Wed.Jun 29, 2022

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What’s Holding You Back from the Cloud?

Daymark

What’s holding you back from the cloud? For many organizations it’s the need for a new set of operational knowledge for IT staff. Cloud solutions can alleviate many of the operational aspects of maintaining infrastructure, but can also bring many of the same traditional requirements for designing connectivity, data availability, performance, and security.

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Russian Cyberattack on Ukrainian TV Channels Blocked

Data Breach Today

Ukraine Fights Russian Disinformation Perpetuated by Hacking and Social Media Ukraine says it has thwarted multiple Russian misinformation campaigns, including blocking attempts to penetrate the electronic systems of its TV channels on the eve of its Constitution Day holiday. It also flagged social media accounts spreading fake videos.

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Nearly a Million Kubernetes Instances Exposed on Internet

eSecurity Planet

Cybersecurity researchers have found more than 900,000 instances of Kubernetes consoles exposed on the internet. Cyble researchers detected misconfigured Kubernetes instances that could expose hundreds of thousands of organizations. The researchers found a number of indicators of exposure in the open source container orchestration platform: KubernetesDashboard Kubernetes-master Kubernetes Kube K8 Favicon:2130463260, -1203021870.

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How UK Cyber Security Council Is Addressing Cyber Skills Gap

Data Breach Today

Council CEO Simon Hepburn Shares Updates, New Approach The UK Cyber Security Council is responsible for running the cybersecurity industry’s Cyber Certified Professional scheme. The council seeks to set the standard for chartered cybersecurity professionals and align with qualifications and certifications in the sector, says council CEO Simon Hepburn.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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How to modernize cybersecurity in higher education

Jamf

Learn how to keep higher education students and educators protected, compliant, and thriving by solving key challenges and threats to cybersecurity.

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Patch Now: Linux Container-Escape Flaw in Azure Service Fabric

Dark Reading

Microsoft is urging organizations that don't have automatic updates enabled to update to the latest version of Linux Server Fabric to thwart the "FabricScape" cloud bug.

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Bank of the West Customers Hit by ATM Skimmer Attack

Data Breach Today

Debit Card Numbers and Associated PINs Compromised, Says Bank Fraudsters compromised debit card numbers and associated PINs, and possibly names and addresses, of an undisclosed number of Bank of the West customers. Unknown thieves installed skimmers in a "small number of ATMs," the bank's COO, Karl Werwath, tells ISMG.

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HHS Releases Guidance on Audio-Only Telehealth Practices

Hunton Privacy

On June 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released guidance to help covered entities understand how they can use remote communication technologies for audio-only telehealth in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules (the “Guidance”). Specifically, the Guidance clarifies how audio-only telehealth can be conducted after OCR’s Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth (the “Telehealth Notification”), put in place dur

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CyGlass Separates From Nominet, Pursues XDR Partnerships

Data Breach Today

The Company Wants to Extend Its Purview Beyond the Network and Ingest EDR Tool Data CyGlass completed a management buyout from Nominet just two years after being acquired and wants to build an EDR stack via partnerships. Board and management changes at Nominet in 2021 resulted in the company returning to its registry roots and gave CyGlass workers the chance to buy the company.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Sidley Adds Partners Seale and Wilan to Growing Cybersecurity Practice

Data Matters

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Sidley announced today that Jennifer Seale and Jonathan Wilan have joined as partners in the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. Ms. Seale and Mr. Wilan join Sidley from Baker McKenzie where they played key roles in the Global Cybersecurity practice. Ms. Seale has deep experience in the oversight and management of some of the most complex cybersecurity investigations of the past decade.

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FBI Warns of Deepfakes Used to Apply for Remote Jobs

KnowBe4

If you're looking for your company's next remote IT position, you may want to think twice before doing so. The FBI recently reported to the Internet Complaint Center today that there are multiple complaints of people using deepfake video to apply for remote jobs in tech.

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ZuoRAT Hijacks SOHO Routers From Cisco, Netgear

Dark Reading

The malware has been in circulation since 2020, with sophisticated, advanced malicious actors taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in SOHO routers as the work-from-home population expands rapidly.

