Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

With data distributed across multiple clouds serving an increasingly remote workforce, can existing data protection programs truly be successful? Most data protection solutions have been built on a foundation of legacy technologies and operations that only drive up complexity and costs. A best-in-class data protection program should be easy to operate, reduce costs, and ultimately drive down data loss risk.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2023

As digital transformation accelerates, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become integral to software development – especially when it comes to adding cool new functionalities to our go-to mobile apps. Related: Collateral damage of T-Mobile hack Yet, APIs have also exponentially increased the attack vectors available to malicious hackers – and the software community has not focused on slowing the widening of this security gap.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

BlueNoroff Changed Attack Tactics in 2023 After Its TTPs Were Leaked The BlueNoroff hacker group, which is associated with the North Korean military's Reconnaissance General Bureau, is using RustBucket malware to target macOS systems of users primarily in the United States and Asia - a tactic observed for the first time since the group began its operations.

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National Archives Records Express

MAY 23, 2023

Digital Imaging Lab [technologies] at Archives 2–[photographed for] Prologue use. National Archives Identifier: 184340999 We continue our series of posts to support the publication of 36 CFR section 1236 subpart E – Digitizing Permanent Records , which provides the requirements for digitizing permanent records. Records management is a crucial part of any agency operation, and the rise of digital technology has led many agencies to digitize their records for improved efficiency and ac

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At the beginning of 2023, concern grew over pixels and trackers, which load into the browser as a part of the software supply chain, being used by data harvesting platforms to collect user data. The data is then transferred to the servers of the companies owning the pixels/trackers as a part of their advertising and marketing business. Aggressive data harvesting practices increase the likelihood and/or actual transfer of sensitive data, which may cause unintended consequences, including expensiv

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

Practicefirst Failed to Patch Critical Firewall Flaw That Led to Breach, AG Says A practice management software firm has agreed to pay a $550,000 fine and implement a comprehensive data security program to settle an enforcement action by New York state regulators after a 2020 ransomware attack that affected 1.2 million individuals nationwide, including 428,000 New Yorkers.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

Analyst Altered Ransom Note, Substituting His Own Cryptocurrency Wallet Address An IT security analyst has confessed to trying to blackmail his employer by altering ransom notes sent from a hacker to a board member and changing the cryptocurrency payment address to one he controlled. After his employer detected the unusual activity, U.K. police traced it back to the worker.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 23, 2023

In case you don’t have enough to worry about, someone has built a credible handwriting machine: This is still a work in progress, but the project seeks to solve one of the biggest problems with other homework machines, such as this one that I covered a few months ago after it blew up on social media. The problem with most homework machines is that they’re too perfect.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

LIBE Committee Hears From Heads of UK and Irish Privacy Regulators European Union lawmakers have criticized the British government's updated privacy bill over concerns that it fails to adequately protect European citizens' fundamental rights. Lawmakers also heard from the Irish data authority on the status of its pending TikTok inquiry.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2023

Widespread cyber incidents will happen, but unlike for natural disasters, specific security controls can help prevent a catastrophe.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

Law Enforcement, Regulatory Action in US Likely Led to 70% Drop in Hacks Law enforcement and regulatory action over the past year in the United States most likely dissuaded hackers from stealing cryptocurrency, making the amount stolen in the first quarter of the year the lowest compared to each of the four quarters in 2022, TRM Labs said.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2023

Threat actors are circumventing geo-location-based security detections, using a combination of cybercrime-as-a-service platforms and the purchasing of local IP addresses.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

Ken Palla on Implementing the Plan to Pursue Fraud, Block Fraud and Empower People The U.K. government earlier this month introduced a strategy to reduce fraud and scams called Fraud Strategy: Stopping Scams and Protecting the Public. Ken Palla, retired director of MUFG Bank, said this as an important step to combat authorized scams, which have now eclipsed unauthorized fraud.

