Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2023
Police: Fitzpatrick Waived Right to Silence, Confessed to Starting & Running Forum The alleged administrator of criminal online forum BreachForums may have thought he took steps to hide his real identity, but instead he left a trail of digital breadcrumbs that led to his arrest and prosecution, shows information unsealed in federal court.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2023
In two days, ethical researchers from 10 countries have unearthed more than 22 zero-day bugs in a wide range of technologies at the annual hacking contest.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2023
'Abundance of Caution' Cited for Move; No System Compromise or Data Breach Detected GitHub has replaced its private RSA SSH host key after discovering it was being inadvertently exposed to the public via a GitHub repository. Used to safeguard SSH access to Git operations, a bad actor could use the key to impersonate GitHub or eavesdrop. But GitHub reported no signs of abuse.
Data Matters
MARCH 24, 2023
On 15 March 2023, the UK Government published, alongside its Spring Budget, a report on the Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review (the “ Report ”). The Report was led by the government’s Chief Scientific Advisor and National Technology Officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, who was tasked with “bringing together the best minds to advise how the UK can better regulate emerging technologies, enabling their rapid and safe introduction.
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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
MARCH 24, 2023
CEO Brian Dye Touts CrowdStrike Partnership, Midsized Enterprises as Key to Growth Corelight has cemented partnerships with incident response firms and extended its capabilities from large enterprises to midsized enterprises to further the reach of its technology. Corelight allows its product to be used by CrowdStrike's incident response team during network-based investigations.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2023
Proposed Class Actions Come in Aftermath of Hacking Incident Affecting More Than 1 Million Medical device maker Zoll Medical is facing at least seven proposed class action lawsuits filed since it revealed two weeks ago that the data of 1 million individuals had been caught up in a hacking incident involving the company's internal network.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2023
A new threat actor is racking up victims and showing unusual agility. Part of its success could spring from the use of the Nim programming language.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2023
Mission Helped Find Threats, Vulnerabilities in Albania's Critical Infrastructure The United States sent its top cyber offensive team to NATO ally Albania to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure networks. The Cyber National Mission Force helped find cyberthreats and vulnerabilities on networks likely targeted last year by Iranian threat actors.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2023
The second malicious ChatGPT extension for Chrome has been discovered, giving malicious actors access to users' Facebook accounts through stolen cookies.
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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, 2023
Also, Lawsuit Against Clinic With Poor Security; Gartner Endpoint Protection Trends In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss how Russia's invasion of Ukraine upended the cybercrime ecosystem, a lawsuit against a U.S. cardiovascular clinic that seeks a long list of security improvements, and the latest endpoint protection technology trends in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2023
A contrarian mindset with applied imagination allows security professionals to assess problems in their organization, prevent failure, or mitigate vulnerabilities.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 24, 2023
Don't 'Overregulate,' GOP Subcommittee Chairwoman Tells White House Official Members of a U.S. House subcommittee got their first look at the Biden administration's new National Cybersecurity Strategy and quizzed the White House cybersecurity director on the timeline, proposed regulations and incentives for private businesses.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2023
On the second day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, the organization awarded $475,000 for 10 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. On the second day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, the organization awarded $475,000 for 10 unique zero-day vulnerabilities, bringing the total awarded to $850,000! The bug hunters demonstrated zero-day attacks against the Oracle VirtualBox virtualization platform, Microsoft Teams, Tesla Model 3, and the Ubuntu Desktop OS.
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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.
KnowBe4
MARCH 24, 2023
The details in this thwarted VEC attack demonstrate how the use of just a few key details can both establish credibility and indicate the entire thing is a scam.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 24, 2023
In case you don’t have enough to worry about, people are hiding explosives —actual ones—in USB sticks: In the port city of Guayaquil, journalist Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa private TV station received an envelope containing a pen drive which exploded when he inserted it into a computer, his employer said. Artieda sustained slight injuries to one hand and his face, said police official Xavier Chango.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2023
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications service to help organizations stop ransomware attacks before damage occurs. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced a new Pre-Ransomware Notification initiative that aims at alerting organizations of early-stage ransomware attacks.
KnowBe4
MARCH 24, 2023
In recent years, cybercrime has evolved to become more sophisticated than ever before. One of the up and coming methods used by criminals is vishing (voice phishing ). This is where an attacker phones up a victim to simulate a trusted source such as a bank to phish for sensitive information. No one is immune from a vishing attack, even the Social Security Administration.
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Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2023
A patch for a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has been released for over 500,000 websites. On March 23, 2023, researchers from Wordfence observed that the “ WooCommerce Payments – Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo” plugin had been updated to version 5.6.2. The WooCommerce Payments plugin is a fully integrated payment solution for the WooCommerce open source e-commerce platform, the plugin is developed by Automattic.
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2023
If you haven't done so already, it's time to take the first step toward solving this application security dilemma.
Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2023
Researchers reported that China-linked hackers targeted telecommunication providers in the Middle East in the first quarter of 2023. In the first quarter of 2023, SentinelLabs researchers spotted the initial phases of attacks against telecommunication providers in the Middle East. According to the researchers, the activity is part of the Operation Soft Cell that was first reported in June 2019 by Cybereason.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 24, 2023
My latest book continues to sell well. Its ranking hovers between 1,500 and 2,000 on Amazon. It’s been spied in airports. Reviews are consistently good. I have been enjoying giving podcast interviews. It all feels pretty good right now. You can order a signed book from me here. For those of you in New York, I’m giving at book talk at the Ford Foundation on Thursday, April 6.
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Security Affairs
MARCH 24, 2023
Clop ransomware gang added the City of Toronto to the list of its victims, it is another organization compromised by exploiting GoAnywhere zero-day. Clop ransomware gang added the City of Toronto to the list of victims published on its Tor leak site. The City was targeted as part of a campaign exploiting the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in the Fortra’s GoAnywhere secure file transfer tool.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 24, 2023
College of Policing statement comes after ICO proposes forces across England and Wales no longer ‘should’ name those charged People charged with a crime should have no reasonable expectation of privacy, the national policing standards body has said. The statement from the College of Policing came after media organisations raised concerns over proposed changes to the college’s guidance that stated forces across England and Wales no longer “should” name those charged with crimes including indecent
Dark Reading
MARCH 24, 2023
The joint partnership represents expanded market opportunities.
eDiscovery Law
MARCH 24, 2023
K&L Gates participated in this week’s 2023 Legalweek in New York City. As members of our firm’s e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (“e-DAT”) Group attended panel discussions regarding emerging legal issues and met with vendors regarding evolving legal technologies, they noted three trends that were being discussed by everyone at the conference.
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IG Guru
MARCH 24, 2023
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eDiscovery Law
MARCH 24, 2023
K&L Gates participated in this week’s 2023 Legalweek in New York City. As members of our firm’s e-Discovery Analysis & Technology (“e-DAT”) Group attended panel discussions regarding emerging legal issues and met with vendors regarding evolving legal technologies, they noted three trends that were being discussed by everyone at the conference.
KnowBe4
MARCH 24, 2023
A report from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found that data theft extortion occurred in 70% of ransomware attacks in 2022, compared to 40% in 2021. The researchers examined the four most common methods of cyber extortion (encryption, data theft, harassment, and DDoS attacks) noting that threat actors often combine these tactics within a single attack campaign.
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