Data Breach Today
MARCH 8, 2021
Latest Federal Indictment Comes After Tax Evasion Charges Cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee, who already faces tax evasion charges, has now been indicted for allegedly using his vast social media following to run cryptocurrency pump-and-dump schemes as well as promote virtual currencies to investors without revealing his stake in them, federal prosecutors say.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 8, 2021
Sometimes when a complex story takes us by surprise or knocks us back on our heels, it pays to revisit the events in a somewhat linear fashion. Here’s a brief timeline of what we know leading up to last week’s mass-hack, when hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Exchange Server systems got compromised and seeded with a powerful backdoor Trojan horse program.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 8, 2021
Company Will Then Focus on Its Consumer Business The cybersecurity firm McAfee Corp. announced Monday it will sell its enterprise business unit to the private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $4 billion cash and then focus solely on its consumer business. STG also owns RSA.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 8, 2021
Like a couple of WWE arch rivals, Apple’s Tim Cook and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have squared off against each other in a donnybrook over consumer privacy. Cook initially body slammed Zuckerberg — when Apple issued new privacy policies aimed at giving U.S. consumers a smidgen more control over their personal data while online. Related: Raising kids who care about their privacy.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 8, 2021
Pandemic Expert Regina Phelps on Variants, Vaccines and Surge Risk COVID-19 infection rates are down from their record highs, and vaccination numbers grow each day. Are we rounding the corner in this pandemic battle? Keep an eye on the virus variants, says pandemic expert Regina Phelps. We may be on the cusp of yet another surge.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 8, 2021
Letter to FTC Spotlights Potential Violations by Fertility-Tracking Apps Members of Congress are again calling on the Federal Trade Commission to begin using its existing authority to protect personal health data. In particular, they are demanding the FTC take enforcement action against certain fertility-tracking mobile apps that allegedly violate the decade-old FTC Health Breach Notification Rule.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 8, 2021
Today we celebrate International Women’s Day, honoring the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the world. We also take stock of how far we have to go to make gender equity a reality. International Women’s Day is particularly important this year—as we have seen many of the gains made over the past … The post International Women’s Day 2021: Choose to Challenge appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 8, 2021
CyberEdBoard Executive Members, Bernardo Vasquez and Rob Hornbuckle, guest speak on panel at ISMG Identity & Access Management Virtual Cybersecurity Summit
Security Affairs
MARCH 8, 2021
Microsoft updated its Microsoft Safety Scanner (MSERT) tool to detect web shells employed in the recent Exchange Server attacks. Early this month, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild.
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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
MARCH 8, 2021
Jeremy Grant, Coalition Coordinator, Discusses Identity Management Progress Jeremy Grant, coordinator of the Better Identity Coalition, offers a progress report on the 3-year-old organization's efforts to help prevent breaches with better identity management.
Security Affairs
MARCH 8, 2021
Experts warn of ongoing attacks targeting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices to abuse them in cryptocurrency mining. Researchers at 360Netlab are warning of a cryptocurrency malware campaign targeting unpatched QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices. via the unauthorized remote command execution vulnerability (CVE-2020-2506 & CVE-2020-2507).
Threatpost
MARCH 8, 2021
A phishing attack targeting Microsoft users leverages a bogus Google reCAPTCHA system.
erwin
MARCH 8, 2021
International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Celebrated this year on Monday, March 8, the theme is #ChooseToChallenge. That motivated us to honor women in technology, including one of our inspiring customer advocates who is herself choosing to challenge limitations in how we view data and IT.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 8, 2021
Researchers warn two critical bugs impacting multiple QNAP firmware versions are under active attack.
Security Affairs
MARCH 8, 2021
The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed a cyberattack that resulted in the hack of its Microsoft Exchange email system. The European Banking Authority announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack against its email system that exploited recently disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. On March 2nd, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in
DXC Technology
MARCH 8, 2021
If there is one thing that 2020 has taught us, it is that things can change on a dime. Over the last year, we have learned how to better cope with dramatic change in how we run our businesses – setting up remote working, creating more online services to satisfy customers’ new demands and migrating […]. The post Why your hybrid cloud needs the software-defined data center appeared first on DXC Blogs.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MARCH 8, 2021
Author: Carolyn Bigg. Unlike Europe, the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance ( “PDPO” ) in Hong Kong does not have a stand-alone “right to be forgotten” ( “RTBF” ). However, over the past few years, there were commentaries suggesting that there is some basis under Hong Kong law that RTBF exists. This uncertainty has finally been resolved recently in a ruling made by Hong Kong’s Administrative Appeals Board ( “AAB” ).
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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.
Dark Reading
MARCH 8, 2021
Together, the vendor giants aim to make "in use" encryption -- also known as "fully homomorphic encryption" -- economical and practical.
Micro Focus
MARCH 8, 2021
At Micro Focus, we celebrate the many achievements of women colleagues as well as in our communities and in our personal lives on International Women’s Day (IWD) but also throughout the year. Aligned to the theme of this year’s IWD, #ChooseToChallenge, our aim is to encourage everyone to call out norms that can affect gender. View Article.
Threatpost
MARCH 8, 2021
A new side-channel attack takes aim at Intel's CPU ring interconnect in order to glean sensitive data.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 8, 2021
What started as a few vulnerabilities in firewall equipment has snowballed into a global extortion spree.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 8, 2021
US government officials weigh in on the attacks and malicious activity, which researchers believe may be the work of multiple groups.
Data Protection Report
MARCH 8, 2021
On March 2, 2021, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia signed into law the Consumer Data Protection Act , which contains many elements of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The new law goes into effect on January 1, 2023. But first, you need to determine whether the law applies to your business.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 8, 2021
It will be hard pointing to a specific line the Kremlin crossed that the US hasn't crossed as well.
IG Guru
MARCH 8, 2021
Check out the story on Jeanette’s amazing career here. The post 50 years of service: Robins records manager, Jeanette McElhaney, reflects on career via DVIDS appeared first on IG GURU.
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Micro Focus
MARCH 8, 2021
An award-winning producer and self-described queer woman of color, Allia McLeod is continually striving to advance the cultural conversation around diversity. As Head of Brand Relations and Content Development for Verizon Media Studios in Canada, McLeod is uniquely positioned to influence inside and outside her organisation. Allia has created content for HuffPost Canada and selected films.
Dark Reading
MARCH 8, 2021
Security pros offer up their post-SolarWinds patch-management advice.
Information Governance Perspectives
MARCH 8, 2021
With AI looming ahead, we may even have to redefine what work is. Man is no longer the scale, the ruler, the canon. The post Tomorrow’s Jobs Today Will Present at San Jose State University on March 16th appeared first on Rafael Moscatel.
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