Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Also: CommonSpirit Health Says Some IT Systems Still Affected 6 Weeks After Attack A recent ransomware attack at a Texas hospital that knocked out phone and email systems for weeks is now even worse following OakBend Medical Center's admission that the hackers downloaded data from the medical records of up to 500,000 individuals.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Chinese government employs spyware to detect so-called "pre-crimes" including using a VPN, religious apps, or WhatsApp, new analysis reveals.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Australian PM Says Russia Should 'Be Held Accountable' for Data Leaks The Australian government says hackers from Russia are behind the attack on Medibank, the country's largest private health insurer. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said not just hackers but "the nation where these attacks are coming from should also be held accountable.
eSecurity Planet
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Check Point security researchers recently described the Azov ransomware as an “effective, fast, and unfortunately unrecoverable data wiper,” noting that the malware seems far more focused on destroying data than on any effort to demand a ransom. As Check Point’s Ji?í Vinopal put it , “Be careful about this one… If you get infected -> System is basically dead.” BleepingComputer’s Lawrence Abrams noted that the malware’s ransom note falsely claims it
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Also: New EU Report on Spyware; UK Cybersecurity Technical Director Bids Farewell In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss implications of the seizure of $3.36 billion in stolen bitcoin, whether the EU is complicit in the spread of advanced spyware, and the departure of the U.K.'s Dr. Ian Levy, technical director of NCSC, with some important parting words.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Transnational Crime Organization Ran Pseudo Crypto Investment Scheme Across Europe The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested five cybercrime gang members for their participation in a transnational scheme to fleece buyers into a supposed cryptocurrency and securities investment platform. The gang has established call centers around Europe, including three in Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk.
Jamf
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Enhance your Jamf-managed classroom devices' screen mirroring and digital signage by using Ditto, created by Squirrels, the creators of Reflector and AirParrot.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Aite-Novarica Group's Trace Fooshee on Policy, Strategy and Fraud-Fighting Tools The United Kingdom and many other countries are considering ways to make banks liable for authorized payment fraud and lift the burden from millions of victims of online scams. Trace Fooshee, strategic adviser at Aite-Novarica Group, shares his views on why this might not be such a great idea.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram. A threat actor ( 0x_dump ) claims to have hacked the multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its network for sale online. The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts to report the announcement published by the initial access broker on Telegram.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Multifactor authentication has gained adoption among organizations as a way of improving security over passwords alone, but increasing theft of browser cookies undermines that security.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Lookout researchers discovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the ethnic minority Uyghurs. Researchers from mobile security firm Lookout uncovered two long-running surveillance campaigns targeting the Uyghurs minority. The threat actors behind the campaigns used two Android spyware to spy on the victims and steal sensitive information.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Google fixed a high-severity security bug affecting all Pixel smartphones that can allow attackers to unlock the devices. Google has addressed a high-severity security bug, tracked as CVE-2022-20465, affecting all Pixel smartphones that could be exploited to unlock the devices. The Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass was reported by security researcher David Schütz that was awarded $70,000 for this flaw. “The issue allowed an attacker with physical access to bypass the lock screen protections
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Here in 2022, we have a newly declassified 2016 Inspector General report—”Misuse of Sigint Systems”—about a 2013 NSA program that resulted in the unauthorized (that is, illegal) targeting of Americans. Given all we learned from Edward Snowden, this feels like a minor coda. There’s nothing really interesting in the IG document, which is heavily redacted.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
The U.S. DoJ charged a Russian-Canadian national for his alleged role in LockBit ransomware attacks against organizations worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Mikhail Vasiliev, a dual Russian and Canadian national, for his alleged participation in the LockBit ransomware operation. According to the press release published by DoJ, the man is currently in custody in Canada and is awaiting extradition to the United States.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
The bug affects several Aiphone GT models using NFC technology and allows malicious actors to potentially gain access to sensitive facilities.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Microsoft linked Prestige ransomware attacks against organizations in Ukraine and Poland to Russia-linked threat actors. In Mid-October, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) researchers uncovered previously undetected ransomware, tracked as Prestige ransomware , employed in attacks targeting organizations in the transportation and related logistics industries in Ukraine and Poland.
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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.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Military veterans tend to have the kind of skills that would make them effective cybersecurity professionals, but making the transition is not that easy.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
I have a new book coming out in February. It’s about hacking. A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back isn’t about hacking computer systems; it’s about hacking more general economic, political, and social systems. It generalizes the term hack as a means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
With only about 15% of vulnerabilities actually exploitable, patching every vulnerability is not an effective use of time.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Today, the power of digital transformation has been realized by every enterprise organization across the globe. The transformation to become flexible and adaptable starts with the journey from on-premises to the Cloud. Cloud service providers like OpenText™, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon provide tools to facilitate the migration of data to the cloud.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
On October 31, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced that it will re-open the public comment period on their October 2021 Orders for six large technology companies operating payments platforms to provide information about their business practices. The October 2021 Orders requested that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal and Square provide information about their data collection and use, their policies for removing individuals and businesses from their platforms,
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Pretty much every aspect of the effort to create easy-to-understand labels for Internet-of-Things (IoT) products is up in the air, according to participants in the process.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
On November 1, 2022, the Digital Markets Act (the “DMA”) entered into force. The DMA introduces new rules for certain core platforms services acting as “gatekeepers” in the digital sector (including search engines, social networks, online advertising services, cloud computing, video-sharing services, messaging services, operating systems and online intermediation services).
The Security Ledger
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Results from a survey of 2,000 enterprises found an increasing supply chain risk, with 98% of respondents reported having been "negatively impacted" by a breach in their supply chain. The post Report: Digital Supply Chain Breaches Impact 98% of Organizations appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories Episode 237: Jacked on the Beanstalk – DeFi’s Security Debt Runs Wide, Deep Episode 243: The CSTO is a thing- a conversation with Chris Hoff of LastPass Hybrid
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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.
Robert's Db2
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
I had an interesting exchange recently with a Db2 for z/OS systems programmer. This individual had been asked to assist in determining the cause of a performance problem impacting a Db2-accessing application. The sysprog shared with me a Db2 monitor-generated accounting report showing activity for the application process, and a Db2 monitor statistics report covering the same time period for the same Db2 subsystem.
eDiscovery Law
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
In their roles as advisors, advocates, counselors, negotiators, and client representatives, lawyers communicate extensively though electronic means, particularly email and increasingly text messages. However, the fact that use of these electronic communication tools is commonplace in legal practice doesn’t mean that attorneys shouldn’t exercise caution when crafting their communications.
IG Guru
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
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