Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2020
SEC Filing Warns That Guest and Employee Data Likely Compromised Carnival Corp., the world's largest cruise ship company, is investigating a ransomware attack that likely compromised guest and employee data, according its filing with the SEC. It's the company's second security incident this year.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2020
Security vendor Prevailion says it observed signs of malicious activity on the cruise operator's network between at least February and June.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2020
Coveware: Average Ransom Paid Jumps 60%; Sodinokibi, Maze, Phobos Dominate Ransomware gangs continue to see bigger payoffs from their ransom-paying victims, driven by "big-game hunting," data exfiltration and smaller players seeking larger returns, according to ransomware incident response firm Coveware.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2020
GitHub, used badly, can be a source of more vulnerabilities than successful collaborations. Here are ways to keep your development team from getting burned on GitHub.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2020
Palo Alto Networks' Sean Duca Describes the Cloud-Delivered Service Model The emerging cloud-delivered service model known as security access service edge, or SASE, is designed to help simplify security for remote access, says Sean Duca of Palo Alto Networks, who explains how the model works.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2020
Sizing Up Efforts at the State and Local Level to Enhance Protections State and local governments are better equipped to ensure election security than they were four years ago, says Christopher Krebs, director of CISA, who calls on election officials to serve as "risk managers." His comments came at ISMG's Cybersecurity Virtual Summit.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2020
The government is responding to threats targeting the GCKey service and CRA accounts, which are used to access federal services.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2020
Akamai: Extortionists Target Financial Firms, Use APT Group Personas Copycats using well-known threat actor names, such as Fancy Bear and Armada Collective, are launching extortion campaigns tied to distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial institutions, according to Akamai's Security Intelligence Research Team.
IT Governance
AUGUST 18, 2020
A survey has found that 54% of UK universities reported a data breach to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) in the past 12 months. Of the 86 universities that responded to a Freedom of Information request from security firm Redscan, the majority admitted serious shortcomings in their ability to prevent data breaches. According to the study , 46% of university staff haven’t received staff awareness training in the past year, and universities spend just £7,529 a year on average educating
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
AUGUST 18, 2020
It's a myth that organizations with legacy systems cannot implement DevSecOps, says Md.Mahbubul Alam Rafel, head of information security at Prime Bank in Bangladesh.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2020
Ukrainian authorities arrested the members of a cybercrime gang who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges involved in money laundering. Police in Ukraine announced the arrest of the members of a cybercrime gang composed of three individuals who ran 20 cryptocurrency exchanges used in money laundering activities. According to the Ukrainian officials, the cryptocurrency exchanges allowed crooks to launder more than $42 million in funds for other criminals.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2020
When a Vendor Gets Hit, Many Customers Can Be Affected Two recent ransomware incidents that targeted companies serving healthcare organizations highlight an emerging vendor risk management challenge in the sector.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2020
Security researchers have discovered a new crypto-minining botnet, dubbed TeamTNT, that is able to steal AWS credentials from infected servers. Security firm Cado Security reported that the TeamTNT botnet is the first one that is able to scan and steal AWS credentials. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April and that targets Docker installs.
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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.
Hanzo Learning Center
AUGUST 18, 2020
Remember the story that the Verge broke a few years ago—aka December 2019—about Steph Korey, the Away CEO who stepped down after former employees claimed that she created a “toxic work culture” through Slack messages?
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2020
The world’s largest cruise line operator Carnival Corporation has disclosed that one of their brands suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend. Cruise line operator Carnival Corporation has disclosed that one of their brands was hit with a ransomware attack over the past weekend. Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator, currently the world’s largest travel leisure company, with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels across 10 cruise line brands.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2020
Interesting paper: " How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid ": Abstract : Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale. This is particularly alarming from a security perspective, as humans have proven to be one of the weakest links when protecting critical infrastructure in general, and the power grid in particular.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2020
A critical vulnerability in Jenkins server software could result in memory corruption and cause confidential information disclosure. A critical vulnerability in Jenkins server software, tracked as CVE-2019-17638 , could result in memory corruption and cause confidential information disclosure. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community.
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2020
Enterprises can significantly alleviate current and long-standing third-party risk by using tactical and strategic efforts to assess and manage them.
The Texas Record
AUGUST 18, 2020
Ah, working from home! A great time to enjoy the creature comforts of our dwellings. But when your workplace is also your leisure space, wires can be crossed and you may develop what I’m calling “RIM-Brain.” A leisure activity like watching movies takes on larger implications as the RIM-Brain takes over. In short, some of the analysts at TSLAC can’t enjoy a movie without seriously mulling the RIM (Records and Information Management) implications of the film.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 18, 2020
“Phone spear phishing” attacks have been on the rise since a bitcoin scam took over the social media platform in July.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2020
Juniper identifies phishing campaign targeting business customers with malware using password protection, among other techniques, to avoid detection.
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Micro Focus
AUGUST 18, 2020
So what is our why? Many times in my life, I’ve heard a senior executive ask “what’s your why?” Generally, this is directed at an individual, with an intent of understanding what makes him or her tick. In other words, why do you get up in the morning and why are you passionate about what. View Article.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2020
A recently uncovered, active campaign called "Duri" makes use of HTML smuggling to deliver malware.
DXC Technology
AUGUST 18, 2020
A wildlife videographer typically returns from a shoot with hundreds of gigabytes of raw video files on 512GB memory cards. It takes about 40 minutes to import the files into a desktop device, including various prompts from the computer for saving, copying or replacing files. Then the videographer must create a new project in a […]. The post Eliminating toil in the cloud with NoOps automation appeared first on DXC Blogs.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2020
The malware harvests AWS credentials and installs Monero cryptominers.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2020
Latest attacks bank on the reputation of two prominent APT groups to increase the threat credibility.
ForAllSecure
AUGUST 18, 2020
Remember trigonometry, where you were given the length of two sides of a triangle and had to compute the third side? We remembered vaguely SOH CAH TOA, but not much more. One thing we would have bet $50 on: That there wouldn’t be a buffer overflow in basic trigonometric functions. We would have lost that bet.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 18, 2020
It's time to position quality and security as equals under the metric of software integrity.
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