Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Company Issues Patch, Remediation Advice SAP has issued a patch and remediation advice for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its SAP Commerce product that could, if exploited, disrupt the entire system.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Researchers discovered credentials for the Oldsmar water treatment facility in the massive compilation of data from breaches posted just days before the attack.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Nebraska Medicine/UNMC Now Contacting Patients Impacted by September 2020 Breach Nebraska Medicine/UNMC has just begun notifying 219,000 individuals of a hacking incident that was discovered last September. The lag between breach discovery and notification illustrates the difficulties organizations often face in incident response, security experts say.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Russian internet and search company Yandex discloses a data breach, a system administrator was selling access to thousands of user mailboxes. Russian search engine and internet provider Yandex discloses a data breach, the company revealed that one of its system administrators was caught selling access to 4,887 user email accounts. The security incident was discovered during a routine screening by its internal security team, an internal investigation is still ongoing. “An internal investiga
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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
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Flaws, If Exploited, Could Enable Remote Control, Data Exfiltration Siemens has mitigated 21 vulnerabilities in two of its virtualization software tools that, if exploited, could enable attackers to gain remote control, exfiltrate data or cause systems to crash. It's urging customers to shift to updated versions of the software that fix the flaws.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Agency Offers Critical Infrastructure Security Reminders Following the hacking of a Florida water treatment plant, CISA is warning the operators of other plants to be on the lookout for hackers who exploit remote access software and outdated operating systems - and to take risk mitigation steps. The advice applies to other organizations as well, some security experts say.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The Tier 1 telecom giant was caught up in a coordinated, wide-ranging attack using unpatched security bugs in the Accellion legacy file-transfer platform.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Patch Issued After Vulnerability Found in an Endpoint Used for Currency Conversion PayPal has patched a cross-site scripting - or XSS - vulnerability found by a bug-bounty hunter in its currency conversion endpoint which, if exploited, could enable malicious JavaScript injection.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
A water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, was attacked last Friday. The attacker took control of one of the systems, and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide — that’s lye — by a factor of 100. This could have been fatal to people living downstream, if an alert operator hadn’t noticed the change and reversed it. We don’t know who is behind this attack.
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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
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Latest Victims: Telecom Company Singtel and Australian Medical Research Institute QIMR Berghofer Two more breaches have been tied to the vulnerable 20-year-old Accellion File Transfer Appliance. The latest victims are Singapore telecom company Singtel and Australian medical research institute QIMR Berghofer.
erwin
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Managing an organization’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) via its enterprise and business architectures means managing them against business processes (BP). Shockingly, a lot of organizations, even today, manage this through, either homemade tools or documents, checklists, Excel files, custom-made databases and so on and so forth. The three main reasons organizations tend to still operate in this manual and disparate way comes down to three reasons: Cost.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Lockdown Has Led to a Surge in Fraudster Romeos Operating Remotely, Police Warn The ongoing lockdown may be complicating Cupid's arrows. But as another Valentine's Day rolls around, authorities are warning that romance scammers - and other types of fraudsters - are alive and well and have been increasingly preying on unsuspecting victims around the world.
Information Matters
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The costs of car ownership, both to vehicle owners and the environment, are substantial. Most cars sit idle in driveways, on streets and in car parks for the vast majority Read more. The post Karshare – bringing the sharing economy to cars appeared first on Information Matters.
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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.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
SunBird and HornBill Malicious Apps Mainly Target Users in South Asia Researchers at the security firm Lookout have identified two new Android spyware tools used for cyberespionage campaigns in South Asia which they say are linked to "Confucius," an pro-India advanced persistent threat group.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
In a security notice, Yandex said an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ email accounts “for personal gain.”.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the critical security issues raised by the hacking of a Florida city water treatment plant. Also featured: The CISO of the World Health Organization discusses supply chain security; hackers steal celebrities' cryptocurrency.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The fresh release of the Latin American Lampion trojan was updated with a new C2 address. Lampion trojan disseminated in Portugal using COVID-19 template. In the last few days, a new release of the Latin American Lampion trojan was released in Portugal using a template related to COVID-19. This trojan has been distributed in Portugal in different ways, but this time the pandemic situation and the ongoing vaccination process is the reason behind this campaign to drop the beast in the wild.
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Threatpost
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
A well-crafted SMS phishing effort is harvesting personal data and credit-card details under the guise of offering tax refunds.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Security expert Dhiraj Mishra analyzed the popular instant messaging app Telegram and identified some failures in terms of handling the users’ data. Summary: While understanding the implementation of various security and privacy measures in Telegram, I identified that telegram fails again in terms of handling the users data. My initial study started with understanding how self-destructing messages work in the secret chats option, telegram says that “ The clock starts ticking the mom
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
If past cyberattacks are any indication, success begets imitation. In the wake of last week's hack of Florida water utility, other water utilities and users of remote desktop software would be wise to shore up defenses, experts say.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Staying on top of cybersecurity threats can be overwhelming, and finding security tools that can help can be a daunting task too. For some companies, turning over the problem to a managed security services provider (MSSP) is an attractive solution. Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems are a good way to accomplish that. SIEM systems offer a centralized view of IT security, ingesting log and event data from a wide range of security tools, hardware and applications, and
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Threatpost
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Researcher testing of 30 mobile health apps for clinicians found that all of them had vulnerable APIs.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Researchers from Microsoft are warning that the number of monthly web shell attacks has doubled since last year. Microsoft reported that the number of monthly web shell attacks has almost doubled since last year, its experts observed an average of 140,000 of these software installs on servers on a monthly basis, while in 2020 they were 77,000. “One year ago, we reported the steady increase in the use of web shells in attacks worldwide.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
On February 5, 2021, the state Senate of Virginia voted unanimously to approve Senate Bill 1392 , titled the Consumer Data Protection Act, after the House of Delegates approved an identical House bill by an 89-9 vote. Each bill likely will be heard in committee next week by the opposite chamber, which provides additional opportunities to make amendments.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
In a hybrid and multicloud world, identity is the new perimeter and a critical attack surface for bad actors.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Researchers at TIM’s Red Team Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. Today, TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered a new critical vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. The flaw has not addressed by IBM, because the product version 8.5.0.0 is in End-of-life. Today, TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered a new critical vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server.
Information Matters
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Ubamarket has announced the completion of an oversubscribed £800k investment as part of a £2.9 million raise. The investment will be used to develop it’s white label retail app, Ubamarket Read more. The post Ubamarket, using data to improve the shopping experience appeared first on Information Matters.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
The Dutch Data Protection Authority ( Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens , “ Dutch DPA ”) has published its decision to impose an administrative fine of EUR 440,000 on Amsterdam hospital OLVG due to the lack of sufficient measures to prevent access to medical records by unauthorised personnel. After complaints, the Dutch DPA conducted an investigation, and carried out an audit of the hospital’s information system and investigated, among others, security aspects such as authentication and verification
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