Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 15, 2020
FireEye: 'FIN11' Deploys Clop Ransomware A newly identified financially motivated threat group, dubbed "FIN11," is deploying Clop ransomware and exfiltrating data from its targets for extortion efforts, according to researchers at FireEye Mandiant.
AIIM
OCTOBER 15, 2020
In this episode of AIIM On Air I am joined by Greg Council, VP Marketing and Product Management at Parascript. Greg is a member of the AIIM leadership council and an expert in digital transformation using tools like advanced data extraction, taxonomy, and search. We discuss document processing automation and the rising application of Machine Learning.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 15, 2020
System Housing Customer Data Accessed; Company Takes Down Nook E-Book Platform Books retailer Barnes & Noble is investigating a security incident involving unauthorized access to its corporate systems, including those storing customers' information. To begin its mitigation efforts, the company shut down its systems, which meant its Nook e-book platform was offline.
Troy Hunt
OCTOBER 15, 2020
You know how some people are what you'd call "house proud" in that they like everything very neat and organised? You walk in there and everything is in its place, nice and clean without clutter. I'm what you'd call "network proud" and the same principle applies to how I manage my IP things: That's just a slice of my Ubiquiti network map which presently has 91 IP addresses on it between clients and network devices.
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
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Cisco Talos: Botnet Targets Windows, Linux Devices to Mine for Monero Researchers at Cisco Talos are warning about a sudden spike in activity related to the "Lemon Duck" cryptominer botnet that mines for monero.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Innovation and Privacy Enhancements Complicate Law Enforcement Investigations Cybercrime wouldn't exist as we know it today without there being a multitude of technologies and services that criminals have been able to turn to their advantage, and cryptocurrency is one of the prime examples, not least when it comes to ransomware, darknet markets and money laundering.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Cyber threats are so numerous that it’s impossible to prevent security incidents altogether. That’s why they organisations increasingly relying on cyber insurance policies to cover the costs when data breaches and cyber attacks occur. But just how helpful is cyber insurance? We take at a look at everything you need to know in this blog. What is cyber insurance?
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Malwarebytes: 'Silent Librarian' Seeks Intellectual Property A hacking group with suspected ties to Iran's government is again targeting universities in the U.S. and around the world, according to researchers with security firm Malwarebytes. "Silent Librarian" typically attempts to steal intellectual property.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 15, 2020
New York's Department of Financial Services calls for more cybersecurity regulation at social media firms following the "jarringly easy" Twitter 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.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Adobe says the two critical flaws (CVE-2020-24407 and CVE-2020-24400) could allow arbitrary code execution as well as read or write access to the database.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Puerto Rico’s firefighting department discloses a security breach, hackers breached its database and demanded $600,000. Puerto Rico’s firefighting department discloses a security breach, hackers breached its database and demanded a $600,000 ransom. According to the department’s director, Alberto Cruz, the ability of the department to respond to emergencies was not impacted by the attack.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Earlier this month, we learned that someone is disrupting the TrickBot botnet network. Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot, an enormous collection of more than two million malware-infected Windows PCs that are constantly being harvested for financial data and are often used as the entry point for deploying ransomware within compromised organizations.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 15, 2020
U.S. Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed a cyber attack and that the threat actors have exposed the customers’ data. Barnes & Noble, Inc. , is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. The bookseller also operated the Nook Digital, which is a spin-off division that sells eBook and e-Reader platform.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 15, 2020
In an interview with WIRED, dean of the Columbia Journalism School Steve Coll says the media has learned some important lessons since 2016 about covering stolen email leaks.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 15, 2020
During its 39th plenary session on October 8, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted guidelines on relevant and reasoned objection under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines relate to the cooperation and consistency provisions set out in Chapter VII of the GDPR, under which a lead supervisory authority (“LSA”) has a duty to cooperate with other concerned supervisory authorities (“CSAs”) in order to reach a consensus.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Hackers accessed personal information of guests, employees and crew for Carnival Cruise, Holland America and Seabourn as well as casino operations.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Just as they did with PowerShell for Windows, threat actors are abusing native O365 capabilities for lateral movement, command-and-control communication, and other malicious activity.
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Threatpost
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Customers' lists of book purchases along with email addresses and more could have been exposed -- and that's a problem.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 15, 2020
The Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the implementation of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and its availability starting next week. The popular Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the availability of the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) starting next week. The new E2EE feature will be made available for both paid and free accounts. “We’re excited to announce that starting next week, Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) offering will be available as a technical preview, which means
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Members of the QQAAZZ group helped cybercriminals conceal origins of stolen funds, DoJ alleges.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 15, 2020
After backlash over false marketing around its encryption policies, Zoom will finally roll out end-to-end encryption next week.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Cybercriminal team previously associated with point-of-sale malware and data theft has now moved almost completely into the more lucrative crimes of ransomware and extortion.
IG Guru
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Check out the guidance from the IRS here. The post How long should you keep your US tax records? appeared first on IG GURU.
Collibra
OCTOBER 15, 2020
If you have been using enterprise ERP and CRM systems for a long time, you know that they have a vast organizational impact. Your organization has invested heavily in these systems, and they continuously generate valuable operational and transactional data. This data is essential to power analytics and support critical business decisions. You need a reliable way of getting it with the right business context.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Critical technology initiatives leveraging the best of technology solutions are the only way through the cyber chaos of 2020.
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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.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 15, 2020
In-game features of the just-released FIFA 21 title give scammers easy access its vast audience.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 15, 2020
We could be in the middle of a major transition to shorter and shorter certificate life spans, which has significant implications for how IT organizations manage certificates across the enterprise.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 15, 2020
Companies that use Broadvoice's cloud-based VoIP platform may find their patients, customers, suppliers and partners to be impacted by a massive data exposure.
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