Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Hong Kong Privacy Office Says It Is 'Disappointed' With Breach Notification Upscale Asian hotelier Shangri-La Group has copped to a data breach incident that may affect hundreds of thousands of guests. The hotel detected unauthorized access to its guest database in July but didn't notify guests or regulators until September.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Resilient Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Strong Passwords. divya. Tue, 10/04/2022 - 05:20. Historically, October has always been an important month for the cybersecurity community and a month of major cybersecurity events. So in 2004, the President of the United States designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Thief Retains $2M as 'Bug Bounty,' Loses $1M to Bot Attack A hacker exploited a smart contract bug to steal about $29 million from DEX aggregator Transit Finance. Within hours of the theft, the attacker returned nearly $19 million - but not before keeping a $2 million "bug bounty" and losing $1.1 million to a bot theft.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Most Professional Services engagements with OpenText™ follow a traditional design, built, test and deploy project methodology. OpenText software is well suited for the waterfall project model. A notable exception is OpenText™ Magellan™ and our Data Science projects. In these cases, customers can expect an approach which simply adds refinement iterations to the build phase or … The post An agile approach to Data Science appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Speaker: Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionzing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Akamai's Big Bets Around Security Compensate for a Struggling Content Delivery Unit The steady barrage of acquisition reports around publicly traded digital experience vendor Akamai has intensified in recent weeks. The latest salvo landed Monday when StreetInsider reported that the intelligent edge platform provider held talks with a private equity firm about a potential takeover.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Need Regulator for Bitcoin Spot Market, Says Financial Stability Oversight Council A council chaired by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and comprised of the heads of major federal financial regulatory agencies called on Congress to more closely regulate the spot market for crypto assets. A report from the council identifies risks in digital assets, including cybersecurity.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2022
A threat actor used a trojanized installer for the Comm100 Live Chat application to distribute a JavaScript backdoor. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike disclosed details of a supply chain attack that involved the use of a trojanized installer for the Comm100 Live Chat application to distribute a JavaScript backdoor. Comm100 is a provider of customer service and communication products that serves over 200,000 businesses.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Passwords are supported everywhere. But, says Andrew Shikiar, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, "they have been proven time and time again to simply be unfit for today's networked economy." In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Shikiar discusses how to move beyond passwords.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 4, 2022
On some systems the malware drops infostealers and banking Trojans; on others it installs sophisticated post-compromise tools, new analysis shows.
Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia
Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
CEO Dishes on How Government Has Struggled to See Across Its Application Terrain While vArmour has enjoyed success in banking, the U.S. government is now the fastest-growing part of its business. CEO Tim Eades says much of the government doesn't understand the relationships and dependencies among vArmour's applications or the consequences of an application going down.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 4, 2022
New insight from over 1200 businesses paints a picture of how organizations believe they are ready for an attack and are definitely focused on cyber risk, but don’t have what they need in place.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Rebecca Archambault, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner, Discusses Top IAM Trends The healthcare sector has long faced unique challenges involving identity and access management, but the novel coronavirus pandemic and various other key drivers are accentuating those issues, says Rebecca Archambault, senior director analyst at Gartner.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Malicious programs or malware are common and dangerous threats in the digital space for both individual users and organizations alike. German IT-Security Institute AV-TEST has recorded over 1 billion malicious programs as of this writing, with over 450,000 new instances of malware being recorded every day. The extraordinarily high volume of threats is forcing vendors to include AI-based detection even in consumer antivirus products.
Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk
Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Lazarus Group Uses Social Engineering to Manipulate Victims to Download Malware North Korea is using weaponized versions of open-source utilities to spy on the technology, defense and entertainment sectors worldwide. Microsoft says it spotted fake profiles of supposed job recruiters who really are Pyongyang hackers manipulating victims into downloading Trojans.
IBM Big Data Hub
OCTOBER 4, 2022
It is well known that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has progressed, moving past the era of experimentation. Today, AI presents an enormous opportunity to turn data into insights and actions, to amplify human capabilities, decrease risk and increase ROI by achieving break through innovations. While the promise of AI isn’t guaranteed and doesn’t always come easy, adoption is no longer a choice.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Jeremy Grant Explains How Bill Would Create Standards, Funding for Online IDs A Senate committee this week approved a bill that would create governmentwide standards for identity verification and provide grants to help states and local agencies upgrade ID systems and offer online digital identity services. Supporter Jeremy Grant hopes to see a full Senate vote in 2022.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) offers advice on how to avoid falling for scams that follow in the wake of natural disasters like Hurricane Ian. Scammers target victims of disasters as well as people trying to donate to charities.
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Attackers are using the recently emerged browser-in-the-browser phishing technique to steal accounts from Valve's popular gaming platform, but it's a warning shot to businesses.
Hanzo Learning Center
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Court rulings in the past few years have codified what people working in ediscovery have known all along: Slack (and other collaboration app data) is discoverable during litigation and should be preserved the same as email as stipulated in Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). With that in mind, here are a few things to consider when preserving Slack data for ediscovery.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2022
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT has been spotted deploying a Windows rootkit by taking advantage of an exploit in a Dell firmware driver. The North Korea-backed Lazarus Group has been observed deploying a Windows rootkit by relying on exploit in a Dell firmware driver dbutil_2_3.sys, ESET researchers warn. The discovery was made by ESET researchers while investigating attacks conducted by the APT group against an employee of an aerospace company in the Netherlands, and a political journalist in B
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 4, 2022
An ex-NSA employee has been charged with trying to sell classified data to the Russians (but instead actually talking to an undercover FBI agent). It’s a weird story, and the FBI affidavit raises more questions than it answers. The employee only worked for the NSA for three weeks—which is weird in itself. I can’t figure out how he linked up with the undercover FBI agent.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Responding to cyberattacks is extraordinarily stressful, but better planning, frequent practice, and the availability of mental health services can help IR professionals, a survey finds.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The mitigation shared by Microsoft for the two recently disclosed Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities can be bypassed, expert warns. Last week, Microsoft confirmed that two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange recently disclosed by researchers at cybersecurity firm GTSC are being actively exploited in the wild. The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-41040, is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Attackers are already circling back to reselling stolen data instead of — and in addition to — extortion.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Researchers link recently discovered Linux ransomware Cheerscrypt to the China-linked cyberespionage group DEV-0401. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Sygnia attributed the recently discovered Linux ransomware Cheerscrypt to the China-linked cyber espionage group Bronze Starlight (aka DEV-0401, APT10 ). Bronze Starlight, has been active since mid-2021, in June researchers from Secureworks reported that the APT group is deploying post-intrusion ransomware families to cover up the cyber espionage
Speaker: Steve Pappas
As businesses strive for success in an increasingly digitized world, delivering an exceptional customer experience has become paramount. To meet this demand, enterprises are embracing innovative approaches that captivate customers and fuel their loyalty. 💥 Enter conversational AI - an absolute game-changer (if done right) in redefining CX norms.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 4, 2022
After a flat refusal to pay the ransom, Los Angeles Unified School District's stolen data has been dumped on the Dark Web by a ransomware gang.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Experts disclosed a flaw in the PHP software package repository Packagist that could have been exploited to carry out supply chain attacks. SonarSource Researchers disclosed details about a now-fixed vulnerability ( CVE-2022-24828 ) in PHP software package repository Packagist,, that could have been exploited to carry out supply chain attacks. The issue was addressed within hours by the maintainers of the impacted repository. . “Sonar discovered and responsibly disclosed a critical vulnera
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Researchers had discovered that Microsoft's original mitigation steps for the so-called "ProxyNotShell" flaws was easily bypassed.
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