Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2019
Program on The Weather Channel Knocked Off Air by Malware for 90 Minutes For about 90 minutes Thursday morning, the broadcast of The Weather Channel's signature early show, "AMHQ," was shut down by what the company called "a malicious software attack.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 18, 2019
The crooks responsible for launching phishing campaigns that netted dozens of employees and more than 100 computer systems last month at Wipro , India’s third-largest IT outsourcing firm, also appear to have targeted a number of other competing providers, including Infosys and Cognizant , new evidence suggests. The clues so far suggest the work of a fairly experienced crime group that is focused on perpetrating gift card fraud.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2019
In the past, the relationship between cybersecurity and privacy has been uneasy and even ill-defined. But today, in the post-GDPR era, the relationship is clear, and so is the legal and compliance path forward, says David Ruiz of Malwarebytes.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 18, 2019
A dozen years after Apple launched the first iPhone, igniting the smartphone market, the Bring Your Own Device to work phenomenon is alive and well. Related: Stopping mobile device exploits. The security issues posed by BYOD are as complex and difficult to address as ever. Meanwhile, the pressure for companies to proactively address mobile security is mounting from two quarters.
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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 18, 2019
When it comes to browser security, one mistake made by consumers and enterprise alike is that they see the browser as a one-way window into the internet. The reality is quite different - and potentially costly if overlooked, says Pieter Arntz of Malwarebytes.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2019
Many Employers Have Health Data That Must Be Protected Under HIPAA Sometimes, even a furniture manufacturer must report a health data breach to comply with the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule. Compliance experts explain the requirements for certain employers.
AIIM
APRIL 18, 2019
This is part 3 of a four-part series based on our new State of the Industry – Content Services market research study. Part 1 -- What exactly is the link between IIM and Digital Transformation? Part 2 -- What kinds of critical business problems are users trying to solve with Content Services? Part 3 -- How is content services automation revolutionizing records management and information governance?
Schneier on Security
APRIL 18, 2019
DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of uprecidented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle carried out a broad campaign of espionage via DNS hijacking, hitting 40 different organizations. In the process, they went so far as to compromise multiple country-code top-level domains -- the suffixes like.co.uk or.ru that end a foreign web address -- putting all the traffic of every domain in multiple co
Dark Reading
APRIL 18, 2019
Recent studies show that before automation can reduce the burden on understaffed cybersecurity teams, they need to bring in enough automation skills to run the tools.
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.
Adam Levin
APRIL 18, 2019
Facebook announced that it “unintentionally” harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million of its users without their consent. The social media company automatically uploaded the information from users who had registered with the site after 2016 and provided their email addresses and passwords. Upon submitting a form to “confirm” their accounts, registrants saw a screen showing that their email contact lists were harvested without any means of providing consent, opting out, or interrupting the pro
Dark Reading
APRIL 18, 2019
Faced with an overwhelming adversary, Game of Thrones heroes Daenerys Targaryen and Jon Snow have a lot in common with today's beleaguered CISOs.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 18, 2019
Iranian intelligence seems to be getting its own taste of a Shadow Brokers-style leak of secrets.
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2019
Iran-linked APT group OilRig is heavily leveraging on DNS tunneling for its cyber espionage campaigns, Palo Alto Networks reveals. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks reported that Iran-linked APT group OilRig is heavily leveraging on DNS tunneling for its cyber espionage campaigns, Palo Alto Networks reveals. OilRig is an Iran-linked APT group that has been around since at least 2014, it targeted mainly organizations in the financial, government, energy, telecoms and chemical sectors in
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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.
Jamf
APRIL 18, 2019
Here are specific questions to ask yourself in order to save time—and your sanity—when adapting to your new mobile device management (MDM) needs.
Threatpost
APRIL 18, 2019
The U.S-focused eGobbler malvertising attacks are exploiting an unpatched Google Chrome bug.
DXC Technology
APRIL 18, 2019
Until now, each transition to the next generation of wireless networks, most recently 3G to 4G, has been incremental and relatively seamless. But the jump from 4G networks to 5G is expected to be monumental and fundamentally disruptive. 5G is more than just a faster, lower-latency version of 4G; it represents the first generation wireless […].
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2019
Cisco released security patches for 30 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit. The critical vulnerability in ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit is tracked as CVE-2019-1710 (CVSS score of 9.8). The flaw could be exploited by an unauthenticated , remote attacker to access internal applications running on the sysadmin virtual machine (VM).
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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
APRIL 18, 2019
Coming eight years after he launched the site, the steep sentence for the cybercriminal operator is based on a tab of $30 million in damages calculated by Mastercard and other credit card companies.
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2019
The developers of the Symfony PHP web application framework released updates that patch five vulnerabilities, three affecting the Drupal CMS. The development team of the Symfony PHP web application framework released security updates for five issues, three of which also affects Drupal 7 and 8. The developers of the Symfony PHP web application framework addressed a total of five vulnerabilities, three of which impact the Drupal CMS.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 18, 2019
Attorney general William Barr has released the redacted Mueller report to Congress. You can read all 300-plus pages of it right here.
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2019
Russian financially motivated threat actor TA505 used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States and worldwide. Security experts at CyberInt uncovered a new campaign of a Russian financially motivated threat actor tracked as TA505. The hackers used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks aimed at financial entities in the United States and worldwide. “CyberInt researchers have been tracking various activities following the spear-phishing campaign tar
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IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 18, 2019
Sophisticated planning analytics can help HR pros act on data-driven insights and inmprove ROI. Learn how.
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2019
Facebook made the headlines once again for alleged violations of the privacy of its users, this time collecting contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without permission. New problems for Facebook, the company collected contacts from 1.5 Million email accounts without user’permission. We recently read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity.
Threatpost
APRIL 18, 2019
The incident was the work of malicious cyberattackers.
Security Affairs
APRIL 18, 2019
In mid-March, a suspicious Office document referencing the Ukraine elections appeared in the wild, is it related to APT28 and upcoming elections? Introduction. The uncertain attribution of the Ukrainian themed malicious document discussed in our past article “ APT28 and Upcoming Elections: Possible Interference Signals ”, led us to a review of Sofacy’s phishing techniques to confirm or deny the possible involvement of Russian state-sponsored actors in the election interference.
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Hunton Privacy
APRIL 18, 2019
The much-discussed Washington Privacy Act, Senate Bill 5376 (“SB 5376”), appears to have died after failing to receive a House vote by an April 17, 2019 deadline for action on non-budget policy bills. Though the bill could be revived before the regular session ends on April 28, 2019, Washington lawmakers expressed doubt. SB 5376 was the subject of attention in part because legislators sought the input of technology companies, among other organizations, while drafting the bill.
Troy Hunt
APRIL 18, 2019
It's another episode with Scott Helme this week as he's back in town for NDC Security on the Gold Coast (still a got a week to get those tickets, folks!) The timing actually works out pretty well as there was this week's announcement around Let's Encrypt transition of their root cert which is right up his alley. There's also the whole TicTokTrack kids watch situation which aligns very well with many of both our prior experience.
Dark Reading
APRIL 18, 2019
The social media giant says it did not access the imported data and is notifying affected users.
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