecurity Profile, Denyette DePierro and Josh Magri, describe how to use it. They'll offer more details at ISMG's Legal & Compliance Summit in New York on Nov. 15.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) hasn’t been around for long but we’re already seeing a huge increase in reported data breaches to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office). In the past two years, the number of reported data breaches has risen by 75%. Data breaches can wreak havoc, leaving organisations facing fines and reputational damage – and forcing them to admit that their personal data wasn’t secure after all.
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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.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information of the members of its loyalty scheme. The hotel chain Radisson Hotel Group suffered a security breach that exposed personal information (name, address (including country of residence), email address, and in some cases, company name, phone number, Radisson Rewards member number, and any frequent flier numbers on file) of the members of its loyalty scheme.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) hasn’t been around for long but we’re already seeing a huge increase in reported data breaches to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office). In the past two years, the number of reported data breaches has risen by 75%. Data breaches can wreak havoc, leaving organisations facing fines and reputational damage – and forcing them to admit that their personal data wasn’t secure after all.
Adam Levin
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The U.S. Justice Department announced charges against ten Chinese intelligence agents for hacking into computer systems belonging to U.S. and international companies to steal aerospace technology and data. The indictment , revealed earlier this week accuses agents working for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD) of conspiring “to steal sensitive commercial technological, aviation, and aerospace data by hacking into computers in the United States and abroad.”.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 31, 2018
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to hack aerospace and tech firms. US DoJ accuses the Chinese intelligence to have recruited hackers and insiders to steal confidential information from companies in aerospace and tech companies. US intelligence believes that the cyber espionage operation was under the control of Zha Rong and Chai Meng, two intelligence officers working for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security
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Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 31, 2018
On October 29, 2018, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “OPC”) released final guidance (“Final Guidance”) regarding how businesses may satisfy the reporting and record-keeping obligations under Canada’s new data breach reporting law. The law, effective November 1, 2018, requires organizations subject to the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) to (1) report to the OPC breaches of security safeguards involving personal information “tha
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The conventional story is that Iran targeted Saudi Arabia with Triton in 2017. New research from FireEye indicates that it might have been Russia. I don't know. FireEye likes to attribute all sorts of things to Russia, but the evidence here look pretty good.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The Kraken ransomware author has released a second version of the malicious code, along with a unique affiliate program on the Dark Web. According to research into Kraken v.2 the new version is being promoted in a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model to underground forum customers, via a video demoing its capabilities. Those interested can complete a […].
National Archives Records Express
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Today a notice of the availability of records schedules for comments was posted in the Federal Register. This includes a proposed schedule, DAA-0587-2018-0001, from the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP), also known as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, covering website content duplicative of original information maintained by program offices.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Security experts share insights on which skills and experiences are most helpful to job hunters looking for their next gig.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 31, 2018
OpenText™ hosted its first Women in Technology Summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on July 12, 2018—and it was beyond inspiring! The conference was packed with motivational keynotes, interactive panels, and lightning talks that provided attendees with new ideas for fostering a diverse workplace, strategies for hiring and recruitment, and tangible techniques to advance and … The post Creating inclusive communities in tech appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 31, 2018
How to fit hardware threats into your security model as hardware becomes smaller, faster, cheaper, and more complex.
Information Management Resources
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Enterworks, Informatica, Pitney Bowes and Riversand are among the providers of top platforms for master data management and data governance capabilities, says the MDM Institute.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Intelligence agents aimed for aerospace manufacturing targets, with help of cyberattackers, corporate insiders, and one IT security manager.
John Battelle's Searchblog
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Gramercy Tavern in New York City. If Walmart can leverage data tokens to lure Amazon’s best customers away , what else is possible in a world of enabled by my fictional Token Act? Well, Walmart vs. Amazon is all about big business – a platform giant (Amazon) disrupting an OldBigCo (Walmart and its kin). Over the past two decades, Amazon bumped Walmart out of the race to a trillion-dollar market cap, and the OldCo from Bentonville had to reset and play the role of the upstart.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Halloween movies are the perfect metaphor for breaking down today's scariest supplier breach tropes.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Jim Harper at CATO has a good survey of state ID systems in the US.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 31, 2018
There has been a palpable shift from volumetric attacks to "quantum attacks," and they look to be one of the biggest cybersecurity challenges on the rise today.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Earlier this year, Check Point Software managed to hack an HP all-in-one printer. The company exploited a weakness the OS of two HP models had when handling fax. It caused quite a fuss for us in the fax business. Bad news travels fast, they say. False news, it turns out, travels faster. Check Point’s conclusion … The post Have hackers got your (fax) number?
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 31, 2018
SamSam ransomware hasn't gone away and it's adapting to meet evolving defenses.
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