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Irish Authorities Levy GDPR Fine in Centric Health Breach

Data Breach Today

2019 Ransomware Breach Affected 70,000 Patients, Destroyed Records of 2,500 of Them Irish authorities have fined a healthcare organization 460,000 euros - about $490,000 - for a 2019 Calum ransomware breach that compromised sensitive information of 70,000 patients, including the permanent deletion of data for about 2,500 of them.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in February 2023 – 29.5 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

Welcome to our February 2023 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Our research identified 106 publicly disclosed incidents accounting for 29,582,356 breached records this month. It follows a mammoth start to the year, with more than 277 million breached records in January , and brings the running total for the year to over 300 million pieces of compromised personal data.

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3rd FTX Official Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges

Data Breach Today

Ex-Director Nishad Singh Will Assist With Case Against Founder Sam Bankman-Fried As U.S. prosecutors continue to probe collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering, has pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges and agreed to assist prosecutors with their case against founder Sam Bankman-Fried, accused of orchestrating billions in fraud.

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Cloud is changing the way supply chains operate

OpenText Information Management

Cloud computing has gone mainstream in today’s organizations, and many are adopting a cloud-first IT strategy. While enterprises still direct significant amounts of money towards on-premises—or off-cloud—software, that spend is decreasing while the pace of cloud adoption remains high. To elaborate on the speed, scale and diversity of the cloud market, according to Gartner, worldwide … The post Cloud is changing the way supply chains operate appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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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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Why Fraud Continues to Dominate Faster Payments

Data Breach Today

Reed Luhtanen of the Faster Payments Council Covers Approaches for Reducing Fraud Faster payment technology has been around for years, but fraud continues to dominate the conversation, says Reed Luhtanen of the U.S. Faster Payments Council. Luhtanen says all payment systems have a fraud problem, and firms will be able to curb faster payment fraud with more experience and data.

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Okta CEO: Identity Governance Has 'All the Markings of a Hit'

Data Breach Today

Big Enterprises Embrace Okta Identity Governance in Competitive Bake-Offs, CEO Says Okta Identity Governance has enjoyed success in its first quarter of global availability as businesses unify access management and governance. Okta is surprised by the amount of traction its governance offering has gained with large enterprises and in competitive bake-offs, says CEO Todd McKinnon.

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Get frictionless insight to the data that matters

Collibra

More productivity. More efficiency. Scalability. There are many enterprise benefits to the cloud. It’s no wonder nearly all enterprises use cloud services. However, challenges abound. Complex, hybrid ecosystems and siloed data slow decision-making and is a drag on innovation. It’s too often the case that business users have limited information about data, data analysts can’t access or verify data quality, and engineers lack visibility into technical lineage.

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FTC: Amazon, One Medical Must Keep Privacy Promises

Data Breach Today

Commission's Data Protection Warning Comes After Firms' $3.9B Deal The Federal Trade Commission is warning Amazon and One Medical to abide by their promises to protect consumers' data privacy. The statement comes in the wake of Amazon's $3.9 billion purchase of the primary healthcare on-site and virtual services provider.

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BlackLotus is the first bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on Windows 11

Security Affairs

ESET discovered a stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit dubbed BlackLotus that is able to bypass the Secure Boot on Windows 11. Researchers from ESET discovered a new stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI ) bootkit, named BlackLotus , that is able to bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11. Secure Boot is a security feature of the latest Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.3.1 designed to detect tampering with boot loaders, key operating system files,

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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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EU Data Protection Board Casts Doubt on Privacy Framework

Data Breach Today

EDPB Chair Jelinek Says Agreement for EU-US Data Flows Raises 'Privacy Concerns' The European agency responsible for overseeing consistent application of privacy law on the continent says it has reservations about the legal framework underpinning commercial trans-Atlantic data flows as the framework moves toward formal acceptance by the European Commission.

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NameCheap’s SendGrid Email Account Compromised, Used to Send Phishing Emails

KnowBe4

Since phishing attacks need legitimacy to increase their deliverability, this latest twist shows how phishing scammers and hackers are working together to ensure phishing attacks continue.

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Investment Scam Network Relies on Massive IT Infrastructure

Data Breach Today

Criminal Group 'Digital Smoke' Targets Primarily Indian Victims Security researchers uncovered an investment scam network that draws on an online infrastructure of hundreds of hosts and thousands of domains to target primarily Indian victims by impersonating Fortune 100 companies. Most payment amounts defaulted to Indian rupees.

