Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A Canadian teen has been arrested for his alleged role in the theft of roughly $36.5 million worth of cryptocurrency. A Canadian teenager has been arrested for his alleged role in the theft of roughly $36.5 million worth of cryptocurrency from an American individual. The news of the arrest was disclosed by the Hamilton Police in Ontario, Canada, as a result of a joint investigation conducted by the FBI and the United States Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force that started in March 2020.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Privacy and cybersecurity concerns are expanding, and with them the proliferation of laws and regulations. Boards play a key role in ensuring that companies are positioned to comply with various jurisdictional requirements, that they understand and mitigate related risks, and that they are well-prepared to play a key role in response to security breaches and incidents.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In a year in which ransomware attacks seem to get worse by the day, companies have made surprising progress defending themselves against attacks. But the attention paid to the malware by journalists, cybersecurity vendors and increasingly, government agencies , has pushed companies to improve their preparedness to defend themselves against ransomware gangs, according to a report this week by security solutions vendor Cymulate.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A hacking group is targeting a broad range of organizations, taking advantage of vulnerabilities that have been patched but not yet updated.

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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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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I'm outdoors! I've really wanted to get my mobile recording setup slick for some time now and after a bunch of mucking around with various mics (and a bit of "debugging in production" during this video), I'm finally really happy with it. I've just watched this back and other than mucking around with the gain in the first part of the video, I reckon it's great.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Zero trust isn't a silver bullet, but if implemented well it can help create a much more robust security defense.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

American pizza chain California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) suffered a data breach that might have exposed personal information of its employees. American pizza chain California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) suffered a data breach, the company has already notified employees whose personal information might have been exposed. According to a data breach notification sent to the impacted employees, the security breach was discovered on September 15.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

There is currently no specific time frame during which banks must report to federal regulators that a security incident had occurred. A new notification rules changes that to 36 hours.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The Tor Project offers rewards to users who will set up a Tor server after observing a significant drop in the number of Tor relays and Tor bridges. Bridges are private Tor relays that allow users to circumvent censorship, their role is essential in countries, that block Tor connections such as China, Belarus, Iran, and Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, maintainers of the project reported that the number of Tor bridges has decreased since January, for this reason, they are urging users to set up new s

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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The path out of the ransomware crisis is full inspection and protection of all traffic flows. That means zero trust everywhere — even between servers.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The State Department has offered a $10M reward for tips on the two Iran-based threat actors accused of voter intimidation and disinformation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

North Korea-linked TA406 APT group has intensified its attacks in 2021, particularly credential harvesting campaigns. A report published by Proofpoint revealed that the North Korea-linked TA406 APT group ( Kimsuky , Thallium , and Konni , Black Banshee, Velvet Chollima) has intensified its operations in 2021. The TA406 cyber espionage group was first spotted by Kaspersky researchers in 2013.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A hefty slice of data – that of 100K+ current and former employees – was spilled in an “external system breach,” the pizza chain said. .

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“Almost as swiftly as cybersecurity has emerged as a major corporate and public policy concern, a body of cybersecurity law has developed.” Check out the post about the new book here. The post The IAPP releases new book Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals (Digital) appeared first on IG GURU.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

NordicTrack customers were watching Netflix using a simple trick—until the company blocked their access.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Security leaders can be treated as partners supporting the business and share accountability by establishing relationships with business stakeholders.

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Record Nations

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Do you know Record Nations? Whether we’ve worked with you for years, or you’re new to the business, we thought it was high time we introduced you to some of the people behind the brand. While we may have been in business for roughly two decades, a lot has changed over the years. We’ve incorporated […]. The post Who We Are – Cindy Laczkowski: Vice President of Phone Sales appeared first on Record Nations.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Android will adopt iOS-like privacy nutrition labels , called the “ Data safety form ,” starting April 2022. And according to Google, apps that fail to comply with this upcoming requirement may be “subject to policy enforcement, like blocked updates or removal from Google Play.”. While it may be tempting to just repurpose the iOS nutrition labels, Google notes “the Data safety form will ask for additional and different information that you may not have used previously.

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HID Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

How PKIaaS Simplifies Compliance With European Union (EU) Regulations. mchandarana. Fri, 11/19/2021 - 13:59.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family. Naturally, a great deal of phishing schemes that precede these bank account takeovers begin with a spoofed text message from the target’s bank warning about a suspicious Zelle transfer.

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HID Global

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

How Enpro, Inc. Uses RFID to Improve Efficiency for Its Customers. raufreiter. Fri, 11/19/2021 - 13:54.

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Docuware

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

DocuWarians is a blog feature that introduces you to the people behind the product. In this post, we're highlighting Compliance Manager.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

IoT security is where endpoint detection and response ( EDR ) and enterprise mobility management ( EMM ) meet the challenges of a rapidly expanding edge computing infrastructure. As the enterprise attack surface grows, IoT is yet another attack vector organizations aren’t fully prepared to defend. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are the smart consumer and business systems powering the homes, factories, and enterprise processes of tomorrow.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Researchers revealed that Conti ransomware operators earned at least $25.5 million from ransom payments since July 2021. A study conducted by Swiss security firm Prodaft with the support of blockchain analysis firm Elliptic revealed that the operators of the Conti ransomware have earned at least $25.5 million from attacks and subsequent ransoms carried out since July 2021.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Rowhammer is an attack technique involving accessing — that’s “hammering” — rows of bits in memory, millions of times per second, with the intent of causing bits in neighboring rows to flip. This is a side-channel attack, and the result can be all sorts of mayhem. Well, there is a new enhancement: All previous Rowhammer attacks have hammered rows with uniform patterns, such as single-sided, double-sided, or n-sided.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Among other things, the pair pretended to be Proud Boys volunteers and sent in a fake video and emails to Republican lawmakers purporting to show Democratic Party attempts to subvert the 2020 presidential elections.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“ Eerie video captures elusive, alien-like squid gliding in the Gulf of Mexico.” As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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