Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2023
Dictionary Attack Plus Neural Network Fools Security Checks, Researchers Find Security researchers have demonstrated a practical attack that can be used to defeat biometric fingerprint checks and log into a target's Android - but not Apple - smartphone. Dubbed "BrutePrint," the brute force attack is inexpensive and practical to deploy at a large scale.
Krebs on Security
MAY 22, 2023
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2023
Tejay Fletcher Made It Easy for Scammers to Impersonate Phone Numbers The mastermind behind a criminal website that sold tools for scammers who defrauded victims globally of more than 115 million euros received a 13-year, four-month prison sentence in the United Kingdom just months after law enforcement seized the site.
Jamf
MAY 22, 2023
Learn about the discovery of a novel threat vector on iPhone that allows attackers to circumvent security mitigations by exploiting under-protected co-processors, leveraging access to further compromise the iOS kernel.
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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
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2023
Several Proposed Class Actions Filed Against NationsBenefits, Aetna, Others Proposed class action lawsuits are piling up over hackers' use of a vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere secure file transfer and a resulting data breach affecting 3 million individuals. NationsBenefits Holdings disclosed that hackers accessed personal information by using the widely exploited flaw.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2023
Flaw Was Exploited in Chain of Zero-Days Used to Implant Commercial Spyware Android smartphone device manufacturer Samsung has a patch for a flaw used by commercial surveillance hackers to implant malware in the United Arab Emirates. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday gave federal agencies until June 9 to patch the vulnerability.
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2023
Techniques used in cyber warfare can be sold to anyone — irrespective of borders, authorities, or affiliations. We need to develop strategies to respond at scale.
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2023
Micron Says It Is Surprised by the Chinese Cyberspace Administration's Decision China's cybersecurity agency on Sunday banned sales of U.S. chipmaker Micron's products following a cybersecurity review. The decision is the latest in an escalating series of national security-driven moves by Beijing and Washington, D.C., to restrict the market access of their trans-Pacific rival.
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2023
Security vendors, businesses, and US government agencies need to work together to fight ransomware and protect critical infrastructure.
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Case studies are proof of successful client relations and a verifiable product or service. They persuade buyers by highlighting your customers' experiences with your company and its solution. In sales, case studies are crucial pieces of content that can be tailored to prospects' pain points and used throughout the buyer's journey. In marketing, case studies are versatile assets for generating business, providing reusable elements for ad and social media content, website material, and marketing c
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2023
TurkoRat Capable of Credential Harvesting, Contains Features Such as Wallet Grabber Researchers have identified two legitimate-looking malicious npm packages that concealed an open-source info stealer for two months before being detected and removed. Developers downloaded the TurkoRat malware about 1,200 times from open-source repositories.
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2023
The climate of concern around open source security and supply chain attacks may have caused a small story to become a big one.
KnowBe4
MAY 22, 2023
Google has recently introduced a set of new top-level domains: dad,esq,prof,phd,nexus,foo,zip and.mov. They’re now available for purchase, and it’s the last two that are attracting attention due to the risk of abuse in phishing attacks.
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2023
The purchase gives IBM access to a new category of products called "data security posture management" for security data in cloud and SaaS repositories.
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Unleash the power of NoSQL with "Apache Cassandra® NoSQL for the Relational DBA." Learn from Lewis DiFelice, an experienced Professional Services Consultant at Instaclustr, as he shares his journey transitioning from SQL to managing a 40-node Cassandra cluster. Gain insights into Cassandra's architecture, configuration strategies, and best practices.
