Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2022
This edition analyzes how hackers exploited a misconfigured VPN device, gained access to Viasat's satellite network and caused a massive outage in Europe as Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. It also examines the invasion's impact on financial services and how to modernize security operations.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 31, 2022
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2022
65 Terabytes of Data Wiped Out, According to Reports Hackers have allegedly managed to breach the infrastructure belonging to Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, or Rosaviatsiya, and wiped out its entire database and files consisting of 65TB of data, including documents, files, aircraft registration data and emails from the servers.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 31, 2022
Cybersecurity has never felt more porous. You are no doubt aware of the grim statistics: •The average cost of a data breach rose year-over-year from $3.86 million to $4.24 million in 2021, according to IBM. •The majority of cyberattacks result in damages of $500,000 or more, Cisco says. •A sobering analysis by Cybersecurity Ventures forecasts that the global cost of ransomware attacks will reach $265 billion in 2031. • The FBI reports that 3,000-4,000 cyberattacks are counted each day.
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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 31, 2022
Both Bugs Have a POC and at Least 1 Is Known to Be Exploited in the Wild Spring IO, a cohesive, versioned platform used for building modern applications, has reported two remote code execution vulnerabilities in the past two days. Both the RCEs are reportedly having proof of concept exploits, and at least one is actively being targeted in the wild.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2022
When Do Technology Firms That Support Autocratic Surveillance Cross the Line? As Finnish technology giant Nokia announces it is ceasing sales in Russia over the war with Ukraine, the company is facing tough questions over how it helped enable a mass surveillance program that supports President Vladimir Putin's autocratic regime.
Adam Levin
MARCH 31, 2022
When it comes to backing up your data, IT and cybersecurity experts alike consistently advise what’s known as the “3-2-1” rules, which are: Keep at least three copies of your data: The emphasis here is on at least. Backups are inherently fallible, and can fall prey to malware, ransomware, power surges, and hardware failure. The only way to make sure your data is truly secured is by having backups of your backups.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2022
Actors From China, Iran, North Korea and Russia Using Ukraine War-Related Themes Researchers have observed a growing number of threat actors using the Russia-Ukraine war as a lure in phishing and malware campaigns to target the military of multiple Eastern European countries, as well as a NATO Center of Excellence, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group.
IT Governance
MARCH 31, 2022
In March, we discovered 88 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 3,987,593 breached records. That brings the total number of breached records in the first quarter of 2022 to 75,099,482. We’ll be providing more stats from Q1 2022 in our quarterly review of cyber security incidents, which will be published on our website in the coming days.
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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 31, 2022
Video on Protecting Your Enterprise From Breaches and Account Takeover Fraud With the rapidly changing threat landscape, protecting your enterprise from breaches and account takeover fraud has never been a bigger challenge. Fraud teams have the challenges of understanding customer identities and human behaviors regardless of how many devices and accounts they use.
KnowBe4
MARCH 31, 2022
A widespread phishing scam is circulating in Facebook Messenger, according to Jeff Parsons at Metro. The phishing messages simply contain the words, “Look what I found,” along with a link. If the user clicks the link, they’ll be taken to a spoofed Facebook login page that will steal their credentials. Notably, the attackers send the messages from compromised accounts of the target’s Facebook friends, which increases the appearance of legitimacy.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2022
Recent Major Hacking Incidents Affected a Wide Range of Entities Recent breach reports filed by a law enforcement benefits health plan, a healthcare staffing firm and a rural medical center are the latest examples of the diverse range of healthcare sector entities being targeted by cyberattackers. What do experts recommend?
CGI
MARCH 31, 2022
Aller de l’avant avec l’utilisation d’une solution d’affaires comme un progiciel de gestion intégré (PGI) ou un progiciel de gestion des relations avec la clientèle est un projet fort différent des projets classiques de développement et d’évolution en technologie. En effet, la mise en place et l’évolution de telles solutions ont des incidences organisationnelles majeures qu’une approche structurée permet de mieux aborder.
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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
MARCH 31, 2022
North Korean hackers have been exploiting a zero-day in Chrome. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0609, was exploited by two separate North Korean hacking groups. Both groups deployed the same exploit kit on websites that either belonged to legitimate organizations and were hacked or were set up for the express purpose of serving attack code on unsuspecting visitors.
