Governments Should Decide Who Gets to Buy Spyware
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
And the world must face the fact that offensive cyber tools have evolved into weapons that are no different from tanks, drones, or missiles.
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
And the world must face the fact that offensive cyber tools have evolved into weapons that are no different from tanks, drones, or missiles.
Imperial Violet
MARCH 14, 2022
When taking something from cryptographic theory into practice, it's very important to pick parameters. I don't mean picking the right parameters — although that certainly helps. I mean picking parameters at all. That might seem obvious, but there are pressures pushing towards abdication: what if you get it wrong? Why not hedge bets and add another option?
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eSecurity Planet
MARCH 14, 2022
Cobalt Strike was created a decade ago by Raphael Mudge as a tool for security professionals. It’s a comprehensive platform that emulates very realistic attacks. Indeed, the tool can assess vulnerabilities and run penetration tests , while most tools on the market cannot do both. Vulnerability assessment and pentesting are two different things. The first consists of identifying vulnerabilities that could be used by hackers, not exploiting them.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 14, 2022
On March 11, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed an omnibus spending bill that includes language which would require certain critical infrastructure owners and operators to notify the federal government of cybersecurity incidents in specified circumstances. The bill previously was passed by the House of Representatives on March 9, 2022. President Biden is expected to sign the bill and has until March 15, 2022, to do so before the current spending authorization expires.
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.
Security Affairs
MARCH 14, 2022
Ukraine’s defense ministry began using Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead. Ukraine’s defense ministry announced it will use the AI’s facial recognition technology offered by Clearview. Clearview’s chief executive Hoan Ton-That confirmed the news to Reuters, the technology will allow the Ukrainian military to uncover Russian assailants, combat misinformation and identify the dead.
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Security Affairs
MARCH 14, 2022
Experts discovered a new wiper, tracked as CaddyWiper, that was employed in attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations. Experts at ESET Research Labs discovered a new data wiper, dubbed CaddyWiper, that was employed in attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations. The security firm has announced the discovery of the malware with a series of tweets: #BREAKING #ESETresearch warns about the discovery of a 3rd destructive wiper deployed in Ukraine.
Jamf
MARCH 14, 2022
Independent software review sites Capterra and GetApp recognize Jamf Protect, awarding it top marks in the endpoint protection category, recognizing the purpose-built macOS endpoint security solution as a top performer and industry leader for its threat prevention, device health monitoring and unified logging capabilities, among others.
Outpost24
MARCH 14, 2022
Weak password report reveals password reuse problem. 14.Mar.2022. Florian Barre. Mon, 03/14/2022 - 10:54. Specops, and Outpost24 company. Password security. Teaser. Bruteforce and stolen credentials are prime reasons for a data breach. New data recently released shows that setting strong passwords might not be enough in an increasingly volatile cybersecurity landscape.
Jamf
MARCH 14, 2022
It’s 2022, and your healthcare IT organization is managing a flood of mobile devices driven by new clinical and patient needs. While some regulatory exceptions were made to ease the use of mobile telehealth solutions in 2020, it’s important for each health system to assess its mobile security posture heading into 2022.
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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.
RFID Global Solution, Inc.
MARCH 14, 2022
The events of the last several years have served to highlight the fragility of the global supply chain and the importance of the manufacturing industry. As we continue to emerge into the post-pandemic era, the value manufacturers can achieve from optimizing their operations is more important than ever. To resolve supply chain shortages and delays, … Manufacturing in the Post-Pandemic World – the IoT way Read More ».
KnowBe4
MARCH 14, 2022
Email is the familiar form of phishing , but there’s an ongoing criminal campaign that follows a different, arguably subtler avenue of approach: the corporate contact form. Abnormal Security has found that the BazarBackdoor is being distributed through this social engineering technique that succeeds in bypassing email filters.
Security Affairs
MARCH 14, 2022
Anonymous claims to have hacked the systems of the German subsidiary of Russian energy giant Rosneft and stole 20TB of data. The Anonymous hacker collective claimed to have hacked the German branch of the Russian energy giant Rosneft. In hacktivists announced to have stolen 20 terabytes of data from the company. #Anonymous has attacked the energy company Rosneft.
