Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Large Illinois Group Practice Says PHI Exposed After suffering a network systems outage that lasted at least a week in July, DuPage Medical Group, the largest mulispeciality group practice in Illinois, is now reporting a data breach affecting more than 655,000 individuals.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Over the past 15 years, a cybercrime anonymity service known as VIP72 has enabled countless fraudsters to mask their true location online by routing their traffic through millions of malware-infected systems. But roughly two weeks ago, VIP72’s online storefront — which ironically enough has remained at the same U.S.-based Internet address for more than a decade — simply vanished.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Regulator Cites Email Takeovers, Inadequate Incident Response The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned eight financial firms for alleged failures related to cybersecurity policies and procedures, each stemming from email account takeovers and related incident response, the regulator announced this week.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
It has been another month of comparatively few reported cyber attacks and data breaches, with our August list containing 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records. And it would have been even fewer if not for the attack on T-Mobile. The mobile network disclosed a hack earlier this month, which it originally said affected 7.8 million customers and 40 million records.
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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
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Tactics Include Subverting Advertising Redirect Services, Hiring English Speakers Business email compromise attacks, which balance low-tech tactics with the potential for big profits, remain popular. Attackers continue to refine their tactics, including subverting legitimate redirect services as well as recruiting English-speaking business partners and cryptocurrency tumbler operators.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Security Experts Say Restaurants Are Increasingly Targeted A Dallas-based restaurant chain has confirmed that a malware attack compromised its point-of-sale system, apparently exposing payment cards at all of its 29 locations in seven states. Security experts say POS breaches at restaurants are a growing concern.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
On August 30, 2021, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it had settled three administrative cases involving a total of eight registered broker-dealers and investment advisers for failures in their cybersecurity policies and procedures. These failures led to email account takeovers that exposed personal information of thousands of customers at each firm.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Before Labor Day, Agency Cites Recent Attacks Centered on Holiday Weekends Citing damaging ransomware attacks that it, along with the FBI, has observed over recent holidays, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert warning organizations to be prepared as the Labor Day holiday nears. CISA, however, is not tracking any immediate threats.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Citizen Lab is reporting on two zero-click iMessage exploits, in spyware sold by the cyberweapons arms manufacturer NSO Group to the Bahraini government. These are particularly scary exploits, since they don’t require to victim to do anything, like click on a link or open a file. The victim receives a text message, and then they are hacked. More on this here.
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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
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Sizing Up the Objectives of the Cryptocurrency Compliance Cooperative Bitcoin ATM operators and blockchain analytics firms that recently launched a "compliance cooperative" acknowledge one of their goals is to influence regulation of the sector.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Greetings from Anchorage, Alaska! As the new Industry Strategist for the energy industry at OpenText, I’m proud to come from a US state where the energy industry is of paramount importance. Alaska is home to Prudhoe Bay, the largest oilfield ever discovered in North America. It’s also a state where over 25% of the GDP … The post Information management and the energy transition appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Bill Would Require Reporting of Critical Infrastructure Attacks Within 72 Hours The House began debate Wednesday on legislation that would require companies that own or operate parts of the nation's critical infrastructure to report a cyberattack or breach within 72 hours of confirmation.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Threat actors recently have used long holiday weekends -- when many staff are taking time off -- as a prime opportunity to ambush organizations.
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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
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Microsoft Has Patched, But It's Another Ding in Exchange's Armor Researchers have released details of a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Exchange email server, nicknamed "ProxyToken." The bug, which was patched by Microsoft in April, could be exploited to copy emails from Exchange inboxes.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
LockBit ransomware operators have breached Bangkok Airways, the airline confirmed it was the victim and discloses a data breach impacting its passengers. Bangkok Airways, a regional airline based in Bangkok, discloses a data breach as a result of a ransomware attack orchestrated by the LockBit ransomware operators. The ransomware gang had posted a message on their leak site claiming to have breached the airline and threatening to leak stolen data if the company will not pay the ransom.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
On September 1, 2021, the South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission (“PIPC”) issued fines against Netflix and Facebook for violations of the Korean Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”). The PIPC issued a fine to Facebook of approximately $5.6 million USD relating to six alleged violations of PIPA, including (1) collecting facial recognition data without users’ consent; (2) collecting Social Security numbers in violation of the law; (3) failing to notify users when it change
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The FBI and CISA issued a joint cybersecurity advisory to warn organizations to remain vigilant against ransomware attacks during weekends or holidays. The FBI and CISA warn organizations to keep high their defenses against ransomware attacks during weekends or holidays. The government agencies have observed an increase in ransomware attacks occurring on holidays and weekends, the choice of these period is motivated by the lower level of defense due to the reduced presence of the personnel. R
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Cybercrooks are posting help-wanted ads on dark web forums, promising to do the technical work of compromising email accounts but looking for native English speakers to carry out the social-engineering part of these lucrative scams.
The Guardian Data Protection
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Age Appropriate Design Code mandates apps to take ‘best interests’ of child users into account A sweeping set of regulations governing how online services should treat children’s data have been welcomed by campaigners as they come into effect. The Age Appropriate Design Code – which was written into law as part of the 2018 Data Protection Act, which also implemented GDPR in the UK – mandates websites and apps from Thursday to take the “best interests” of their child users into account, or face f
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Two vulnerabilities in the site-building plugin could be useful tools in the hands of a skilled attacker, researchers warned.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Learn more about great patch management software for Jamf Pro that helps to provide apps to the fleet without human intervention.
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Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker QNAP is working on security patches for its products affected by recently fixed OpenSSL flaws. Taiwanese Network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker QNAP announced that it is assessing the potential impact of two recently addressed flaws in OpenSSL on its products. The company also announced that it is working on security updates that address these vulnerabilities. “An out-of-bounds read vulnerability in OpenSSL has been reported to affect
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Today’s business environment is one of constant change with macro-economic conditions evolving on an almost daily basis. The Suez Canal blockage, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and, of course, COVID-19 have seen major supply chain disruptions occur around the world. When you look back over the past decade there have also been countless natural disasters … The post Making ConneXions at a new OpenText Integration Summit appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against several organizations over email account hacking. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced sanctions against eight entities belonging to three companies over email account hacking due to cybersecurity failures. The companies were not able to protect the confidential information of their customers. “The Securities and Exchange Commission today sanctioned eight firms in three actions for failures
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The ransomware gang claims to have pulled off successful attacks against two airlines and one airport with help from its Accenture attack.
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Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The Mozi botnet continues to spread despite the arrest of its alleged author and experts believe that it will run for many other years. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019. The Mozi botnet was spotted by security experts from 360 Netlab, at the time of its discovered it was actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them.
IG Guru
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
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Hanzo Learning Center
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
As we look back on the six-month grant funding Hanzo received from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund , we’re excited by the progress we’ve made and the new paths we have before us. If you missed my earlier posts, the fund was created to help companies recover from the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We applied for a grant to work on building artificial intelligence models that could detect misbehaviour in Slack and other collaboration apps.
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