Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2022
Glen Hymers of UK Cabinet Office on Keeping Communication Relevant Cybersecurity practitioners have gained the attention of corporate boards, but that attention must be converted into momentum, says Glen Hymers, head of Data Privacy and Compliance at the U.K. Cabinet Office. He advises discussing risk in the context of what competitors and peers have achieved.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 1, 2022
After years of competitive jockeying, the leading tech giants have agreed to embrace a brand new open-source standard – called Matter – that will allow consumers to mix and match smart home devices and platforms. Related: The crucial role of ‘Digital Trust’ After numerous delays and course changes, the Matter protocol, is set to roll out this fall, in time for the 2022 holiday shopping season.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2022
Known Unknowns Include Count of Victims and Ransoms Paid, Criminal Profits and More How many organizations fall victim to a ransomware outbreak? How many victims pay a ransom? How many victims see stolen data get leaked? A new study from the EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA offers answers, but carries major caveats due to rampant underreporting of such attacks.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 1, 2022
"Bruggling" emerges as a novel technique for pilfering data out from a compromised environment — or for sneaking in malicious code and attack tools.
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 1, 2022
Check Point Beats Q2 Earnings Forecast Despite Spike in Materials, Shipping Costs Continued supply chain costs dampened an otherwise positive Q2 earnings report for Check Point. The company is spending historic mounts on buying raw materials on the open market and shipping those materials to the production line – an expense issue expected to stretch into 2023.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2022
Crackdown on Ransomware has Operators Seeking Alternatives Hackers are turning to cryptojacking to make easy money despite the fall in cryptocurrency valuation, including ransomware cybercriminals attracted by the lower stakes world of cryptojacking, says threat intelligence firm SonicWall. The financial industry has seen a surge in cryptojacking attacks.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 1, 2022
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have breached the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang claims to have hacked the European gas pipeline Creos Luxembourg S.A. Creos Luxembourg S.A. owns and manages electricity networks and natural gas pipelines in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. In this capacity, the company plans, constructs and maintains high, medium and low-voltage electricity networks and high, medium and low-pressure natural gas pipelines,
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2022
The Business Associates Also List Dozens of Affected Covered Entity Clients Two hacking incidents involving vendors providing important IT-related and other services to dozens of covered entity clients are among the latest breaches affecting hundreds of thousands of individuals' data.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 1, 2022
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes. The Amazon company responded to an inquiry from US Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), confirming that there have been 11 cases in 2022 where Ring complied with police “emergency” requests.
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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
AUGUST 1, 2022
Ken Palla Discusses New Guidance From the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reportedly plans to release new guidance requiring banks to reimburse consumers for certain money-transfer service scams. Ken Palla, former director at Union Bank, says banks might look to the U.K. for examples of how to stop authorized push payment fraud.
IT Governance
AUGUST 1, 2022
Whether you’re a small organisation with limited resources or an international firm, achieving ISO 27001 certification will be a challenge. Anyone who has already been through the process will know that. You must assemble a team, conduct a gap analysis and risk assessment, apply security controls, create documentation and perform staff awareness training.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 1, 2022
A complex and ambitious investment scam has used more than 10,000 domains to induce speculators to give up not just funds, but personal information as well. Researchers at security firm Group-IB describe the campaign as one that proceeds through several distinct stages. It begins with ads placed in social media, or with pages displayed in compromised Facebook or YouTube accounts.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 1, 2022
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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 1, 2022
Tech companies play a vital role in global communication, which has profound effects on how politics, policies, and human rights issues play out.
National Archives Records Express
AUGUST 1, 2022
We are pleased to announce the publication of NARA’s Federal Agency Records Management Annual Report, 2021. This consolidated report provides a summary analysis of the state of records management programs across the federal government. In January 2022, NARA required federal agencies to submit three reports: the annual Senior Agency Official for Records Management (SAORM) Report, the annual Records Management Self-Assessment (RMSA), and a supplemental Federal Electronic Records and Email Manageme
Threatpost
AUGUST 1, 2022
Infosec expert Rani Osnat lays out security challenges and offers hope for organizations migrating their IT stack to the private and public cloud environments.
IG Guru
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 1, 2022
Thales and Palo Alto Networks collaborate to offer mid-markets the enterprise protection. divya. Tue, 08/02/2022 - 05:05. Combatting Cybersecurity Threats Through Integration. According to a recent study by RSM US , nearly three-quarters of middle-market businesses will experience a cyberattack in 2022. The problem of the increasing threat landscape is equally reflected in the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 1, 2022
A Justice Department official testifies to a House committee that the cyberattack is a "significant concern.
IG Guru
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 1, 2022
Customers across several European countries are urged to update credentials in the wake of the attack that affected a gas-pipeline operator and power company.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 1, 2022
Data is everywhere. It grows exponentially year by year, and it is our duty to keep up with its overwhelming volume and complexity. The thing is, we’re so focused on conquering our data that we often forget this battle to understand it has been one we’ve been fighting since the beginning of time. However, we’ve always overcome this and been able to synthesize and communicate our data findings throughout the years. .
Dark Reading
AUGUST 1, 2022
Canary tokens — also known as honey tokens — force attackers to second-guess their potential good fortune when they come across user and application secrets.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 1, 2022
An Australian national has been charged for the creation and sale of the Imminent Monitor (IM) spyware, which was also used for criminal purposes. The 24-year-old Australian national Jacob Wayne John Keen has been charged for his alleged role in the development and sale of spyware known as Imminent Monitor (IM). The Australian Federal Police (AFP) launched an investigation into the case, codenamed Cepheus, in 2017 after it received information about a “suspicious RAT” from cybersecu
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