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Announcing the 2023-2024 ARMA Board of Directors Election Results

IG Guru

We are thrilled to announce the election of James Merrifield and Jacqueline Bigelow to ARMA‘s Board of Directors beginning July 2023! We extend a hearty congratulations to our new President-Elect and Director, respectively and look forward to their invaluable contributions!

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Parallax RAT used in attacks aimed at cryptocurrency entities

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a new wave of attacks against cryptocurrency entities, threat actors are using a RAT dubbed Parallax RAT for Infiltration. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Uptycs warns of attacks targeting cryptocurrency organizations with the Parallax remote access Trojan (RAT). Parallax RAT has been distributed through malvertising and phishing campaigns since December 2019.

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The Importance of Recession-Proofing Security Operations

Dark Reading

Make sure cybersecurity is taken seriously and consistently across the board. Educate the ecosystem beyond your own organization to mitigate security risks for everyone.

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Satellite TV giant Dish admitted that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Satellite TV giant Dish Network has confirmed that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack, it also disclosed a data breach. Satellite TV giant Dish Network finally admitted that the recent outage was caused by a ransomware attack. The American satellite broadcast provider went offline on February 24, 2023, the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company.

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Visibility Is as Vital as Zero Trust for Low-Code/No-Code Security

Dark Reading

By authenticating and authorizing every application, and by maintaining data lineage for auditing, enterprises can reduce the chances of data exfiltration.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Remote Workers Significantly Increase the Cost of Remediating Email-Based Cyberattacks as Costs Average $1 Million

KnowBe4

With the average cost of the most expensive successful email attack at over $1 million, it’s necessary to begin to zero in on where the material sources of risk exist to keep these attacks from succeeding.

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What Happened in That Cyberattack? With Some Cloud Services, You May Never Know

Dark Reading

More cyberattackers are targeting organizations' cloud environments, but some cloud services, such as Google Cloud Platform's storage, fail to create adequate logs for forensics.

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Wireless Security: WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3 Explained

eSecurity Planet

Wireless security is the protection of wireless networks, devices and data from unwanted access and breaches. It involves a variety of strategies and practices designed to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of wireless networks and their resources. Wireless security is critical because these networks are subject to eavesdropping, interception, data theft, denial of services ( DoS ) assaults, and malware infestations.

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Cyberattackers Double Down on Bypassing MFA

Dark Reading

As companies increasingly adopt MFA (even as companies like Twitter disable it), cybercriminals are developing a variety of strategies to steal credentials and gain access to high-value accounts anyway.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Europe Leads the Cybersecurity Regulation Dance

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Europe Leads the Cybersecurity Regulation Dance divya Thu, 03/02/2023 - 06:58 Europe has emerged as a hub for developing cyber policies, acting to improve software security, and quickly reporting severe breaches. The European Commission has introduced some pretty cutting-edge legislation and regulations in response to the effects the war in Ukraine had on businesses operating in the EU and the shifting of criminal activity away from US territory.

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Fooling a Voice Authentication System with an AI-Generated Voice

Schneier on Security

A reporter used an AI synthesis of his own voice to fool the voice authentication system for Lloyd’s Bank.

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Linux Support Expands Cyber Spy Group's Arsenal

Dark Reading

An infamous Chinese cyber-hacking team has extended its SysUpdate malware framework to target Linux systems.

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Embedded Finance: Connectivity to Unlock the Future of Banking

OpenText Information Management

The once complicated and costly practice associated with payment processing has seen exponential change within the past decade. While many of these changes are most notable on the consumer front end (referencing things like tap to pay, buy now pay later, and person-to-person payments), the business landscape has also experienced notable shifts. Conversations revolving around … The post <strong>Embedded Finance: Connectivity to Unlock the Future of Banking</strong> appeared

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Without FIDO2, MFA Falls Short

Dark Reading

The open authentication standard addresses existing multifactor authentication security vulnerabilities.

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Which API Testing Is Best: When To Use Manual vs. Automated API Testing

ForAllSecure

Which API testing is best for you largely depends on the type and complexity of the APIs being tested. If you're dealing with a basic API that mainly performs CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations, then simple manual testing may be sufficient. However, if the API is more complex or requires loads of data manipulation to get the results you’re after, then an automated API testing tool is the way to go.

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Ermetic Adds Kubernetes Security to CNAPP

Dark Reading

The automated capabilities can discover misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risk or excessive privileges in Kubernetes clusters.