Fri.Apr 07, 2023

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Researchers Find Flaws in Japanese Word Processor Ichitaro

Data Breach Today

JustSystems, Maker of Ichitaro, Says No Attacks Have Been Spotted Cisco Talos on Wednesday identified four arbitrary code execution flaws in the Ichitaro word processor. The maker of the word processor, JustSystems, said it has not confirmed any attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities and also said it has issued fixes for the flaws.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools. It remains to be seen if Kali Purple will do for defensive open source security tools what Kali Linux has done for open source pentesting, but the addition of more than 100 open source tools for SIEM , incident response , intrusion detection and more should raise the profile of those defensive tools.

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Netography Brings Data Science, Detection to Monitoring Tool

Data Breach Today

CEO Martin Roesch Says Netography Can Detect Anomalous Behavior Without Human Help Netography has added more detection features and data science capabilities to help large enterprises better understand what's on their networks, according to CEO Martin Roesch. The Annapolis, Maryland-based company over the past 12 months has quintupled the amount of data ingested into its system.

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Jamf After Dark: An update on Jamf in Healthcare

Jamf

Our Jamf After Dark co-hosts Kat Garbis and Sean Rabbitt welcome the Jamf Healthcare team to the podcast to discuss Jamf’s growth in the space, the need for innovative solutions, emerging security efforts, and what to expect at HIMSS 2023.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Microsoft Gets Court Order to Sinkhole Cobalt Strike Traffic

Data Breach Today

Order Affects Malicious Domains, Server IP Addresses Hosted by US Data Centers Cobalt maker Fortra, Microsoft and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center obtained a U.S. federal court order redirecting into sinkhole servers the internet traffic from Cobalt Strike-infected computers sent to command-and-control centers controlled by bad actors.

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Asia-Pacific NGOs Lack Basic Cyber Controls, Finds Survey

Data Breach Today

Survey Shows APAC NGOs Spend Just 3.4% of Operational Expenditures on IT Rising worries about the digital security of nongovernmental organizations in the Asia-Pacific region haven't translated into robust adoption of basic measures, shows data from a survey of more than 1,500 regional NGOs. NGOs attract hackers for motives including espionage, opposition and data theft.

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Cybercriminals 'CAN' Steal Your Car, Using Novel IoT Hack

Dark Reading

Your family's SUV could be gone in the night thanks to a headlight crack and hack attack.

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ISMG Editors: Identity Security Special

Data Breach Today

Tackling MFA Fatigue Attacks; GSA Missteps; Next Steps for Digital Identity Bill In the latest weekly update, Venable's Jeremy Grant joins ISMG editors to discuss how to defend against the increasing use of MFA fatigue attacks, takeaways from a recent U.S. probe into compliance issues related to Login.gov services and the latest updates on the Improving Digital Identity Act.

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MSI confirms security breach after Money Message ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International) confirms security breach after Money Message ransomware gang claimed the hack. This week the ransomware gang Money Message announced to have hacked the Taiwanese multinational IT corporation MSI (Micro-Star International). Micro-Star International AKA MSI designs, manufactures, and sells motherboards and graphics cards for customers in the United States, Canada, and internationally.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Bad Actors Will Use Large Language Models — but Defenders Can, Too

Dark Reading

Security teams need to find the best, most effective uses of large language models for defensive purposes.

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Apple addressed two actively exploited zero-day flaws

Security Affairs

Apple released emergency security updates to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities impacting iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Apple has released emergency security updates to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-28205 and CVE-2023-28206, impacting iPhones, Macs, and iPads. Impacted devices include: iPhone 8 and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 5th generation and later, and

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Almost Half of Former Employees Say Their Passwords Still Work

Dark Reading

It's not hacking if organizations fail to terminate password access after employees leave.

