Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Senate Committee Reviewing Law With an Eye to Amend Technology organizations say Australia's anti-encryption law passed in December is already undermining trust in their local operations. The comments come as a Senate committee is reviewing the law - passed in a hurry in December - to consider whether to amend it.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The shortest month of the year is over in a flash, but not before a significant number of data breaches and cyber attacks could take place. I count this month’s total of leaked records to be 692,853,046, bringing 2019’s total to 2,462,038,109. At the time of publication, that’s roughly 30,000 records per minute so far this year…. As always, if I’ve missed anything please do let me know in the comments below.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
A Number of Newly Reported Health Data Breaches Stem From Email Incidents Phishing and other hacking incidents have led to several recently reported large health data breaches, including one that UConn Health reports affected 326,000 individuals.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
A research group at NATO's Strategic Communications Center of Excellence catfished soldiers involved in an European military exercise -- we don't know what country they were from -- to demonstrate the power of the attack technique. Over four weeks, the researchers developed fake pages and closed groups on Facebook that looked like they were associated with the military exercise, as well as profiles impersonating service members both real and imagined.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
How can the many job openings for cybersecurity specialists be filled? "Reskilling" can play a critical role, says Greg Touhill, the nation's first federal CISO, who's now president of Cyxtera Technologies. In an interview, he offers a preview of his upcoming presentation at the RSA Conference 2019.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Writes Letters to HHS, NIST, Industry Groups Posing Long Lists of Questions Senator Mark Warner, D-Va., has sent letters to four federal agencies and 12 healthcare associations posing long lists of questions as a prelude to developing short-term and long-term strategies for improving healthcare cybersecurity.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
In today’s digital world, the ability to establish defensible and transparent processes to auto-classify digital content is of growing importance to the intelligent and connected enterprise. As data stores get bigger and bigger, the burden of classifying them grows as well. In fact, the challenge is not just to classify digital content quickly, accurately, and … The post Auto-Classifying data with Magellan and beyond appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Threat actors in the wild are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2019-6340 flaw in the Drupal CMS to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Just three days after the CVE-2019-6340 flaw in Drupal was addressed, threat actors in the wild started exploiting the issue to deliver cryptocurrency miners and other payloads. Last week, Drupal core team released security updates that address a “highly critical” remote code execution vulnerability.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
On January 25, 2019, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (“NERC”) asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to approve a settlement issuing a record $10 million fine against an unidentified utility resulting from violations of critical infrastructure protection standards (“CIP”) occurring mostly between 2015 and 2018 (referred to hereafter as the “Settlement Agreement”).
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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
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov pleads guilty to bank fraud after running a botnet that spread ‘NeverQuest’ malware for three years. The Russian hacker Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov , aka “Black,” “Blackf,” is accused of using the NeverQuest banking Trojan to steal login information from victims. The man has pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking in Manhattan Federal Court, he faces a sentence of up to five years in pr
DXC Technology
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
If you had a super power, would you use it for good or evil? That’s a question every organization faces as they begin to use artificial intelligence (AI) to do business. And though AI isn’t a super power per se, it is like having the Batcomputer or Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S. on hand to thwart the […].
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Because many organizations tend to overlook or underestimate the threat, social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, are a huge blind spot in enterprise defenses.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
How features such as infotainment and driver-assist can give others a leg up on car owners.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Security practitioners are most likely to stay at organizations that offer career development. Here are eight tips to consider as you plan your course of action.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. Originally published 20 June 2018. If you’re classified as a data controller under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , you might have overlooked an important compliance obligation: since 25 May 2018, the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018 have required every organisation or sole trader that processes personal data to register with the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) – unless all the processing t
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
A known vulnerability combined with a weakness in bare-metal server reclamation opens the door to powerful, high-impact attacks.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
On February 22, 2019, California state senator Hannah Beth-Jackson introduced a bill ( SB-561 ) that would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) to expand the Act’s private right of action and remove the 30-day cure period requirement for enforcement actions brought by the State Attorney General. The bill would not change the compliance deadline for the CCPA, which remains January 1, 2020.
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IT Governance
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. Originally published 26 June 2013. Information classification is a process in which organisations assess the data that they hold and the level of protection it should be given. Organisations usually classify information in terms of confidentiality – i.e. who is granted access to see it. A typical system will include four levels of confidentiality: Confidential (only senior management have access).
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Botnets continue to spread to places never dreamed of a few years ago. But you can fight them off, and these tips can help.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
New research shows how nearby attackers can see where you are, send you spoofed carrier messages, and more.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The spam campaign is being used to spread a malicious.exe file, taking advantage of a vulnerability in WinRAR which was patched in January.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
As more organizations move to the public cloud and to DevOps and DevSecOps processes, the open source alternative for host-based intrusion detection is finding new uses.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Researchers point a tough-to-fix in some cloud computing setups: hackable firmware.
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Firmware vulnerabilities provide direct access to server hardware, enabling attackers to install malware that can pass from customer to customer.
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Threatpost
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
SHAREit has fixed two flaws in its app that allow bad actors to authenticate their devices and steal files from a victim's device.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
The regulation will impact the national and global economy, representing a seismic change for compliance procedures in the US, similar to how GDPR has changed privacy rules globally.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
HTML5 used to build persistent malware on victims' computers.
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