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What are the ITIL 4 Management Practices?

IT Governance

ITIL ® 4 contains 34 management practices to help organisations provide effective service delivery across the value chain. While previous versions of ITIL focused on IT services, ITIL 4 expands its management practices to also include culture, technology and data management. This reflects an overall change in ITIL 4, away from process-dominant thinking and towards a diverse and dynamic way of operating.

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Password Management: The First Line of Defense

Data Breach Today

Vikas Malhotra of LastPass on Ways to Transition From Password to Passwordless Vikas Malhotra, country manager, LastPass, discusses establishing a password management program as the first line of defense in establishing user identity, followed by 2FA and MFA as the second step in the protection process.

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"Pwned", the Book, is Finally Here!

Troy Hunt

The first time I ever wrote publicly about a company's security vulnerabilities, my boss came to have a word with me after seeing my name in the news headlines. One of the worst days I've ever had was right in the middle of the Have I Been Pwned sale process, and it left me an absolute emotional wreck. When I wrote about how I deal with online abuse, it was off the back of some pretty nasty stuff. which I've now included in this book 😊 These are the stories behind the stor

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Bitwarden Raises $100M to Go Passwordless, Defend Developers

Data Breach Today

PSG Funding Will Enable Bitwarden to Get into Passwordless and Developer Secrets Bitwarden has raised $100 million to expand into new product areas including developer secrets, passwordless and privileged access management. The investment will help the firm debut new features for individual and business users and expand its footprint in Japan, Germany, France and South America.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Cisco will not fix the authentication bypass flaw in EoL routers

Security Affairs

Cisco fixed new security flaws affecting its products, including a recently disclosed high-severity issue in NVIDIA Data Plane Development Kit. The most severe issues fixed by Cisco are an unauthenticated Access to Messaging Services Vulnerability affecting Cisco SD-WAN vManage software and a vulnerability in NVIDIA Data Plane Development Kit. The two issues have been tracked as CVE-2022-20696 (CVSS score: 7.5) and CVE-2022-28199 (CVSS score: 8.6) respectively.

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New Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

KnowBe4

Researchers at Resecurity have discovered a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called “EvilProxy” that’s being offered on the dark web. EvilProxy is designed to target accounts on a variety of platforms, including Apple, Facebook, GoDaddy, GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Instagram, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, Yandex.

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Urology Center Breach Lawsuit Settlement Returning to Court

Data Breach Today

Entity Agreed to Compensate Nearly 138,000 Affected in 2021 Leak A Colorado-based urology practice agreed to compensate nearly 138,000 individuals affected by a September 2021 hacking incident under the terms of a potential multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit settlement. The settlement is headed for final court approval next month.

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CHINA: connected vehicle and automobile industry – new licences now required to enable/continue (i) surveying and mapping activities, (ii) overseas transfer of mapping data

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Following the first automobile industry-specific data and cyber compliance rules, published late last year (see our alert here ), regulators have issued guidelines on the licensing of surveying and mapping activities and use of mapping data within connected vehicles, through the new Regulations on Promoting the Development of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles and Maintaining the Security of Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information (the “ Regulations ”).

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Albania Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Iran After Cyberattack

Data Breach Today

US Accuses Iran of Violating Cyber Norms, Vows Further Action Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran following a July cyberattack that disrupted the country's online governmental services portal. Prime Minister Edi Rama today said he gave Iranian diplomats 24 hours to depart the country after establishing Iranian responsibility for the cyberattack.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets energy providers around the world

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group is targeting energy providers around the world, including organizations in the US, Canada, and Japan. Talos researchers tracked a campaign, orchestrated by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group, aimed at energy providers around the world, including organizations in the US, Canada, and Japan. The campaign was observed between February and July 2022.

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Identifying the 'Unknowns' With Purpose-Built Censors

Data Breach Today

Debashish Jyotiprakash of Qualys on Ways to Navigate Complex Attack Surface Today's big challenge for practitioners is identifying the "known and unknown" attack surface faster than the hackers. There is a need to build purpose-built sensors and asset management strategies to discover unknown attacks, says Debashish Jyotiprakash, vice president - Asia at Qualys.

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Facebook Has No Idea What Data It Has

Schneier on Security

This is from a court deposition : Facebook’s stonewalling has been revealing on its own, providing variations on the same theme: It has amassed so much data on so many billions of people and organized it so confusingly that full transparency is impossible on a technical level. In the March 2022 hearing, Zarashaw and Steven Elia, a software engineering manager, described Facebook as a data-processing apparatus so complex that it defies understanding from within.

