Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Quantum Resistant Encryption – Are You Ready? madhav. Tue, 11/02/2021 - 09:10. . Some good news and a couple of tips for being prepared. Over the past few months, a handful of Thales CPL clients have mentioned their concern regarding the future threat of quantum computing to their data security frameworks. If you take a good hard look at the risks arising from Quantum, there is bad news and good news.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Nevada Cancer Center Is Also Dealing With the Aftermath of an Attack A recent cyberattack on Community Medical Centers in Northern California has potentially compromised the information of more than 656,000 individuals. Meanwhile, Las Vegas Cancer Center reportedly fell victim to a ransomware attack during Labor Day weekend.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A number of publications in September warned about the emergence of “ Groove ,” a new ransomware group that called on competing extortion gangs to unite in attacking U.S. government interests online. It now appears that Groove was all a big hoax designed to toy with security firms and journalists. “An appeal to business brothers!” reads the Oct. 22 post from Groove calling for attacks on the United States government sector.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

European Commission: Guidelines Aim to Protect Wireless Privacy, Prevent Fraud Wireless device makers in the European Union market will soon have to adhere to a new set of cybersecurity guidelines at the design and production stages of manufacturing, according to the European Commission. The guidelines target devices such as mobile phones, tablets and other products.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers devised a new attack method called ‘Trojan Source’ that allows hide vulnerabilities into the source code of a software project. Trojan Source is a new attack technique demonstrated by a group of Cambridge researchers that can allow threat actors to hide vulnerabilities in the source code of a software project. The technique could be exploited to inject stealth malware without impacting the semantics of the source code while changing its logic. “We present a new type

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Researchers warn of a now-fixed critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GitLab ‘s web interface actively exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity researchers warn of a now-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22205 , in GitLab’s web interface that has been actively exploited in the wild.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

New Players and Rebranding Remain Constant, as Does Challenge of Operating Anonymously While ransomware remains many criminals' weapon of choice for reliably shaking down victims, the ransomware-attacker landscape itself continues to evolve in numerous ways, with a constant influx of fresh players, regular rebranding, as well as the challenge of cashing in cryptocurrency while staying anonymous.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Google’s Android November 2021 security updates address a zero-day vulnerability in the Kernel that is actively exploited in the wild. Google’s Android November 2021 security updates addressed 18 vulnerabilities in the framework and system components and 18 issues in the kernel and vendor components. One of these issues, tracked as CVE-2021-1048, is a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the kernel that could be exploited for privilege escalation.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Report Calls for Congressional Action to Address Risks With Fiat-Backed Tokens A new report from the U.S. Treasury Department urges Congress to "act promptly" to issue legislation that brings additional oversight to stablecoins, or crypto tokens pegged to fiat currencies. Federal officials say regulation should match that of traditional financial institutions - as a way to mitigate investor, market and cybersecurity risks, among others.

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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Google is going to increase the bounty for finding and exploiting privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Good news for white hat hackers, Google is going to increase the bounty for demonstrating privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The payouts for privilege escalation exploits using a known vulnerability will be up to US$31,337, while zero-day exploits will be awarded a payout of $50,337.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Crypto exchanges that want to maintain credibility must implement some of the same "know your customer" controls used by banks and similar institutions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A ransomware attack hit the systems at the Toronto Transit Commission public transportation agency and disrupted its operations. The Toronto Transit Commission announced on Friday that its systems have been infected with ransomware, the attack began on Thursday night and disrupted its activities. At this time, no ransomware gang has taken responsibility for the attack.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

IBM is moving into the endpoint detection and response (EDR) market with the acquisition of ReaQta. IBM is positioning the announcement as part of its launch of an XDR product. Extended detection and response (XDR) has emerged in recent years as a unified enterprise security platform, a way for vendors to package their offerings together into a comprehensive cybersecurity solution.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Interesting Twitter thread on how cell phone metadata can be used to identify and track people who don’t want to be identified and tracked.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

‘Shrootless’ allows bypass of System Integrity Protection IT security measures to install a malicious rootkit that goes undetected and performs arbitrary device operations.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Article I: Digital Asset Overview and Methods to Gain Exposure to Digital Assets . Given the growth of markets for cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based assets, often referred to as “digital assets,” we see growing interest from traditional investment managers in gaining exposure to this emerging asset class. We have seen development of many new products and service offerings to facilitate institutional investment in digital assets over the past year.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Facebook announced to shut down its Face Recognition system and is going to delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. Facebook announced it will stop using the Face Recognition system on its platform and will delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. Facebook is using the face recognition system to analyze photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile photos to automatically recognize them in photos and videos. “In the comi

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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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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Singapore High Court and the Hong Kong District Court have both considered the right to compensation for injury to feelings in two recent cases involving misuse of personal data but arrived at different conclusions. Singapore : In Bellingham, Alex v. Reed, Michael , Mr. Bellingham obtained the email addresses of his former employers’ customers without their consent and contacted them.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In this card-based game from Kaspersky, players work through a cyberattack scenario and learn how each decision they make has consequences.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On October 28, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission announced the issuance of a new enforcement policy statement warning companies against using dark patterns that trick consumers into subscription services. The policy statement comes in response to rising complaints about deceptive sign-up tactics like unauthorized charges or impossible-to-cancel billing.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Microsoft will expand its cloud security tools to AWS within a suite called Defender for Cloud and launch a new Defender for Business in preview later this month.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION16 CFR Part 314RIN 3084-AB35 Standards for Safeguarding Customer InformationAGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.ACTION: Final Rule. SUMMARY: The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) is issuing afinal Rule (“Final Rule”) to amend the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information(“Safeguards Rule” or “Rule”). The amended Rule contains five main modifications tothe existing Rule.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Google’s Android November 2021 security updates plug 18 flaws in the framework and system components and 18 more in the kernel and vendor components.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The FBI warns of ransomware attacks on businesses involved in “time-sensitive financial events” such as corporate mergers and acquisitions. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a new private industry notification (PIN) to warn organizations of targeted ransomware attacks aimed at companies involved in “time-sensitive financial events” such as corporate mergers and acquisitions.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Attackers research financial information about an organization and threaten to disclose it if they don't receive ransom quickly.

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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.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The FBI is warning about a fresh extortion tactic: threatening to tank share prices for publicly held companies.

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In 1925, inventor Hugo Gernsbacher suggested a remote control device for physicians and called it ‘Teledactyl,’ effectively predicting telemedicine nearly a century ago. Since then, healthcare innovation has accelerated to the point where the industry was able to deliver viable and safe COVID-19 vaccines in less than 12 months. How can clinical data intelligence help … The post A staged approach to achieving clinical data intelligence appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Anti-dumping code kept investors from selling SQUID while fraudsters cashed out.

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