Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Researchers: 'Cicada' Campaign Targeting Japanese Companies The Chinese hacking group "Cicada" is exploiting the critical Zerologon vulnerability in Windows Server as part of a cyberespionage campaign that's mainly targeting Japanese companies' locations around the world, according to the security firm Symantec.
AIIM
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Change is hard, but not impossible. Understanding how change works, considering how people will react to change , and planning a thoughtful roll-out are all ways to ease the burden of change. It’s a practice called Change Management , and for organizational change, it can be your key to success. It’s also important to recognize that not every change situation can be managed in the same way.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Organizations need to build security into their cloud environments to help thwart cyberthreats, says Tom Com of VMware, who describes this "intrinsic security" approach.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The CyberNews.com Investigation team carried out an infiltration operation against an IRC botnet and reported it to CERT Vietnam to help take it down. Original post @ [link]. In order to gather valuable information about the IRC botnet’s activity, we joined its Command and Control channel where we met the botmaster who was responsible for running the entire network of compromised systems.
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.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Meridian Credit Union's Saif Nawaz on Using New Technologies As synthetic ID fraud in the financial services sector continues to rise next year, organizations must use new technologies to mitigate the risks, says Saif Nawaz of Meridian Credit Union in Canada.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Researchers Discover Phishing Campaign Spoofs Site Researchers at the security firm Cybereason have uncovered a multistage malware variant that evades antivirus tools and is targeting users of a major Brazilian e-commerce site.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Researchers have unveiled an attack that allows attackers to eavesdrop on homeowners inside their homes, through the LiDAR sensors on their robot vacuums.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Managed web hosting provider Managed.com was hit with REvil ransomware that forced it to take down their servers and web hosting systems. Managed web hosting provider Managed.com was hit by a REvil ransomware attack over the weekend that took their servers and web hosting systems offline. At the time of writing this post, Managed.com hosting systems continue to be unavailable.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Threat actors mount year-long campaign of espionage, exfiltrating data, stealing credentials and installing backdoors on victims’ networks.
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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.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Canada Centre for Cyber Security warns of risks related to state-sponsored programs from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. A report published by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, titled “ National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020 ,” warns of risks associated with state-sponsored operations from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app that has more than 98 million downloads worldwide.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Drupal development team has released security updates to address a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-13671. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability related caused by the failure to properly sanitize the names of uploaded files. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-13671, has been classified as critical according to the NIST Common Misuse Scoring System.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
With so many people now connecting to business networks from home routers, ISP security takes on heightened importance. But is the security provided by ISPs good enough to be the only security SMBs and remote employees need?
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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.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
While the industry focus is on vehicle hacking, when it comes to the automotive industry cybercriminals are opting for less complex and sophisticated attacks - from phishing to ransomware.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
An unpatched security flaw in GO SMS Pro, a popular messaging app for Android with over 100 million installs, exposes media messages. GO SMS Pro is a popular Android messaging app with over 100 million installs, that has been found to be affected by an unpatched security flaw that publicly exposes media transferred between users. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit the flaw to access any sensitive media shared between users of the app, including private voice messages, photos, and videos.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Security experts praised the newly approved IoT law as a step in the right direction for insecure connected federal devices.
erwin
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
erwin has once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner “2020 Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions.”. This year, erwin had the largest move of any player on the Quadrant and moved up significantly in terms of “Ability to Execute” and also in “Vision.”. This recognition affirms our efforts in developing an integrated platform for enterprise modeling and data intelligence to support data governance, digital transformation and any other effort that relies on data for favorable o
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Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Capcom Co., Ltd., the Japanese video game company known for Street Fighter and Resident Evil, has confirmed the compromise of personally identifiable information (PII) associated with over 350,000 customers, business partners, and employees of the gaming giant. The data was exfiltrated in a ransomware attack. . In a press release, Capcom announced that it was successfully breached in “a customized ransomware attack following unauthorized access” and that “some personal information maintained by
Gimmal
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Have you ever heard anyone in your organization ask any of the following questions? “When are we going to get rid of this old OpenText Livelink platform? “Are we still paying for this?”. “Is this solution right for our business?”. “Why do we continue to pay so much for this old Documentum software?”. “Why doesn’t this system have a modern user interface?”.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
A reported ransomware attack took down operations at the company, which in talks for COVID-19 vaccine-distribution contracts.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Verisign's R&D team has developed new ways to authenticate and optimize DNS traffic on the client side of the domain-name resolution process.
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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.
IG Guru
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Check out the article here. The post Achieving Information Governance through a Transformative Cloud Migration via JD Supra appeared first on IG GURU.
Troy Hunt
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
This week, I've finally got a workable mobile setup with sufficient quality audio and video. As I explain in the video, this is ultimately achieved by the Sigma lens feeding into the Sony DSLR then via micro HDMI to the Elgato Cam Link 4K into my laptop via USB which then wifis over to my boat shed access point connected via ethernet over power to the server room and into the network.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Recently, there’s been increasing talk about how both the Industrial Internet of things (IIoT) and Digital Twins play a crucial role in an organization’s response to the pandemic. However, the same challenge remains and is potentially magnified by the current crisis. Do we have complete control of the many sources of manufacturing data and can we convert that data … The post Leveraging manufacturing data in a smart, connected and secure way appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Bug hunters at GitHub Security Labs help shore up German contact tracing app security, crediting open source collaboration.
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WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
The vulnerability was found through the company's bug bounty program, now in its tenth year.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Nearly a month after McAfee made its second appearance on the public market, the Virginia-based provider of security services to government and commercial organizations makes its own debut.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Watch out for these top phishing approaches this holiday season.
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