Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Move by Colonial Pipeline Attackers Follows Law Enforcement Action Against REvil Following an outage of the REvil - aka Sodinokibi - ransomware operation due to coordinated law enforcement efforts involving the U.S. and foreign partners, the operators behind DarkSide ransomware have moved Bitcoin worth almost $7 million to multiple new wallets, making it more difficult to track.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The Conti ransomware affiliate program appears to have altered its business plan recently. Organizations infected with Conti’s malware who refuse to negotiate a ransom payment are added to Conti’s victim shaming blog, where confidential files stolen from victims may be published or sold. But sometime over the past 48 hours, the cybercriminal syndicate updated its victim shaming blog to indicate that it is now selling access to many of the organizations it has hacked.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Flaw in DarkSide and BlackMatter Enabled Security Firm to Decrypt Files for Free While ransomware might be today's top cybercrime boogeyman, attackers aren't infallible. The latest example: Errors in DarkSide - and its BlackMatter rebrand - enabled security experts to quietly decrypt many victims' files for free, saving millions in potential ransom payments.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 25, 2021
When it comes to cyber attacks, most businesses think: “It could never happen to us,” but some plots are just hitting a little too close to home. Related: T-Mobile breach reflects rising mobile device attacks. For instance, if you’ve ever played Grand Theft Auto, you know the goal is quite simply mass destruction: Use whatever resources you have at your disposal to cause as much damage as you possibly can and just keep going.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The Rant of the Day From Ian Keller, Ericsson In his second Rant of the Day for the CyberEdBoard Profiles in Leadershop blog, Ian Keller, security director at Ericsson and CyberEdBoard executive member, talks about what a CISO does - and what a CISO should do.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Retailer Says an Attempt Was Made to Interfere With Its Systems Grocery retailer Tesco said it faced a service disruption on its app and website. The company told ISMG that the outage was likely due to an attempt to interfere with its systems. On Monday, a company spokesperson said that both the website and app were now "back up and running.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2021
As reported on the Hunton Retail Resource Blog , on October 20, 2021, a new wave in the fight against “robocalls” is targeting telemarketing text messages. In the past six months, there has been an uptick in activity at both the state and federal level to reign in telemarketing text messages. On July 1, 2021, Florida’s “mini-TCPA” went into effect. The mini-TCPA amends Florida’s Telemarketing Act in several key ways, most notably in allowing consumers to maintain a private cause of action for vi
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Chronic disease management firm Omada Health has been changing its approach to cloud intrusion prevention and detection, which is reducing time spent on investigating false positives, says the company's information security leader, Bill Dougherty.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Tesco’s website and app came back online late last night, following a disruption that began on Saturday. Customers had been unable to use the supermarket’s services after a reported cyber attack. Tesco was initially vague about what happened, calling it simply “an issue”, but an update yesterday clarified that there had been a deliberate attempt to compromise its systems.
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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.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Horizon3.ai CEO Snehal Antani on Re-Setting Enterprise Security Expectations At a time when ransomware, zero day vulnerabilities and supply chain threats are rampant, what is effective security? Snehal Antani, CEO of Horizon3.ai, defines "effective security" in today's context and describes how enterprises can achieve and maintain it.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Threat actors infected the iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware between June 2018 to June 2021. The iPhone of New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was repeatedly infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The device was compromised two times, in July 2020 and June 2021. The attacks were documented by the Citizen Lab research team from the University of Toronto, the infections took place while the journalist was wording on a book about Saud
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Microsoft Says Nobelium APT Is Eyeing Resellers, Tech Service Providers The actor behind the cyberattack targeting SolarWinds customers - Nobelium - is continuing its campaign to target the global IT supply chain, according to a new advisory from Microsoft, which says 140 resellers and tech service providers have been notified that they have been targeted by the group.
Jamf
OCTOBER 25, 2021
With macOS Monterey now available, it's a good time to revisit the tips in our recent webinar for Apple OS upgrade season. Learn how you can be an IT hero to your end users by managing expectations and ensuring a secure and successful rollout.
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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
OCTOBER 25, 2021
US CISA urges administrators to address a critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-41163, in Discourse installs. Discourse is a popular open-source Internet forum and mailing list management software application. The US CISA published a security advisory to urge administrators to fix a critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-41163 , in Discourse installs.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification puts research universities in a position where they must validate the effectiveness of their security controls before applying for a grant or bidding on a government contract.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Kansas man Wyatt Travnichek admitted in court to tampering with the computer systems at the Post Rock Rural Water District. Kansas man Wyatt A. Travnichek pleaded guilty to tampering with the computer system at a drinking water treatment facility at the Post Rock Rural Water District. The man also pleaded guilty to one count of reckless damage to a protected computer system during unauthorized access. .
Threatpost
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The Nobelium group, linked to Russia's spy agency, is looking to use resellers as a path to infiltrate their valuable downstream customers - and it's working.
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Jamf
OCTOBER 25, 2021
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Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Citizen Lab is that a New York Times journalist was hacked with the NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus, probably by the Saudis. The world needs to do something about these cyberweapons arms manufacturers. This kind of thing isn’t enough; NSO Group is an Israeli company.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 25, 2021
A SQL injection bug in the BillQuick billing app has not only leaked sensitive information, it’s also let malicious actors remotely execute code and deploy ransomware.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Microsoft says the group has attacked more than 140 service providers and compromised 14 of them between May and October of this year.
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Threatpost
OCTOBER 25, 2021
An SQL-injection bug in the BQE Web Suite billing app has not only leaked sensitive information, it’s also let malicious actors execute code and deploy ransomware.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Filling crucial roles in cybersecurity and addressing the talent shortage requires rethinking who qualifies as a "cybersecurity professional" and rewriting traditional job descriptions.
IG Guru
OCTOBER 25, 2021
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Security flaws in contactless payments for transportation systems could lead to fraud for stolen devices, researchers find.
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Threatpost
OCTOBER 25, 2021
The patch, urgently rushed out on Friday, is an emergency fix for the widely deployed platform, whose No. 1 most trafficked site is Amazon’s Seller Central.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2021
While the industrial goods and services sector saw a decline in attacks during the third quarter, it remains the most targeted sector for ransomware this year.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Every financial services organization today understands the importance of data maturity. Data maturity is about maximizing the value of your data to answer business questions, empower employees and deliver an improved customer experience. But there’s a major gap between where banks are and where they want to be. Most financial institutions are striving to combine … The post Bridging the data ‘achievement gap’ for financial services appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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