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GoDaddy Confirms Breach Affecting 28,000 Accounts: Report

Data Breach Today

'Unauthorized Individual' Accessed SSH File, Company Says Web hosting giant GoDaddy confirms that a data breach has affected about 28,000 of its customers' web hosting accounts, according to a news report. The company has reset passwords and usernames for some customers as a precaution, although it says no data appears to have been altered.

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Expect Few People to Read Your IIM Policy

AIIM

Too often, I hear IIM professionals complain about this issue. "People aren't reading our IIM policy," they say. "I wish our organization forced everybody to read the policy. That way they would know what the IIM requirements are.". My response is always the same: Given the choice, 99% of the people in your organization will never read your IIM policy.

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Why Are We So Stupid About RDP Passwords?

Data Breach Today

Ransomware Gangs Keep Pwning Poorly Secured Remote Desktop Protocol Endpoints In honor of World Password Day, here's a task for every organization that uses remote desktop protocol: Ensure that all of your organization's internet-facing RDP ports have a password - and that it's complex and unique.

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UK may ditch NHS contact-tracing app for Apple and Google model

The Guardian Data Protection

MPs and rights groups have warned lack of data protection could make UK app illegal Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The government has left open the prospect of ditching its own contact-tracing app in favour of the “decentralised” model favoured by Apple and Google after it was revealed that a feasibility study into such a change is under way.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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JavaScript Skimmers Found Hidden in 'Favicon' Icons

Data Breach Today

Malwarebytes Researchers Say Attacks Appear Related to Magecart Cybercriminals are hiding malicious JavaScript skimmers in the "favicon" icons of several ecommerce websites in an effort to steal payment card data from customers, researchers at Malwarebytes say.

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Ransomware Slams Healthcare, Logistics, Energy Firms

Data Breach Today

Attacks Traced to Gangs Wielding Nefilim, Snake Strains Ransomware attacks hit at least four large organizations around the world this week, including a hospital group in Europe that has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

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UK contact-tracing app could fall foul of privacy law, government told

The Guardian Data Protection

More protections needed before coronavirus app fully launched, says human rights committee Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The NHS contact-tracing app must not be rolled out across the UK until the government has increased privacy and data protections, an influential parliamentary committee has said, as rights groups warn that the current trial is unlawful under the data protection act.

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Webcast: Keeping Remote Workers Safe and Your Work Secure

Data Breach Today

This webcast gives 6 tips for keeping employees safe and mitigating security threats as your workforce goes remote. Learn how to protect employees from malicious web content.

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Brazilian trojan banker is targeting Portuguese users using browser overlay

Security Affairs

Since the end of April 2020, a new trojan has been affecting Portuguese users from several bank organizations. The modus operandi of this piece of malware is not new in Portugal. At least since the year of 2014 that new variants have been observed, with minor changes, and with the objective of collecting bank details of the victims. One of the last occurrences was last December 2019, where the Lampion trojan operated in a very similar way, changing only the way the malware was distributed (via

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Naikon APT Hid Five-Year Espionage Attack Under Radar

Threatpost

The Chinese APT has been discovered behind a five-year espionage campaign that compromises government servers - and uses that as leverage for other attacks.

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Samsung fixes a zero-click issue affecting its phones

Security Affairs

Samsung addressed this month a critical 0-click vulnerability that was discovered by security researchers from Google. Samsung released this week a security patch that addresses a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-8899, impacting all smartphones sold since 2014. The flaw is tracked as SVE-2020-16747 in the Samsung security bulletin. “A possible memory overwrite vulnerability in Quram qmg library allows possible remote arbitrary code execution.

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Zoom Beefs Up End-to-End Encryption to Thwart ‘Zoombombers’

Threatpost

As the company continues to battle security woes, it has acquired Keybase to boost security and privacy. A full cryptographic draft architecture will be available on May 22.

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Poulight Stealer, a new Comprehensive Stealer from Russia

Security Affairs

Researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab monitored the evolution and the diffusion of an infostealer dubbed Poulight that most likely has a Russian origin. Introduction. Nowadays, info-stealer is one of the most common threats. This category of malware includes famous malware like Azorult , Agent Tesla , and Hawkeye. Infostealer market is one of the most remunerative for cyber criminals, information gathered from infected systems could be resold in the cybercrime underground or used for credential stu

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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Virtual JNUC 2020: Here’s what you need to know

Jamf

The 2020 Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) is now complimentary virtual conference. Read an update to learn what this means for registering, presenting and more.

