Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Warner and Rubio Want Companies to Develop Standards and Policies to Combat Fakes U.S. senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio are urging social media firms to create policies and standards to combat the spread of "deepfake" videos, which they say pose a potential threat to American democracy.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Trends in fashion and entertainment come and go. The same holds true for the cyber underground. Related: Leveraging botnets to scale attacks For a long while now, criminal hackers have relied on leveraging low-cost botnet services to blast out cyber attacks as far and wide as they could, indiscriminately. Over the past 18 months or so, a fresh trend has come into vogue.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol is one of the most widely used utilities for connecting to remote machines. But it poses risks if organizations don't actively monitor how it's used, says Chris Morales of the security firm Vectra.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 3, 2019
You might be surprised to learn that CCTV footage is subject to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). The Regulation isn’t just about written details, like names and addresses; it applies to any information that can identify someone. That includes pictures and videos, which is why you should be careful about the way you use CCTV. Let’s take a look at the steps you should follow to ensure your video surveillance methods are GDPR-compliant. 1.
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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
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Unit 42 Researchers Describe Malware Attacks That May Have Ties to China Threat actors that may have connections to China has been using a variety of malware in a series of information-gathering espionage campaigns across Southeast Asia since at least 2013, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 division.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Practice Must Pay a $10,000 HIPAA Settlement A dental practice in Texas that responded to patients' Yelp reviews by disclosing patient names and other health information has gotten a bad review from federal regulators: A $10,000 HIPAA monetary settlement and a corrective action plan.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Digital criminals won’t stop targeting the Middle East. I’ve seen numerous attack campaigns targeting this region come to the surface in 2019 alone. Back in April, I remember FireEye discovered that bad actors behind the TRITON custom attack framework had infiltrated a second critical infrastructure organization. That’s less than two years after the company spotted the first TRITON attack where malefactors used TRITON to disrupt a critical infrastructure organization in the Middle East.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 3, 2019
The new interdependence of security and privacy within the enterprise. Watch this webinar and learn about the interdependence of security and privacy.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Security experts linked a number of cyber-espionage campaigns observed over the years to the same Chinese threat actor, tracked as PKPLUG. Security experts linked a number of cyber-espionage campaigns observed over the years to the same Chinese threat actor, tracked as PKPLUG. The name comes from the threat actor using PlugX inside ZIP archives containing the ASCII magic bytes “PK” in the header. “For three years, Unit 42 has tracked a set of cyber espionage attack campaigns ac
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.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 3, 2019
In August, CyberITL completed a large-scale survey of software security practices in the IoT environment, by looking at the compiled software. Data Collected: 22 Vendors 1,294 Products 4,956 Firmware versions 3,333,411 Binaries analyzed Date range of data: 2003-03-24 to 2019-01-24 (varies by vendor, most up to 2018 releases). [.]. This dataset contains products such as home routers, enterprise equipment, smart cameras, security devices, and more.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Dutch police seized a bulletproof hosting service in a major takedown, the infrastructure was used by tens of IoT botnets involved in DDoS attacks. A joint operation conducted by the Netherlands’ National Criminal Investigation Department and National Cyber Security Center allowed to track down and seize five servers that were composing a cybercrime underground bulletproof hosting service.
IBM Big Data Hub
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Today’s data science and analytics teams are often composed of individuals with a variety of skill sets, educational backgrounds, levels of exposure to open source tools and professional needs.
The Guardian Data Protection
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Judge rules Data Protection Act clause denying them right to obtain records is not unlawful Brexit latest – live updates Campaigners have lost a high court challenge over new laws that prevent EU citizens living in Britain from finding out what data the Home Office holds on them. The3million group had challenged an exemption clause in the Data Protection Act that came into force last year, which denies them the right to access their personal records in immigration cases.
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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.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 3, 2019
A new mobile app makes a cybersecurity threat lab available to more small businesses in Los Angeles.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 3, 2019
A double-free bug could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution; users are encouraged to update to a patched version of the messaging app.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Their findings demonstrate how Group 4 is likely conducting server-side skimming in addition to client-side activity.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Dubbed Reductor, this malware can manipulate HTTPS traffic by tweaking a browser’s random numbers generator.
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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
OCTOBER 3, 2019
We need technology, but we can't forget the importance of humans working methodically to make it effective.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 3, 2019
On October 15, 2019, Hunton Andrews Kurth will host a luncheon seminar in our Brussels office on Addressing GDPR Challenges: An Interactive Session on Handling Data Breaches. In this roundtable discussion, our speakers will lead a dialogue to share experiences on handling data breaches under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Hear about lessons learned to-date, best practices and recent enforcement actions.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 3, 2019
The ex-employee accessed names, Social Security numbers, card numbers, and more in an attempt to commit fraud.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Eight high-severity vulnerabilities exist in the Foxit Reader tool for editing PDF files.
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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
OCTOBER 3, 2019
An unprotected Elasticsearch cluster contained personally identifiable information on Russian citizens from 2009 to 2016.
DXC Technology
OCTOBER 3, 2019
By Ben Eubanks, Principal Analyst, Lighthouse Research & Advisory The age of automation is radically disrupting work as we know it. By 2022, seventy-five million jobs in 20 economies are expected to disappear, just as 133 million new jobs are created. And by 2030, 375 million workers will need to find new work, as automation […].
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 3, 2019
Federal guidelines can help all organizations pragmatically and meaningfully improve their firmware security.
The Schedule
OCTOBER 3, 2019
I have plenty of personal and some anecdotal evidence that good records management contributes to good archives. But with enough people demonstrating a desire to explore these intersections, I decided one good avenue to pursue would be collecting testimonials from practitioners who see the value of RM to archival work. With the assistance of Cathy Miller, we’ve begun this endeavor and today bring to you our first testimonial.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 3, 2019
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The Security Ledger
OCTOBER 3, 2019
In this episode of Security Ledger Podcast (#163) sponsored by LastPass: companies are spending more than ever on cyber security, but feel less secure. Why? Kevin Richards of the insurer Marsh joins us to talk about that company's Cyber Risk Perceptions Survey. Also Yaser Masoudnia of LastPass* joins us to talk about the blurry line between. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Explained: Two-Factor vs.
Data Protection Report
OCTOBER 3, 2019
BoE publish high level findings of the financial sector (“sector”) cyber simulation exercise. Exercise overview. The exercise explored the sector’s resilience to a major cyber incident impacting the UK. Alongside the Bank of England & PRA, Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury, participants included 29 market leading firms and Financial Market Infrastructures.
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