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How Vulnerability Management Has Evolved And Where It’s Headed Next

The Security Ledger

The blocking and tackling work of scan management is becoming a commodity, writes Lisa Xu, the CEO of NopSec in this Expert Insight. What organizations need now is complete visibility of their IT infrastructure and business applications. The post How Vulnerability Management Has Evolved And Where It’s Headed Next appeared first on The Security. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Identity Fraud: The New Corporate Battleground State of Modern Application Security: 6 Key Takeaways For 202

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Mitre shared 2022 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses

Security Affairs

The MITRE organization published the 2022 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. The MITRE shared the list of the 2022 top 25 most common and dangerous weaknesses, it could help organizations to assess internal infrastructure and determine their surface of attack. The presence of these vulnerabilities within the infrastructure of an organization could potentially expose it to a broad range of attacks. “Welcome to the 2022 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE ) Top 25 Most Dangerous Sof

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Innovative Way to Bypass MFA Using Microsoft WebView2 Is Familiar Nevertheless

KnowBe4

An interesting way to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) was recently announced by Bleeping Computer. This particular attack method requires a potential victim to be tricked into downloading a malicious executable (not so hard unfortunately), and the resulting rogue code then uses Microsoft Edge’s WebView2 control to essential create a rogue web page which can mimic any other web page, except with new malicious coding inserted.

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YTStealer info-stealing malware targets YouTube content creators

Security Affairs

Researchers detailed a new information-stealing malware, dubbed YTStealer, that targets YouTube content creators. Intezer cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new information-stealing malware, dubbed YTStealer, that was developed to steal authentication cookies from YouTube content creators. The malware is highly likely available as a service on the Dark Web.

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How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. divya. Thu, 06/30/2022 - 05:43. Like many, I am planning a “COVID revenge” break this summer. Getting everything booked was surprisingly uneventful; that is, until I tried to reserve a kennel for my two dogs. Everything is booked solid or outrageously expensive. I could stay at the Ritz for less than I can get them boarded!

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Path Traversal flaw in UnRAR utility can allow hacking Zimbra Mail servers

Security Affairs

Researchers discovered a new flaw in RARlab’s UnRAR utility, tracked CVE-2022-30333, that can allow to remotely hack Zimbra Webmail servers. SonarSource researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in RARlab’s UnRAR utility, tracked as CVE-2022-30333, that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a system that relies on the binary, like Zimbra webmail servers.

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Wars and Lechery, Nothing Else Holds Fashion for Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

Shakespeare said it first, and things haven’t changed: suffering and desire continue to drive victims to the social engineers. Researchers at Bitdefender have observed a phishing campaign that’s using a phony dating site for men to meet Ukrainian women.

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RansomHouse gang claims to have stolen 450GB of data from chip maker giant AMD

Security Affairs

The RansomHouse gang claims to have breached the Chipmaker giant AMD and stole 450 GB of data from the company in 2021. The RansomHouse extortion gang claims to have stolen 450 GB of data from the chipmaker giant AMD in 2021 and threatens to leak it or sell it if the company will not pay the ransom. The company has been added this week to the gang’s dark web leak site: According to BleepingComputer , a RansomHouse partners has breached the network of AMD a year ago, but the leak site repor

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Bad News to Ransom Payers: 80% of You Will Face a Second Attack Within 30 Days

KnowBe4

New insight into what happens during and after a ransomware attack paints a rather dismal picture of what to expect from attackers, your executives, and your operations.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.

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BT asks for more time as ban on Huawei equipment approaches

The Guardian Data Protection

UK telecoms operator struggling to meet January 2023 deadline to remove all Chinese firm’s equipment from core network BT has requested an extension to the UK government’s deadline for removing Huawei equipment from its network, following a ban on using the Chinese company’s equipment because of data security concerns. BT, which has said the removal of Huawei equipment from its core network where personal data is processed would cost it £500m , has lodged a request with the Department for Digita

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New Evasive Phishing Techniques Help Cybercriminals Launch “Untraceable” Campaigns

KnowBe4

Scary new details emerge of cybercriminals using reverse tunneling and URL shorteners to evade detection by security solutions, allowing them to take victims for their credentials and more.

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Cyberattacks via Unpatched Systems Cost Orgs More Than Phishing

Dark Reading

External attacks focused on vulnerabilities are still the most common ways that companies are successfully attacked, according to incident data.

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80% of Organizations Await “Inevitable” Negative Consequences From Email-Born Cyberattacks

KnowBe4

With nearly every organization experiencing some form of phishing attack, new data suggests these attacks are improving in sophistication, effectiveness, and impact.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Shifting the Cybersecurity Paradigm From Severity-Focused to Risk-Centric

Dark Reading

Embrace cyber-risk modeling and ask security teams to pinpoint the risks that matter and prioritize remediation efforts.

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Ecuador’s Attempt to Resettle Edward Snowden

Schneier on Security

Someone hacked the Ecuadorian embassy in Moscow and found a document related to Ecuador’s 2013 efforts to bring Edward Snowden there. If you remember, Snowden was traveling from Hong Kong to somewhere when the US revoked his passport, stranding him in Russia. In the document, Ecuador asks Russia to provide Snowden with safe passage to come to Ecuador.

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5 Surprising Cyberattacks AI Stopped This Year

Dark Reading

See how these novel, sophisticated, or creative threats used techniques such as living off the land to evade detection from traditional defensive measures — but were busted by AI.

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