The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s digital age, trust has become a cornerstone of building a better Internet. Preserving privacy for a greater good The Internet was designed as a platform for peer research, not for the vast scale and diverse uses we see today. Over the decades, it’s grown in a way that has left it with many inherent vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, not borne out of malice, were the result of choices made with limited information available at the time.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

China Cites Apple Security Flaws in Warning to Foreign Mobile Device Manufacturers China hasn't ordered any restrictions on the use of Apple iPhones by government agencies, according to a Chinese government spokesperson, but the official cited recent security flaws in the iPhone and warned that foreign mobile device manufacturers must abide by domestic information security laws.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ransomware group is a collection of young adults who also recently breached Caesars Entertainment and made a ransom score in the tens of millions.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Half of $30 Million Demand Paid to Same Group That Hit MGM Resorts, Reports Say Hotel and casino giant Caesars Entertainment paid approximately half of an initial $30 million ransom demand to attackers who infected its systems with ransomware, according to news reports. The attackers appear to be with the same group that hit MGM Resorts.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers discovered a free download manager site that has been compromised to serve Linux malware to users for more than three years. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a free download manager site that has been compromised to serve Linux malware. While investigating a set of suspicious domains, the experts identified that the domain in question has a deb.fdmpkg[.]org subdomain.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Researchers discovered three security flaws in Kubernetes that can lead to remote code execution on Windows endpoints. Akamai researchers recently discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes tracked as CVE-2023-3676 (CVSS 8.8). This identification of this issue led to the discovery of two more vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2023-3893, and CVE-2023-3955 (CVSS 8.8).

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Inquiry is Latest Move by a Lawmaker Hinting of New Data Protection Legislation The drumbeat for potential federal legislation to better protect sensitive health information – or at least new regulations - appears to be growing louder in Congress. One of the Senate's four lawmaker doctors is quizzing the healthcare industry on ways to safeguard health data.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Four days later, $52 million in lost revenues and counting, a cyber attack on MGM Resorts International, a $14 billion Las Vegas gaming empire with Hollywood-famous hotel spreads like the Bellagio, Cosmopolitan, E xcalibur, Luxor, and the MGM Grand itself, had the house brought down by a perfect example of vishing …a 10-minute phone call.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Also: 9-Year Prison Sentence for Insider Trading Fueled by Password Theft This week, exiled Russian journalist Galina Timchenko's iPhone was found to contain NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, a Russian businessman was sentenced for insider trading, more than 300,000 people were affected by an attack on See Tickets and period-tracking apps raised privacy concerns in the U.K.

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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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some of its employees after an unnamed third-party supplier was hit with a ransomware attack. The GMP reported that the impacted company provides its services to various UK organizations, including Greater Manchester Police.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

White House, DOD, DHS Leaders Reveal How their Agencies Use Artificial Intelligence AI allows U.S. agencies to address hard problems like quickly writing secure code but comes with risks around nation-states generating attacks more efficiently. "The cybersecurity element is a great example of the bright and the dark side of AI technology," said White House Director Arati Prabhakar.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Google removed fake Signal and Telegram apps from its Play store. An app with the name Signal Plus Messenger was available on Play for nine months and had been downloaded from Play roughly 100 times before Google took it down last April after being tipped off by security firm ESET. It was also available in the Samsung app store and on signalplus[.]org, a dedicated website mimicking the official Signal.org.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Also: CoinEx Hack, OneCoin Founder's Sentencing, Another FTX Guilty Plea This week, Vitalik Buterin was the victim of a SIM swapping attack, North Korea likely orchestrated the $55 million CoinEx hack, OneCoin co-founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood was sentenced to 20 years in prison and former FTX executive Ryan Salame will reportedly plead guilty to criminal charges.

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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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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Active Directory is one of the most critically important IT assets and a frequent target of hackers, so securing it is a top priority for IT and security teams. And part of that job is checking to make sure that Active Directory hasn’t been compromised. Between Active Directory for Windows and Azure, Microsoft dominates the market for identity and access management (IAM) tools with a greater than 50% market share, including about 95% of the Fortune 1000, so there are few targets for hacker

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

LockBit ransomware group breached two hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York. The Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked two major hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center. The two hospitals serve hundreds of thousands of people in upstate New York. The cyberattack took place at the end of August and had a severe impact on the two hospitals in the last couple of weeks.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As the aftermath unfolds, the details around the recent attack on MGM Resorts, providing crucial insight into the attacks impact, who’s responsible, and how it started.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Collaboration apps are a boost to business productivity, but also a uniquely attractive target for cyberattackers.

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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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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I’ve been working within the legal industry in one role or another since the early 1990s. When I first started, legal departments collected only paper for legal discovery purposes. While there obviously were underlying electronic files and email represented in all that paper, it wasn’t generally exported to digital format for review back then. Obviously, … The post Evolution of the in-house legal department: Today’s greater challenges appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Russian-speaking ransomware gang continues to update its tactics while managing to steal highly sensitive information from its victims.

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Cybercriminals can't ascertain your phone password just from a Wi-Fi signal, but they can come close according to a method described in a recent research paper. Researchers have demonstrated a method that uses Wi-Fi signals to infer numerical passwords, and the mechanics behind it are nothing short of intriguing.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sports teams, major leagues, global sporting associations, and entertainment venues are all home to valuable personal and business data. Here's how to keep them safe.

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The iPhone of a prominent Russian journalist, who is at odds with Moscow, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The iPhone of the Russian journalist Galina Timchenko was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. A joint investigation conducted by Access Now and the Citizen Lab revealed that the journalist, who is at odds with the Russian government, was infected with the surveillance software.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In a notable shift in strategy, the threat actors are abusing code-signing certificates to spread a double whammy of infostealers and ransomware payloads.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at swampUP 2023 in San Jose, California, on September 13, 2023 at 11:35 AM PT. The list is maintained on this page.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It takes a diverse village of experts to enact effective cybersecurity guidelines, practices, and processes.

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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.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thales & Prime Factors’ 30 Year Collaboration Continues to Deliver Simplicity, Flexibility, and Security for Payment Applications madhav Thu, 09/14/2023 - 10:25 Thales recently announced the launch of the payShield Cloud HSM service , making it easier and more flexible for payment HSMs to migrate to the cloud. Our team at Prime Factors had the opportunity to be among the first to successfully test the new HSM service with our Bank Card Security System (BCSS) to ensure flexibility and full functi

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The exploit is one of many that government and intelligence agencies have to infect target devices with the notorious surveillance tool.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

On August 31, 2023, NetChoice, a national trade association of large online businesses, filed supplemental briefing in its challenge to the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (“CA AADC”). The success or failure of NetChoice’s lawsuit will determine whether companies need to be CA AADC-compliant on July 1, 2024 when the law is anticipated to take effect.

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