Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2018
Attack May Pivot On A Data Breach At 'Unknown Card Issuer' Agency Says The FBI warns that cybercriminals are planning a large-scale operation aimed at emptying ATMs, a type of attack that has caused swift and costly losses for financial institutions. The attack may utilize data from a breach of an unknown card issuer, the FBI says.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
The attack targets IKE’s handshake implementation used for IPsec-based VPN connections, opening the door for MiTM attacks or for bad actors to access data carried in VPN sessions.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2018
Incident at Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs Spotlights Tough Choices When is it acceptable to allow healthcare workers to use their personal smartphones to access patient records? A recent incident at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs spotlights the dilemma.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
This is similar to taking a room key for a building and turning it into a skeleton key that works on every door in the building.
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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 14, 2018
Artificial intelligence and machine learning will have a significant impact on lowering the cost of securing an organization because it will reduce the need for advanced skillsets, predicts Rapid7's Richard Moseley.
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 14, 2018
In the spirit of Meltdown and Spectre, a new vulnerability called Foreshadow could expose Intel's secure enclave to attack.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
In a probable quest to build a botnet, someone is hacking Instagram accounts, deleting handles, avatars and personal details, and linking them to a new email address.
The Guardian Data Protection
AUGUST 14, 2018
The whistleblower will speak in October at the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner Chelsea Manning will discuss the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other issues around technology and democracy during her first appearance in the UK later this year. Manning was released from prison after being sentenced in 2013 in violation of the US Espionage Act for disclosing classified government documents to WikiLeaks.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
'Foreshadow" and other vulnerabilities in Intel processors can be exploited to steal sensitive information stored inside personal computers or personal clouds.
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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
AUGUST 14, 2018
Security expert demonstrated that reusing a key pair across different versions and modes of IPsec IKE open the doors to attacks. Many vendors are affected. Security researchers from the University of Opole in Poland and the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany have devised a new attack technique that allows cracking encrypted communications. The products of several vendors, including Cisco, Huawei, ZyXEL, and Clavister, are vulnerable to the attack.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 14, 2018
Google is tracking you, even if you turn off tracking : Google says that will prevent the company from remembering where you've been. Google's support page on the subject states: "You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored." That isn't true. Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically store time-stamped location data without asking.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 14, 2018
On August 3, 2018, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 220 (the “Bill”), which provides covered entities with an affirmative defense to tort claims, based on Ohio law or brought in an Ohio court, that allege or relate to the failure to implement reasonable information security controls which resulted in a data breach. According to the Bill, its purpose is “to be an incentive and to encourage businesses to achieve a higher level of cybersecurity through voluntary action.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 14, 2018
For Xavier Chaillot, VP of Global Enterprise Sales Operations, his career journey has involved a myriad of roles across multiple functions at OpenText™ over 20 years, as well as a relocation journey that spans close to 6,000 kilometers (or >3,700 miles!). Here’s Xavier’s OpenText story: Can you tell us about how you started out with … The post A 20-year OpenText journey appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
Respondents in a survey from Venafi said they believe voting machines, encrypted communications from polling stations and databases that store voter registration data are all vulnerable.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2018
While security is high overall for mPOS tools from companies like Square, PayPal, and iZettle, some devices have vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gather data and cash.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
Armis' CTO discusses the top IoT security issues in the marketplace today - and whether device manufacturers will start to prioritize security.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2018
Both adult and kid hackers demonstrated at DEF CON how the hackable voting machine may be the least of our worries in the 2018 elections.
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eDiscovery Daily
AUGUST 14, 2018
In Lawrence v. City of New York, et al., No. 15cv8947 (S.D.N.Y. July 27, 2018) , New York Senior District Judge William H. Pauley, III granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion for sanctions, ruling to dismiss the case against the defendants, but denying the motion for sanctions against the plaintiff’s counsel and denying the motion for reimbursement of attorney’s fees, stating “an award of attorney’s fees ‘would be a hollow victory … as it would likely be uncollectible.’”.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2018
The flaw lets an attacker use the same second factor to bypass multifactor authentication for any account on the same ADFS service.
The Security Ledger
AUGUST 14, 2018
In this week’s podcast (#108), sponsored by CA Veracode: hacker summer camp wrapped up on Sunday, as the 26th annual DEF CON conference concluded at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Hacks of connected and smart vehicles were a big theme again this year. We sat down with the organizers of DEF CON’s Car Hacking Village to see what was news at. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Can Self Driving Cars Be Secured?
Info Source
AUGUST 14, 2018
NEW HAVEN, CONN., August 14, 2018 – Square 9 Softworks, a leading provider of award-winning process automation solutions, has announced the latest release of its Enterprise Content Management software, GlobalSearch 4.5.2. Slated as a summer maintenance release, several new feature enhancements have been added to the software to excite both the reseller and user communities.
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OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 14, 2018
Microsoft’s’ annual Ignite conference takes place from September 24-28, 2018 at the Orlando Orange Convention Center. This annual gathering attracts over 26,000 IT professionals and decision makers and OpenText™ will once again be attending. Stop by the OpenText booth #1910 to learn about the newest products and solutions from OpenText product experts, and find out what’s … The post Are you ready to fire up your IT investments?
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
A recent report found that Google services - with functions like checking maps, the weather, and search - are tracking users even when they deny permission.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2018
Both adult and kid hackers demonstrated at DEF CON how the hackable voting machine may be the least of our worries in the 2018 elections.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
Microsoft rolled out 60 patches for its Patch Tuesday release, impacting 19 critical flaws and 39 important flaws.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2018
The kit is designed to prevent credential theft targeting people running for federal, state, and local elected offices.
Threatpost
AUGUST 14, 2018
The Threatpost team debriefs on the top news and topics from last week's Black Hat and DEF CON conferences.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 14, 2018
Let's imagine the consequences the company would have faced if current laws had been on the books earlier.
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