Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2023
19-Year-Old José Huerta Allegedly Hacked A Government File Transfer System Spanish National Police arrested Friday a teenager hacker who allegedly stole the sensitive data of more than half a million taxpayers from the national revenue service and boasted in an online podcast about having access to personal data of 90 percent of the population.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2023
Using only ChatGPT prompts, a Forcepoint researcher convinced the AI to create malware for finding and exfiltrating specific documents, despite its directive to refuse malicious requests.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2023
International Operation Led by FBI Results in Hundreds of Arrests The FBI and other national police are touting an operation that dismantled Genesis Market, a marketplace used by ransomware hackers and bank thieves to gain ongoing access to victims' computers. Genesis Market since 2018 offered access to more than 1.5 million compromised computers around the world.
IT Governance
APRIL 5, 2023
Malware is one of the most common cyber security threats that organisations and individuals face. Whenever someone talks about their computer being infected, encountering bots or even falling victim to a scam email, malware is normally involved. It’s why anti-malware software is usually considered a top priority for staying safe online. However, those tools are not flawless.
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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 5, 2023
OpenText, Varonis, Forcepoint Enter Leaders Category While Trellix, Broadcom Fall OpenText, Varonis and Forcepoint joined Google and Microsoft atop Forrester's data security rankings, while Trellix and Broadcom fell from the leaders category. Data protection historically focused on delivering security controls, but firms are increasingly looking to address adjacent use cases.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2023
Prosecutors Allege the Couple Sought to Give US Military Medical Records to Russia A former U.S. Army physician set to go to trial next month in a case alleging a scheme to provide military medical records to the Russian government contends they will not get a fair trial unless they are tried separately from their alleged co-conspirator spouse.
Data Matters
APRIL 5, 2023
The updated 2023 Chambers Global Practice Guides for Data Protection & Privacy and Cybersecurity, edited by Alan Charles Raul , are available now, covering important developments across the globe and offering insightful legal commentary for businesses. The post Chambers 2023 Global Practice Guides for Data Protection & Privacy and Cybersecurity Available appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2023
Andrey Shevlyakov Has History of Flouting Export Controls U.S. federal prosecutors say an Estonian man was prepared violate U.S. export regulations by selling a license for penetration testing software to a Russian individual. Andrey Shevlyakov has been on a U.S. blacklist known as the Entity List since 2012.
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 5, 2023
Effective vulnerability management is about knowing what you own and prioritizing what you need to fix. A new research report shows that millions of organizations are failing at those critical cybersecurity practices. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Rezilion found more than 15 million instances in which systems are vulnerable to the 896 flaws listed in the U.S.
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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
APRIL 5, 2023
'Quiet' Malware Also Dubbed 'BabLock' for Its Borrowing From Babuk and LockBit Not every ransomware group uses a larger-than-life persona designed to scare victims into immediately acceding to bogeyman extortionists' demands. Recently discovered Rorschach - aka BabLock - ransomware, researchers have found, opts instead for speed, stealth and more modest ransom demands.
IT Governance
APRIL 5, 2023
This week, we discuss a cyber attack on the outsourcing giant Capita, Italy’s ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and further bad news for TikTok: a £12.7 million fine from the ICO for breaching UK data protection law. Now available on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud. The post IT Governance Podcast 2023-7: Capita, ChatGPT and TikTok (yet again) appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 5, 2023
Josh Hankins of Qualys on Tips and Tricks He Learned as a Practitioner Before he became a chief technical security officer at Qualys, Josh Hankins was a cybersecurity leader in financial services. He learned how security audit failures are increasingly costly, and he devised new strategies for audit preparation. He shares his insights here.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2023
CISA is advising Nexx customers to unplug impacted devices until the security issues are addressed — but so far, it's crickets as to patch timeline.
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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.
KnowBe4
APRIL 5, 2023
The FBI’s newly-released report shows just how ransomware continues to plague critical infrastructure sectors, despite the U.S. government’s recent efforts to stop these attacks.
Outpost24
APRIL 5, 2023
Another Password Manager Breach: Practical Tips to Protect Stolen Credentials 05.Apr.2023 Florian Barre Wed, 04/05/2023 - 04:22 Password security Teaser In light of recent password manager breaches, our experts have provided tips on how to protect your organization from compromised credentials.
KnowBe4
APRIL 5, 2023
A school principal in Volusia County, Florida has resigned after sending $100,000 to a scammer posing as Elon Musk, WESH 2 News reports. Dr. Jan McGee from the Burns Science and Technology Charter School had been in communication with the individual for four months, even though her colleagues warned her that it was a scam.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2023
Multiple QNAP operating systems are affected, including QTS, QuTS hero, QuTScloud, and QVP Pro appliances, and some don't yet have patches available.
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HID Global
APRIL 5, 2023
HID's RFID-enabled animal ID solutions cover industries ranging from livestock management, fish conservation, laboratory animal data tracking, to pet safety.
KnowBe4
APRIL 5, 2023
When I was in my 30s, I woke up one morning with a terrible pain shooting down one side of my back and around the side. The pain was so terrible, I could barely move, and was only able to move my neck slightly to look down, convinced that I would see myself impaled by a sword.
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 5, 2023
As a leader in wireless and wired large area network (LAN) infrastructure, Extreme Networks deeply understands the operational requirements for networks and the IT teams managing them. To aid in reducing IT labor requirements and to improve security, Extreme Networks created their ExtremeControl network access solution. To compare ExtremeControl against competitors, see our complete list of top network access control (NAC) solutions.
KnowBe4
APRIL 5, 2023
Cybercriminals have become thoughtful about ransomware attacks; taking time to maximize your organization’s potential damage and their payoff. Protecting your network from this growing threat is more important than ever. And nobody knows this more than Roger Grimes, Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 5, 2023
A series of vulnerabilities in multiple smart devices manufactured by Nexx can be exploited to remotely open garage doors, and take control of alarms and plugs. In late 2022, the researcher Sam Sabetan discovered a series of critical vulnerabilities in several smart devices manufactured by Nexx, including Smart Garage Door Openers, Alarms, and Plugs.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2023
Application security is the dominant trend for this year's startup contest, but AI, blockchain, and compliance are all represented as well.
Security Affairs
APRIL 5, 2023
HP would take up to 90 days to address a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-1707, that resides in the firmware of some business-grade printers. HP is aware of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-1707 (CVSS v3.1 score 9.1), that affects tens of HP Enterprise LaserJet and HP LaserJet Managed Printers models. The exploitation of the flaw can potentially lead to information disclosure and the IT giant announced that it would take up to 90 days to address the vulnerability.
Dark Reading
APRIL 5, 2023
As both digital protection strategies and digital attacks become more sophisticated, organizations that know the terrain have a better chance of navigating it.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 5, 2023
Law enforcement seized the Genesis Market black marketplace, a platform focused on the sale of stolen credentials, as part of Operation Cookie Monster. The FBI seized the Genesis Market , a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. Genesis Market was an invite-only marketplace, but it was not complex to find invite codes online.
KnowBe4
APRIL 5, 2023
This MIT Technology Review headline caught my eye, and I think you understand why. They described a new type of exploit called prompt injection.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 5, 2023
Genesis Market is shut down : Active since 2018, Genesis Market’s slogan was, “Our store sells bots with logs, cookies, and their real fingerprints.” Customers could search for infected systems with a variety of options, including by Internet address or by specific domain names associated with stolen credentials. But earlier today, multiple domains associated with Genesis had their homepages replaced with a seizure notice from the FBI, which said the domains were seized pursuan
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