Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Cato Networks: Malware Now Used to Spoof Devices Researchers at SASE platform provider Cato Networks say they have discovered a novel use of the Houdini malware for spoofing of devices.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 20, 2021
In this post, I’ll collect links on Apple’s iPhone backdoor for scanning CSAM images. Previous links are here and here. Apple says that hash collisions in its CSAM detection system were expected, and not a concern. I’m not convinced that this secondary system was originally part of the design, since it wasn’t discussed in the original specification.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Firm Says Singapore Unit Was Targeted Tokio Marine, a Japan-based property and casualty insurer, says its Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore unit was hit by a ransomware attack this week.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare announced to have mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and website security company, announced that it has mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to date. Volumetric DDoS attacks are designed to overwhelm internal network capacity and even centralized DDoS mitigation scrubbing facilities with significantly high volumes of malicious traffic
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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
AUGUST 20, 2021
Battling Ransomware, Public/Private Collaboration Also Are Priorities John "Chris" Inglis says one of his first priorities as national cyber director within the White House is focusing on issues of cyber resiliency. Battling ransomware and coordinating government responses with the private sector are also top issues he's tackling.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Ongoing Probe Has Found More Data Was Stolen Than First Suspected T-Mobile USA says its massive data breach is worse than it first reported: The count of prepaid and postpaid customers whose information was stolen has risen to 14 million. Also revised upward: its count of 40 million exposed credit applications from former customers and prospects.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
Emsisoft researchers have released a decryptor for the SynAck Ransomware that could allow victims of the gang to decrypt their files for free. Emsisoft has released a free decryptor for SynAck Ransomware that can allow victims of the gang to decrypt their encrypted files. <gwmw style=”display:none;”>. Last week, the SynAck ransomware gang released the master decryption keys to allow victims to decrypt their files for free.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Rival Newcomer Hive's Ransomware-as-a-Service Operation Continues to Swarm Victims As ransomware-as-a-service operations continue to compete for affiliates, the operators behind LockBit have unveiled a new version of their crypto-locking malware boasting fresh features, some borrowed from rivals. Separately, a relatively unsophisticated newcomer called Hive has debuted.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
Lojas Renner, the largest Brazilian department stores clothing company, suffered a ransomware attack that impacted its IT infrastructure. Lojas Renner, the largest Brazilian department stores clothing company, announced to have suffered a ransomware attack that impacted its IT infrastructure. According to Brazilian news outlets, the company was forced to shut down all its physical stores across the country in response to the attack, but Lojas Renner denied having closed the stores and pointed ou
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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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
ClearSky: Attackers Lure Victims With Fake Job Offers Researchers at cybersecurity firm ClearSky say an Iranian APT group, dubbed "Siamesekitten," is targeting Israeli companies in a supply chain attack campaign. The attackers are luring victims with fake job offer emails that direct recipients to websites that download malware.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 20, 2021
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (“CARU”), a part of a part of the Better Business Bureau National Programs (“BBBNP”), released its revised Children’s Advertising Guidelines (the “Guidelines”) earlier this month. The Guidelines, which contain some notable changes, will go into effect in January 2022. The Guidelines, which previously only covered advertisements addressed to children age 12 and under, now will cover children ages 13 and under.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Spear-Phishing Campaign Exploits PowerPoint Vulnerability The Aggah APT group, believed to be of Pakistani origin, apparently was behind a recent spear-phishing campaign targeting manufacturing firms in Taiwan and South Korea, according to Anomali Threat Research.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
During the first half of 2021, 637 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system (ICS) products were published, affecting products from 76 vendors. Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty published its third Biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report that analyzes the vulnerability landscape relevant to leading automation products used across the ICS domain.
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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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Will Help Lower-Income Nations Enhance Their Security Efforts The World Bank has launched a cybersecurity fund for low- and middle-income nations to support public sector efforts to conduct cybersecurity maturity assessments, offer technical assistance and support training and staff development.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw (CVE-2021-25218) affecting the BIND DNS software. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to address a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-25218 , that affects its BIND DNS software. The vulnerability affects only BIND 9 releases 9.16.19, 9.17.16, and release 9.16.19-S1 of the BIND Supported Preview Edition.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
DOJ: Larry Dean Harmon's Operation Laundered $300 Million in Cryptocurrency An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to operating an illegal bitcoin "mixer" service to launder more than $300 million in cryptocurrency for users of darknet marketplaces, according to the Justice Department. Larry Dean Harmon faces up to a 20-year federal prison sentence.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
Mozi botnet continues to evolve, its authors implemented new capabilities to target Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE network gateways. Microsoft researchers reported that the Mozi botnet was improved by implementing news capabilities to target network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the cybercrime-as-a-service model and how law enforcement could potentially disrupt it. Also featured: T-Mobile probes a massive data breach; tackling abuse in the workplace.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 20, 2021
Unauthenticated attackers could bypass TLS inspection filtering solution in multiple products to exfiltrate data from previously compromised servers, Cisco warns. Cisco warns of a vulnerability in Server Name Identification (SNI) request filtering that affects multiple products (Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), and the Snort detection engine) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass filtering technology on an affected devic
Threatpost
AUGUST 20, 2021
Campaign emails company insiders and initially offers 1 million in Bitcoin if they install DemonWare on an organization’s network.
Data Protection Report
AUGUST 20, 2021
China passed its Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) on 20 August 2021. The new law will take effect from 1 November 2021 allowing companies just over 2 months to prepare themselves. The full text has not been made public yet. In addition, China published the Provisions on the Administration of Security of Automobile Data (For Trial Implementation) ( Automobile Data Regulation ) today, which will take effect on 1 October 2021.
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Threatpost
AUGUST 20, 2021
Systems are ripe for abuse by attackers who can abuse systems to launch DDoS attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 20, 2021
A 2017 worm caused havoc across the internet. One researcher is warning that despite new protections put in place, it could still happen again.
IG Guru
AUGUST 20, 2021
Check out the schedule of events and presentations here. The post Infogov World 2021 Schedule Posted appeared first on IG GURU.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 20, 2021
Civil rights organizations say the company’s intention to scan images for child sexual abuse material could harm some children and threaten free speech.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 20, 2021
Developers can find it hard to gain insightful and practical knowledge about developer services. Reading lengthy, business-oriented documentation doesn’t always provide the information you’re looking for. And time is scarce. When you’re trying to learn and become a better developer, tight deadlines, endless deliverables and pressure to build applications can get in the way.
Collibra
AUGUST 20, 2021
Forbes defines Data Observability as a set of tools to track the health of enterprise data systems , and identify and troubleshoot problems when things go wrong. Data Observability combines monitoring, tracking, and troubleshooting of data to maintain a healthy data system. . According to the rule of ten , it costs ten times as much to complete a unit of work when data is flawed than when data is perfect.
CILIP
AUGUST 20, 2021
Your journey starts here ? achieving success with CILIP. In a fast-paced and changing world, it can be difficult to chart a course to success as an information professional. Thankfully, CILIP is here to help. In this article, we explore how being a member of your professional body gives you the career-long support you need to succeed. Qualifications, training, advice from colleagues, social media, blogs, networks, specialist organisations, email lists, meet-ups ?
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