Data Breach Today
MAY 24, 2021
Microsoft Says Spam Campaign Uses Updated Variant Microsoft is warning about a spam campaign that uses an updated variant of Java-based StrRAT malware that steals confidential data while disguising itself as a ransomware infection even though it does not actually encrypt data.
Jamf
MAY 24, 2021
A zero-day discovery allows an attacker to bypass Apple’s TCC protections which safeguard privacy. By leveraging an installed application with the proper permissions set, the attacker can piggyback off that donor app when creating a malicious app to execute on victim devices, without prompting for user approval.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 24, 2021
McAfee: Attackers Install Malicious Apps to Harvest Data Scammers are increasingly using Windows Push Notifications to impersonate legitimate alerts as a first step toward installing malicious Windows applications to harvest user and system information, according to a global report by McAfee.
Troy Hunt
MAY 24, 2021
Today I'm very happy to welcome the first Caribbean government to Have I Been Pwned, Trinidad & Tobago. As of today, the Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) has full and free access to query their government domains and gain visibility into where they've impacted by data breaches. This brings the number of governments to be onboarded to HIBP to 17 and I look forward to welcoming more in the near future.
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
MAY 24, 2021
Mayor Says 2018 Atlanta Ransom Attack Served Notice 'That We Needed to Up Our Game' Ransomware attacks are stuck on repeat: Criminal syndicates have found an extremely profitable business model, and they're milking it for all it's worth. So give the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, credit for having in place robust disaster recovery capabilities and vowing to remediate, rather than pay criminals.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 24, 2021
GAO Report Summarizes Market Trends The increasing number of cyberthreats, especially ransomware attacks, is leading some cyber insurers to raise premiums and limit some coverage in hard-hit sectors, such as healthcare and education, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
IT Governance
MAY 24, 2021
Two in five businesses reported a cyber attack or data breach in the past 12 months, according to the UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2021. Among those, 35% reported negative effects including the loss of money, data or other assets. These are alarming figures, but how exactly are organisations being affected? After all, there are many ways that cyber criminals can target your organisation – from scamming employees with bogus emails to exploiting vulnerabilities to hack into datab
Data Breach Today
MAY 24, 2021
Big Payments to Ransomware Gangs by CNA, Colonial Pipeline Stir Debate Insurance company CNA's apparent decision to pay attackers a $40 million ransom, and Colonial Pipeline Co.'s payment of a $4.4 million ransom, are stirring debate over whether such payments should be banned under federal law.
Security Affairs
MAY 24, 2021
US banks are giving the green light to the adoption of facial recognition technology, while authorities provide regulations and updates guidelines. Many among the US biggest banks are trying their luck with facial recognition technology. The FTC issues a new set of guidelines about the use of Artificial Intelligence. The European Union’s stance on face recognition is much tougher and there is already legal precedent against it in Welsh courts of law.
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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
MAY 24, 2021
Ireland's Health System, Scripps Health Apparently Among the Recent Targets The FBI is warning healthcare organizations and first-responder networks about Conti ransomware attacks, advising them to take measures to help prevent becoming a victim.
Security Affairs
MAY 24, 2021
Operators behind the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) have resumed their operations after a temporary interruption. Researchers from BleepingComputer reported that operators behind the Zeppelin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), aka Buran , have resumed their operations after a temporary interruption. Unlike other ransomware, Zeppelin operators do not steal data from the victims and don’t run a leak site.
Dark Reading
MAY 24, 2021
A global insurance carrier refuses to write new ransomware policies in France, while insurers rewrite policies. Are we heading toward a day when ransomware incidents become uninsurable?
Security Affairs
MAY 24, 2021
Attackers could exploit a set of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, affecting the Core and Mesh Profile specifications, to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. Researchers at the french intelligence agency ANSSI discovered multiple flaws in the Bluetooth Core and Mesh Profile specifications that could be used to impersonate legitimate devices during the pairing process and conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks while within wireless range of vulnerable devices.
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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
MAY 24, 2021
By leveraging their analysis outputs, security pros can update detection rules engines and establish a stronger security posture in the process.
Data Matters
MAY 24, 2021
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shone a spotlight on the importance and potential vulnerabilities of U.S. critical energy infrastructure. Join our panel of energy industry and cybersecurity thought leaders for a discussion of the threats targeting the industry today, the state of the law when it comes to safeguarding against cyberattacks, and what to expect from Congress and the Administration as calls for increased regulation intensify.
Jamf
MAY 24, 2021
Cisco partners with Jamf, creating further integration between their SecureX product and Jamf Pro to deliver greater insight into endpoints and device health with holistic workflows that simplify device management and remediation for IT.
Dark Reading
MAY 24, 2021
SPONSORED CONTENT: Nearly half of all malware is being disseminated via the Transport Layer Security cryptographic protocol, says Dan Schiappa, executive VP and chief product officer for Sophos.
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Threatpost
MAY 24, 2021
British regulators ruled that Amex sent 4 million nuisance emails to opted-out customers.
Dark Reading
MAY 24, 2021
The long-time intelligence analyst was accused of inappropriately handling documents related to national security.
Threatpost
MAY 24, 2021
An FBI employee allegedly made off with top-secret documents, keeping them in her home for more than a decade.
IG Guru
MAY 24, 2021
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Threatpost
MAY 24, 2021
A WordPress reservation plugin has a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated hackers to access reservation data stored by site owners.
Dark Reading
MAY 24, 2021
Affected data includes names, birthdates, contact information, passport details, and credit card data, the airline reports.
eDiscovery Law
MAY 24, 2021
Key Insight: Plaintiffs filed a Motion to Compel to allow them unfettered access to all information located on a server. Defendant objected, claiming that Plaintiffs had no legal right to the server, and information on the server was irrelevant, confidential and/or privileged. The Court found that the request (Motion to Compel) was overbroad and premature, […].
Dark Reading
MAY 24, 2021
SPONSORED CONTENT: As customers get to grips with this new WFH reality, they'll need to simplify their implementations and make more use of automation, says Cisco Secure's Al Huger.
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Hunton Privacy
MAY 24, 2021
On May 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced a proposal that would require any cryptocurrency transaction of $10,000 or more to be reported to the Internal Review Service (“IRS”). As a supplement to President Biden’s American Families Plan, which focuses on investments in American children and families, the Treasury detailed the cryptocurrency reporting requirement and other tax compliance initiatives in a new report titled The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda (the
Dark Reading
MAY 24, 2021
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The Last Watchdog
MAY 24, 2021
Some instructive fresh intelligence about how cyber attacks continue to saturate the Internet comes to us from Akamai Technologies. Related: DHS launches 60-day cybersecurity sprints. Akamai, which happens to be the Hawaiian word for “smart,” recently released its annual State of the Internet security report. As a leading global content delivery network (CDN), Akamai has a birdseye view of what is coursing through cyber space moment-by-moment.
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