IG Guru
MARCH 14, 2022
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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.
Security Affairs
MARCH 14, 2022
While the Russia-Ukraine cyber conflict goes on, nation-state actors, crooks, and hacktivists continue to pose critical infrastructure at risk. Critical infrastructure is a privileged target for almost any kind of threat actor, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine cyber conflict is posing them at risk. Ongoing attacks could cause severe damages to multiple sectors, including transportation, communication, financial services, government facilities, nuclear reactors, and critical manufacturing. “Recen
Rocket Software
MARCH 14, 2022
Analyst firm IDC recently published a Vendor Spotlight report featuring ASG Mobius Content Services (Mobius) and its applications in the financial service and insurance industries. Mobius is a modular, API-led platform that supports complete content lifecycle management in private, public or hybrid cloud as well as on-premises environments. Steve Charbonnier, research manager for IDC’s Enterprise Content Strategies program, shares data-backed insights in the report that explore the trends,
Security Affairs
MARCH 14, 2022
Brazilian trojan impacting Portuguese users and using the same capabilities seen in other Latin American threats. Introduction. A new variant of a Brazilian trojan has impacted Internet end users in Portugal since last month (February 2022). Although there are no significant differences and sophistication in contrast to other well-known trojans such as Maxtrilha , URSA , and Javali , an analysis of the artifacts and IOCs obtained from this campaign is presented below.
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
Ransomware-as-a-service gangs are difficult to shut down, but sophisticated, AI-driven defenses may finally be killing their profits.
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Threatpost
MARCH 14, 2022
The ransomware group’s benefits – bonuses, employee of the month, performance reviews & top-notch training – might be better than yours, says BreachQuest’s Marco Figueroa.
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
A new report shows an explosion of zero-day attacks and malware focused on mobile devices just as companies adopted widespread bring-your-own device policies.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 14, 2022
The transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets has released 800GB of data from Roskomnadzor, the Russian government censorship organization. Specifically, Distributed Denial of Secrets says the data comes from the Roskomnadzor of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The Republic of Bashkortostan is in the west of the country. […]. The data is split into two main categories: a series of over 360,000 files totalling in at 526.9GB and which date up to as recently as March 5, and then t
Threatpost
MARCH 14, 2022
They’re choosing sides in the Russia-Ukraine war, beckoning previously shunned ransomware groups and thereby reinvigorating those groups' once-diminished power.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
Detector helps prevent, detect, and respond to advanced threats with automation, machine learning, and threat intelligence.
ForAllSecure
MARCH 14, 2022
Can you hack an airplane? A satellite in orbit? Turns out that you can. And the fact that hackers are thinking about this now is a very good thing. Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. That’s why the Aerospace Village at DEF CON exists, to expose various groups of people to each other, and to collectively start to work on solving these problems before they
Gimmal
MARCH 14, 2022
Today, Gimmal is announcing an updated version of the Documentum Connector for Gimmal Record, as well as the 5.1 Server release, is now available on our customer download site. Server releases are rollups of the cloud releases along with any updates necessary for the installation of Gimmal Records on client servers or virtual machines. . The updated Documentum Connector will work with both Cloud (SaaS) and Server versions of Gimmal Records and will now allow the selection of which Documentum obj
erwin
MARCH 14, 2022
Technology user groups are a great way to grow your professional network, expand your knowledge and further your career. And in a far-reaching area like data empowerment, erwin® by Quest® wants to help customers like you be able to use our solutions efficiently and strategically. Ultimately, we want to make sure you can reach your digital transformation goals through data.
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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.
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
Participants across the globe worked together to respond to a simulated significant cyber incident impacting critical infrastructure.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 14, 2022
Studies show that the average person generates about 100 megabytes of data per minute. While most people leverage technology for work and personal activities, it can also be a tool for criminal offenses. On February 28, 2022, the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science held a virtual symposium on e-crime. The symposium covered topics such as cell phone forensics, email investigations, and deep fakes.
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2022
A starting point for secure UI and UX? Remember that security measures should frustrate attackers, not users.
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