Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2019
Callers Can Hear and See Recipients Before They Pick Up Apple is preparing a fix for a serious flaw in its FaceTime software for making audio and video calls. The software can be abused to remotely eavesdrop on and view a recipient, without their knowledge, even if they don't answer the call.
IT Governance
JANUARY 29, 2019
Singapore’s IHiS (Integrated Health Information Systems) has sacked two managers and fined five senior staff , including CEO Bruce Liang, for their part in last year’s SingHealth data breach. The incident affected 1.5 million people – just under a third of the country’s population – with criminal hackers accessing patients’ names, dates of birth, NRIC (National Registration Identity Card) numbers, and details of their gender and race.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2019
Nation to Allow Researchers to Brute-Force 200 Million Devices Japan plans to identity vulnerable internet of things devices the same way hackers do: by trying to log into them. The country wants to gauge its cybersecurity readiness for next year when it hosts the summer Olympics. If vulnerable devices are found, the plan is to notify device owners.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 29, 2019
Around this time each year, Thales eSecurity releases our annual Data Threat Report (DTR). Now in its sixth year, the report is squarely focused on digital transformation and what that means for organizations and their data security. Today, it’s almost impossible to do business of any kind without some sensitive data being exchanged, managed or stored in the cloud or on servers with an outgoing connection to the web.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2019
Singapore Authorities Allege Incident Involved an Insider Information about more than 14,000 HIV patients included in a Singapore health registry was exposed online in what appears to be an inside job. The incident illustrates the importance of safeguarding sensitive health data, such as by implementing behavioral analytics.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2019
For decades, IT professionals have been fighting malware, hackers, and other threats. Data protection, confidentiality, integrity and availability have long been threatened not only by amateur hackers, but by profit-oriented, well-organised criminals. Victims can usually only react because many of the usual methods for detecting malware require knowledge about specific attack techniques, about the behavior or about signatures of specific malware families.
CGI
JANUARY 29, 2019
Protecting the bank: Key challenges and opportunities. pooja.cs@cgi.com. Tue, 01/29/2019 - 22:25. Protecting the bank involves more than keeping money safe and preventing financial crime; it touches upon all parts of the bank and the banking industry. Protection today involves securing the entire banking ecosystem and the massive amounts of customer data that banks have.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2019
Around the world, many CIOs at various levels of governments expect an increase in cybersecurity spending in 2019, according to new research from Gartner. Alia Mendonsa, co-author of the report, analyzes the results of a global survey.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 29, 2019
In the last weeks, the Cybaze -Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign leveraging the Zepakab Downloader. In the last weeks, the Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign discovered in January 2019. The sample has been initially identified by an Italian independent security researcher, who warned the InfoSec community and shared the binary for further analysis.
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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.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 29, 2019
This is kind of a crazy iPhone vulnerability : it's possible to call someone on FaceTime and listen on their microphone -- and see from their camera -- before they accept the call. This is definitely an embarrassment , and Apple was right to disable Group FaceTime until it's fixed. But it's hard to imagine how an adversary can operationalize this in any useful way.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 29, 2019
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly being adopted as the foundation for new projects within the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector. More governments are mandating its use for public contracts and private clients are beginning to follow suite. Yet, the real power of BIM lies in the end-to-end lifecycle management of a building.
Jamf
JANUARY 29, 2019
Along with a powerful mobile device management (MDM) solution, Acadian said using iPad devices in their ambulances and helicopters propelled them into the realm of how healthcare should look in the 21st century. Read their story.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 29, 2019
Google wants to get rid of URLs. But first, it needs to show you why.
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IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 29, 2019
In the study, the definition of fast data starts with the technical characteristics mentioned in our last article, but there’s more to that definition.
Data Matters
JANUARY 29, 2019
On January 17, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) released its annual Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter (Letter), which identifies topics that FINRA will focus on in 2019. Unlike in previous years, this Letter primarily discusses new topics and priorities in areas of ongoing concern while not repeating topics that have been at the center of FINRA’s attention over the years.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 29, 2019
The US Justice Department charges the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in technology theft and violation of sanctions. The US Justice Department charges the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in two cases, including the one that led the arrest of a top executive in Canada on a US warrant. According to the US DoJ, the charges are the response to persistent action conducted by the Chinese company to exploit American organizations.
Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2019
The bug allows iPhone users to FaceTime other iOS users and eavesdrop on their conversations - even when the other end of the line doesn't pick up.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 29, 2019
A major vulnerability in the Apple FaceTime lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up the call. iPhone, iPad, or Mac users might disable FaceTime to avoid being spied through their devices. Experts warn that it is possible to call someone via FaceTime and listen via the microphone of their devices before they accept or reject the call. “There’s a major bug in FaceTime right now that lets you connect to someone and hear their audio without the person
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2019
Today's releases include more advanced EDR tools, a new managed EDR service, and protection and hardening for Symantec's endpoint portfolio.
Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2019
Japan will carry out a “survey” of 200 million deployed IoT devices, with white-hats trying to log into internet-discoverable devices using default credentials.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2019
Where security really matters, the enterprise is only as secure as the endpoints it allows to access its sensitive core systems.
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IT Governance
JANUARY 29, 2019
A glitch in Apple’s FaceTime app allows callers to hear and see you even if you haven’t answered the phone. 9to5Mac confirmed the reports, which had been circulating on social media. This is how it is exploited: Start a FaceTime video call with an iPhone contact. While the call is dialling, swipe up from the bottom of the screen and tap Add Person. Add your own phone number in the Add Person screen.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2019
A new survey shows more Americans are more concerned about their computer's security than the US border's.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 29, 2019
Group FaceTime chats let people eavesdrop on whoever they called, a bug so bad that Apple pulled the plug until it comes up with a fix.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2019
Anyone with access to an Exchange mailbox can take control of domain, security researcher says.
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Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2019
Part two of RSA’s Conference Advisory Board look into the future tackles how approaches to cybersecurity must evolve to meet new emerging challenges.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2019
Apple has shut off Group FaceTime while it prepares a fix for a newly found security flaw found by a 14-year-old gamer.
Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2019
Meanwhile, authorities are aggressively going after former users of the Webstresser DDoS-for-hire service.
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