The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity hit record highs in 2021, and isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. Related: Stolen data used to target mobile services. Many attribute this steady growth to the increase in work-from-home models and adoption of cloud services since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 27, 2022

“The cure to information overload is more information.” Enrich your information and content with metadata from an OpenText taxonomy. What is taxonomy? A taxonomy is a set of concepts organized into a hierarchical structure covering a topical domain. You could think of it as a structured vocabulary. For example, in biology, a commonly used taxonomy … The post The wielding force of a taxonomy appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 27, 2022

It seems there will be a packed agenda for EU and UK data protection this coming year. We set out below the 5 hot topics to watch in 2022 including expected legislative reforms, the most interesting cases to follow, and areas which are expected to continue to receive regulatory attention. Increased Enforcement Action: Last year marked a year of record breaking GDPR fines – including the largest fine to date of €746 million ($888 million).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Puerto Rico’s Senate announced that is was it by a cyberattack that shut down its internet provider, phone system and official online page. The Senate of Puerto Rico announced this week that it was hit by a major cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page. Local and federal authorities are investigating the attack.

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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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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 27, 2022

The government has announced that it is launching the International Data Transfer Expert Council ( ‘the Council ‘). The Council, which is part of the UK’s National Data Strategy , will meet quarterly to cover issues such as future data adequacy partnerships, the development of new data transfer tools, and how governments can work together to promote greater trust in sharing personal data for law enforcement and national security purposes.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

A few hours ago Lockbit ransomware operators announced to have stolen data from Ministry of Justice of France. The Ministry of Justice of France is a body of the French government, which is responsible for: supervision of the judiciary, its maintenance and administration; participation as Vice President of the Judicial Council; supervision of the prosecutor’s office; prison systems.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 27, 2022

Attackers increasingly are spoofing the courier DHL and using socially engineered messages related to packages to trick users into downloading Trickbot and other malicious payloads.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Experts spotted a sophisticated malware campaign delivering the AsyncRAT trojan since September 2021. Researchers from Morphisec spotted a sophisticated phishing campaign delivering the AsyncRAT trojan since September 2021. The phishing messages use an html attachment disguised in the form of an order confirmation receipt (e.g., Receipt-<digits>.html).

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 27, 2022

Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Personal data belonging to millions of customers of large businesses have been exposed due to a flaw in Onfido IDV. Millions of customers of large businesses have been left vulnerable to identity theft, thanks to a security flaw that exposes their personal data to illicit download. Among those affected are clients of Europcar, a vehicle rental service, and FxPro, a trading platform.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 27, 2022

E-mail purportedly from human resources convinced more than one-fifth of recipients to click, the majority of whom did so within an hour of receiving the fraudulent message.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

LockBit expands its operations by implementing a Linux version of LockBit ransomware that targets VMware ESXi servers. LockBit is the latest ransomware operation to add the support for Linux systems, experts spotted a new version that targets VMware ESXi virtual machines. The move aims at expanding the audience of potential targets, including all the organizations that are migrating to virtualization environments.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 27, 2022

Check out the article here. The post Millions of (Dallas) police records are accidentally deleted — what are the lessons? via SecurityBrief.com appeared first on IG GURU.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2022

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group uses Windows Update client to deliver malware on Windows systems. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT started using Windows Update to execute the malicious payload and GitHub as a command and control server in recent attacks, Malwarebytes researchers reported. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 27, 2022

Barracuda enhances SKOUT Managed XDR offering via new integration with Barracuda Email Protection and alliance with SentinelOne for endpoint protection.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 27, 2022

SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) named a must have solution by Gartner. Adaptive Shields SSPM solution allows security teams full visibility and control.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 27, 2022

Historically we've held network conversations to address security problems, but that doesn't work in a cloud-based world.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Vultur trojan steals bank credentials but asks for permissions to do far more damage down the line.

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Synergis Software

JANUARY 27, 2022

This month’s employee spotlight is shining on Darin Green. Darin joined Synergis on February 18, 2008 as our first dedicated helpdesk technician for Architectural, Engineering and Civil (AEC) Design applications. In this role Darin helped hundreds of customers maintain the stability of their Autodesk design applications. It wasn’t long before Darin noticed customers needed more than just software level support, so he continued developing his knowledge and acquired an associate degree in Computer

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CGI

JANUARY 27, 2022

Every year on January 28, the international community celebrates Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as “Data Protection Day”). The objective of this day is to raise awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and promoting data protection best practices. As CGI’s Chief Privacy Officer, I feel that this international effort is a great opportunity to recognize the work we must do every day to maintain the highest data protection standards throughout our operations.

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Rippleshot

JANUARY 27, 2022

Originally Posted Oct 4, 2021 by Polly Jean Harrison on The Fintech Times. n.exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange specialising in fiat on- and off-ramp to make crypto investment user-friendly, unveils its crypto purchase credit card fraud attempt figures for 2019-2021. Its campaign to combat credit card fraud in cryptocurrency highlights a significant rise in fraudulent purchase attempts by cybercriminals using stolen card details, most of which was perpetrated from countries in the Western hemis

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 27, 2022

Take part in an IFSEC Global survey to better understand the state of access control in 2022.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 27, 2022

The malware had already put millions of routers and IoT devices at risk, and now any noob can have at it.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 27, 2022

After companies accelerated their adoption of cloud infrastructure, remote workers are now insiders and pose significant risks, and costs, to companies.

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Hanzo Learning Center

JANUARY 27, 2022

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth?

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Rippleshot

JANUARY 27, 2022

Originally Posted Jan 24, 2022 on PYMNTS.com.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 27, 2022

Also names Brad Brooks as new CEO.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2022

As threats mount from ransomware gangs , Russian-backed hacker groups , and other nation-sponsored attackers and as the growth in remote work makes security management increasingly complicated, many companies are finding it makes sense to turn to a managed security service provider (MSSP) for help with handling an extremely complex threat landscape.

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