Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Phishing, Spam, Malware, Social Engineering and Other Recent Attack Trends Reviewing online attack trends for the first half of the year, numerous cybersecurity firms agree: COVID-19 was king. As the pandemic has reshaped how many live and work, so too has it driven attackers to attempt to exploit work-at-home challenges and virus fears.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Understaffed, underfunded, and underequipped, IT teams in the K-12 sector face a slew of challenges amid remote and hybrid learning models. Here's where they can begin to protect their schools against cyberattacks.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
British Man Switches to Guilty Plea in Case Tied to Several Healthcare Hacks A U.K. resident who was a member of The Dark Overlord hacking group pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday and was sentenced to five years in prison, according to the U.S. Justice Department. The group targeted several healthcare organizations and others.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Operation Disruptor is an unprecedented international law enforcement effort, stemming from last year’s seizure of a popular underground bazaar called Wall Street Market.
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
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Authorities Seize Virtual Currency, Drugs, Firearms An international coalition of police agencies made 179 arrests and seized virtual currency, cash and drugs based on intelligence gathered from earlier takedowns of the Wall Street and Alphabay darknet marketplaces.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Security Experts Offer an Analysis of the Impact Will recent U.S. indictments of several alleged Iranian hackers - as well as government sanctions against an APT group - have a deterrent effect? Security experts share their opinions on the impact of these actions.
The Guardian Data Protection
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
EU court in July ruled there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies Facebook has warned that it may pull out of Europe if the Irish data protection commissioner enforces a ban on sharing data with the US, after a landmark ruling by the European court of justice found in July that there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
CEOs and CISOs on Assessing and Mitigating the New Risk Landscape It might be new, but are we ready to call this "normal?" In this latest in a series of CEO/CISO panels, cybersecurity leaders talk frankly about the new risk surface and the role emerging technologies play in helping us keep pace with our adversaries.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
A global police sting dubbed Operation DisrupTor targeted vendors and buyers of illicit goods on the dark web, Europol announced. A coordinated operation conducted by law enforcement agencies across the world, dubbed Operation DisrupTor, targeted vendors and buyers of illicit goods on the dark web. The operation, led by the German federal criminal police, saw the participation of law agencies from Austria, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States.
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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
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Suspicious Activity Reports Reveal Tools and Techniques to Adversaries, Experts Warn What will be the impact of the leak of investigatory documents from FinCEN - the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network? For starters, experts warn that FinCEN reports may reveal sensitive information tied to banks and law enforcement agencies' investigatory tools and tactics.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
A United Kingdom national, member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group was sentenced to five years in federal prison, announced the US DoJ. The United Kingdom national Nathan Wyatt (39), a member of ‘The Dark Overlord’ hacking group, was extradited to the United States in December 2019. The man was charged by U.S. authorities on six counts of aggravated identity theft, threatening to damage a protected computer, and conspiracy.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Regulator: Georgia Clinic Showed 'Systemic Noncompliance' Federal regulators have announced a $1.5 million HIPAA settlement with a Georgia orthopedic clinic stemming from a 2016 breach involving The Dark Overlord hacking group. The case serves as a warning of the potentially hefty cost of failure to implement a comprehensive HIPAA compliance program.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Amazon drivers — all gig workers who don’t work for the company — are hanging cell phones in trees near Amazon delivery stations, fooling the system into thinking that they are closer than they actually are: The phones in trees seem to serve as master devices that dispatch routes to multiple nearby drivers in on the plot, according to drivers who have observed the process.
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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.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
The 2020 Security Effectiveness Report shares our findings from an evaluation of 100+ enterprise production environments globally across every major vertical.
Data Matters
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
In 2017, the Swiss government issued a draft bill for a new Swiss Data Protection Act (“nDPA”) with two main goals: (1) to enhance the level of protection of personal data provided in the current Swiss Data Protection Act which dates back to 1992 (largely, to align with the EU GDPR); and (2) to ensure that there is an “adequate” level of data protection to allow for the continued flow of personal data from the EEA to Switzerland.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Federal Agencies Need to Report Compliance by Wednesday U.S. government agencies are supposed to have now patched the "Zerologon" vulnerability by now, about six weeks after Microsoft issued a patch. CISA warns that too many systems remain unpatched.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
No real surprises, but we finally have the story. The story he went on to tell is strikingly straightforward. De Guzman was poor, and internet access was expensive. He felt that getting online was almost akin to a human right (a view that was ahead of its time). Getting access required a password, so his solution was to steal the passwords from those who’d paid for them.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Continuously Validate Security to Maximize the Value of Your Investments The 2020 Security Effectiveness Report shares our findings from an evaluation of 100+ enterprise production environments globally across every major vertical.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
The investigation of German authorities on the recent attack on the Dusseldorf hospital reveals the possible involvement of Russian hackers. Last week, German authorities revealed that a cyber attack hit a major hospital in Duesseldorf, the Duesseldorf University Clinic, and a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.
DXC Technology
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Lee, an online personal counselor, helps employees who struggle with feelings of mild anxiety or loneliness while working from home. Rather than cope alone, they talk with Lee to destress. “You’re lonely?” Lee might say. “I’m sorry about that. Can you tell me more about how you’re feeling?” Those words might not seem surprising from […]. The post The latest from DXC’s Applied AI Studio: A chatbot to help remote workers de-stress appeared first on DXC Blogs.
The Texas Record
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Note: This article only applies to local governments and state agencies that are not healthcare providers. Any public health agencies, public hospitals, or health departments should follow the retention periods in Schedule HR (for local governments) or in their specific agency retention schedule. Since the start of the 2020 pandemic, many organizations have started collecting information on the people visiting their facilities: temperature checks, symptom reporting, test results, etc.
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Adam Levin
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
The personal information of 540,000 sports referees, league officials, and school representatives has been compromised following a ransomware attack targeting a software vendor for the athletics industry. ArbiterSports, a software provider for several sports leagues including the NCAA, announced that it had averted a ransomware attack in July 2020, but despite blocking the attempt to encrypt their systems, the company discovered that a database backup had been accessed prior to the attack.
Record Nations
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Currently, the coronavirus is forcing businesses who are traditionally paper-based to suddenly transition into a paperless way of managing things. While there are many benefits to a paperless office, it can be difficult to navigate the transition. While there are many benefits to a paperless office, there are also many aspect which are similar to […].
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
The most common tactics include credential stuffing using valid accounts, various forms of deception, and vulnerabilities in third-party software, Rapid7 says in its latest quarterly threat report.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
A too-large percentage of cloud databases containing highly sensitive information are publicly available, an analysis shows.
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
New research shows how security skills are lacking across multiple IT disciplines as well - including network engineers, sys admins, and cloud developers.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Google's new release of Chrome 85.0.4183.121 for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes 10 security flaws.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
More than $44.75 million in rewards were paid to hackers over the past year, driving total payouts beyond $100 million.
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