Thu.Jun 11, 2020

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Unsecured AWS S3 Buckets Infected With Skimmer Code

Data Breach Today

Analysts Find Fresh Magecart Code and Redirectors to Malvertising Campaign Cybercriminals are continuing to take advantage of unsecured Amazon S3 buckets, with RiskIQ researchers recently finding card skimming code and redirects to a long-running malvertising campaign infecting several websites.

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[Podcast] Tips for Staying Cyber-Safe While Working from Home

AIIM

Remote working comes with a number of benefits both for the employee and the employer. Employees enjoy a better work-life balance, the comfort of their home office, and can avoid the stress of a commute. Businesses can save money, improve employee retention, and more. But, new challenges also arise with the recent boom in remote working, including cybersecurity threats like ransomware, data hacking, viruses, and more.

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National Guard Prepping for November Election Security Role

Data Breach Today

Cyber 9-Line Pulls Together National Guard, NSA and US Cyber Command The National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command are ramping up to offer security protection during the presidential election in November. The program, called Cyber 9-Line, will be utilizing National Guard troops trained in cybersecurity.

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Maintaining a secure Apple environment: A discussion with NASA

Jamf

Josh Harvey and Allen Golbig of NASA share their Jamf implementation story and explain how organizations can securely provide their employees with the technology they prefer while delivering the best possible user experience.

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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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Lawmakers Demand Details on 2015 Juniper Data Incident

Data Breach Today

Bipartisan Group Wants Company Findings on NetScreen Backdoor Investigation A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to Juniper Networks seeking a more detailed explanation into a 2015 incident when an NSA-created algorithm - that may have included a backdoor - appeared in a company product that would have allowed VPN traffic to be decrypted.

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Lawsuit Filed Against Accounting Firm in Patient Data Hack

Data Breach Today

Class Action Alleges Firm Was 'Negligent' In Protecting Medical Group's Information A proposed class action lawsuit filed against an accounting firm in the wake of a 2019 ransomware incident that allegedly exposed patient data to potential cybercriminals serves as the latest reminder of the security and privacy risks posed by vendors.

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How to Take Your Business to The Next Level with Data Intelligence

erwin

What Is Data Intelligence? Data Intelligence is the analysis of multifaceted data to be used by companies to improve products and services offered and better support investments and business strategies in place. Collectively, data intelligence refers to the tools, processes, and activities that are developed from business-related data that the company collects and processes for enhancing business processes.

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FBI Warns Of Increasing Use of Trojans in Banking Apps

Data Breach Today

Fraudsters Eye Increase in Customers' Use of Mobile Banking, Bureau Warns The FBI is warning that cybercriminals and fraudsters are increasingly targeting mobile banking apps with malware in order to steal credentials and conduct account takeover attacks. The shift to mobile banking has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cisco discloses technical details for Firefox code execution flaw

Security Affairs

Cisco Talos experts released technical details on a recently addressed vulnerability in Firefox that could be exploited for code execution. Security experts from Cisco Talos have released technical details on a recently addressed vulnerability in Firefox, tracked as CVE-2020-12405, that could be exploited by attackers for remote code execution. The issue is a use-after-free in SharedWorkerService flaw and received a CVSS score of 8.8.

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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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OnDemand Webinar | Protect Your Network From Encrypted Threats

Data Breach Today

Learn How To Run Deep SSL Inspection For Encrypted Traffic. View this webinar OnDemand and learn how you can run deep SSL inspection for encrypted traffic.

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Dark Basin, a hack-for-hire group that remained under the radar for 7 years

Security Affairs

A hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin targeted thousands of journalists, advocacy groups, and politicians worldwide over 7 years. Researchers from Citizen Lab uncovered the operations of a hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin that targeted thousands of journalists, elected and senior government officials, advocacy groups, and hedge funds worldwide over 7 years.

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Martin Gonzalez: tracking costs and maximizing margin with real-time data

IBM Big Data Hub

This story is part of Analytics Heroes, a series of profiles on leaders transforming the future of business analytics.

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Microsoft Regional Director (Trifecta)

Troy Hunt

The photo up the top of this blog post was taken 259 days ago, 15 and a half thousand kilometres away in Budapest and with 1.3 billion records less in Have I Been Pwned. It was also taken in an environment that unbeknownst to all of us at the time, would be inconceivable just 6 months later; a packed conference room. Last week I received my third biennial Microsoft Regional Director recognition for doing precisely the sort of thing I was up to in that photo.

