Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Citing “extraordinary cooperation” with the government, a court in Alaska on Tuesday sentenced three men to probation, community service and fines for their admitted roles in authoring and using “ Mirai ,” a potent malware strain used in countless attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — including an enormously powerful attack in 2016 that sidelined this Web site for nearly four days.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Leaked Data Includes Passport Numbers, Addresses, Bank Account Details If you're going to hack, why not go for the gold? That appears to have been the impetus behind an unusual data breach at the government-owned Perth Mint in Western Australia, which says personal details for 3,200 customers stored in an old database were compromised.
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AIIM
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
For over 10 years now, AIIM's Leadership Council (LC) summit series has been the go-to event where the forward-thinking professionals in information management gather to delve into matters impacting the future of the industry. These member-only events offer a collaborative space for the dynamic conversations that help shape the role of the information management industry in a new era of business.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Richard Henderson of Infosec Global Sizes Up the EU Law's Influence So Far Richard Henderson of Infosec Global discusses the impact of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and how the law is influencing privacy frameworks globally.
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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.
TAB OnRecord
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Could you be using you space more effectively? Are you spending too much on storage? Is your storage enhancing your workflow? Is it designed to enhance retrieval time and speed information access? With filing systems taking up 20 percent of office space on average, the volume of paper records increasing every year, and the cost of real estate square footage rising almost everywhere, these are questions records and facilities managers need to be asking themselves.
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IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
If you’re among the seemingly small number of organisations that hasn’t yet suffered a data breach, you should be preparing for the inevitable. You can’t count on your cyber security defences to continue repelling attacks, because even the most secure systems contain vulnerabilities. Criminals are constantly looking for new opportunities, and it’s only a matter of time before they exploit even the smallest crack in your organisation.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Dan Larson of Crowdstrike on Battling New Attack Techniques Hackers are constantly developing new exploits, and updating defenses is not an easy task. Dan Larson of Crowdstrike discusses some the new techniques hackers are using and how to fight them off.
John Battelle's Searchblog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
So far, it’s mostly s**t. Seven or so years ago, a famous VC penned a manifesto of sorts. Writing at a time the world was still skeptical of the dominance to which his industry has now ascended (to think, such a time existed, and so few years ago!), Marc Andreessen had a message for the doubters, the naysayers, and the Wall St. analysts who were (credibly!
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Attorney Elizabeth Harding clears up confusion about certain provisions of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, including the issue of when organizations need to obtain a European consumer's consent to process their data.
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.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Organisations usually spend most of their security budget on technologies intended to keep cyber criminals out of their systems, but this overlooks their biggest vulnerability: human error. More often than not, data breaches are caused by – or directly linked to – an organisation’s employees. Studies repeatedly show that an organisation is more likely to be breached from an employee misplacing, stealing or being tricked into handing over sensitive information than from a criminal breaking into i
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Saba Shariff of Symcor on Improving Anti-Fraud Efforts Today's cybercriminals don't operate in silos, so why do companies? Saba Shariff of Symcor discusses techniques for greater collaboration on security.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. A new report published by researchers at Flashpoint revealed the availability on an underground hacking forum for Russian-speaking users of access to over 3,000 breached websites. “Access to approximately 3,000 breached websites has been discovered for sale on a Russian-speaking underground marketplace called MagBo.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
The California Farm Bureau has given away the right of farmers to fix their equipment without going through a dealer.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Experts at the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found a Gafgyt variant implementing the “Non Un-Packable” technique recently presented in a cyber security conference. A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet is spreading in the last hours and experts of the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found it with the support of the Italian cyber security experts @Odisseus and GranetMan.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
HTC starts filling in the details of its so-called blockchain smartphone, expected to launch later this year.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud NAS could allow hackers to access the content of the storage. Researchers at security firm Securify have discovered an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Western Digital My Cloud platform that could be exploited by attackers to gain admin-level access to the device via an HTTP request.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Social engineering scams target employees' payroll credentials so attackers can access and change their bank account data.
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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 19, 2018
Adobe releases a critical out-of-band patch for CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw, the security updates address a total of 7 vulnerabilities. Adobe address seven vulnerability in Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS.
TAB OnRecord
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Could you be using you space more effectively? Are you spending too much on storage? Is your storage enhancing your workflow? Is it designed to enhance retrieval time and speed information access? With filing systems taking up 20 percent of office space on average, the volume of paper records increasing every year, and the cost of real estate square footage rising almost everywhere, these are questions records and facilities managers need to be asking themselves.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
A new report shows that illicit cryptomining malware is growing by leaps and bounds on the networks of unsuspecting victims.
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Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Magecart hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. The Magecart cybercrime group is back, this time the hackers have stolen customers’ credit card data from the computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg. Magecart is active since at least 2015, recently the group hacked the websites of Ticketmaster , British Airways , and Feedify to inject a skimmer script used to siphon users’ payment
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
New standards offer protection against hacking, credential theft, phishing attacks, and hope for the end of an era of passwords as a security construct.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. I’m following the evolution of Mirai botnet since MalwareMustDie shared with me the findings of its investigation in August 2016. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the jail after helping feds in another cybercrime investigations.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
A newly discovered malware has different capabilities for Windows and Linux systems, including ransomware and cryptomining.
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Suit underscores longtime battle between vendors and labs over control of security testing protocols.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Overall seven flaws were patched - including one critical vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
The trio behind Mirai sentenced to probation and public service in return for cooperation with law enforcement and researchers.
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