Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Poor Procedures for Discarding Old Equipment Led to Breach, Lawsuit Alleges A $5 million lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against Morgan Stanley, claiming the financial organization failed to properly safeguard personally identifiable information when the company discarded old computer equipment.
DXC Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Following this year’s extraordinary events, our retail bank partners have been asking to rapidly implement contactless solutions that minimize touch points for customers. Current circumstances aside, research indicates that contactless is just one part of the future retail banking landscape. In the long term, banks will grow their customer bases and portfolios by offering frictionless […].
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Healthcare Organizations Facing More Cyberthreats Two recent hacking incidents that each affected more than 100,000 individuals illustrate the variety of cyberthreats healthcare organizations face during these chaotic times. Security experts offer risk mitigation insights.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France won’t ban the Chinese giant Huawei from its upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government will not exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the building of the upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. However, Macron said that France will favor European providers of 5G technology due to security concerns.
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.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Facebook Takes Down Accounts Associated with Russia's 'Internet Research Agency' Troll Farm Facebook says the Russian troll group that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election is at it again, using sham accounts and a fake news site to spread disinformation in advance of the November election. Facebooks says it took down the accounts involved.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Remote Attacker Could Exhaust Device Memory, Causing a Denial of Service Warning: Hackers are actively attempting to exploit two zero-day flaws in the IOS XR Cisco operating system that runs its carrier-grade routers. Cisco has described ways to partially mitigate the vulnerabilities while it preps patches.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Russia’s Kommersant business newspaper reported that a database containing millions of American voters’ details has appeared on the Russian dark web. A database containing several million American voters’ personal information has appeared on the Russian dark web, Russia’s Kommersant business newspaper reported this week. The news is worrisome due to the upcoming presidential elections in the US and the fear of foreign interference.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Group-IB Finds Hacking Group Attacked Hundreds of Checkout Sites A cybercriminal gang dubbed "UltraRank" that has planted malicious JavaScript code in hundreds of e-commerce websites around the world over the last five years to steal payment card data also takes the unusual step of selling the data on its own, the security firm Group-IB reports.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
This blog is co-authored by Annie John and Todd Cernetic. “Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that’s in plain sight” said Stephenie Meyer, the author of the bestselling Twilight series. Not that long-ago, social media was the “new kid on the block,” something we used to share photos with distant family members, comment … The post Is social media being mined for insider threats?
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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.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
CEO, CISO Panel on Resiliency, Insider Risk, 5G and Prioritizing the Spend A hybrid workforce, heightened insider risk, 5G concerns over the expanded attack surface - these are the "more" that people reference when they talk about "doing more with less" in 2021. A CEO/CISO panel discusses how security leaders prioritize budget allocations for these concerns.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Mass domain purchasing enables email attackers to slip by traditional defenses. Here's how artificial intelligence can stop them.
Adam Levin
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Databases containing the personal information of millions of U.S. voters have appeared on Russian hacking forums. According to Russian news outlet Kommersant , a hacker called Gorka9 has posted the personal information of several million registered voters in Michigan, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, and South Carolina.The data includes names, birthdates, gender, mailing addresses, email addresses and polling station numbers.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
As the FBI warns, devices become more vulnerable to exploitation as time passes, due to a lack of security updates and new, emerging vulnerabilities.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Hackers breached Norway ‘s Parliament, Stortinget, and accessed to email for a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees. Norway’s parliament announced Tuesday that it was the target of a major cyber-attack that allowed hackers to access emails and data of a small number of parliamentary representatives and employees. “The parliament has recently been targetted in a vast cyber attack,” reads a statement from Norway’s parliament. “There have b
The Texas Record
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Of all the FAQs we get, this might be the most FAQiest of them all! Both local governments and state agencies want to know if they ‘go paperless’ — if they digitize their essential records — can they get rid of the original paper or film copies? Yes! Records management laws and rules applicable to state agencies and local governments do allow for records to be kept electronically in addition to, or instead of, physical copies.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Some underground forum users said they're monetizing the information through the State Department's anti-influence-campaign effort.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
As the first certifiable international privacy management standard, ISO 27701 is a welcome addition to the existing set of common security frameworks.
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WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
The companies will handle more of the technology for notifying people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. Privacy won't be affected, they say.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
On August 31, 2020, the California Senate joined the Assembly in passing SB-980 , as amended, a bill to establish the Genetic Information Privacy Act (the “Act”), which would require direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies to comply with certain privacy and data security provisions, including providing consumers with prescribed notice; obtaining consumers’ express consent regarding the collection, use and disclosure of genetic data; and enabling consumers to access and delete their genetic
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten, also known as Fox Kitten or Parisite, is now trying to monetize its efforts by selling access to some of the networks it has hacked to other hackers. The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the worl
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
While privacy advocates have warned against Ring's partnerships with police, newly unearthed documents reveal FBI concerns about 'new challenges' smart doorbell footage could create for cops.
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Pixm visually analyzes phishing websites from a human perspective to detect malicious pages people might otherwise miss.
Info Source
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Newest working group member to enhance the TWAIN Direct specification with consulting and development services. Raleigh, NC – September 1, 2020 – The TWAIN Working Group (TWG), a not-for-profit organization designed to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices, today announced the addition of P3iD Technologies to the TWAIN Working Group Board of Directors.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a long and technical alert describing a North Korea hacking scheme against ATMs in a bunch of countries worldwide: This joint advisory is the result of analytic efforts among the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
The Tor Project announced the launch of the Tor Project Membership Program to financially support the work of the organizations. The Tor Project launched the Tor Project Membership Program to financially support its work. The move aims at diversifying funding in the budget of the organization and to increase unrestricted funds for the software development of tor and other tools.
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
The group's targets have primarily been North American and Israeli entities, with a focus on technology, government, defense, and healthcare.
Micro Focus
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
In our first blog we discussed how the mainframe must meet new demands in connectivity and security. In the second of our three blogs, Barbara Ballard looks at how the enterprise is using access control and data privacy to extend enterprise-level security to the mainframe. Access Control Access control is a combination of authentication and. View Article.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Shlayer, a common macOS Trojan, received Apple's notary certification and place in the App Store -- twice.
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