Data Breach Today
APRIL 29, 2020
Advanced Hackers Continue to Linger in Breached Networks for Weeks or Months Many attackers continue to camp out in networks for months, conducting reconnaissance and stealing sensitive data before unleashing ransomware. Experts say many recent efforts trace to gangs wielding the RobbinHood, Valet Loader, NetWalker, PonyFinal, Maze and Sodinokibi strains of crypto-locking malware.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 29, 2020
It can be argued that we live in a cloud-mobile business environment. Related: The ‘shared responsibility’ burden Most organizations are all caught up, to one degree or another, in migrating to hybrid cloud networks. And startups today typically launch with cloud-native IT infrastructure. Mobile comes into play everywhere. Employees, contractors, suppliers and customers consume and contribute from remote locations via their smartphones.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 29, 2020
Kaspersky: 'PhantomLance' Campaign Has Targeted Android Users for Five Years Over the past five years, a sophisticated spyware campaign has been targeting Android users through Trojan-laced apps in the Google Play store that are disguised as various plugins, browser cleaners and application updaters, according to Kaspersky researchers.
John Battelle's Searchblog
APRIL 29, 2020
If you’ve read Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism , you likely agree that the most important asset for a data-driven advertising platform is consumer engagement. That engagement throws off data, that data drives prediction models, those models inform algorithms, those algorithms drive advertising engines, and those engines drive revenue, which drives profit.
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 29, 2020
Check Point Research: Operators of 'Black Rose Lucy' Malware Add Capabilities The gang behind Black Rose Lucy malware, which targets Android users, has added ransomware capabilities, according to Check Point Research. The malware, which dates back to 2018, originally was designed as a malware-as-a-service botnet and dropper for other malicious code.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 29, 2020
Court Grants Final Approval of $8.9 Million Banner Health Class Action Lawsuit Settlement A federal court recently granted final approval for an $8.9 million settlement of a class action lawsuit against Banner Health stemming from a 2016 data breach. The settlement spells out steps the Phoenix-based organization must take to improve information security.
erwin
APRIL 29, 2020
Data lineage is the journey data takes from its creation through its transformations over time. It describes a certain dataset’s origin, movement, characteristics and quality. Tracing the source of data is an arduous task. Many large organizations, in their desire to modernize with technology, have acquired several different systems with various data entry points and transformation rules for data as it moves into and across the organization.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 29, 2020
IAPP's Omer Tene on Why Privacy Issues Are More Important Than Ever Before COVID-19, the privacy discussion this year was mainly about the California Consumer Privacy Act. Now it's about healthcare data sharing, contact tracing and monitoring remote workers. Omer Tene of the IAPP discusses the pandemic's influence on global privacy concerns.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
Although the controversial option of voting by mobile app is one pressing consideration, cybersecurity experts agree that older issues need to be resolved before November 3.
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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.
PerezBox
APRIL 29, 2020
It’s difficult to comprehend that there would be anything else more important right now than public health and the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the midst of it all, there is. Read More. The post The Open Web is Dying appeared first on PerezBox.
Security Affairs
APRIL 29, 2020
State-sponsored hackers have compromised a small number of accounts of the Estonian email provider Mail.ee belonging to high-profile people. Alleged state-sponsored hackers have hijacked a small number of accounts at the Estonian email provider Mail.ee, they exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the attack. According to the end-of-year report published this month by Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo), the hacked accounts belong to persons of interest to a foreign country.
Threatpost
APRIL 29, 2020
Automated attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol accounts are aimed at taking over corporate desktops and infiltrating networks.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
Although the controversial option of voting by mobile app is one pressing consideration, cybersecurity experts agree that there are other, older issues that need to be resolved before November 3.
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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.
Threatpost
APRIL 29, 2020
Malicious actors could potentially harvest data over the air and use it to shake confidence in the public-health system, EFF says.
Security Affairs
APRIL 29, 2020
Matthew Keys, a former Reuters journalist, who was sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with an attack on a magazine. Matthew Keys is a former Reuters journalist who was convicted in October 2015 of supporting the Anonymous collective and that was sentenced to 24 months in prison for computer hacking charges in April 2016.
IT Governance
APRIL 29, 2020
With new cases of coronavirus in the UK falling consistently, we’re starting to get the first few whispers that lockdown restrictions may soon be eased. But before you get too excited, remember that we’ve not yet met the requirements that would allow the government to relax its rules. Meanwhile, Germany – which had been handling the coronavirus crisis almost flawlessly until now – has seen a significant bounce in infection rates since allowing small businesses to reopen last week, and is facing
Schneier on Security
APRIL 29, 2020
This is interesting : Facebook Inc. in 2018 beat back federal prosecutors seeking to wiretap its encrypted Messenger app. Now the American Civil Liberties Union is seeking to find out how. The entire proceeding was confidential, with only the result leaking to the press. Lawyers for the ACLU and the Washington Post on Tuesday asked a San Francisco-based federal court of appeals to unseal the judge's decision, arguing the public has a right to know how the law is being applied, particularly in th
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Security Affairs
APRIL 29, 2020
Adobe released security updates for Adobe Illustrator, Bridge, and Magento that fix several issues, including multiple remote code execution flaws. Adobe has released security updates that address multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Illustrator, Bridge, and Magento, including some critical remote code execution flaws. The remote code execution flaws could be exploited by an attacker to execute commands in the security context of the exploited process.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
Criminals extorting large amounts of money from big enterprises pulled up the overall average significantly compared with the fourth quarter of 2019, Coveware says.
Threatpost
APRIL 29, 2020
Overall bot activity on the web has soared, with a 26 percent growth rate -- attacks on applications, APIs and mobile sites are all on the rise.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
Secure remote access is a "must" for enterprise computing today, and there are options for you to explore in the dynamic current environment.
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OpenText Information Management
APRIL 29, 2020
Low-code software development is increasingly being embraced by organizations around the world, allowing developers to reduce the time it takes to develop software, and enabling businesses to deliver custom projects quicker at a lower cost. The latest release of OpenText™ Gupta TD Mobile brings many new low-code developments, such as the ability to add business … The post What’s new in OpenText Gupta TD Mobile 2.4 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
An active campaign inserts malicious VBScript into ZIP files posing as downloads for "John Wick 3," "Contagion," and other popular movies.
Robert's Db2
APRIL 29, 2020
On a number of occasions over the past several months, I have seen that there is some misunderstanding in the Db2 for z/OS community regarding support for certain types of database objects in a Db2 12 environment. Via this blog entry, I want to clear up these misconceptions. The misunderstandings to which I alluded are, most often, related to traditional segmented table spaces.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
Nearly two-thirds say disruptions were at least moderate in severity, and more have seen VPN connectivity issues as employees work from home.
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Threatpost
APRIL 29, 2020
Cisco's IOS XE software for SD-WAN routers has a high-severity insufficient input validation flaw.
Dark Reading
APRIL 29, 2020
A decade after their first use, Web shells remain a common tool for all stripes of attackers, from common cybercriminals to sophisticated state actors.
Threatpost
APRIL 29, 2020
A GitLab path traversal flaw could allow attackers to read arbitrary files and remotely execute code.
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