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Microsoft aims at stopping cybercriminals from using cracked copies of Cobalt Strike

Security Affairs

Microsoft announced it has taken legal action to disrupt the illegal use of copies of the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike by cybercriminals. Cobalt Strike is a paid penetration testing product that allows an attacker to deploy an agent named ‘Beacon’ on the victim machine. The Beacon includes a wealth of functionality for the attacker, including, but not limited to command execution, key logging, file transfer, SOCKS proxying, privilege escalation, mimikatz, port scanning and lateral movem

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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UK’s OfCom to Publish Guidance on Illegal Content Risk Assessments in Light of Online Safety Bill

Data Matters

The UK’s Online Safety Bill (“ Bill ”), once legislated, will impose duties of care on providers of digital services, social media platforms and other online services to make them responsible for content generated and shared by their users and to mitigate the risk of harm arising from illegal content, and if services are deemed accessible by children, a duty to protect children from harm.

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Printers Pose Persistent Yet Overlooked Threat

Dark Reading

Vulnerabilities in the device firmware and drivers underscore how printers cannot be set-and-forget technology and need to be managed.

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Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from March 2023

KnowBe4

Check out the 49 new pieces of training content added in March, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

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Close the Permissions Gap With Identity And Access Management For Multicloud Workforces

Dark Reading

Consolidating identity management on one platform gives organizations real-time access management for all identities on hybrid and multicloud installations. (First of a two-part series.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Data Privacy: What businesses need to know now! via Debbie Reynolds on LinkedIn

IG Guru

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Microsoft, Fortra & Health-ISAC Team Up to Remove Illicit Cobalt Strike Tools

Dark Reading

The effort aims to disrupt the use of altered Cobalt Strike software by cybercriminals in ransomware and other attacks.

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New Opinion by Washington Court of Appeals Identifies Limits on When Sanctions for Spoliation May Be Applied Under Washington Case Law

eDiscovery Law

Courts throughout the United States have different perspectives on the actions that constitute spoliation of evidence and the situations in which these actions should be sanctioned. Furthermore, as courts examine and re-examine these concepts over time, their perspectives shift.

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If We Pay for GPTs like We Pay for Internet Service, What Will We Really Get?

John Battelle's Searchblog

“A swarm of genies in the sky, digital art” via DALL-E Would you pay $200 a month for generative AI services? It may sound crazy, but I think it’s entirely possible, particularly if the tech and media industries don’t repeat the mistakes of the past. Think back to the last time you decided to fork over a substantial monthly fee for a new technology or media service.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.

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New Opinion by Washington Court of Appeals Identifies Limits on When Sanctions for Spoliation May Be Applied Under Washington Case Law

eDiscovery Law

Courts throughout the United States have different perspectives on the actions that constitute spoliation of evidence and the situations in which these actions should be sanctioned. Furthermore, as courts examine and re-examine these concepts over time, their perspectives shift.

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Forescout Platform: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

As a pioneer in the network access control (NAC) market, Forescout understands that their customers will need to detect and control a wide variety of endpoints and applications. Forescout’s Platform not only enables robust NAC capabilities, but also offers options for enhanced security, including eXtended Detection and Response (XDR). Most importantly, Forescout’s agnostic Platform works with both a wide variety of networking vendors, device vendors, and security tools.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Food Poisoning

Schneier on Security

University of Connecticut basketball player Jordan Hawkins claims to have suffered food poisoning from calamari the night before his NCAA finals game. The restaurant disagrees : On Sunday, a Mastro’s employee politely cast doubt on the idea that the restaurant might have caused the illness, citing its intense safety protocols. The staffer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to officially speak for Mastro’s, said restaurants in general were more likely t

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What Is a DMZ Network? Definition, Architecture & Benefits

eSecurity Planet

A DMZ network, or a demilitarized zone, is a subnetwork in an enterprise networking environment that contains public-facing resources — such as web servers for company websites — in order to isolate them from an enterprise’s private local area network (LAN). Also referred to as a perimeter network or screened subnet, a DMZ network acts as an additional layer of network security, isolating itself and its contents from the parts of the enterprise network where more sensitive and private resources

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud for federal agencies

Collibra

Technical debt has been front and center in the minds of Americans lately. Enterprises are forced to try to meet modern day demands with outdated systems. This was evident during the initial response to Covid-19, when antiquated government IT systems were forced to deliver new services to their constituents. While the systems may have been older, the data contained in the system still held value.

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