Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Privacy Rules Remain in Effect Pending Eventual Outcome of UK-EU Negotiations As former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May famously declared: "Brexit means Brexit." But what Britain's exit from the EU means for the nation's data privacy rules and future EU-U.K. data flows remains to be seen, as the country navigates its post-Brexit transition period.
Adam Levin
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Online scammers are using the 2020 Oscars to spread malware. A recent study released by Kaspersky Labs uncovered several hacking and phishing campaigns promising their targets free and early access to Best Picture nominees for this year’s Academy Awards. The study found over twenty phishing websites hosting at least 925 malicious files using the movies as bait, requiring would-be victims to either provide personal information (including credit card numbers), or to install adware applications to
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Attorney General Calls for Supporting Huawei's Competitors to Help Boost 5G Security U.S. Attorney General William Barr says the United States and its allies should take a "controlling stake" in Huawei's chief competitors, Findland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson, to help make them more viable and improve the security of emerging 5G networks.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
The operators behind the infamous RobbinHood ransomware are exploiting a vulnerable GIGABYTE driver to kill antivirus products. Cybercriminals behind the RobbinHood Ransomware are exploiting a vulnerable GIGABYTE driver to install a malicious and unsigned driver into Windows with the intent of disabling security products. Ransomware operators leverage a custom antivirus killing p ackage that is delivered to workstations to disable security solution before starting encryption.
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
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
FireEye Researchers First Spotted 'Minebridge' in Early January FireEye researchers are tracking a hacker campaign using a new type of backdoor they call "Minebridge" that has primarily been targeting U.S. financial firms this year.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Haul of 460,000 Bank Cards Retailing for $4.2 Million, Group-IB Finds Indian banks are again facing a fraudster field day, as cybersecurity firm Group-IB warns that the notorious Joker's Stash carder forum is listing more than 460,000 stolen Indian credit and debit cards for sale as "fullz," meaning they include personally identifiable information.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Google addressed a critical vulnerability in its Android OS that affects the Bluetooth subsystem and could be exploited without user interaction. Google has addressed a critical flaw in Android OS that affects the Bluetooth subsystem and could be exploited without user interaction. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-0022 is a remote code execution flaw that could allow attackers to execute code on the device with the elevated privileges of the Bluetooth daemon when the wireless module is acti
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Senate Committee Releases Third Report on Russian Efforts to Disrupt Presidential Election The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released its third report on Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, finding that the Obama administration struggled to respond and more needs to be done to avoid disruption this year.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Japanese defense contractors Pasco and Kobe Steel have disclosed security breaches that they have suffered back in 2016 and 2018. Pasco is Japan’s largest geospatial provider and Kobe Steel is one of the major steel manufacturers. Just last week, Japan’s Ministry of Defense announced in addition to Mitsubishi Electric and the NEC defense business division other two unnamed contractors suffered a data breach.
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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.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Ten years ago, I wrote an essay : "Security in 2020." Well, it's finally 2020. I think I did pretty well. Here's what I said back then: There's really no such thing as security in the abstract. Security can only be defined in relation to something else. You're secure from something or against something. In the next 10 years, the traditional definition of IT security -- that it protects you from hackers, criminals, and other bad guys -- will undergo a radical shift.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Although radio frequency energy (RF) communications are increasingly essential to modern wireless networking and IoT, the security of RF is notoriously lax.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Wacom stated that its data collection is done only in aggregate -- but that doesn't fix the issues, according to security experts.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
EKANS is a new ransomware that targets industrial control systems: But EKANS also uses another trick to ratchet up the pain: It's designed to terminate 64 different software processes on victim computers, including many that are specific to industrial control systems. That allows it to then encrypt the data that those control system programs interact with.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General (“AG”) issued modified draft regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The AG has provided a redline to the initial draft regulations about which we previously reported. According to the AG’s website , the modified draft regulations are subject to another public comment period.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Voting machinery needs hardware-level security. The stakes are the ultimate, and the attackers among the world's most capable.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Downloads of files like images may be banned if they use HTTP connections - even if they are available from an HTTPS website.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
You are invited to join privacy professionals in the retail sector for topical conversation, learning and networking at the first Retail Privacy Network meeting. This interactive meeting will include hot topics in UK/EU data privacy and cybersecurity with practical case studies on retail industry issues. The agenda will include discussions on: Lessons learned from GDPR enforcement actions and update on cookies.
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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.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
New attacks discovered by Cofense can perform keylogging, steal data and completely hijack a mobile device.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Companies spent $112.7 billion on information security and risk management in 2018, and are projected to increase that outlay almost 9% more per year through 2022, says Gartner.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
RCE and myriad other types of attacks could take aim at the 19 percent of vulnerable companies that haven't yet patched CVE-2019-19781.
Collibra
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
In 2007, the United States experienced the largest financial crash since The Great Depression. The crisis, which started in the United States as a result of a collapse in the housing market, threatened to destroy the entire international financial system. The Great Recession led to a loss of more than $2 trillion in global economic growth and the fall of one of the world’s largest banks, Lehman Brothers.
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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.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
The flaw was recently patched in Android's February Security Bulletin.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Attackers deploy a legitimate, digitally signed hardware driver to delete security software from machines before encrypting files.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
At this point, most companies doing business in California are aware of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and most have been bracing for the eventual onslaught of class action litigation to follow its passage. On February 3, 2020, a class action lawsuit was filed that expressly references the CCPA— Barnes v. Hanna Andersson, LLC, et al., N.D.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
Compliance with the new privacy rules doesn't always fall on data center managers, but when it does, it's more difficult than it may sound.
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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.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
On Friday, February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General (CA AG) released notice of changes to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) draft regulations. Initial draft regulations were published for public comment on October 11, 2019 (as previously covered by Hogan Lovells here ). Public comments on these modified draft CCPA regulations will be accepted by the CA AG until Monday, February 24, 2020 , at 5 pm PST.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
On January 30, 2020, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP submitted formal comments to the Department of Telecommunications at the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (“MCTIC”) on its public consultation on creating a national Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) strategy for Brazil (the “Consultation”).
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 7, 2020
A limited number of user videos were shared with others in a five-day incident from November.
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