Data Breach Today
APRIL 26, 2023
Defendants Include 5 Former Hospital Financial Counselors Six individuals - including five former employees of a Tennessee healthcare organization - have pleaded guilty to criminal HIPAA violations in an alleged scheme involving the sale of motor vehicle accident patient information to third parties. One of the defendants has been sentenced so far.
KnowBe4
APRIL 26, 2023
Researchers at Group-IB have found an extensive campaign in which criminal operators have created a large number of fake Facebook profiles that repost messages in which the scammers misrepresent themselves as tech support personnel from Meta (Facebook’s corporate parent). Researchers discovered some 3200 bogus profiles in twenty-three languages. By far most of the profiles were created in English, more than 90%, followed by Mongolian (2.5%), Arabic (2.3%), Italian (0.8%), and Khmer (0.6%).
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 26, 2023
Service Location Protocol Amplifies Queries by Up to 2,200 Times An obscure routing protocol codified during the 1990s has come roaring back to attention after researchers found a flaw that would allow attackers to initiate massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Researchers from Bitsight and Curesec say they found a bug in Service Location Protocol.
Security Affairs
APRIL 26, 2023
German government warns that technology to regulate power consumption in Huawei network appliances could be used for sabotage purposes. In March, the interior ministry announced it was conducting an audit on the network appliance from Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE. German lawmakers were briefed on the probe by the German Interior Ministry, the federal intelligence service, and the German cybersecurity agency in a classified hearing at the Bundestag’s digital committee in early A
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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
APRIL 26, 2023
Quick Turnaround of New Vulnerability Shows Hackers Reacting Quickly to Patches Hackers are attempting to infect a consumer-grade Wi-Fi router model with Mirai botnet malware following the discovery of zero-days in the device in a December hacking competition. TP-Link released a patch in mid-March. Telemetry shows infections in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 26, 2023
Finding the Value in Generative AI; Blockchain's Decline and Fall ISMG editors are live at RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco with an overview of the latest speakers and hot topics, including the continuing conversation about generative AI and the decline and fall of blockchain. Join us for daily updates from San Francisco.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 26, 2023
Jabil isn’t just a manufacturer, they are experts on global supply chain, logistics, automation, product design and engineering solutions. They are also interested and involved in the holistic application of emerging technologies like additive manufacturing, autonomous technologies, and artificial intelligence. They are a technologically motivated enterprise, so it’s no surprise that they would apply this forward-thinking view to their finance reporting as well.
Security Affairs
APRIL 26, 2023
Apache Superset open-source data visualization platform is affected by an insecure default configuration that could lead to remote code execution. Apache Superset is an open-source data visualization and data exploration platform. The maintainers of the software have released security patches to address an insecure default configuration, tracked as CVE-2023-27524 (CVSS score: 8.9), that could lead to remote code execution.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 26, 2023
The legislation would insert the government into online platforms' age-verification efforts—a move that makes some US lawmakers queasy.
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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
APRIL 26, 2023
Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya caused a cybersecurity incident at a Canadian gas pipeline, the critical infrastructure sector is on alert. A Canadian gas pipeline suffered a cyber security incident, Canada’s top cyber official and Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya claimed the attack could have caused an explosion. Pro-Russia hacktivist groups call to action for targeting organizations in the critical infrastructure sector, said Canada’s top cyber official.
KnowBe4
APRIL 26, 2023
Money mules play a subordinate but important role in the criminal economy. They’re used to move stolen funds around, a low-level version of illicit remittance and money laundering. Researchers at Feedzai, in the course of a look at fraud in social media, have found that, while romance fraud remains common, scams designed to recruit the victims as money mules are becoming increasingly common.
Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
Researchers find that the encryption of a user's 2FA secrets are stripped after transportation to the cloud.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 26, 2023
IT Managers run into scalability challenges on a regular basis. It is difficult to predict growth rates of applications, storage capacity usage and bandwidth. When a workload reaches capacity limits, how is performance maintained while preserving efficiency to scale? The ability to use the cloud to scale quickly and handle unexpected rapid growth or seasonal shifts in demand has become a major benefit of public cloud services, but it can also become a liability if not managed properly.
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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 26, 2023
More than 2,000 global organizations — including Fortune 1,000 companies — are at risk to reflective DDoS attacks that exploit a vulnerability discovered in the legacy Internet protocol.
Data Matters
APRIL 26, 2023
The committee of government and regulatory authorities responsible for open banking in the UK has set out its plans and timeframes for expanding and developing infrastructure, standards, and processes for the sector. Central among these are proposals to improve the performance of interfaces among relevant firms, mitigate financial crime risks, and ensure that end users receive sufficient information and are protected if something goes wrong.
Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
Law enforcement will likely find it much harder to take down criminal activities on the "deepverse.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 26, 2023
Last week I wrote a piece noting how my wife Michelle’s Google usage was down by nearly two thirds, thanks to her discovery of ChatGPT. I noted that Michelle isn’t exactly an early adopter – but that’s not entirely true. Michelle is more of a harbinger – if an early tech product “fits” her, she’ll adopt it early and often – and it’s usually a winner once it goes mainstream.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
An old threat actor is making its comeback, sending around their old malware with a new tint.
CGI
APRIL 26, 2023
Government and commercial health organizations realize that being data driven leads to better decisions and more impactful outcomes. It is critical for quality care, and is directly dependent on the interoperability of health data.
Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
Despite some success in limiting damage from Hive, there's no time to relax security vigilance.
Jamf
APRIL 26, 2023
This blog explores what endpoint management is and what tools organizations can use to manage and secure their endpoints.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
Last year, 71% of enterprise breaches were pulled off quietly, with legitimate tools, research shows.
IG Guru
APRIL 26, 2023
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ForAllSecure
APRIL 26, 2023
Criminal hacking has become a major threat to today’s organizations. According to a Deloitte Center for Controllership poll , “During the past 12 months, 34.5% of polled executives report that their organizations' accounting and financial data were targeted by cyber adversaries.” And, “Nearly half (48.8%) of C-suite and other executives expect the number and size of cyber events targeting their organizations’ accounting and financial data to increase in the year ahe
Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
Awarded individuals and companies are trailblazers in third-party risk management.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 26, 2023
What Are the Latest Developments from Thales in Data Security and IAM at RSA Conference 2023? madhav Thu, 04/27/2023 - 05:55 We’ve been having a great week participating in RSA Conference 2023 and this year’s theme, Stronger Together, couldn’t be more appropriate as the cybersecurity industry fights to protect people and businesses against emerging threats and motivated malicious actors.
Dark Reading
APRIL 26, 2023
Data Breach Today
APRIL 26, 2023
Iranian Threat Actor Deploys Improved PowerLess Backdoor Iranian hackers are deploying an updated backdoor apparently targeting Israeli academic researchers with an interest in Iraq. A group's newly dubbed "Educated Manticore" is sending Iraq-themed bait to coax deployment of an implant known as PowerLess.
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