Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Lawmakers Want to Restrict Agencies From Postponing Security Measures Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., have introduced a bill designed to patch loopholes in the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015 that they say allow federal agencies to easily avoid implementing required cybersecurity procedures.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The U.S. FBI is warning private industry partners of a surge in Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a flash alert (MU-000140-MW) to warn private industry partners of an increase of the Ragnar Locker ransomware activity following a confirmed attack from April 2020.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
President-Elect Taps Former Obama Administration Officials President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced that two former Obama-era officials are his nominees to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Director of National Intelligence.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Amid the mad dash for bargains and inevitable stories of shop-floor brawls, Black Friday brings with it a spike in cyber security threats, as cyber criminals take advantage of people desperate for bargains. In this blog, we look at some of the scams you should look out for and what you can do to protect yourself. Why Black Friday is primetime for cyber crime.
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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.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Among the Causes: Hit Against Managed.com Website Hosting Giant Ransomware continues to pummel many types of organizations, recently including South Korea's E-Land retail group, French newspaper Paris-Normandie and a Georgia county school system. A ransomware hit against hosting giant Managed.com has resulted in ongoing site outages for numerous others.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
GoDaddy Employees Reportedly Tricked by Social Engineering Techniques Last week, fraudsters targeted two cryptocurrency platforms by accessing domains managed by GoDaddy, according to notices published by the victimized firms. The domain register company has had previously issues with unauthorized access.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The company is rolling out a patch today for the vulnerabilities, which allowed one researcher to break into one in 90 seconds and drive away.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Pandemic Expert Regina Phelps on Infection Trends, Vaccine Production It took 100 days for the world to record its first 1 million COVID-19 infections. A week ago, 1 million cases were added in just over one day. In advance of the Thanksgiving break, pandemic expert Regina Phelps shares insights on the virus, testing and how soon we might see vaccines.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
VMware explained it has no patch for a critical escalation-of-privileges bug that impacts both Windows and Linux operating systems and its Workspace One.
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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.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
TikTok has addressed a couple of security issues that could have been chained to led account takeover. . The first issue addressed by the social media platform is a reflected XSS security flaw that has been reported by the bug bounty hunter Muhammed “ milly ” Taskiran via the bug bounty platform HackerOne. The Cross-Site-Scripting flaw affected the company domains www.tiktok.com and m.tiktok.com and its exploitation could have lead to data exfiltration. “The researcher discover
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one of 59 election security experts, basically saying that while the election seems to have been both secure and accurate (voter suppression notwithstanding), we still need to work to secure our election systems: We are aware of alarming assertions being made that the 2020 election was “rigged” by exploiting technical vulnerabilities.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Boffins have demonstrated how to steal a Tesla Model X in a few minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s keyless entry system. A team of researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has demonstrated how to steal a Tesla Model X in minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car’s keyless entry system.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Companies should plan their future workforce model now, so they have time to implement the necessary tools, including cybersecurity and seamless remote access, a Forrester report says.
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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.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Computer security and data privacy are often poorly considered issues, experts urge more awareness of cyber threats. Computer security and data privacy are often poorly considered issues until incidents occur and unfortunately sometimes even the very seriousness of the events, understood as virtual happenings, is not adequately perceived. An injection of digital culture is needed to increase awareness of the cyber threat in all its forms.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The TA416 APT has returned in spear phishing attacks against a range of victims - from the Vatican to diplomats in Africa - with a new Golang version of its PlugX malware loader.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Quanta magazine recently published a breathless article on indistinguishability obfuscation — calling it the “‘crown jewel’ of cryptography” — and saying that it had finally been achieved, based on a recently published paper. I want to add some caveats to the discussion. Basically, obfuscation makes a computer program “unintelligible” by performing its functionality.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Colleges and universities are ramping up cybersecurity education with a wider range of degree programs and more resources for students to build their infosec careers.
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Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, especially for scammers. Consumers are typically spending more, doing it quickly and not paying as much attention to who they’re buying it from because of the rush. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many shoppers will make the bulk of their purchases online, which means this year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping frenzy could be riskier than usual.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
‘Vishing’ attack on GoDaddy employees gave fraudsters access to cryptocurrency service domains NiceHash, Liquid.
Micro Focus
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
What is GITOpS (and why does it matter)? Operations is the lifeblood of every IT department, and for most IT managers it’s also the bane of their existence. IT Operations can be costly, and it consumes vast amounts of resources in the form of time and labor. If it weren’t such a critical part of. View Article.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Premier League soccer club says the attack didn't affect its website and app, and it doesn't appears to have exposed any fan or customer data either.
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Threatpost
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Users of the music streaming service were targeted by attackers using credential-stuffing approaches.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Researchers illustrate the evolution toward more complete and effective ransomware attacks designed to cripple target organizations.
OneHub
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Sharing digital files is an integral part of business operations. A 2016 Hubspot study revealed the average business stores 162.9 terabytes of data. These businesses estimated their accumulated data would increase by over 50% within a year and a half. That data represents priceless information, but it’s only useful if you can share it with other users quickly and securely.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
VMware addressed six vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN Orchestrator product that can potentially expose enterprise networks to hack. VMware last week addressed six vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3984, CVE-2020-3985, CVE-2020-4000, CVE-2020-4001, CVE-2020-4002, CVE-2020-4003) in its SD-WAN Orchestrator product, including some issues that can be chained by an attacker to hijack traffic or shut down an enterprise network.
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
A new analysis of 11 relatively inexpensive video doorbells uncovered high-risk vulnerabilities in all of them.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Gartner has just published its annual assessments of the content services sector: 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms 2020 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Content Services Platforms The two reports, of course, touch down in an enterprise landscape that’s far different than the environment of just a year ago. The events of 2020 have introduced abrupt shifts in work habits and operational tactics.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
An FPGA-based system could change the balance of power between hardware attackers and defenders within IT security.
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