Tue.Nov 17, 2020

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Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications

Krebs on Security

An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve “notifications,” browser modifications that periodically display messages on the user’s mobile or desktop device. In many cases these notifications are benign, but several dodgy firms are paying site owners to install their notification scripts and then selling that communications pathway to scammers and online hucksters.

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Blockchain for Voting: A Warning From MIT

Data Breach Today

Researchers Say Blockchain Introduces More Problems Than It Solves Blockchain technology has been floated as a solution to enable remote, electronic voting. But MIT researchers say today's paper-based systems, while imperfect, are still the most reliable way to prove to voters that their selections have been accurately cast and tallied.

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Do I Need Change Management? Four Common Situations

AIIM

How Do I Know I Need Change Management? The funny thing about Change Management is that it’s one of those things that you probably don’t know exists until you need it. Yes, I know that’s an odd thing to say, but hear me out on this. With change management, here’s a very common scenario leading to awareness. First, something new happens at your organization.

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Twitter Hires Famed Hacker 'Mudge' as Security Head

Data Breach Today

Peiter Zatko Will Help Social Media Firm That Faces Security Concerns Twitter has hired network security expert Peiter Zatko to serve in the newly created position of head of security following a series of high-profile cyber incidents. Zatko, known as "Mudge," gained fame as a member of the ethical hacking group "Cult of the Dead Cow" and worked for the government and Google.

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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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246869 Windows systems are still vulnerable to the BlueKeep flaw

Security Affairs

In May 2019, Microsoft disclosed the BlueKeep vulnerability, more than a year later over 245,000 Windows systems still remain unpatched. Over a year ago Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 addressed nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including the BlueKeep flaw. The issue is a remote code execution flaw in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker by connecting to the targeted system via the RDP and sending specially crafted requests.

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Unixfreaxjp at #R2CON2020 presented shellcode basics for radare2

Security Affairs

Shellcode play an essential role in cyber attacks, the popular expert Unixfreaxjp explained how to utilize radare2 for variation of shellcode analysis. Shellcode is having an important part in cyber intrusion activities and mostly spotted to be executed during the process/thread injection or during the exploitation of memory space that mostly related to a vulnerability.

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More Ransomware-as-a-Service Operations Seek Affiliates

Data Breach Today

Lure of Massive Profits, RaaS Newcomers Join Long List of Operators Over the past five years, ransomware-as-a-service offerings have largely evolved from putting automated toolkits into the hands of subscribers to recruiting affiliates and sharing profits. To maximize revenue, some larger operators are also seeking affiliates with more advanced IT and hacking skills.

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Chinese APT FunnyDream targets a South East Asian government

Security Affairs

Researchers spotted a new China-linked APT, tracked as FunnyDream that already infected more than 200 systems across Southeast Asia. Security experts at BitDefender have uncovered a new China-linked cyber espionage group, tracked as FunnyDream that has already infected more than 200 systems across Southeast Asia over the past two years. According to Kaspersky Lab , FunnyDream has been active at least since 2018 and targeted high-profile entities in Malaysia, Taiwan and the Philippines.

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Cold Storage Firm Reports Cybersecurity Incident

Data Breach Today

Company Reportedly In Talks to Help With COVID-19 Vaccines A cold storage firm that was reportedly in talks to help in the effort to distribute COVID-19 vaccines filed a Securities and Exchange Commission document on Monday saying that it's dealing with a cybersecurity incident that affected its network.

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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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When are schools required to report personal data breaches?

IT Governance

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , all personal data breaches must be recorded by the organisation and there should be a clear and defined process for doing so. Additionally, there are circumstances in which schools must report breaches to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) within 72 hours of their discovery. In this blog, we take a look at the scenarios in which data protection breaches in schools must be reported.

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Drug Infusion System Flaw Could Lead to Attack

Data Breach Today

Manufacturer BD and CISA Issue Warnings Medical device maker Becton Dickinson and federal authorities have issued alerts concerning an authentication weakness that, if exploited, could result in a denial-of-service attack on certain models of the BD Alaris PC Unit drug infusion and monitoring system.

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Some Apple Apps on macOS Big Sur Bypass Content Filters, VPNs

Threatpost

Attackers can exploit the feature and send people’s data directly to remote servers, posing a privacy and security risk, researchers said.

