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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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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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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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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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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TikTok, Other Mobile Apps Violate Privacy Regulations

Dark Reading

App developers are ignoring laws and guidelines regulating data protection measures aimed at minors, putting their monetization plans in jeopardy and risking user trust.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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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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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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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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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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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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