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Coinbase Bankrolls Lawsuit Fighting Tornado Cash Sanctions

Data Breach Today

Cryptocurrency Trading Platform Says Treasury Department Exceeded Its Authority The world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform is bankrolling a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions against Tornado Cash. The cryptocurrency mixer is a favored tool of North Korean crypto thieves, who use it to launder stolen funds.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Five Healthcare Litigation Trends For 2022: An Upcoming Discussion with Jon Braunstein, Partner at Dentons

Hanzo Learning Center

Healthcare is a highly innovative, lucrative, and regulated industry, which also makes it a highly litigious industry. From a legal perspective, it makes sense for practitioners to pay close attention to trends happening in health care, because so many facets of the law – litigation, compliance, data privacy – intersect there.

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An Identity-Centric Approach to Security

Data Breach Today

Vivin Sathyan of ManageEngine on How IAM Will Establish Right User Behavior An identity-centric approach to security will establish legitimate user behavior against suspicious user behavior using SIEM solution, coupled with machine learning algorithms, says Vivin Sathyan, senior technical evangelist at ManageEngine.

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5 Keys to Better Key Management

Dark Reading

From analyzing your company's risk profile to knowing where keys are stored and who can access them, prioritize key clean-up and management. Make compliance an outcome and develop a risk management strategy.

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Former Members of Conti Are Targeting Ukraine, Google Says

Data Breach Today

Initial Access Broker Also Tied to Hits on European Humanitarian Organizations Whether for profit or in furtherance of Russian geopolitical interests - or both - former members of the Conti ransomware group have been targeting networks operated by the Ukrainian government and businesses, as well as European nonprofit organizations, Google's Threat Analysis Group reports.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Ex-members of the Conti ransomware gang target Ukraine

Security Affairs

Some members of the Conti ransomware gang were involved in financially motivated attacks targeting Ukraine from April to August 2022. Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that some former members of the Conti cybercrime group were involved in five different campaigns targeting Ukraine between April and August 2022. The activities overlap with operations attributed to a group tracked by CERT-UA as UAC-0098 [ 1 , 2 , 3 ].

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[New Training] Give Your Employees the Know-How to Have the Tough Conversations with New Compliance Plus Training

KnowBe4

We’re thrilled to announce a brand new microlearning, TV-like production quality series of compliance content now available in the Compliance Plus library.

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Vulnerability Exploits, Not Phishing, Are the Top Cyberattack Vector for Initial Compromise

Dark Reading

A slew of Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities (including ProxyLogon) fueled a surge in attacks targeting software flaws in 2021, but the trend has continued this year.

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This Clever Anti-Censorship Tool Lets Russians Read Blocked News

WIRED Threat Level

Samizdat Online syndicates banned news sites by hosting them on uncensored domains—allowing people to access independent reporting.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Former Conti Ransomware Members Join Initial Access Broker Group Targeting Ukraine

Dark Reading

The initial access broker (IAB) for ransomware gangs known as UAC-0098 has targeted Ukrainian organizations in five separate phishing campaigns spanning April to August.

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What is Mayhem for API?

ForAllSecure

Mayhem for API automates testing REST APIs by bringing the full might of fuzzing methodology to API testing. With the guidance of an API specification , Mayhem for API provides accurate and informative test coverage tailored to any REST API. How does it work? Mayhem for API uses a fuzzing engine to automatically generate a comprehensive suite of inputs used to test function and robustness of an application’s API infrastructure.

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Darktrace Shares Plunge After Thoma Bravo Acquisition Falls Apart

Dark Reading

No agreement could be reached on terms of a firm offer, the provider of AI-based cybersecurity products says.

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A Summers Day in the Nation’s Capitol: Dawn Strikes the Capitol Dome (1936)

Unwritten Record

The end of summer will soon be upon us, but before that comes let’s take a look back at another sunny summer day in Washington, D.C. some 88 years ago. Title image from the film “Dawn Strikes the Capitol Dome” (Local Identifier: 69.48, NAID: 12362). This summer day was captured in a short film called Dawn Strikes the Capitol Dome. This film was produced by Sydney MacKean, the head of the Motion Picture Records Division of the Works Progress Administration [1] in 1935, but was not rel

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Meta to Appeal $400M GDPR Fine for Mishandling Teen Data in Instagram

Dark Reading

Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta was slapped with the fine for exposing the personal data of minors.

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Chinese Data Security, Data Protection, and Cybersecurity Law: A Recent Enforcement Action Resulting in Large Fines Highlight Risks

eDiscovery Law

Electronic discovery for US litigation and legal proceedings often implicates data outside the US. As data privacy and protection laws evolved around the globe, it’s critical to understand the limitations obstacles that may arise when collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing such data. China’s Data Security Law (“DSL”) and Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”), both enacted […].

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SaaS Alerts Secures $22M Investment from Insight Partners to Scale SaaS Security Monitoring and Response Platform

Dark Reading

Investment to fuel growth and market presence as demand grows for SaaS' next-generation security tools for managed service providers.