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Introducing Curation Rank & Auto Curation

Attensa

We recently introduced a new feature that accelerates the curation of content through machine learning. We’re excited to show that to you and explain the thought process behind it. The curation or refinement of news and information is increasingly important and necessary to deal with the overwhelming amounts of content related to the work that we each do.

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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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Introduction to Information Governance (IG) and Certification via Vital Records Control

IG Guru

Check out the article here by Andrew Ysasi at Vital Records Control. The post Introduction to Information Governance (IG) and Certification via Vital Records Control appeared first on IG GURU.

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Vulnerability Prioritization Tops Security Pros' Challenges

Dark Reading

Why vulnerability prioritization has become a top challenge for security professionals and how security and development teams can get it right.

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50 Ways to Avoid Getting Scammed on Black Friday

Adam Levin

The holiday season is the most wonderful time of the year for scammers. And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. With this in mind, all eyes should be on Black Friday. According to Adobe Analytics’ recent holiday forecast , online sales are projected to surge 33% year over year to a record $189 billion as “Cyber-week turns to Cyber-months” amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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VoltPillager: Hardware-based fault injection attacks against Intel SGX enclaves

Security Affairs

Boffins devised a new attack, dubbed VoltPillager , that can break the confidentiality and integrity of Intel SGX enclaves by controlling the CPU core voltage. A group of six researchers from the University of Birmingham has devised a new attack technique, dubbed VoltPillager , that can break the confidentiality and integrity of Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enclaves by controlling the CPU core voltage.

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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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COVID-19 Antigen Firm Hit by Malware Attack

Threatpost

Global biotech firm Miltenyi, which supplies key components necessary for COVID-19 treatment research, has been battling a malware attack.

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“At-Risk Meeting Notifier Zoom” feature alerts meeting organizers of Zoombombing risk

Security Affairs

The popular video conferencing application Zoom implemented the new “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” feature to warn of Zoombombing threat. Zoom announced the launch a new feature dubbed “At-Risk Meeting Notifier” to warn conference organizers of potential Zoombombing attacks. The feature scans the web for links to Zoom meetings that have been posted online and warn organizers of the risk of Zoombombing attack. “The At Risk Meeting Notifier scans public posts on social me

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ThreatList: Pharma Mobile Phishing Attacks Turn to Malware

Threatpost

After the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile phishing attacks targeting pharmaceutical companies have shifted their focus from credential theft to malware delivery.

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Expert publicly discloses PoC code for critical RCE issues in Cisco Security Manager

Security Affairs

Cisco released multiple advisories related to security issues in Cisco Security Manager (CSM) that affect the recently released 4.22 version. Cisco published multiple security advisories related to critical vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Security Manager (CSM), including the recently released version 4.22. Cisco Security Manager provides a comprehensive management solution for CISCO devices, including intrusion prevention systems and firewall.

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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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An Inside Look at an Account Takeover

Dark Reading

AI threat find: Phishing attack slips through email gateway and leads to large-scale compromise.

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Is Teams Safe? Top Ten Teams Threats Explained

Data Breach Today

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Cisco Patches Critical Flaw After PoC Exploit Code Release

Threatpost

A critical path-traversal flaw (CVE-2020-27130) exists in Cisco Security Manager that lays bare sensitive information to remote, unauthenticated attackers.

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Australians must ensure pandemic powers aren’t extended beyond crisis, Law Council warns

The Guardian Data Protection

Hotly debated rights ‘are in fact backed by few constitutional or statutory guarantees’ Australians must be vigilant to ensure that extraordinary powers invoked during the Covid-19 pandemic are not extended beyond the crisis, the president of the Law Council has warned. Pauline Wright told the National Press Club on Wednesday that human rights were particularly vulnerable to serious breaches in times of crisis.

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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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Zoom Takes on Zoom-Bombers Following FTC Settlement

Threatpost

The videoconferencing giant has upped the ante on cybersecurity with three fresh disruption controls.

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Microsoft's Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help

WIRED Threat Level

The Pluton security processor will give the software giant an even more prominent role in locking down Windows hardware.

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Multiple Industrial Control System Vendors Warn of Critical Bugs

Threatpost

Four industrial control system vendors each announced vulnerabilities that ranged from critical to high-severity.

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