CGI
MARCH 31, 2022
Dans les médias spécialisés en affaires et en technologie, nous entendons souvent parler de centaines de milliers de postes en cybersécurité et en sécurité des TI qui demeurent vacants. D’ici 2022, on estime que le nombre de postes non pourvus dans ces domaines s’élèvera à plus de 1,8 million.1 Par conséquent, dans tous les secteurs d’activité, on constate un nombre toujours croissant d’entreprises et d’organismes gouvernementaux se retrouvant victimes de brèches de cybersécurité et de logiciels
KnowBe4
MARCH 31, 2022
A look at what makes up Web 3.0 and how it may be used includes insight into what kinds of cyberattacks may plague it, as cybercriminals look for new profitable opportunities.
CGI
MARCH 31, 2022
La joie ou la douleur ressentie selon les quatre différents cas de changement sont relatives à la gravité de la situation. On le conçoit bien, perdre son emploi est différent de perdre sa carte de crédit. Le plaisir ou la souffrance découlant du changement sont également relatifs à notre capacité d’adaptation; elle-même fortement liée à la lecture que nous faisons de la réalité.
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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
MARCH 31, 2022
The Anonymous collective hacked the Russian investment firm Thozis Corp, but it’s a mystery the attack against the Russian Civil Aviation Authority Rosaviatsia. Anonymous continues to target Russian organizations and private foreign businesses the are still operating in the country. The popular collective claims to have hacked the Russian investment firm Thozis Corp, which is owned by the oligarch Zakhar Smushkin.
CGI
MARCH 31, 2022
Lorsque de l’information ou des applications sont désignées comme essentielles, une organisation devrait immédiatement comprendre que ces systèmes exigent les plus hauts degrés de sécurité, et donc d’importants investissements pour les protéger contre les attaques malveillantes.
KnowBe4
MARCH 31, 2022
Rather than take the usual path of sending an email and linking to a spoofed logon page, this attack takes a different set of actions that at first make no sense but may actually be brilliant.
CGI
MARCH 31, 2022
Gérer le facteur humain en mode projet requiert une stratégie et une ligne de conduite. Une stratégie oriente les actions qui vont suivre et leur donne un sens. Celle-ci doit être simple et facilement comprise par tous les acteurs du changement : haute direction, direction de projet, équipe de projet, gestionnaires et destinataires du changement. La stratégie émerge d’un diagnostic organisationnel qui comprend plusieurs éléments comme la légitimité du projet, la capacité à changer ou la grille d
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KnowBe4
MARCH 31, 2022
The FBI has issued a Private Industry Notification warning of phishing emails designed to steal login credentials from election officials. The Bureau believes these attacks will increase ahead of the 2022 midterm elections; the officials who need to be alert are at the state, local, territorial, and tribal levels.
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2022
Apple released emergency patches to address two zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited to compromise iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Apple has released emergency security patches to address two zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited to hack iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The first zero-day, tracked as CVE-2022-22674, is an out-of-bounds read issue that resides in the Intel Graphics Driver that could allow malicious apps to read kernel memory. “An out-of-bounds read issue may lead to the dis
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 31, 2022
For weeks, a lone mobile base station allowed thousands in the besieged Ukrainian city to stay connected—until Russian troops arrived.
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2022
The Morphisec Labs researchers analyzed a new malware, tracked as Mars stealer, which is based on the older Oski Stealer. . Morphisec Labs recently discovered the Mars stealer that was spreading masqueraded as malicious software cracks and keygens. The Mars stealer is available for sale on several underground forums, researchers pointed out that it is under constant development.
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KnowBe4
MARCH 31, 2022
New data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows a massive increase in the cost of internet crimes, with phishing and BEC topping the list.
Dark Reading
MARCH 31, 2022
Among them is the operator of the Ghostwriter misinformation campaign, with a new browser-in-browser phishing technique, according to Google's research team.
Threatpost
MARCH 31, 2022
A bug in Honda is indicative of the sprawling car-attack surface that could give cyberattackers easy access to victims, as global use of ‘smart car tech’ and EVs surges.
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