Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2020
Attack Crippled Currency Exchange's Services for Weeks Travelex, a London-based foreign currency exchange that does business in 26 countries, including the U.S., paid a ransomware gang $2.3 million to regain access to its data following an attack, the Wall Street Journal reports. The incident crippled the company's customer services for weeks.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 10, 2020
The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2020
Governments, Organizations Rethink Use of Teleconference Platform As governments and organizations around the globe rethink their use of the Zoom teleconference platform as a result of ongoing privacy and security concerns, the company is making more system changes and has formed a CISO advisory board.
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2020
VMware has addressed a critical information disclosure vulnerability related to the Directory Service that can be exploited to compromise vCenter Server. VMware has addressed a critical information disclosure flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3952, that could be exploited by attackers to compromise vCenter Server or other services that use the Directory Service ( vmdir ) for authentication.
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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
APRIL 10, 2020
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses the cybersecurity challenges posed by the work-at-home shift. Also featured: Tips from NIST on developing remote worker security policies, plus a discussion of the nascent threat of AI meeting assistants.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2020
Gartner's Avivah Litan on Benefits, Concerns and New Issues to Consider Gartner analyst Avivah Litan says China is attempting to leverage blockchain technology in the country's COVID-19 recovery. What are the benefits and concerns of this approach, and how should it shape the future use of blockchain?
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2020
Sophos announced the public release of the source code of the sandbox-based isolation program Sandboxie. Sophos is going to release the Windows sandbox-based isolation program Sandboxie in open source. “Sandboxie has long been a favorite sandbox-based isolation tool since its original release over fifteen years ago. Now this technology will live on in the hands of its dedicated users.” Sophos Director of Product Marketing Seth Geftic said. “We are thrilled to give the code to
Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2020
As some cities and states recruit retired healthcare professionals, new medical school graduates and clinicians from other regions to assist in their COVID-19 responses, it's critical to ensure these workers understand the importance of protecting patient information, says privacy attorney Iliana Peters.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2020
The tech giants have teamed up to use a Bluetooth-based framework to keep track of the spread of infections without compromising location privacy.
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.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2020
Apple and Google announced that decentralized Bluetooth technology will soon be rolled out for coronavirus contact tracing. The privacy implications are worrisome for some.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2020
Identifying normal behavior baselines is essential to behavior-based authentication. However, with COVID-19 upending all aspects of life, is it possible to build baselines and measure normal patterns when nothing at all seems normal?
Daymark
APRIL 10, 2020
It’s a crazy time out there. Businesses have been mandated by state governments to enable employees to work from home. Literally overnight, there have been massive shifts to connect people remotely. Suddenly even your grandparents know what Zoom is! Microsoft Teams is playing an integral part in facilitating remote communication and collaboration. Most companies with Office 365 subscriptions already have licenses for this product, but just now are really rushed to enable Teams for the massive in
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2020
Phishing campaigns and scams are skyrocketing to take advantage of people concerned about COVID-19 impacts. Here are some key examples in action.
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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.
Troy Hunt
APRIL 10, 2020
Somehow this week's update ended up being 55 minutes, largely because of playing with a bunch of the new network gear and unboxing a pretty snazzy looking rack from 4Cabling. I get through with that then sit by the pool for the rest of this week's update. (And yes, I shaved!) Incidentally, there's some audio clipping occurring after I sit by the pool.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2020
Phishing campaigns and scams are skyrocketing to take advantage of people concerned about COVID-19 impacts. Here are some key examples in action.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 10, 2020
Join us on April 20, 2020, for an in-depth webinar on Business Continuity and COVID-19 from a GDPR Perspective. Our featured speakers, Hunton Brussels lawyers David Dumont and Anna Pateraki , will discuss key considerations with respect to ensuring business continuity and management of your GDPR compliance program amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. They will highlight key data protection issues that arise in connection with COVID-19, including: Priorities for crisis management from a data protection
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2020
DoppelPaymer hackers leaked online internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world. The gang behind the DoppelPaymer ransomware has stolen internal confidential documents belonging to some of the largest aerospace companies in the world from the industrial contractor Visser Precision. Visser Precision is a parts maker for many companies in several industries, including aerospace, automotive, industrial and manufacturing.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 10, 2020
As of early April, hundreds of millions of workers around the world have been affected by “stay-at-home” or “station-in-place” orders issued by governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To cope, transaction processors are shifting work out of their high-security delivery centers and into the spare bedrooms and home offices of their personnel.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 10, 2020
In today’s environment, seasoned companies who continue to weather the tests of time suddenly demand greater attention. How do they retain their grit and withstand adversity, whether from the COVID-19 pandemic or digital disruption? How much do values play out in their approach to customers, their ability to embrace new technology, or adopt a new method?
Security Affairs
APRIL 10, 2020
The popular privacy-focused Tails OS has released version 4.5 this, for the first time it supports the security feature named UEFI Secure Boot. Tails, the popular privacy-focused OS, now supports the UEFI Secure Boot, this means that it could boot on systems where the UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. Tails is a live operating system that users can start on almost any computer from a USB stick or a DVD, it aims at preserving privacy and anonymity of the users.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2020
Thousands of compromised Zoom credentials were discovered in underground forums as cybercriminals look to tap into the burgeoning remote workforce.
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IG Guru
APRIL 10, 2020
It appears ISACA is getting into the privacy certification world. Check out their press release here. The post New Certification Coming Soon: Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer via ISACA appeared first on IG GURU.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2020
San Francisco International Airport notified users of two low-traffic websites of a data breach that occurred in March.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2020
Two security firms find thousands of usernames and passwords for Zoom accounts for sale and warn that the shift to remote work is changing attackers' targets.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2020
The bug -- rated 10 in severity -- potentially affects large numbers of corporate VMs and hosts.
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Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2020
Attack matrix for Kubernetes, using the MITRE ATT&CK framework. A good first step towards understand the security of this suddenly popular and very complex container orchestration system.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2020
The payout stems from a system-wide attack that knocked global networks offline on New Year’s Eve and reflects a shift in thinking about ransom payouts.
Data Matters
APRIL 10, 2020
While the world seems to have ground to a halt in so many ways, time still marches on, and along with it, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) enforcement date (July 1, 2020) inches ever closer. On March 11, 2020, the California Attorney General (“AG”) released the third turn of proposed California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) regulations.
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