Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Syniverse Routes Over 1 Trillion Messages Annually for AT&T, Verizon, Others Telecommunications service provider Syniverse, which routes 1 trillion messages annually for many of the world's mobile phone carriers, has disclosed a five-year breach of its systems, which handle call metadata and text messages. Experts say the exposed data poses serious criminal and espionage risks.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Resecurity researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs, one of the most well-known cyberespionage tools suffers a data leakage. Agent Tesla , first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Reports: Platform's Entire Source Code Compromised in 125GB Leak Amazon-owned video streaming service Twitch, which focuses on video games and e-sports broadcasts, reportedly suffered a massive data breach, which the company vaguely confirmed via Twitter. A post on the anonymous online forum 4chan reportedly indicates that the entire platform was compromised.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The little snippet of Python code strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete a ransomware attack from initial breach to encryption.
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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
OCTOBER 6, 2021
FDA Warns Exploitation of Security Flaw Could Cause Death The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued a warning notifying patients that medical device maker Medtronic has expanded a recall of remote controllers for certain wireless insulin pumps that were part of an earlier recall. The FDA has classified the recall as the most serious type due to issues that could result in serious injury or death.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Shodan Search Shows 112,000 HTTP Servers Running Vulnerable Version Apache, a popular open-source web server software for Unix and Windows, says it has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in its HTTP server that it says has been exploited in the wild. The path traversal and file disclosure vulnerability only affects Apache HTTP servers upgraded to version 2.4.49.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 6, 2021
An anonymous individual has leaked the source code and data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on 4chan. An anonymous individual has leaked online the source code and streamers and users data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch. The anonymous 4chan user has published a torrent link to a 128GB file on the 4chan discussion board, the leaked archive contains sensitive data stolen from 6,000 internal Twitch Git repositories.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Cybersecurity Specialist John Walker on How Attackers Work Cyber extortion through digital means is nothing new, says U.K.-based cybersecurity expert John Walker, but the concerning aspect of today's ransomware attacks is that they are "low-cost in the macro sense and so easy to achieve.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 6, 2021
On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued guidance regarding when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule applies to disclosures and requests for information about a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status. The guidance is a reminder that the HIPAA Privacy Rule applies only to HIPAA covered entities (and, in some cases, to their business associates) and does not apply to empl
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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
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Recent Cyber-Related Incidents Spotlight the Serious Potential Risks Facing Patients The expanded recall of insulin pump devices due to vulnerabilities that pose the risk of injury or death to patients and a recent malpractice lawsuit alleging that the effects of a ransomware attack led to a baby's death are the latest warnings of dangers posed by security issues in medical gear.
DXC Technology
OCTOBER 6, 2021
To develop, test and integrate modern, highly automated or even autonomous driving functions, new capabilities are required. One new and complex discipline is to be able to manage and to automatically process huge amounts of data. This article, based on a use case, shows how data-driven development of AI-based algorithms can be rapidly initiated and […].
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 6, 2021
On October 4, 2021, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) appointed Ashkan Soltani as its first Executive Director. Soltani, a former chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission and senior advisor to the White House, began his new role on Monday. He also is a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law and Policy and the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 6, 2021
An anonymous user posted a link to a 125GB torrent to 4chan yesterday, containing all of Twitch's source code, comments going back to its inception and more.
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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.
The Texas Record
OCTOBER 6, 2021
It’s October, which means that it is once again time to celebrate American Archives Month ! Throughout this month, the records management assistance unit will be taking a closer look into multidisciplinary issues that require input from both records managers and archivists— collaboration between these two professions is the key to solving many RIM-related obstacles.
Zapproved
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Consumer privacy feels more vital than ever, but very few states have laws on the books that protect consumer privacy in a relatable way. Following the 2018 passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act, other states rushed to draft their own versions of this wide-ranging consumer protection law. The singular goal of almost all these […].
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has announced the launch of a Cyber Command Center to address the thousands of attacks that daily target government computers. The governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has launched a Cyber Command Center to repel the huge amount of attacks that every day hit the computer systems of the state. The move is the response of the Arizona administration to hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks that hit the state.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The rare UEFI bootkit drops a fully featured backdoor on PCs and gains the ultimate persistence by modifying the Windows Boot Manager.
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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
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The attack affected Syniverse, a major telecom company that annually routes billions of text messages for hundreds of mobile carriers.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The possible cyberattacks include disabling monitoring, location-tracking of children and malicious redirects of parent-console users.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 6, 2021
As more macOS patches emerge and cybercriminals and nation-states take aim at the platform, experts discuss how macOS security has evolved and how businesses can protect employees.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Ransomware attacks are a huge concern these days, especially for corporate networks. Successful assaults can lead to locked up data and systems, as well as stolen and leaked data, bringing chaos to the targeted companies. Indeed, when the ransomware reaches its target, it’s practically game over. The malware encrypts files and spreads to the entire system to maximize damage, which forces companies to lock down the whole network to stop the propagation.
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IG Guru
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Check out the announcement here. The post EDRM Announces New Global Advisory Council 2021-2022 with Special Advisors and General Counsel appeared first on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Since at least 2018, "MalKamak" group has targeted firms in the Middle East, Russia, and other areas to steal sensitive data, security vendor says.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The data breach apparently includes source code, gamer payouts, and more.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Organizations need to protect against online threats in the most cost-effective manner possible. How do they determine the best managed cybersecurity model?
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Accelerate: The Thales Global Commitment to Helping Partners Drive Sales. divya. Thu, 10/07/2021 - 06:06. The Thales Accelerate Partner Network provides the skills and expertise needed to accelerate results and secure business with Thales technologies. Our program delivers focused training, profitable discount structures, and support. We take pride in offering partners’ best-in-class security solutions and services, while also empowering them to be successful and profitable in the selling, deliv
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Lack of unity in vendor solutions and in security teams' culture are detrimental to a successful and productive security strategy.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Accelerate: The Thales Global Commitment to Helping Partners Drive Sales. divya. Thu, 10/07/2021 - 06:06. The Thales Accelerate Partner Network provides the skills and expertise needed to accelerate results and secure business with Thales technologies. Our program delivers focused training, profitable discount structures, and support. We take pride in offering partners’ best-in-class security solutions and services, while also empowering them to be successful and profitable in the selling, deliv
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