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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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Microsoft discovers cryptomining campaign targeting Kubeflow tool for Kubernetes clusters

Security Affairs

Microsoft’s Azure Security Center (ASC) is warning of a hacking campaign that targets Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes. Hackers are targeting Kubeflow servers with administration panel exposed online, Microsoft warns. The tech giant has released a report today detailing a novel series of attacks against Kubeflow, a toolkit for deploying machine learning (ML) workflows on Kubernetes clusters.

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Navigating Interactions Between Investment Advisers and Their Portfolio Companies: Risks and Best Practices

Data Matters

Insider trading and the potential misuse of material nonpublic information (MNPI) have long been areas of intense focus of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) examination and enforcement programs. Recent SEC actions reflect a trend toward increased scrutiny of the potential for investment advisers to receive — and possibly to misuse — MNPI as a result of frequent interactions with the issuers in their investment portfolios, even where there is no evidence of misuse.

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Black Lives Matter Emails Deliver TrickBot Malware

Threatpost

Malspam emails are claiming to deliver a survey on BLM -- but in reality they deliver the infamous banking trojan.

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Attack Surface Area Larger Than Most Businesses Believe

Dark Reading

Workers are not the only outside-the-perimeter security risk. Companies have a variety of vulnerable Internet-facing resources exposing their business to risk, study finds.

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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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Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability

Schneier on Security

Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote : Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality of data. Now that they -- and the research into the Intel ME vulnerability -- have shown researchers where to look, more is coming -- and what they'll find will be worse than either Spectre or Meltdown.

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What COVID-19 Teaches Us About Social Engineering

Dark Reading

Unless we do something proactively, social engineering's impact is expected to keep getting worse as people's reliance on technology increases and as more of us are forced to work from home.

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Microsoft Outlook Users Targeted By Gamaredon’s New VBA Macro

Threatpost

The Gamaredon APT has started using a new VBA macro to target Microsoft Outlook victims' contact lists.

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Amplify the Voice of the Customer with technology

OpenText Information Management

We are all customers, and as customers we often find our relationship with contact centers is ‘complicated’, frustrating, and sometimes just hard work. Most of us now do basic transactions online, like checking bank balances, logging a fault or seeing if a payment has gone out. But when we have a complex need or problem we … The post Amplify the Voice of the Customer with technology appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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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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Kubernetes Falls to Cryptomining via Machine-Learning Framework

Threatpost

Misconfigured dashboards are at the heart of a widespread XMRIG Monero-mining campaign.

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ICS Threat Snake Ransomware Suspected in Honda Attack

Dark Reading

An attack targeting the automaker reportedly infected internal servers and led to the suspension of production at plants around the world.

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Weekly Update 195

Troy Hunt

This week's update had a bunch of people drop by and discussion tended to jump around a bit, but frankly it's kinda nice to have some interaction in an era where we're not really doing as much of that any more. The IoT topic got some good engagement as did the fact that we "magically" dropped over a hundred active cases of COVID-19 in Australia today (sounds like the gov just reclassifying what's still considered to be an active case).

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12 steps to Data Intelligence: Part 5

Collibra

Data Confessional: Insights beget Insights. This is the last installment in a five-part series where we’re following a business analyst on a critical mission. His company is generally successful, but there’s a growing concern about customer loss. There’s still new business coming in, but the steady drumbeat of exiting clients is sure to get louder and become a serious problem.

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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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Protocol Vulnerability Threatens Mobile Networks

Dark Reading

A vuln in the GTP protocol could allow DoS, fraud, and data theft attacks against cellular networks from virtually anywhere.

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The Comprehensive Guide to Preservation Plans

Zapproved

We get that recommended “best practices” can sound great in theory, but corporate legal teams are busy, and carving out time to implement these frameworks can feel out of reach. That’s why we try to focus on key processes and plans that are truly additive - things that will streamline your work to help you save time, reduce costs, or reduce risk.

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FBI Says Sudden Increase in Mobile Banking Is Heightening Risks For Users

Dark Reading

Mobile malware and fake apps purporting to be legitimate banking software are big risks, law enforcement agency says.

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