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British Army's Twitter and YouTube Accounts Hijacked

Data Breach Today

Army Apologizes for Temporary Interruption; Full Investigation Underway The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were briefly taken over on Sunday evening by unidentified hacker(s) who posted content related to cryptocurrency and NFTs. The situation has now been resolved, but the U.K. Ministry of Defense says investigation is ongoing.

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Data of a billion Chinese residents available for sale on a cybercrime forum

Security Affairs

Threat actors claim to have breached a database belonging to Shanghai police and stole the data of a billion Chinese residents. Unknown threat actors claimed to have obtained data of a billion Chinese residents after breaching a database of the Shanghai police. If the incident will be confirmed, this data breach is the largest one in the country’s history. “Shangai authorities have not publicly responded to the purported hack.

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Russian Hackers Target Private Ukrainian Energy Firm

Data Breach Today

DTEK Group Alleges Russian Hackers/Military Behind Hybrid Attacks Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK group alleges that the Russian federation has carried out a cyberattack against its facilities, crippling its infrastructure in retaliation for its owners' support of the country in its war against Russian invaders.

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Welcoming the Polish Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Continuing the rollout of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to national governments around the world, today I'm very happy to welcome Poland to the service! The Polish CSIRT GOV is now the 34th onboard the service and has free and open access to APIs allowing them to query their government domains. Seeing the ongoing uptake of governments using HIBP to do useful things in the wake of data breaches is enormously fulfilling and I look forward to welcoming many more national CSIRTs in the future.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Rethinking the mechanics of data-driven decision-making to fuel business value

CGI

To win and be sustainable, executives need to pivot from primarily making decisions focused on improving operations (making sure nothing goes wrong) to also identifying decisions that fuel innovation, growth and sustainability (driving business value).

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Hacker claims to have obtained data on 1 billion Chinese citizens

The Guardian Data Protection

Personal information allegedly leaked from Shanghai police database would be one of biggest data breaches in history A hacker has claimed to have procured a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on 1 billion Chinese citizens, which tech experts say, if true, would be one of the biggest data breaches in history. The anonymous internet user, identified as “ChinaDan”, posted on hacker forum Breach Forums last week offering to sell the more than 23 terabytes (TB) of data for 10 bitc

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Popular Django web framework affected by a SQL Injection flaw. Upgrade it now!

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The development team behind the Django Project has addressed a high-severity SQL Injection flaw in its framework. Django is a free and open-source, Python-based web framework that follows the model–template–views (MTV) architectural pattern. Django is maintained by the independent organization Django Software Foundation. The latest releases of the framework, Django 4.0.6 and 3.2.14 , addressed a high-severity SQL Injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-34265.

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The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2022 So Far

WIRED Threat Level

From cryptocurrency thefts to intrusions into telecom giants, state-backed attackers have had a field day in the year’s first half.

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CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22

Security Affairs

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. In May the US CISA removed the CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA vulnerability from its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog due to Active Directory (AD) certificate authentication problems observed after the installation of Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates. “CISA is temporarily removing CVE-2022-26925 from its Known Exploited Vulnerab

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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How Cybersecurity Insurance Can Work To Help An Organization

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How Cybersecurity Insurance Can Work To Help An Organization. divya. Tue, 07/05/2022 - 05:29. For many years, organizations had limited options for addressing data protection risks. A company could never eliminate risk, but they could try to reduce or mitigate it. In the last 20+ years, cybersecurity insurance has added risk transference to the available palette of palliative choices.

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Data of a billion Chinese residents available for sale on the dark web

Security Affairs

Threat actors claim to have breached a database belonging to Shanghai police and stole the data of a billion Chinese residents. Unknown threat actors claimed to have obtained data of a billion Chinese residents after breaching a database of the Shanghai police. If the incident will be confirmed, this data breach is the largest one in the country’s history. “Shangai authorities have not publicly responded to the purported hack.

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Top Information Governance Principles for your Mailroom

ARMA International

Do information governance principles apply to your organization’s mailroom? Mail has typically been a perfunctory function aligned with other physical office services, but for many organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted mail to a critical—and digital—operation. Mail workflows include sensitive client information, launch new work, and therefore often billable activity.

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Google fixes the fourth Chrome zero-day in 2022

Security Affairs

Google addressed a high-severity zero-day Chrome vulnerability actively exploited in the wild, it is the fourth zero-day patched in 2022. Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows to fix a high-severity zero-day Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-2294, which is actively exploited in the wild. The flaw is a heap buffer overflow that resides in the Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) component, it is the fourth zero-day patched by the IT giant in 2022. “Google is aware t

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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US, Israel Initiate Cybersecurity Collaboration Program

Data Breach Today

Scheme Aims to Enhance Cyber Resilience of the Two Nations' Critical Infrastructure The U.S. and Israel have agreed a new joint cybersecurity program called BIRD Cyber to enhance the cyber resilience of both countries’ critical infrastructures. Grants of up to $1.5 million will be given to entities who jointly develop advanced cybersecurity applications under this program.

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Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties

Security Affairs

Bug bounty platform HackerOne disclosed that a former employee improperly accessed security reports submitted to claim additional bounties. The vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform HackerOne disclosed that a former employee improperly accessed security reports submitted by white-hat hackers to claim additional bounties. The investigation started on June 22nd, 2022, when a customer asked the company to investigate a suspicious vulnerability disclosure made outside of the HackerOne p

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Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022

Security Affairs

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from March to June, Q2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-Informática. This feed is based on automatic searches and is supported by a healthy community of contributors.