Data Breach Today
JANUARY 20, 2021
Researchers Says Malicious Network Could Be Used to Launch DDoS Attacks Researchers at Check Point Research are tracking a new botnet dubbed "FreakOut" that's targeting vulnerabilities in Linux systems. The malware is creating a malicious network that has the potential to launch DDoS attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 20, 2021
Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face from the 827 videos taken from the insurrection on January 6.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 20, 2021
Threat Actors Accessed 'Limited Subset of Internal Company Emails' The CEO of security firm Malwarebytes says the hackers who attacked SolarWinds also targeted his company and gained access to a "limited subset of internal company emails.
IT Governance
JANUARY 20, 2021
Your employees encounter potential cyber security threats on a daily basis. Perhaps there’s a new face in the office that they don’t recognise, or a new password they need to remember, or a database of sensitive information that they need to upload onto the Cloud. In The Psychology of Information Security , Leron Zinatullin explains how employees respond to those challenges and explains why they make the decisions they do.
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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
JANUARY 20, 2021
FireEye Also Describes Hackers' Tools and Techniques Security firm FireEye has released a free auditing and remediation tool on GitHub that it says can help organizations determine if the hacking group that targeted SolarWinds used similar techniques within their network to gain access to Microsoft Office 365 accounts.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 20, 2021
Pandemic Expert Regina Phelps Says Next Weeks Are Critical As the U.S. marks its first anniversary of fighting COVID-19, pandemic expert Regina Phelps says the next several, critical weeks come down to two vital words: vaccines and variants. "Those are going to determine our destiny for the long and foreseeable future," she says.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 20, 2021
The far-right platform still hasn't found a US-based home. Where it lands could have serious consequences for its users' privacy.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 20, 2021
The Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has announced it is terminating its operation following the December cyberattack. The Russian cryptocurrency exchange was hacked on Christmas Eve, it published a message on its website warning customers to stop using its services. “Dear clients, we ask you to stop using our service in all meanings: don’t deposit funds, don’t trade, don’t use API.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 20, 2021
Although the Covid-19 pandemic remains far from over, the rollout of vaccines around the world brings cause for hope during 2021. For the many organizations that have been on a reactive footing during the crisis, now is the time to switch to a more proactive phase of planning for the post-pandemic world and start to … The post Why the human element is an essential part of digital appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Threatpost
JANUARY 20, 2021
Cisco is stoppering critical holes in its SD-WAN solutions and its smart software manager satellite.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 20, 2021
Google’s Project Zero has exposed a sophisticated watering-hole attack targeting both Windows and Android: Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted vulnerabilities that at the time were unknown to Google, Microsoft, and most outside researchers (both companies have since patched the security flaws). The hackers delivered the exploits through watering-hole attacks, which compromise sites frequented by the targets of interest and lace the sites with code that installs malwa
Security Affairs
JANUARY 20, 2021
Cybersecurity firm FireEye has released a report that sheds the light on the SolarWinds attack and the way hackers breached its networks. Cybersecurity firm FireEye has released a report that sheds the light on the SolarWinds attack and the way hackers breached its networks. The experts explained how the UNC2452 and other threat actors breached the infrastructure and moved laterally from on-premises networks to the Microsoft 365 cloud.
IG Guru
JANUARY 20, 2021
Organizations are increasingly going to O365 and utilizing technologies like TEAMS, SharePoint and Yammer, among others. Companies are confounded about how to retain that information. This survey will help understand what organizations are doing and better guide them. The survey will take no more than 3 minutes, it’s anonymous, and results will be posted on […].
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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.
Threatpost
JANUARY 20, 2021
The company also issued patches for Tesla-based GPUs as part of an updated, separate security advisory.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 20, 2021
Flaws in popular messaging apps, such as Signal and FB Messenger allowed to force a target device to transmit audio to an attacker device. Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich found multiple flaws in popular video conferencing apps such as Signal and FB Messenger, that allowed to force a target device to transmit audio of the surrounding environment to an attacker device.
Threatpost
JANUARY 20, 2021
The attack vector was not the Orion platform but rather an email-protection application for Microsoft 365.
The Texas Record
JANUARY 20, 2021
Does your work email have you dropping everything and running for the hills? Do your allergies flare up when you contemplate what lies beyond that “sent” folder? Would you like some TSLAC guidance? Worry no more. Analysts Andrew and Erica have put together a one stop shop webinar for all of your email needs. In this introduction to email management webinar, you will learn how to determine when an email is a record, how to identify which emails you should keep, and the principles of i
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 20, 2021
Threat actors went to elaborate lengths to maintain operational security around second-stage payload activation, company says.
Threatpost
JANUARY 20, 2021
Users of dating apps - like Tinder, Match and Bumble - should be on the lookout for investment-fraud scammers.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 20, 2021
The techniques used in real-world combat apply in cybersecurity operations, except that instead of bullets flying downrange, it's packets.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 20, 2021
On January 21, 2021, President Biden designated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter as Acting Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Slaughter will take over as Acting Chair from former Chairman Joseph Simons, who resigned effective January 29, 2021. Slaughter has served as an FTC Commissioner since May 2018. As the Acting Chair, Slaughter has responsibility for the administration of the Commission.
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IG Guru
JANUARY 20, 2021
Every month, the archival institutions of this nation unleash tiny particles of the past in a frenzy of online revelry. The post The Record Keepers’ Rave via The New York Times appeared first on IG GURU.
Info Source
JANUARY 20, 2021
Acquisition expands MetaSource’s offices across the United States. New York City, New York – January 5, 2021 – Business process outsourcing provider Digiscribe announced it has been acquired by MetaSource, LLC, a Utah-based, industry-leading digital transformation solutions provider. The acquisition provides clients of both companies with an expanded array of state-of-the-art business automation solutions and expertise at a time when a record number of businesses are struggling to transiti
Information Matters
JANUARY 20, 2021
Pitchbook’s Leah Hodgson has written about the impact of lockdowns on the London startup scene. Like most office-based organisations, startups are questioning the need for expensive office space in the Read more. The post London startups follow remote working trend appeared first on Information Matters.
Threatpost
JANUARY 20, 2021
Mystery of spying using popular chat apps uncovered by Google Project Zero researcher.
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Information Matters
JANUARY 20, 2021
Anyone designing, building or managing mobile apps will want to read the latest research report from App Annie, The State of Mobile 2021. Packed with data from their app monitoring Read more. The post Building mobile apps? Read this. appeared first on Information Matters.
Jamf
JANUARY 20, 2021
Global financial group, BBVA, shares their Apple Enterprise Management story.
Information Matters
JANUARY 20, 2021
Legal experts RPC report that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is encouraging organisations to make use of its Regulatory Sandbox to experiment with new ways of managing data. The areas Read more. The post ICO’s Regulatory Sandbox is open for business appeared first on Information Matters.
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