Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2020
Phishing Campaigns Up Since the Onset of Pandemic TrickBot is the malware most commonly distributed in phishing emails that use the COVID-19 pandemic as a lure to entice victims to open up attached files or malicious links, according to Microsoft.
Security Affairs
APRIL 20, 2020
Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords. Early March, the security expert Bob Diachenko uncovered an Elasticsearch cluster containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2020
US Treasury on Guard for Scams Tied to Billions in Payments Being Distributed The U.S. Treasury Department is anticipating fraud as the IRS distributes about $300 billion in direct cash payments to Americans to provide economic relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Russian-speaking fraudsters already appear to be trying to game the IRS's online systems, one security expert notes.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2020
Cybercriminals uploaded typosquatted malicious libraries to RubyGems, which contains open-source components that are used as basic application building blocks by software developers.
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
APRIL 20, 2020
Trust Hinges on Transparency, 200 Top Scientists and Researchers Say in Open Letter All contact-tracing apps for combating COVID-19 must be developed in an open and transparent manner, remain voluntary, be based on Bluetooth, and allow users to opt in, or else they risk making the global pandemic even worse, 200 of the world's leading scientists and researchers have warned.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2020
Recent Case Illustrates How Telemedicine Can Be Abused The use of telehealth is ramping up as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the latest arrest in connection with a $410 million healthcare fraud case that includes a multi-million dollar telemedicine-related fraud scheme serves as a cautionary tale of how fraudsters can abuse telehealth.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 20, 2020
With 2019 emerging as the warmest on record for the world’s oceans , the call to climate action continues as the theme for the 50-year anniversary of Earth Day 2020, described as the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2020
Company Will Pay $38 Million to Settle 2 Lawsuits Massachusetts and Indiana have reached separate settlements with Equifax over the 2017 data breach that exposed the personal information of millions of residents of both states. The company will pay a total of almost $38 million to settle with the states.
Security Affairs
APRIL 20, 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed concerns for cyber cyber attacks that have targeted Czech hospitals involved in the fight against the Coronavirus. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed concerns for cyber cyber attacks that recently hit Czech hospitals involved in the fight against the Coronavirus. “As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, malicious cyber activity that impairs the ability of hospitals and healthcare systems to deliver critical services could have deadly
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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
APRIL 20, 2020
Beyond Identity Co-Founder Discusses Mission, Timing of Latest Start-Up With $30 million in funding, Silicon Valley icons Jim Clark and Tom (TJ) Jermoluk launched Beyond Identity, a new identity management platform that promises "the end of passwords." Jermoluk discusses the technology and how this is a continuation of what he and Clark started 25 years ago.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2020
Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF are plagued by several high-severity flaws that, if exploited, could enable remote code execution.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2020
Phil Dunkelberger of Nok Nok Labs Discusses Evolving Payment Fraud Schemes As e-commerce explodes during the global CIVD-19 pandemic, transaction authentication is more critical for fraud prevention, says Phil Dunkelberger of Nok Nok Labs, who discusses the latest fraud trends.
IT Governance
APRIL 20, 2020
With the coronavirus pandemic keeping us stuck inside and struggling to find ways to remain productive, now might be the perfect time to take an online cyber security training course. The qualifications you’ll gain can help you boost your career in cyber security, or help you enter the industry at a time when IT skills are more in demand than ever. To help you on your way, we have made a number of our courses available remotely, enabling you to study from the comfort of your own home and without
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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.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 20, 2020
Insights on What's Working So Far As organizations shift to a remote workforce for their SOCs, they need to keep in mind seven daily habits. Here's a guide.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2020
Cognizant has confirmed that a Friday evening Maze ransomware attack has disrupted its systems.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 20, 2020
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs : At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get stored across over 100 AzureDevOps and GitHub repositories. To better label and prioritize bugs at that scale, we couldn't just apply more people to the problem. However, large volumes of semi-curated data are perfect for machine learning.
Threatpost
APRIL 20, 2020
Researchers saw several IoT botnets using one of the bugs in the wild after a proof-of-concept was published in March.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2020
A combination of clever tools, good education, and better mindfulness might keep users from being manipulated.
Data Matters
APRIL 20, 2020
Case: WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12. In a decision that employers will welcome, the UK Supreme Court recently ruled that Morrison Supermarkets (Morrisons) was not vicariously liable for a data breach committed maliciously by a former employee who, acting to satisfy a personal vendetta against Morrisons, disclosed employee payroll data online.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 20, 2020
On April 15, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published the final version of its standard (“Referential”) concerning the processing of personal data for core Human Resources (“HR”) management purposes. That Referential was adopted following a public consultation launched by the CNIL on April 11, 2019. The CNIL also published a set of questions and answers (“FAQs”), which aim to answer some practical questions that the CNIL are regularly asked regarding HR data processing a
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2020
As companies continue to support increasing numbers of work-from-home employees, the pressure to secure access and reduce risk has never been greater.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 20, 2020
Cybercriminals have abused LED light control console to launch malicious attacks, Microsoft’s security experts warn. Microsoft researchers shared details of a new incident discovered in Taiwan, where crooks abused LED light control consoles to launch malicious attacks. Threat actors used the consoles to deliver malware and ransomware through an IoT botnet that was also used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
APRIL 20, 2020
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Duran v. La Boom Disco, Inc. has interrupted the emerging consensus around the definition of “autodialer” in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). On April 7, 2020, a Second Circuit panel joined a Ninth Circuit panel in adopting a broad reading of the statutory definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (ATDS), commonly referred to as an autodialer.
Info Source
APRIL 20, 2020
Industry veteran elected to help accelerate ABBYY’s Digital Intelligence strategy. MILPITAS, Calif. April 20, 2020 – ABBYY , a Digital Intelligence company, has appointed industry veteran Robert Youngjohns as Chairman of the Board. In this position Robert will work with the CEO and executive management team to shape ABBYY’s global enterprise growth strategy and execution.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2020
More than 4,300 domains related to stimulus and relief packages, many of them malicious, have been registered since January.
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IG Guru
APRIL 20, 2020
ARMA Member “RIM Month” Discounts and InfoCon 2019 Session Packages are available as well as RIM posters here. The post ARMA Provides Special Webpage for RIM Month April 2020 appeared first on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
APRIL 20, 2020
Cognizant is working with cyber defense firms and law enforcement to investigate the attack, disclosed April 17.
The Texas Record
APRIL 20, 2020
SLRM likes to make a fun post every April to celebrate RIM month. In the past, we’ve done Emoji Retention and RIM Mad Libs. It’s been a difficult RIM Month 2020 – with event cancellations, folks working from home, and everyone figuring out new workflows to serve Texans. We could all use a mirthful chuckle right about now. Without further adieu, SLRM is pleased to present some original memes we’ve been kicking around internally.
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