Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2020
Remote Desktop Protocol: Experts See No Apocalypse, But Urge Better Defenses As the coronavirus drives a massive upsurge in remote working, a review of remote desktop protocol usage suggests RDP adoption hasn't spiked. But as IT teams rely more heavily on remote access, experts warn that too many RDP systems remain internet-exposed.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 31, 2020
A spear-phishing attack this week hooked a customer service employee at GoDaddy.com , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The incident gave the phisher the ability to view and modify key customer records, access that was used to change domain settings for a half-dozen GoDaddy customers, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2020
Wide Variety of Personal Information Exposed Marriott acknowledged Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed the personal records of millions of hotel guests. It's the second major breach reported by the hotel giant in two years.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 31, 2020
DevOps is now table stakes for any company hoping to stay competitive. Speed and agility is the name of the game. And everyone’s all-in. Related: A firewall for microservices DevSecOps arose to insert security checks and balances into DevOps, aiming to do so without unduly degrading speed and agility. If you’re thinking that speed and security are like oil and water, you’re right.
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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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2020
Several Sectors, Including Healthcare, Are Still Being Targeted The FBI has issued an alert reminding the healthcare sector and other industries about the ongoing threat of Kwampir remote access Trojan attacks on the supply chain.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2020
Emerging Threats Include Phishing, 'Zoom-Bombing' Fraudsters are taking advantage of the increasing use of Zoom for video conferencing to support those working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. They're waging phishing campaigns with Zoom themes and hijacking - or "Zoom bombing" - sessions.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 31, 2020
All the major examples of supply chain disruptions over the previous 20 years – from the SARS epidemic to the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami – have led to the development of new levels of supply chain risk management. However, the lessons learned about the vulnerabilities in global supply chains from these events can’t easily be … The post How to adapt to supply chain disruptions caused by the Coronavirus appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 31, 2020
Researchers Issue Warnings After Malicious Messages Tied to Economic Stimulus Plans Surface With the U.S. and other nations adopting economic stimulus packages as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, fraudsters are now using the promise of government checks as phishing lures to spread banking Trojans, according to a pair of new security research reports.
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2020
Marriott disclosed a new security breach detected at the end of February 2020 that could impact up to 5.2 million of its guests. Marriott International discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 5.2 million hotel guests, the incident was detected at the end of February 2020. “At the end of February 2020, we identified that an unexpected amount of guest information may have been accessed using the login credentials of two employees at a franchise property.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 31, 2020
Check out Dark Reading's updated, exclusive news and commentary surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2020
For the third time in a few weeks, the FBI has issued an alert about supply chain attacks carried out by nation-state actors using the Kwampirs malware. The FBI has issued an alert about supply chain attacks using the Kwampirs malware as part of a hacking campaign carried out on a global scale by state-sponsored hackers. The FBI has issued an alert on Monday about state-sponsored hackers using the Kwampirs malware to attack supply chain companies and other industry sectors as part of a global ha
Jamf
MARCH 31, 2020
Jamf Parent is a free iOS and watchOS app that empowers parents to manage their children’s school-issued devices. All of this has many functional purposes and benefits – we want to be here to help you both understand them and convey them to your school or fellow parents - Here are a few of those benefits.
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2020
Security expert Bob Diachenko discovered that 42 million Iranian ‘Telegram’ user IDs and phone numbers have been leaked online. Comparitech along with the popular researcher Bob Diachenko discovered 42 million Iranian ‘Telegram’ user IDs and phone numbers online. The accounts belong to Iranian users, they are from a third-party version of the Telegram app.
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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
MARCH 31, 2020
The New York Attorney General has inquired about Zoom's data security strategy, as the conferencing platform comes under heavy scrutiny for its privacy policies.
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2020
Microsoft announced that it will add an alerting feature to Edge to warn users if their credentials saved to autofill have been compromised. Microsoft announced several new features for its Edge browser, including a new alerting service to warn users if the credentials they have saved to autofill have been compromised in a third-party data breach. “Today, we’re announcing Password Monitor in Microsoft Edge to help keep your online accounts safe from hackers.
CGI
MARCH 31, 2020
CGI Client Global Insights: A look at top corporate transaction banking trends and priorities. Among all banking sectors, we see the lowest levels of digital maturity and results within the corporate and transaction banking sector, according to the 2019 CGI Client Global Insights findings. Despite significant digital investment, corporate and transaction banks are behind on their digital journey due to the lower (and slower) impact of digital transformation on traditional corporate banking produ
Security Affairs
MARCH 31, 2020
Holy Water – An APT group compromised a server hosting Web pages belonging mainly to religious figures and charities to carry out watering hole attacks. On December 4, 2019, Kaspersky experts discovered a watering hole attack, tracked Holy Water, aimed at an Asian religious and ethnic group. The campaign has been active since at least May 2019 and hit delivered fake Adobe Flash update warnings to the victims.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 31, 2020
Two of the greatest challenges faced by organizations today are the rising volume of data and the lack of confidence to act on the insights this data reveals. Fortunately, there are AI-fueled data management solutions that directly address these two challenges to make data simple and accessible.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 31, 2020
This is not an April Fool’s Joke! With all of the craziness of the past few weeks, it slipped up on me, but here is the 2020 Internet Minute infographic! Hard to believe that we’ve been looking at internet minute infographics each year for the past five years, but time flies – minute by minute (see what I did there?). ; o ). The updated graphic shown above, once again created by Lori Lewis, illustrates what happens within the internet in a typical minute in 2020.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 31, 2020
A federal court has ruled that violating a website's tems of service is not "hacking" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The plaintiffs wanted to investigate possible racial discrimination in online job markets by creating accounts for fake employers and job seekers. Leading job sites have terms of service prohibiting users from supplying fake information, and the researchers worried that their research could expose them to criminal liability under the CFAA, which makes it a crime to "acces
Dark Reading
MARCH 31, 2020
These products and services could be of immediate help to infosec pros now protecting their organizations while working from home.
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Threatpost
MARCH 31, 2020
An informal Threatpost reader poll shows the majority of site visitors are privacy absolutists. But attitudes shift when the trade off is saving lives.
Dark Reading
MARCH 31, 2020
Given today's coronavirus pandemic, the need for companies to collect cybersecurity data about their business partners is more critical than ever. Here's how to start.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 31, 2020
The hotel chain has suffered its second major breach in 16 months. Here's how to find out if you're affected.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
MARCH 31, 2020
On Tuesday, March 10, the Japanese Cabinet approved a bill to revise the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”), which would require companies to take certain additional measures to protect personal data of data subjects. The reported goals of the bill include, for example: (i) broadening data subjects’ powers to exercise control over their data; and (ii) to establish a system to facilitate corporation’s internal use of “big data.” The proposed
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Dark Reading
MARCH 31, 2020
Researchers mapped tactics and techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to determine which were most popular last year.
DXC Technology
MARCH 31, 2020
At the start of the year, DXC Technology issued its 2020 predictions for the future of work, which show renewed focus on technology to drive growth while ensuring the right environment for the teams and leaders to take companies into the future. These trends resonate strongly across the insurance industry, which has undergone significant change […].
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 31, 2020
As brick and mortars close due to the novel coronavirus, thieves have increasingly targeted digital check-out. .
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