Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Security Vendor Believes No Customer Data Was Exfiltrated FireEye, one of the world's top cybersecurity firms, says in a striking announcement on Tuesday that attackers stole its penetration testing tools and sought information about its government clients. However, FireEye doesn't believe the attackers exfiltrated data.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Microsoft today issued its final batch of security updates for Windows PCs in 2020, ending the year with a relatively light patch load. Nine of the 58 security vulnerabilities addressed this month earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” label, meaning they can be abused by malware or miscreants to seize remote control over PCs without any help from users.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Researchers Say Fraudsters Are Likely Harvesting Office 365 Credentials An ongoing spear-phishing campaign is spoofing the official Microsoft.com domain name and targeting users of the company's Office 365 suite, according to security firm Ironscales. Fraudsters are likely using these attacks to harvest credentials.
AIIM
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Over the past several years, I've had the pleasure of interviewing hundreds of guests for AIIM On Air. It never fails to impress me that the level of knowledge and leadership among AIIM members and supporters is the best in the business. Each month we cover a variety of topics – from the latest in automation and innovation, to pressing and emerging challenges and opportunities that tell the story of the current state of IIM today.
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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
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Expect to See Extortion and Social Engineering Attacks Excluded From More Policies Are insurers getting cold feet over covering losses to ransomware? With claims due to ransomware skyrocketing, some insurers have reportedly been revising offerings to make it tougher for companies claim for some types of cybercrime, including extortion.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Researchers: Fraudsters Hit E-Commerce Sites For Payment Credential Theft A JavaScript card skimmer group dubbed "FakeSecurity" recently deployed the Raccoon information stealer malware in order to target e-commerce sites to steal payment card details from victims, according to security firm Group-IB.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Sylvain Cortes, Security Evangelist and cybersecurity expert at Alsid, highlights the need for security departments to raise awareness through their organizations over cyber threats this Christmas.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Andrew Bud of iProov Discusses How Technology Can Counter Emerging Fraud Techniques Knowing your customer has become of more a challenge in a world where in-person interaction has become scarce. Andrew Bud of iProov discusses how identity proofing is evolving to meet the challenge.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 8, 2020
This new protocol , called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS (ODoH), hides the websites you visit from your ISP. Here’s how it works: ODoH wraps a layer of encryption around the DNS query and passes it through a proxy server, which acts as a go-between the internet user and the website they want to visit. Because the DNS query is encrypted, the proxy can’t see what’s inside, but acts as a shield to prevent the DNS resolver from seeing who sent the query to begin with.
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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
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Russian National Alexander Vinnik Found Guilty of Money Laundering in France Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national who founded the now-defunct BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange, has been found guilty of money laundering in France and has been sentenced to five years in prison, according to media reports. He faces additional charges in the U.S. and Russia.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
An unauthenticated command injection vulnerability could be exploited by threat actors to compromise D-Link VPN routers. Security researchers at Digital Defense discovered three vulnerabilities in D-Link VPN routers, including command injection flaws, and an authenticated crontab injection flaw. The experts initially discovered the flaws in DSR-250 router family running firmware version 3.17, further investigation allowed the experts to determine that these vulnerabilities also affect other devi
Threatpost
DECEMBER 8, 2020
A new set of vulnerabilities has been discovered affecting millions of routers and IoT and OT devices from more than 150 vendors, new research warns.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Security flaws in the PlayStation Now cloud gaming Windows application allowed hackers to execute arbitrary code on Windows systems. Bug bounty hunter Parsia Hakimian discovered multiple security flaws in the PlayStation Now (PS Now) cloud gaming Windows application that allowed hackers to execute arbitrary code on Windows devices running vulnerable app versions.
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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.
Daymark
DECEMBER 8, 2020
I haven’t met an organization yet that isn’t interested in saving money and optimizing their cloud spend. That’s where Azure Reserved Instances (RIs) come in. Properly leveraged, Reserved Instances, particularly Virtual Machine Reserved Instances can result in some significant savings. In fact, it was the topic of discussion at one of our recent Daymark Cloud Clinics where our technical cloud consultants offer free technical training and tips on a wide range of Azure and Office 365 features.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
The Apache Software Foundation addressed a possible remote code execution vulnerability in Struts 2 related to the OGNL technology. . The Apache Software Foundation has released a security update to address a “possible remote code execution” flaw in Struts 2 that is related to the OGNL technology. . The remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-17530, resides in forced OGNL evaluation when evaluated on raw user input in tag attributes. “Forced OGNL evaluation, when evaluated on raw u
Micro Focus
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Micro Focus’ modernization leadership position received yet another vote of confidence – this time at AWS Re:Invent show, as we were listed in AWS’s new mainframe competency program. AWS recognizes Micro Focus as cloud modernization partner At the recent AWS Re:Invent Conference, Micro Focus was named as one of AWS’s Partners for its pre-announced AWS.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Security expert disclosed technical details about a wormable, cross-platform flaw in Microsoft Teams that could allow stealth attacks. Security researcher Oskars Vegeris from Evolution Gaming has published technical details on a wormable, cross-platform vulnerability in the business communication platform Microsoft Teams. The flaw is a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue that impacts the ‘teams.microsoft.com’ domain, it could be exploited by an attacker to achieve remote code execution in the MS Te
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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
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Users have taken to Microsoft Office 365's tools, but many are unaware of free features that come with their accounts -- features that would keep them safe.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Network-attached storage (NAS) vendor QNAP addressed vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to take over unpatched NAS devices. The Taiwanese vendor QNAP has released security updates to fix eight vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to over unpatched NAS devices. The list of vulnerabilities addressed by QNAP is available here , it includes XSS and command injection issues.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 8, 2020
It remains unknown as to why Microsoft is allowing a spoof of their very own domain against their own email infrastructure.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
The cyber security giant FireEye announced that it was hacked by nation-state actors, likely Russian state-sponsored hackers. The cybersecurity firm FireEye is one of the most prominent cybersecurity firms, it provides products and services to government agencies and companies worldwide. The company made the headlines because it was the victim of a hack, and experts blame Russia-linked hackers for the attack. “FireEye revealed on Tuesday that its own systems were pierced by what it called
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Dark Reading
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Security and development are still two different worlds, with open-source developers resistant to spending time finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik was sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering and ordered to pay 100,000 euros in fines. Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik was sentenced in Paris to five years in prison for money laundering and ordered to pay 100,000 euros in fines. The man went on trial in Paris for having defrauded nearly 200 victims across the world of 135M euros using ransomware.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 8, 2020
An attacker stole FireEye's Red Team assessment tools that the company uses to test its customers’ security.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 8, 2020
The platform has gotten better about stamping out extremist content. But researchers say its policies and algorithms are still too opaque.
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Threatpost
DECEMBER 8, 2020
According to Cyberseek, an interactive mapping tool that tracks the current state of the security job market, there are more than half a million open cybersecurity positions available in the U.S. alone (522,000).
IG Guru
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Check out the article here. The post US: Archivists’ Victory over Overbroad Copyright Claim via Human Rights Watch appeared first on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 8, 2020
"Novel techniques" used by the attackers cheated security tools and forensics, according to FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia.
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