Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2020
New Risks Could Emerge as More Practices Reopen Four recent cybersecurity incidents that may have involved ransomware demonstrate the ongoing threats facing the sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. They also serve as a warning that extra watchfulness is needed as physicians reopen their clinics.
The Guardian Data Protection
JUNE 23, 2020
Local health chiefs say real-time information is crucial to monitor spread of disease Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Local outbreaks of Covid-19 could grow undetected because the government is failing to share crucial testing data, council leaders and scientists have warned. More than a month after being promised full details of who has caught the disease in their areas, local health chiefs are still desperately lobbying the government’s testing chief, Lady Harding
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2020
Researchers Say Malware Steals Financial Data From Bank Customers Fraudsters are now deploying the IcedID banking Trojan via phishing campaigns that use the COVID-19 pandemic as one of several lures, according to Juniper Threat Labs.
AIIM
JUNE 23, 2020
There may be no other industry that could benefit more from automation than the mortgage banking industry. This industry is full of time-consuming, error-prone, and paper and labor-intensive processes, all perfectly-suited for automation. And with huge volumes of loans being generated each year (nearly 5 million new consumer mortgages alone), it may soon become impossible to move forward without the use of automation.
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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2020
Group Known as 'Distributed Denial of Secrets' Responsible for 'BlueLeaks' Data Dump The recent leak of 269 GB of sensitive data from more than 200 police departments and the FBI could be a sign that law enforcement agencies are becoming a prime target for hackers, given recent civil unrest.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2020
Campaign Targets Unpatched Software and Weak Authentication, Defenders Warn Hackers wielding Nefilim ransomware are targeting unpatched or poorly secured Citrix remote-access technology, then stealing data, unleashing crypto-locking malware and threatening to dump data to try to force payment, New Zealand's national computer emergency response team warns.
IBM Big Data Hub
JUNE 23, 2020
Turning raw data into improved business performance is a multilayered problem, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. To make things simpler, let’s start at the end and work backwards. Ultimately, the goal is to make better decisions during the execution of a business process. This can be as simple as not making a customer repeat their address after a hand-off in a call center, or as complex as re-planning an entire network of flights in response to a storm.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2020
Largest Penalty Levied So Far Under EU's Privacy Regulation France's top court has upheld a $56 million fine against Google for violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation with its advertising personalization model that lacked adequate user consent measures. The fine is the biggest yet for a GDPR privacy policy violation.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2020
Remote work is opening up new insider threats - whether it's negligence or malicious employees - and companies are scrambling to stay on top of these unprecedented risks.
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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
JUNE 23, 2020
CISO of International Law Firm on Making the Right Moves As a result of the rapid move to a remote workforce, now is a golden opportunity to refine cybersecurity approaches - especially for the cloud, says Christian Toon, CISO at the international law firm, Pinsent Masons.
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 23, 2020
Guest blog by Sheryl Kingstone, Research Vice President & General Manager – VOCUL, 451 Research. Significant disruption across industries and the rising influence of the empowered consumer continue to exert pressure on businesses to deliver differentiated and consistent experiences across the entirety of the consumer journey. Simultaneously, business models are shifting, with the increasing popularity … The post Being data-driven in the experience economy appeared first on OpenTe
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2020
Cisco Talos Researchers Find Hackers Using New Dropper Called IndigoDrop A spear-phishing campaign is using military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents to infect devices, according to researchers at Cisco Talos. The analysts also found this campaign is using a previously unknown dropper called IndigoDrop to spread a weaponized version of Cobalt Strike.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2020
Recent spearphishing emails spread the Hackbit ransomware using malicious Microsoft Excel attachments and the GuLoader dropper.
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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
JUNE 23, 2020
Sites to Implement HTTP Strict Transport Security Protocol Federal agencies will add a layer of security to their websites that use the top-level domain.gov. All the sites eventually will use the HSTS protocol, which ensures that a users' connection to a website is encrypted and can protect against man-in-the middle attacks and cookie hijacking.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2020
CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked IndiaBulls Group , an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Gurgaon, India. CLOP ransomware operators have allegedly hacked the Indian conglomerate IndiaBulls Group , its primary businesses are housing finance, consumer finance, and wealth management. . Indiabulls Group has around 19,000 employees, the company has been earning an average revenue of 25,000 crore Indian rupees.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2020
Attackers are compromising large companies with the Cobalt Strike malware, and then deploying the Sodinokibi ransomware.
IG Guru
JUNE 23, 2020
Check out this great overview about CCPA training from Professor Solove. The post What Are the Requirements for CCPA Training? via TeachPrivacy appeared first on IG GURU.
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“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.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 23, 2020
Report on espionage attacks using LinkedIn as a vector for malware, with details and screenshots. They talk about "several hints suggesting a possible link" to the Lazarus group (aka North Korea), but that's by no means definite. As part of the initial compromise phase, the Operation In(ter)ception attackers had created fake LinkedIn accounts posing as HR representatives of well-known companies in the aerospace and defense industries.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2020
A group of hacktivists and transparency advocates published a massive 269 GB of data, dubbed BlueLeaks , allegedly stolen from U.S. Police and Fusion Centers. A group of hacktivists and transparency advocates has leaked online hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents allegedly stolen from more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, and law enforcement agencies across the United States.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2020
A recent DivvyCloud survey found that in 2019, a majority of respondents reported being in the final optimization stages of their cloud journey, with 59% indicating they are in the DevOps Optimization stage (an 11% increase from 2018).
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2020
Experts found tens of thousands of printers that are exposed online that are leaking device names, organization names, WiFi SSIDs, and other info. It’s not a mystery, a printer left exposed online without proper security could open the doors to hackers, now researchers from Shadowserver Foundation have discovered tens of thousands of printers that are exposed online that are leaking information.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JUNE 23, 2020
Denise Lebeau-Marianna, Partner & Alexandre Balducci, Associate – DLA Piper France LLP. Further to two complaints filed by non-governmental organisations None Of Your Business (NOYB) and La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) , the French data protection supervisory authority (CNIL) restricted committee imposed on January 21, 2019 a EUR 50 million administrative fine against Google LLC for failure to comply with GDPR [1] requirements on transparency, inadequate information and lack of valid consent for
Dark Reading
JUNE 23, 2020
Why embracing, not fighting, decentralization will pave the way to smoother cloud migrations.
Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2020
Group-IB published a detailed report on Fxmsp – a heavyweight of the Russian-speaking cyber underground who made a name for himself selling access to corporate networks. Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has issued a comprehensive report on Fxmsp – a heavyweight of the Russian-speaking cyber underground who made a name for himself selling access to corporate networks.
Dark Reading
JUNE 23, 2020
Despite the takedown of the "CyberBunker" threat operators in 2019, command-and-control traffic continues to report back to the defunct network address space.
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Hunton Privacy
JUNE 23, 2020
On June 19, 2020, France’s Highest Administrative Court (“ Conseil d’Etat ”) upheld the decision of the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) to impose a €50 million fine on Google LLC (“Google”) under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) for its alleged failure to (1) provide notice in an easily accessible form, using clear and plain language, when users configure their Android mobile devices and create Google accounts, and (2) obtain users’ valid consent to process th
Reltio
JUNE 23, 2020
In less than six months, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the globe in ways no one living today has seen. The human toll – lost lives and livelihoods – has been devastating. More than 470,000 deaths worldwide. Millions out of work; almost 46M in the US alone according to the latest Labor Department report. Businesses closed. Many of those jobs and businesses won’t come back.
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2020
Organizations sent workers home during COVID-19 lockdown without adequate security preparation.
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