Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2020
Researcher Says Spear-Phishing Incident Has Hallmarks of Nation-State Attack A hacking group targeted the World Health Organization earlier this month with an apparently unsuccessful spear-phishing campaign designed to harvest credentials as the United Nations organization was grappling with the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 24, 2020
Defending enterprise networks has become a convoluted challenge, one that is only getting more byzantine by the day. I’ve written about the how SIEMs ingest log and event data from all across hybrid networks, and about how UEBA and SOAR technologies have arisen in just the past few years to help companies try to make sense of it all, even as catastrophic breaches persist.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2020
Attorney Sadia Mirza Reviews 'Spring Cleaning' of Landmark CCPA Privacy Law Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, California's attorney general on March 11 released a second modification of the proposed regulations to implement the California Consumer Protection Act. Attorney Sadia Mirza explains what's included in this "spring cleaning.
ForAllSecure
MARCH 24, 2020
Introduction. For ForAllSecure, I’ve been focusing on finding bugs in OpenWRT using their Mayhem software. My research on OpenWRT has been a combination of writing custom harnesses, running binaries of the box without recompilation, and manual inspection of code.
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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
MARCH 24, 2020
Researchers: Mukashi Botnet Can Use Infected Devices to Launch DDoS Attacks Security researchers are tracking a variant of the prolific Mirai botnet called Mukashi, that's taking advantage of vulnerabilities in network-area storage devices made by Zyxel and giving its operators the ability to launch DDoS attacks. Zyxel has issued a patch for the vulnerability.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2020
Company Has Detected 'Limited Targeted Attacks' So Far Microsoft is warning that attackers are exploiting a pair of critical, zero-day flaws in Windows that allow for remote code execution, which could enable a threat actor to take over an infected device. Although a patch for the flaws is not expected until April, the company described workarounds.
erwin
MARCH 24, 2020
In these challenging times, many of our customers are focused on disaster recovery and business contingency planning. Disaster recovery is not just an event but an entire process defined as identifying, preventing and restoring a loss of technology involving a high-availability, high-value asset in which services and data are in serious jeopardy. Technical teams charged with maintaining and executing these processes require detailed tasks, and business process modeling is integral to their docum
Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2020
Matt Barrett and Joe Drissell of U.S. Cyberdome discuss the new initiative to foster cross-campaign cybersecurity collaboration and the ramifications of potentially holding an election during social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PerezBox
MARCH 24, 2020
Whether we like it or not, we have all become the network administrators of our own home networks. As such, our responsibilities extend beyond protecting our families to helping to. Read More. The post 3 Tips to Secure Your Home Network appeared first on PerezBox.
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
MARCH 24, 2020
Hackers are Looking for Every Opportunity to Bypass Security Measures, and MFA is no Exception. Hackers are looking for every opportunity to bypass security measures, and MFA is no exception.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 24, 2020
Puerto Rico is considered allowing for Internet voting. I have joined a group of security experts in a letter opposing the bill. Cybersecurity experts agree that under current technology, no practically proven method exists to securely, verifiably, or privately return voted materials over the internet. That means that votes could be manipulated or deleted on the voter's computer without the voter's knowledge, local elections officials cannot verify that the voter's ballot reflects the voter's in
Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2020
Use These Five Tips to Quickly Spot Differences When Evaluating MFA Solutions Use these five tips to quickly spot differences when evaluating MFA solutions.
Data Matters
MARCH 24, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has created significant cybersecurity risks for organizations across the world, particularly arising from remote working, scams and phishing attacks, and weakened information governance controls. These risks warrant attention by legal counsel and information security officers in light of potentially significant adverse legal, financial and reputational consequences that could arise – all while the organization is dealing with effects of a global pandemic.
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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
MARCH 24, 2020
Improve Vendor Remote Access Security, Reduce 3rd Party Risk AND Reduce Costs An emerging technology, Vendor Privileged Access Management (VPAM) can provide both operational efficiencies and increased security in your projected ROI analysis. And that is a rare combination in InfoSec these days.
Jamf
MARCH 24, 2020
To best keep students and educators safe — schools are re-evaluating their teaching practices and learning environments to accommodate an at-home, remote learning experience. In part four of our five-part blog series, we show you ways to offer active learning through projects and breakout groups.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 24, 2020
In the midst of media reports of job cuts and business closures, the Bank of America has just announced the hiring of 1700 new employees into critical support roles. As more and more people are instructed to stay at home, it’s impossible to overestimate the importance of seamless and continuous engagements with financial services customers. … The post Nurturing relationships while working remotely appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2020
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered the activity of a new threat actor, tracked as WildPressure, targeting the industrial sector in th e Middle East. The WildPressure was spotted for the first time in August 2019 when researchers detected a never-before-seen malware that has no similarities with other samples analyzed by the experts. “In August 2019, Kaspersky discovered a malicious campaign distributing a fully fledged C++ Trojan that we call Milum.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 24, 2020
On March 21, 2020, the data security provisions of New York’s Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (“SHIELD Act”) went into effect. The SHIELD Act requires any person or business owning or licensing computerized data that includes the private information of a resident of New York (“covered business”) to implement and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of the private information.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2020
General Electric (GE) s a data breach that exposed personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries. The technology giant General Electric (GE) disclosed a data breach that exposed personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries. The data breach was caused by a security breach suffered by one of GE’s service providers, Canon Business Process Services.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2020
As pandemic worsens, online profiteering -- from fraudsters to ransomware operators to cybercriminal hacking -- continues unabated, despite some promises from the underground.
ForAllSecure
MARCH 24, 2020
Introduction. For ForAllSecure, I’ve been focusing on finding bugs in OpenWRT using their Mayhem software. My research on OpenWRT has been a combination of writing custom harnesses, running binaries of the box without recompilation, and manual inspection of code. I found this vulnerability initially by chance when I was preparing a Mayhem task for opkg.
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Hunton Privacy
MARCH 24, 2020
The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a Bulletin on sharing and protecting patients’ protected health information (“PHI”) in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) during the COVID-19 national emergency. The Bulletin emphasizes that the HIPAA Privacy Rule is still in effect during this national emergency, but that HIPAA-covered entities may use or disclose patients’ PHI when necess
Import.IO
MARCH 24, 2020
The online food delivery industry has emerged and grown tremendously over the past decade. Users have increasingly come to realize the convenience that online food delivery can provide them, making the food delivery market seemingly limitless. As of January 2020, 60 percent of U.S. consumers order delivery or takeout once. The post How Web Data Can Benefit the Food Delivery Industry appeared first on Import.io.
ForAllSecure
MARCH 24, 2020
Introduction. For ForAllSecure, I’ve been focusing on finding bugs in OpenWRT using their Mayhem software. My research on OpenWRT has been a combination of writing custom harnesses, running binaries of the box without recompilation, and manual inspection of code. I found this vulnerability initially by chance when I was preparing a Mayhem task for opkg.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2020
Abuse. ch launched the MalwareBazaar service, a malware repository to allow experts to share known malware samples and related info. Abuse. ch launched a malware repository, called MalwareBazaar , to allow experts to share known malware samples and related analysis. MalwareBazaar is available for free and only collects known malware samples, the repository will not include adware or potentially unwanted applications (PUA/PUP). “ MalwareBazaar is a project operated by abuse. ch.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2020
Gone are the days when threat actors had to actually spend time and effort planning and developing an attack on their own, Recorded Future says.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 24, 2020
The US is desperate for hospital beds. The USACE can build thousands of them in a matter of days.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2020
As more companies shift their software to a microservices-based architecture and orchestrate their containerized applications in Kubernetes, distributed security controls become a must.
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