Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2020
Interpol: Fraudsters Shifting Focus to Governments, Health Infrastructure, Corporations Cybercriminals have shifted their focus from individuals and smaller businesses to target governments, critical health infrastructure and major corporations to maximize their profits and disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Interpol report warns.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
Fully opening the door to allow people to contribute to – and notably, tinker with – the code for the data-breach information service will be an entirely next-level effort, according to founder Troy Hunt.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2020
Paper Describes How Connected Devices Could Be Used to Manipulate Markets High-wattage IoT devices and appliances, such as connected refrigerators, air conditioners and heaters, could be turned into massive botnets by malicious actors and used to influence energy prices, according to an academic study released at Black Hat 2020.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
Researchers identified serious flaws in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC and the Hexagon architecture that impacts nearly half of Android handsets.
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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
AUGUST 7, 2020
Company Says Individual With Access 'Downloaded and Shared This Data' Chip giant Intel is investigating what led to the posting of 20 GB of internal company data - including what appears to be confidential corporate information - to the MEGA cloud storage and file sharing platform.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2020
Cyber Always Points to the Future, But It Has a Past One day, you may drive your Tesla Cybertruck on Cyber Monday to your cybersecurity job, backed by a cyber insurance policy as you safeguard cyberspace against the threat of cyberwar. Or cyber whatever, since we've obviously entered the era of "maximum cyber." But what does cyber even mean?
Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2020
Vigilance and ongoing training combined with an integrated security framework are key aspects of a successful strategy in the fight against the latest crop of pandemic opportunists.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2020
Insights on Using New Technologies to Crack Down on Fraud Machine learning can play a significant role in mitigating money laundering risks, says Andy Gandhi, managing director, data risk and compliance at the consultancy Alvarez and Marsal.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2020
Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report , a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. Google revealed to have taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020 (between April and June 2020), the campaigns were traced back to China, Russia, Iran, and Tunisia.
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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
AUGUST 7, 2020
Report Finds Bank Failed to Properly Assess Risk of Moving Data to the Cloud A federal banking regulator has fined Capital One $80 million, citing numerous security shortfalls before the 2019 data breach that exposed the financial and personal information of over 100 million individuals in the U.S. and Canada.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
Chipmaker investigates a leak of intellectual property from its partner and customer resource center.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2020
Security Researcher, CISA Director Raise Serious Concerns A security researcher says voting equipment in the U.S. is still riddled with security flaws that opportunistic foreign adversaries could use to pose a threat to the November election. Meanwhile, the director of CISA calls Russian ransomware attacks one of the biggest threats to the election.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2020
An internal memo confirms that the prolonged outage suffered by Canon last week was caused by a ransomware infection, Maze operators took credit for it. According to an internal memo obtained by ZDNet , the recent outage of Canon was caused by a ransomware attack, while Maze ransomware operators are taking the credit for the incident. The memo also reveals that the company has hired an external security firm to investigate the incident.
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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
AUGUST 7, 2020
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the hijacking of a virtual court hearing in the Twitter hacking case. Also featured: Why network segmentation is more important than ever; update on Windows print spooler vulnerability.
CGI
AUGUST 7, 2020
A solution for balancing customer payment burdens with business cash flow. This CGI blog post discusses how request-to-pay solutions balance customer payments burdens with business cash flow. kathy.jacquay@…. Fri, 08/07/2020 - 08:41.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2020
Panel Provides Tips on Creating a Frictionless Experience for Remote Workers An effective "zero trust" strategy requires creating a frictionless experience for the remote workforce, according to a panel of security experts, who describe the essential elements.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
An inside look at how nation-states use social media to influence, confuse and divide -- and why cybersecurity researchers should be involved.
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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.
Adam Levin
AUGUST 7, 2020
The FBI warned in a private industry notification published August 3 that companies and organizations still using Windows 7 are at risk. Microsoft’s end of life (EOL) announcement for version 7 of its flagship Windows operating system means most customers still using it would no longer receive security updates or technical support. According to the FBI notification, continued use of the platform “creates the risk of criminal exploitation.”.
Jamf
AUGUST 7, 2020
Hear some of the inspiring stories that happen when individuals and companies come together for the betterment of others.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
AUGUST 7, 2020
Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (“ PDPA “) is in the process of being updated, and full implementation and compliance is expected by 1 June 2021. This comes by way of the Notification of the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society Re: Personal Data Security Standards B.E. 2563 (2020) (“ Notification “) which was recently released by the Thai Ministry of Digital Economy for Society and is effective from 18 July 2020.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
Legacy applications don't support modern authentication -- and cybercriminals know this.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2020
A series of business email compromise campaigns has been targeting executives of more than 1,000 companies, most recently in the US and Canada.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 7, 2020
What. A. Week. I've been absolutely non-stop publishing data breaches to HIBP whilst simultaneously putting in place the framework to start advising NordVPN on their cybers and open sourcing the HIBP code base at the same time (and a bunch of other more boring stuff that didn't make the cut). That's all explained in this week's update so I won't drill further into it here, there's obviously a couple of big announcements so if you have any questions, drop them in the comments below and I'll eithe
Dark Reading
AUGUST 7, 2020
Building successful macro attacks means getting past several layers of security, but a Black Hat speaker found a way through.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
Appropriate use of native security controls in AWS and other CSPs is fundamental to managing cloud risk and avoiding costly breaches.
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IG Guru
AUGUST 7, 2020
Dr. Ross Federgreen, CEO of CSR, discusses privacy concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic here. The post COVID-19 opens ‘Pandora’s box’ of Florida businesses’ privacy concerns via CSR and Florida Trends appeared first on IG GURU.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2020
Intel is investigating reports of an alleged hack that resulted in the theft and leak of 20GB of data coming from the chip giant. Intel is investigating reports that an alleged hacker has leaked 20GB of exfiltrated from its systems. The stolen data includes source code and developer documents and tools, some documents are labeled as “confidential” or “restricted secret.” The hackers shared the documents on the file-sharing site MEGA.
IG Guru
AUGUST 7, 2020
In an email today from ARMA President Jason Sterns, ARMA International will reevaluate their business model and as a result of that decision, they have eliminated the position of CEO. More to come regarding this news. The post ARMA eliminates CEO position, will reevaluate business model per message to members appeared first on IG GURU.
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