Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2021
Group-IB: Administrator, Seller and Buyer Data Also Stolen For the second time in two years, the contents of the darknet payment card marketplace Swarmshop have been removed and posted to a competing underground forum, Group-IB reports. The content includes data on more than 600,000 payment cards as well as administrator, seller and buyer information.
AIIM
APRIL 8, 2021
Document Management is the use of a software application to track digital documents from creation through approval and publication. It serves in many ways to apply a formal governance framework to the document creation and collaborative editing processes. Today document management is generally incorporated as a set of capabilities in a broader enterprise content management (ECM) or information management solution.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2021
Report: Builder Allows Cybercriminals to Create Specialized Office Documents Cybercriminal gangs are using a newly uncovered malicious document builder called "EtterSilent" to create differentiated and harder-to-discover malicious documents that can be deployed in phishing attacks. The most recent strike using EtterSilent was launched in late March.
Troy Hunt
APRIL 8, 2021
Another month, another national government to bring onto Have I Been Pwned. This time it's the Ukrainian National Cybersecurity Coordination Center who now has access to monitor all their government domains via API domain search, free of charge. The Ukraine is now the 13th government to be onboarded to HIBP's service joining counterparts across Europe, North America and Australia.
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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
APRIL 8, 2021
Kaspersky: Cring Group Targeting European Organizations The gang behind ransomware dubbed "Cring," which has waged a series of attacks this year, is exploiting a Fortinet VPN server vulnerability that the company patched in 2019, according to a report from the security firm Kaspersky that analyzes one attack in Europe.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2021
Claroty: Exploit of Vulnerabilities Could Enable Control of OT Network Researchers have uncovered nine critical vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk AssetCentre product, which, if exploited, potentially could enable attackers to control an OT network. An updated version of the product mitigates the flaws.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2021
Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, 500 million LinkedIn users are being sold online, seller leaked 2 million records as proof. Original Post at [link]. An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 8, 2021
Former CISA Director Also Addresses Ransomware Threat, Federal Security Leadership Issues The federal government should provide more funding to state and local agencies for IT projects that could enhance cybersecurity and help mitigate ransomware attack risks, says Christopher Krebs, the former director of CISA.
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2021
A widespread email campaign using malicious Microsoft Excel attachments and Excel 4 macros is delivering IcedID at high volumes, suggesting it's filling the Emotet void.
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 8, 2021
Experts Laud Scottish Environmental Protection Agency for Transparent Response Crisis communications: If your organization suffers a ransomware outbreak - despite its best cybersecurity efforts - is it ready to respond quickly and transparently? Experts have lauded the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency for its response, saying it's a model for other victims to emulate.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2021
A threat actor has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a cybercrime forum on the dark web. A crook has sold 895,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards, for a total of US$38 million, on a top-tier Russian-language hacking forum on the dark web. The criminal actor was spotted offering a huge amount of cards in February 2021.
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2021
Industrial enterprises in Europe are target of campaign, which forced a shutdown of industrial processes in at least one of its victims’ networks, according to researchers.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2021
Group-IB , a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity, and current balance.
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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
APRIL 8, 2021
Google’s Project Zero discovered , and caused to be patched, eleven zero-day exploits against Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. This seems to have been exploited by “Western government operatives actively conducting a counterterrorism operation”: The exploits, which went back to early 2020 and used never-before-seen techniques, were “watering hole” attacks that used infected websites to deliver malware to visitors.
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2021
Cisco says it will not patch three small business router models and one VPN firewall device with critical vulnerabilities.
The Texas Record
APRIL 8, 2021
We are excited to announce that we will be conducting free introductory records management classes via Zoom for state agencies and local governments on: State Agencies: Records Management Basics Monday, April 19, 2021 – 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (CT) – Register here! Local Governments: Records Management Basics Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 – 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 8, 2021
The pandemic has driven organizations to assess their business processes—and the people, systems and technology that support them—with magnifying-glass intensity. Abrupt shifts in operations have impacted everything from employee productivity and customer engagement to manufacturing and sales. And these shifts are leading businesses to identify opportunities for transformation powered by new, automated ways of working. … The post Why is digital process automation critical to digital transf
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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.
DXC Technology
APRIL 8, 2021
Many companies are eager to use artificial intelligence (AI) in production, but struggle to achieve real value from the technology. What’s the key to success? Creating new services that learn from data and can scale across the enterprise involves three domains: software development, machine learning (ML) and, of course, data.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2021
Cisco has addressed a critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the SD-WAN vManage Software. Cisco has addressed multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco SD-WAN vManage Software that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or by an authenticated, local attacker to gain escalated privileges on vulnerable systems.
Information Governance Perspectives
APRIL 8, 2021
The affordability of digital storage and ease of data transferability has enabled technology to transform social interactions fundamentally, but the consequences of ineffective data stewardship are quickly catching up with the conveniences at our fingertips. #digitaltransformation #cloudcomputing. The post Digital Transformation: Marketing Moving Targets of the Digital Revolution appeared first on Rafael Moscatel.
Security Affairs
APRIL 8, 2021
The maintainers of the PHP programming language confirmed that threat actors may have compromised a user database containing their passwords. The maintainers of the PHP programming language have provided an update regarding the security breach that took place on March 28. Unknown attackers hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a backdoor into the source code.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 8, 2021
Alexa skills are growing in popularity as users look to extend the capabilities of their Alexa devices. Researchers now believe that the rapid adoption of these skills could have implications for information security as they could open Alexa users up to phishing or invasive data collection. What is an Amazon Alexa Skill? An Amazon Alexa skill is an application, often built by a third party, that users interact with through their Alexa device.
Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2021
Cybercriminals are encouraging users to send the "offers" via WhatsApp to their friends as well.
CGI
APRIL 8, 2021
Listening to the voice of our clients: Retail banks continue to reinvent their business models through digitization. This CGI blog post discusses the ongoing work of retail banks in digitizing their business models. dharini.s@cgi.com. Fri, 04/09/2021 - 01:07.
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2021
A leaked database also contains the nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, and activity history of Swarmshop admins, sellers, and buyers.
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Threatpost
APRIL 8, 2021
Microsoft's cloud-container technology allows attackers to directly write to files, researchers said.
Dark Reading
APRIL 8, 2021
White-hat hacking event shows yet again why there's no such thing as foolproof security against modern attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 8, 2021
In an attempt to silence Twitter, the Kremlin appears to have developed novel techniques to restrict online content.
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