Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

Threat actors continue to attempt to exploit Apache Log4J vulnerabilities in their campaigns to deploy malware on target systems, Microsoft warns. Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. Microsoft recommends customers review their infrastructure looking for vulnerable installations, according to the experts, organizations may not realiz

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 5, 2022

Trends and Predictions for 2022 – More of the Same? madhav. Wed, 01/05/2022 - 05:12. What will 2022 bring for cybersecurity? Are we going to see more of the same as we did in 2021? During the latest Thales Security Sessions podcast , hosted by Neira Jones, I had the pleasure to discuss what we can expect in 2022 with Andy Green, CISO at Gemserv, and how the many changes have impacted the security landscape.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2022

The Malsmoke attack group is behind a campaign that has exploited the Microsoft e-signature verification tool to target 2,100 victims.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 5, 2022

The info-stealing campaign using ZLoader malware – previously used to deliver Ryuk and Conti ransomware – already has claimed more than 2,000 victims across 111 countries.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers demonstrate how to use electromagnetic field emanations from IoT devices to detect malware. A team of academics (Duy-Phuc Pham, Damien Marion, Matthieu Mastio and Annelie Heuser) from the Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA) have devised a new approach that analyzes electromagnetic field emanations from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices to detect highly evasive malware.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 5, 2022

A simple-to-exploit bug that allows bad actors to send emails from Uber's official system – skating past email security – went unaddressed despite flagging by multiple researchers.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2022

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned legal action against companies who fail to secure their infrastructure against Log4Shell attacks. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns legal action against companies who protect their systems against Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) attacks. The move aims at urging organizations in protecting their infrastructure while both nation-state actors and cybercriminals are exploiting Log4J flaws in their campaigns. “When vulnerabilities are discov

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Threatpost

JANUARY 5, 2022

The group blends into an environment before loading up trivial, thickly stacked, fraudulent financial transactions too tiny to be noticed but adding up to millions of dollars.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2022

The massive Amazon Web Services outage in December had many security leaders asking whether they should be going multicloud or multiregion for their cloud environments.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2022

Both Russia and Ukraine are preparing for military operations in cyberspace.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Our digital interactions are being analyzed, predicted, and protected by algorithms and serve as a strategic, digital arsenal in defending against cyberattacks.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

Companies that fail to protect consumer data from Log4J attacks are at risk of facing Equifax-esque legal action and fines, the FTC warned.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2022

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Threatpost

JANUARY 5, 2022

More than 1.3 million patient records were stolen in the just-disclosed breach, which occurred back in October.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 5, 2022

Unless you go out of your way to install the patch, your system could be exposed.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 5, 2022

Check out the article here. The post OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes via Cointelegraph appeared first on IG GURU.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2022

Stolen credentials tied to cyberattack incidents at 17 "well-known" online retailers, restaurant chains, food delivery services.

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JANUARY 5, 2022

The accounts fell victim to credential-stuffing attacks, according to the New York State AG.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 5, 2022

The latest announcement by OpenText of Cloud Editions includes some great updates to OpenText™ Documentum for Life Sciences. Check out the latest updates below. December 2021: What’s new in OpenText Life Sciences Smart View CE 21.4 CE 21.4 brings some great enhancements to OpenText™ Life Sciences Smart View, a SaaS application that gives your employees … The post What’s new in OpenText Documentum for Life Sciences appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2022

The FTC will pursue companies that fail to take steps to protect consumer data from exposure due to Log4j, officials report.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 5, 2022

(image) The most common complaint I hear from friends and colleagues who are interested in the crypto/web3 world is how hard it is to “get smart” on the topic – for a neophyte, there’s just so much noise and precious little signal. Sure, you might dive headfirst into crypto Twitter – but the experience is both jarring and unproductive (ditto that for crypto-related Discord servers).

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Preservica

JANUARY 5, 2022

Why preserve a tweet forever? In this post, we'll explore the question of, "Why preserve a tweet forever?". To answer this question, we'll start with a look at the current state of communication on Twitter, then explore who can leverage social media preservation, we'll touch on the emerging topic of tweets of public record, and wrap up with a video tutorial on how to keep a tweet alive forever with Active Digital Preservation for Twitter.

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