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Jamf

MAY 23, 2023

Following the release of the Jamf Security 360: Annual Threat Trends Report 2023, where we highlight security threat trends, we utilize threat intelligence gathered by Jamf to inform security professionals about which threats from the previous year most critically affected the enterprise. Preserving user privacy is a growing threat that the data supports and is the focus of this blog series.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 23, 2023

Official Address of Ukraine's Embassy in Tajikistan Used to Send Phishing Emails Possibly Russian hackers likely compromised the official email address of Ukraine's embassy in Tajikistan to send phishing emails to organizations located in central Asia, Israel and India. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine tracks the campaign as UAC-0063.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Google introduced Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program), a new bug bounty program for reporting vulnerabilities in its mobile applications. Google announced a new bug bounty program, named Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program), that covers its mobile applications. Google’s Mobile VRP is a bug bounty program for reporting vulnerabilities in first-party Android applications developed or maintained by Google.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2023

Shorter certificate lifespans are beneficial, but they require a rethink of how to properly manage them.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

The German automotive and arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced it was victim of a Black Basta ransomware attack that took place last month. Rheinmetall is a German automotive and arms manufacturer that is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange. The company this week announced it was victim of a ransomware attack conducted by the Black Basta ransomware group.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2023

Secure email gateways and end users alike are being fooled by a cyberattack campaign that's enjoying skyrocketing volumes against businesses in every industry, globally.

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Hanzo Learning Center

MAY 23, 2023

Once again, the CLOC Global Institute (CGI) has come and gone. But while we were there, Hanzo took a quick snapshot survey of Legal Operations professionals to gain insights into how people are using collaboration data and how it's affecting in-house legal departments.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 23, 2023

IBM Cloud Code Engine is a fully managed, serverless platform that runs your containerized workloads, including web apps, microservices, event-driven functions or batch jobs. Code Engine even builds container images for you from your source code. All these workloads can seamlessly work together because they are all hosted within the same Kubernetes infrastructure.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

A previously undocumented APT group tracked as GoldenJackal has been targeting government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia since 2019. Kaspersky researchers shared details about the activity of a previously undocumented APT group, tracked as GoldenJackal, which has been active since 2019. The primary motivation of the group appears to be the espionage.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

Microsoft has observed a thirty-eight percent increase in cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings for launching business email compromise (BEC) attacks between 2019 and 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2023

Experts warn of a threat actor, tracked as CloudWizard APT, that is targeting organizations involved in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. On March 2023, researchers from Kaspersky spotted a previously unknown APT group, tracked as Bad Magic (aka Red Stinger), that targeted organizations in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The attackers were observed using PowerMagic and CommonMagic implants.

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KnowBe4

MAY 23, 2023

The Insider reported that an apparently AI-generated photo faking an explosion near the Pentagon in D.C. went viral. The Arlington Police Department confirmed that the image and accompanying reports were fake. But when the news was shared by a reputable Twitter account on Monday, the market briefly dipped.

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Dark Reading

MAY 23, 2023

Victims of the cybercrime schemes are coerced to participate through violence and having their belongings taken away.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 23, 2023

Every day, people encounter multiple obstacles while traveling to their intended destinations. Sitting in traffic, waiting for the bus to arrive 15 minutes later than scheduled, driving around for 30 minutes to find a parking spot—the modern world is full of inconveniences due to underlying inefficiencies in our transportation systems. However, stalled cars and harried people waiting for public transportation aren’t just an individual nuisance.

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IG Guru

MAY 23, 2023

North Carolina Chief Privacy Officer Cherie Givens talks about what she learned from building privacy programs at federal agencies and what common pitfalls states should avoid when establishing their own policies.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 23, 2023

If you’re in the market for a security information and event management (SIEM) solution, both LogRhythm and Splunk have a lot to offer, with strong support from customers and industry analysts. Both solutions appear in eSecurity Planet ’s list of top SIEM products , and SIEM buyers often compare the two. What follows is a closer look at key features of each product, with an examination of their strengths and weaknesses.

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