Information Governance Perspectives
MAY 22, 2023
Actor Michael Landon, best known for his portrayal of Charles Ingalls on television’s Little House on the Prairie was my parent’s closest friend and confidant for nearly three decades. Their friendship was full of highs and lows, marked by a great tragedy, and it’s a fabled story that has never been told. I’ve tried my darndest to bring their incredible relationship back to life in the pages of a colorful new memoir, The Bastard of Beverly Hills , available May 23rd from
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2023
The technology conglomerate has until later this year to end its transfer of European user's data across the Atlantic.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 22, 2023
Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. Yiling He of China’s Zhejiang University and Yu Chen of Tencent Security’s Xuanwu Lab are calling the attack BrutePrint , which they say can be used to hijack fingerprint images. An attack like BrutePrint could present a significant threat to passkeys , an increasingly popular way to replace passwords with authentication methods like fingerprint au
Schneier on Security
MAY 22, 2023
Google has backtracked on its plan to delete inactive YouTube videos—at least for now. Of course, it could change its mind anytime it wants. It would be nice if this would get people to think about the vulnerabilities inherent in letting a for-profit monopoly decide what of human creativity is worth saving.
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Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2023
Experts spotted the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group using signed malicious Windows kernel drivers to evade detection. Trend Micro researchers shared details about ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware incident that took place on February 2023. A BlackCat affiliate employed signed malicious Windows kernel drivers to evade detection. Experts believe the driver is a new version of the malware reported in December 2022 by Mandiant , Sophos and Sentinel One , via a coordinated disclosure.
KnowBe4
MAY 22, 2023
One of KnowBe4's long-term employees just send me a picture this morning of a postcard that sure looks like it's phishing, the good old-fashioned way: snail mail ! Here is the picture and you tell me what all the red flags are!
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2023
US CISA added three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs, and iPads to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added three zero-day vulnerabilities affecting iPhones, Macs, and iPads to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The three issues reside in the WebKit browser engine and are tracked as CVE-2023-32409, CVE-2023-28204, and CVE-2023-32373.
KnowBe4
MAY 22, 2023
Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), stated that “attempts to ban businesses from paying ransoms for cyber attacks risks eroding trust and relationships with government.
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Getting off of Hadoop is a critical objective for organizations, with data executives well aware of the significant benefits of doing so. The problem is, there are few options available that minimize the risk to the business during the migration process and that’s one of the reasons why many organizations are still using Hadoop today. By migrating to the data lakehouse, you can get immediate benefits from day one using Dremio’s phased migration approach.
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2023
The Chinese government announced the ban on the products made by the US memory chip giant Micron Technology over national security concerns. The Cyberspace Administration of China announced the ban on products made by US memory chip giant Micron Technology over security concerns. The ban is related to the use of company products in key infrastructure projects.
Collibra
MAY 22, 2023
Recently, we were thrilled to publish Data Catalogs For Dummies, Collibra Special Edition. You might ask: Why the focus on data catalogs? It’s a good question. The answer is that if you’re in business today, you’re probably drowning in data. In fact, data is increasingly becoming a business-critical asset that needs to be visible, understood, and trusted to drive your organization’s profitability, innovation, and growth.
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2023
Satellite TV giant Dish Network disclosed a data breach after the February ransomware attack and started notifying impacted individuals. The American satellite broadcast provider Dish Network went offline on February 24, 2023 , the outage impacted Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app, and many other services owned by the company. In early February, the company admitted that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 22, 2023
Site-to-site Virtual Private Network (VPN) has been used to connect distributed networks for decades. This post describes how to use a VPC VPN Gateway to connect an on-premises (enterprise) network to the IBM Cloud VPC in a transit hub-and-spoke architecture: VPN Gateway connectivity to a VPC transit hub and spoke. Each spoke can be operated by a different business unit or team.
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Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2023
The European Union condemned Meta with a record $1.3 billion fine for transferring European user data to the US. The European Union fined Meta $1.3 billion for transferring user data to the US. This is the biggest fine since the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Union (EU) on May 25, 2018. In the past, the social media giant Meta threatened to block its services for users in Europe without a legal basis for data transfers.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 22, 2023
IBM is pleased to announce the availability of WebSphere Liberty InstantOn coming at the end of June 2023. With this new offering, you can start cloud-native Java applications up to 10x faster. IBM WebSphere Liberty is a next-generation application runtime that accelerates the delivery of cloud-native applications. Whether you’re running microservices in a serverless environment or a traditional always-on application, Liberty requires less infrastructure, saving costs by up to 40% , and pr
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 22, 2023
The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement.
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