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EDPB Publishes Updated Guidelines on Consent under the GDPR

Hunton Privacy

On May 6, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) published its Guidelines 05/2020 (the “EDPB Guidelines”) on consent under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). The EDPB Guidelines are a slightly updated version of the Article 29 Working Party’s Guidelines on consent under the GDPR (the WP29 Guidelines ), which were adopted in April 2018 and endorsed by the EDPB in its first Plenary meeting.

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Naikon APT is flying under the radar since 2015

Security Affairs

Chinese-speaking Naikon APT group leverages a new backdoor called Aria-body to target organizations in South Asia and Australia. The Naikon APT group is a China-linked cyber espionage group that has been active at least since 2010 and that remained under the radar over the past five years while targeting entities in Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The threat actor deliver a new backdoor called Aria-body and abuse victims’ infrastructure to carry attacks against other targets. “Recently Check P

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Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining Campaign Exploits Web Apps

Threatpost

The cybercriminals are using a deserialization vulnerability, CVE-2019-18935, to achieve remote code execution before moving laterally through the enterprise.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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12 steps to Data Intelligence: Part 2

Collibra

Organization, Context and Judgment: Going Further on the Data Intelligence Journey. We are tasked with assessing why a company is experiencing a high rate of customer churn. How do we drive for an outcome that is accurate, actionable, and low effort so the company can prevent future churn? We’re on a Data Intelligence journey in 12 steps. Here’s where we started ; now, let’s consider: .

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Indecent Exposure: 7TB of Adult Streaming User Data Unsecured on Server

Adam Levin

Users on an adult streaming platform may have experienced the wrong kind of exposure when over seven terabytes of data was found on an unprotected database online. The damage done could include the dissemination of amateur pornographic user images. . CAM4, a video streaming service primarily for adult amateur webcam content, reportedly left more than 11 million user records online on an unprotected Elasticsearch server.

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Threat-Modeling Basics Using MITRE ATT&CK

Dark Reading

When risk managers consider the role ATT&CK plays in the classic risk equation, they have to understand the role of threat modeling in building a complete risk scenario.

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Hackers Dumpster Dive for Taxpayer Data in COVID-19 Relief Money Scams

Threatpost

Threat actors are buying and selling taxpayer data on hacker forums as well as using phishing and other campaigns to steal various U.S. government payouts.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Malicious Bots Infiltrate Online Food Delivery

Dark Reading

With grocery delivery in higher demand than ever, new add-ons have emerged to secure slots for consumers, presenting a new pathway for bad bots to wreak havoc.

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Snake Ransomware hits Europe’s largest private hospital operator Fresenius during COVID-19 outbreak

Security Affairs

Snake Ransomware operators launched a new campaign that has infected numerous companies worldwide including an health care organization. The operators behind the Snake Ransomware have launched a new campaign that targeted companies worldwide and that infected at least one organization in the healthcare industry over the last few days. In January experts observed a new wave of attacks that targeted organizations worldwide, experts from SentinelOne also discovered Snake Ransomware that was targeti

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Cybersecurity Home School: Garfield Teaches Security

Dark Reading

The famous cartoon cat can help kids ages 6 to 11 learn to be more secure when they're online.

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The resilient sales organization

OpenText Information Management

Over the last few months, the world has changed completely – including the dynamics between sales professionals and customers. Now, important processes and workflows for delivering sales and service to customers have been quickly – and permanently – disrupted. How do you connect with customers and still provide them with a high-level service experience when … The post The resilient sales organization appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Pandemic Could Accelerate Passwordless Authentication

Dark Reading

As we celebrate another World Password Day, security pros are hopeful that when we move out of the stay-at-home period, companies will continue to focus on digital technologies - and ditching passwords.

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What’s new in CE 20.2 for Tableau Forensic Imager (TX1)

OpenText Information Management

The increasing diversity, size and sophistication of digital media makes evidence collection a challenge. Digital investigators need a versatile solution that can acquire data from any storage type, including network shares, that is easy to use and navigate and can help close cases faster, reduce case backlogs and increase investigative capacity. OpenText™ Tableau Forensic Imager … The post What’s new in CE 20.2 for Tableau Forensic Imager (TX1) appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Issues in Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor exposed 1 Million WordPress sites at risk

Security Affairs

Attackers exploited two security issues in the Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor WordPress plugins to fully compromise over 1M sites. Hackers are actively exploiting two security flaws in the Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor WordPress plugins to fully compromise unpatched WordPress installs. Security experts from Wordfence have observed a hacking campaign targeting the two issues since May 6, 2020, when the attacks began the flaw was a zero-day. “On May 6, 2020

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