Data Matters

MARCH 22, 2022

On March 21, 2022, the White House issued a dramatic warning based on “evolving intelligence” about the potential for Russia to threaten America with cyber attacks in response to U.S.-imposed economic sanctions. In a separate statement , President Biden said that “the Russian Government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks.” He urged the private sector, especially those that operate critical infrastructure, to “ harden your cyber defenses immediately by implementing the best practice

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 22, 2022

Ransomware Group Leaks Stolen Data, Including Personal Information for Volunteers Yet another ransomware-wielding group of criminals has hit an organization in the health sector. This time, it's cybercrime group RansomEXX, which has been trumpeting an attack against the Scottish Association for Mental Health.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money laundering for Hydra , the largest Russian darknet market.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 22, 2022

Ransomware Groups Over-Hype Their Efforts to Drive More Victims to Pay, Expert Says Technology giant Microsoft and access management provider Okta are both investigating claims by the ransomware group Lapsus$ that it breached information pertaining to them or their customers. The crime group, which has a penchant for self-promotion, has also claimed hits on LG, Nvidia and Samsung.

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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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ARMA International

MARCH 22, 2022

For as long as there has been communication and work, there has been a means of documenting and tracking it. Sales receipts, pay stubs, tax documents, letters, memoranda, and beyond all have value at one time or another. Sometimes, those records need to be revisited or referenced later down the road in connection with, for example, taxes, audits, or other reviews.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 22, 2022

In the energy industry, up to 80% of employees' time is spent searching through unstructured information to get work done. The post Integration matters to the world around us appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 22, 2022

The integration of third-party components and software is an increasingly critical area of security risk that needs more attention from medical device manufacturers, says Anura Fernando, global head of medical device security at safety certification and consulting firm UL.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 22, 2022

The video uploaded to a hacked Ukrainian news website shows how far the technology has come, how it can be used in social engineering , as well as how the tech still needs to improve.

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Daymark

MARCH 22, 2022

Microsoft’s Azure Government has become a trusted cloud for US government agencies, contractors and the Defense Industrial Based (DIB), providing unified security to protect the nation's data, and solutions for secure remote collaboration. Microsoft’s Azure Government uses the same underlying technologies as Azure, which includes the core components of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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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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Jamf

MARCH 22, 2022

The much anticipated App Installers in the Jamf App Catalog is here with the release of Jamf Pro 10.37, along with Single Sign-On for Account-Driven User Enrollment, Azure AD Migration from LDAP Server, and more.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 22, 2022

New data shows phishing , social engineering , and impersonation dominate as cybercriminals are becoming more frequent and successful with their attacks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

The popular Anonymous hacktivist collective announced to have hacked Nestlè and leaked 10 GB of sensitive data because the food and beverage giant continued to operate in Russia. The popular Anonymous hacktivist collective recently declared war on all companies that decided to continue to operate in Russia by paying taxes to the Russian government. Press Release: We call on all companies that continue to operate in Russia by paying taxes to the budget of the Kremlin's criminal regime: Pull o

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KnowBe4

MARCH 22, 2022

[New White House Alert] Train Your Users Against Threat of Russian Cyberattacks. Email not displaying? | View Knowbe4 Blog. CyberheistNews Vol 12 #12 | Mar. 22nd., 2022. [New White House Alert] Train Your Users Against Threat of Russian Cyberattacks. With the recent cyber attacks between Russia and Ukraine and the current intelligence coming from the U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. Since January, DeadBolt ransomware operators are targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide , its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that allows them to encrypt the content of the infected systems.

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Threatpost

MARCH 22, 2022

"Evolving intelligence" shows Russia amping up for cyber-war in response to Ukraine-related sanctions, the White House said -- but researchers warn that many orgs are not prepared.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 22, 2022

Trust, but verify. While organizations wait for official alerts and notifications from Okta, security teams should also begin their own investigations to determine whether they have been exposed.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have hacked Microsoft ‘s internal Azure DevOps server and leaked the source code for some projects. Microsoft recently announced that is investigating claims that the Lapsus$ cybercrime gang breached their internal Azure DevOps source code repositories and stolen data. On Sunday, the Lapsus$ gang announced to have compromised Microsoft’s Azure DevOps server and shared a screenshot of alleged internal source code repositories.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 22, 2022

If every application, device, and bot need access and authentication at some point, the need for managing and controlling the confidential data that allows those functions gets staggeringly large.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have stolen sensitive data from the identity and access management giant Okta solutions. The gang announced the alleged hack through its Telegram channel and shared a series of screenshots as proof of the hack. Some of the images published by the threat actors appear to be related to the company’s customer data.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 22, 2022

Screenshots that ransomware gang Lapsus$ released this week suggest the threat actor also stole Microsoft source code.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 22, 2022

Lapsus$ leaking Microsoft source code would be bad enough. Breaching Okta could be much, much worse.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2022

Three critical RCE flaws affect hundreds of HP LaserJet Pro, Pagewide Pro, OfficeJet, Enterprise, Large Format, and DeskJet printer models. HP issued a security bulletin warning of a buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3942 (CVSS score 8.4), that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable devices. “Certain HP Print products and Digital Sending products may be vulnerable to potential remote code execution and buffer overflow with use of Link-Local Multicast Name Resolu

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Threatpost

MARCH 22, 2022

An unusual attack using an open-source Python package installer called Chocolatey, steganography and Scheduled Tasks is stealthily delivering spyware to companies.

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IG Guru

MARCH 22, 2022

Check out the videos here. The post MER Releases Video Messages on Attendee Safety for MER 2022 appeared first on IG GURU.

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Threatpost

MARCH 22, 2022

After years of promising a passwordless future – really, any day now! – FIDO is proposing tweaks to WebAuthn that could put us out of password misery. Experts aren’t so sure.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 22, 2022

Only solution to deliver integrated cloud-based SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA services directly to organizations of all sizes.

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Threatpost

MARCH 22, 2022

Lapsus$ shared screenshots of internal Okta systems and 40Gb of purportedly stolen Microsoft data on Bing, Bing Maps and Cortana.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 22, 2022

Report analyzes 30,000 threats in customer environments to uncover the trends, threats and techniques that comprised the 2021 threat landscape.

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