Sat.Jul 04, 2020

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E-Verify’s “SSN Lock” is Nothing of the Sort

Krebs on Security

One of the most-read advice columns on this site is a 2018 piece called “ Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory ,” which tried to impress upon readers the importance of creating accounts at websites like those at the Social Security Administration , the IRS and others before crooks do it for you. A key concept here is that these services only allow one account per Social Security number — which for better or worse is the de facto national identifier in the United States.

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How Ekans Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems

Data Breach Today

Researchers Identified Malware Variants With Advanced Capabilities Researchers with FortiGuard Labs have uncovered two samples of the Ekans ransomware strain that offer some additional insight into how the crypto-locking malware targets industrial control systems, according to a new report. Ekans, also known as Snake, was first spotted earlier this year.

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Local officials kept in the dark by Whitehall on Covid-19 testing data

The Guardian Data Protection

Public health officials ‘can’t contain virus’ unless they get faster access to crucial ‘pillar two’ data from test centres Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Local health officials are being “kept in the dark” about Covid-19 infections in their area by Whitehall’s refusal to share all of its data, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, has warned.

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NASA Still Struggling With Agency-Wide Cybersecurity Program

Data Breach Today

IG Report Finds Agency's Infrastructure Remains Tempting Target for Hackers A recent Inspector General's report finds that NASA still struggles with implementing an agency-wide cybersecurity policy despite spending approximately $2.3 billion on IT, networking and security technology in 2019. The oversite report offers a series of improvements that NASA should make.

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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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US Cyber Command urges F5 customers to fix critical flaw in BIG-IP product

Security Affairs

F5 Networks has published a security advisory warning customers to patch a critical flaw in BIG-IP product that is very likely to be exploited. F5 Networks has addressed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that resides in undisclosed pages of Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) of the BIG-IP product. “This vulnerability allows for unauthenticated attackers, or authenticated users, with network access to the TMUI, through the BIG-IP managemen

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Try2Cry ransomware implements wormable capability to infect other Windows systems

Security Affairs

A new piece of ransomware dubbed Try2Cry leverages infected USB flash drives and Windows shortcuts (LNK files) to infect other Windows systems. A new ransomware dubbed Try2Cry implements wormable capabilities to infect other Windows systems by using USB flash drives or Windows shortcuts (LNK files). The Try2Cry ransomware was discovered by the malware researcher Karsten Hahn while analyzing an unidentified malware sample.

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European police infiltrate and dismantled EncroChat chat network

Security Affairs

A joint operation conducted by European police arrested hundreds of criminals after that agents infiltrated into EncroChat encrypted chat network. In a joint operation conducted by European and British law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of hundreds of alleged drug dealers and other crooks. The police infiltrated into a global network of an encrypted chatting app that was used by criminals involved in drug dealing, money laundering, extortions, and even murders. “Over the last