Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Report: Poor Asus Security Allowed Its PCs to be Infected with Backdoors A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed "Operation ShadowHammer" involved an advanced persistent threat group planting backdoors within Asus computers by subverting the Taiwan-based PC maker's third-party supply chain and updater software, Kaspersky Lab warns.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 26, 2019
One way to grasp how digital transformation directly impacts the daily operations of any organization – right at this moment — is to examine the company’s application environment. Related: How new exposures being created by API sprawl. Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
World's First CISO Weighs in on the Technologies and Trends Shaping 2019 It's been decades now since Steve Katz became the business world's first CISO. Today he is still active in the cybersecurity community and offers his unique perspective on security threats, solutions and the next generation of leaders.
Dark Reading
MARCH 26, 2019
Don't expect to read about any of the classics, like 'War Games' or 'Sneakers,' which have appeared on so many lists before. Rather, we've broadened our horizons with this great mix of documentaries, hacker movies, and flicks based on short stories.
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
MARCH 26, 2019
Ex-Cyber Czar Chris Painter on Where US is Getting it Right - and Wrong How the country responds to the growing cyberthreats will shape its diplomatic, military and economic power. With the stakes this high, is the U.S. getting it right? Chris Painter, commissioner on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and former White House cyber czar offers his perspective.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Business Email Compromise and Payroll Portal Hacks Are Surging, Beazley Warns Beazley Breach Response Services, a unit of global insurance company Beazley, reports that nearly half of the more than 3,300 breaches it investigated last year traced to a hack attack or malware infection. And half of those hacking/malware attacks were tied to business email compromise schemes.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 26, 2019
A recent experiment found all sorts of personal data left on used laptops and smartphones. This should come as no surprise. Simson Garfinkel performed the same experiment in 2003, with similar results.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Cyber Investigator on the Need to Diversify Skills in Cyber Workforce At a time when diversity is a key topic within the cybersecurity leadership and workforce, MK Palmore of the FBI says we also need a diversification of skills to help improve breach defense and response.
Security Affairs
MARCH 26, 2019
Good news for the victims of the Hacked Ransomware, the security firm Emsisoft has released a free decryptor to decrypt the data of infected computers. Security experts at Emsisoft released a free decryptor for the Hacked Ransomware. The Hacked Ransomware was first spotted in 2017, it appends.hacked extension to the encrypted files and includes ransom notes in Italian, English, Spanish, and Turkish.
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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
MARCH 26, 2019
Signal Sciences' Andrew Peterson on How WAFs Can Support Application Security Web application firewalls usually have not been a part of the DevSecOps conversation, but that's changing, says Andrew Peterson, CEO of Signal Sciences.
Dark Reading
MARCH 26, 2019
The nation is a pioneer in spoofing and blocking satellite navigation signals, causing more than 9,800 incidents in the past three years, according to an analysis of navigational data.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Report Calls for New Rules to Pave the Way for Bigger Fines One way to ensure greater protection for consumers and their personal information following massive data breaches is to give the U.S. Federal Trade Commission the ability to impose greater civil penalties against consumer reporting agencies, such as Equifax, a new government report concludes.
Dark Reading
MARCH 26, 2019
Ret. Admiral Michael Rogers - who served as head of the NSA and the US Cyber Command from 2014 to 2018 - on how to handle the risk of insiders exposing an organization's sensitive data.
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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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Nok Nok Lab's Philip Dunkelberger on Why Traditional Authentication Won't Work With the advent of the internet of things, authentication needs to be far more scalable, says Phillip Dunkelberger, CEO of Nok Nok Labs.
Security Affairs
MARCH 26, 2019
Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team uncovered a new Ursnif malware campaign that reached several organizations across Italy. Introduction. The Ursnif trojan confirms itself as one of the most active malware threats in cyberspace, even during the past days, when new attack attempts reached several organizations across Italy. Cybaze -Yoroi ZLab team dissected its infection chain to keep tracking the evolution of this persistent malware threat, analyzing its multiple stages, each one with
Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Police Charged Researcher With Network Intrusion An Australian computer security researcher will be sentenced May 1 after pleading guilty to several charges related to an unauthorized intrusion into the network of GoGet, a vehicle sharing service.
Security Affairs
MARCH 26, 2019
This week Apple released iOS 12.2 to address 51 security vulnerabilities in the popular mobile operating system running on iPhone 5s and later, iPad Air and later, and iPod touch 6th generation. Most of the flaws affect the web rendering engine WebKit, an attacker could trick victims into opening a maliciously crafted web content to execute arbitrary code, disclose sensitive user information, bypass sandbox restrictions, or launch universal cross-site scripting attacks on the device.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2019
Clayton Donley on How Security Ties Into Broadcom's Vision Late in 2018, Broadcom completed its acquisition of CA Technologies. What is the vision of this new cybersecurity products and services enterprise? Clayton Donley, general manager of security at Broadcom, shares insights.
Dark Reading
MARCH 26, 2019
Many small and midsize businesses work faster and harder than large enterprises, but they're just as vulnerable to cybercrime.
Security Affairs
MARCH 26, 2019
Facebook introduced new settings designed to make it easier for cyber experts to test the security of its mobile applications. Facebook has announced the implementation of new settings to make it easier for white hat hackers to test the security of its mobile applications. To protect Facebook users, the mobile apps of the company implement security mechanisms such as Certificate Pinning that ensures the integrity and confidentiality of the traffic sent from the user device to Facebook servers.
IT Governance
MARCH 26, 2019
Although DPIAs (data protection impact assessments) are not a new concept, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) now mandates them under certain circumstances. A DPIA is essentially a risk assessment that needs to be conducted before carrying out any processing activities, particularly those “using new technologies”, that are “likely” to result in a “high risk” to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
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Data Matters
MARCH 26, 2019
WEBINAR. Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | 4:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 p.m. PDT. CLE & CPE Credit Offered. When the California Consumer Privacy Act enters into force on January 1, 2020, it will grant consumers extensive new data rights and place a number of new obligations on companies – obligations that in some ways even exceed those imposed by the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Dark Reading
MARCH 26, 2019
Facebook is the latest company to weigh in with a corporate manifesto focused on privacy. Though it's a welcome trend, only time will tell how many follow through.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 26, 2019
The credit card company has more details about its plan for a decentralized, universal digital ID, but questions remain.
Threatpost
MARCH 26, 2019
If users have an impacted devices, they need to immediately run a backup of their files and restore their operating system to factory settings, said ASUS.
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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.
DXC Technology
MARCH 26, 2019
by Damon Auer The jury is in. Artificial intelligence and the consumerization of care are here to stay. In the week before the 2019 HIMSS meeting, I wrote a blog predicting what trends and technologies we could expect to see at the big show. The conference itself didn’t disappoint and just about everything I predicted […].
Threatpost
MARCH 26, 2019
Apple patched more than 50 flaws in iOS 12.2, including an array of bugs in Webkit and a vulnerability that allows apps to secretly listen to users.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 26, 2019
A dedicated community of Zello moderators is using the voice-chat app to help bring news and coordinate aid amid the country's political and economic crisis.
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