Krebs on Security
MARCH 16, 2021
SMS text messages were already the weakest link securing just about anything online, mainly because there are tens of thousands of employees at mobile stores who can be tricked or bribed into swapping control over a mobile phone number to someone else. Now we’re learning about an entire ecosystem of companies that anyone could use to silently intercept text messages intended for other mobile users.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2021
NSA, CISA Offer Advice on Using PDNS Services to Help Thwart Attacks As concerns about the number of attacks targeting domain name system protocols continue to grow, the NSA and CISA have released new guidance on how to choose and deploy a Protective Domain Name System service to strengthen security.
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AIIM
MARCH 16, 2021
Metadata resides at the center of many of the essential aspects of content management. In addition to helping organize and classify content, Metadata enables good findability, can trigger workflow and transactional processes, reveals document usage patterns and history, and helps establish retention and disposition events. So far in our exploration of Metadata, we've answered some of the big questions already, including: What is Metadata?
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2021
Check Point Research Tracks Tenfold Increase in 5 Days From Thursday through Monday, Check Point Research tracked a tenfold increase in the number of global attempts to exploit vulnerable on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers as organizations struggled to install patches.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
Researchers from Sucuri discovered the tactic, which creatively hides malicious activity until the info can be retrieved, during an investigation into a compromised Magento 2 e-commerce site.
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Hunton Privacy
MARCH 16, 2021
On March 15, 2021, the California Attorney General (“AG”) approved additional CCPA Regulations that impact certain sections of the initial CCPA Regulations that went into effect on August 14, 2020. These amendments, which were the subject of the third and fourth sets of proposed modifications, went into effect on March 15, 2021. Notably, the newly amended CCPA Regulations state that methods for submitting requests to opt-out may not be designed with the purpose of, or have the substantial effect
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2021
But Attempts to Manipulate Votes, Change Outcome Were Unsuccessful U.S. intelligence agency reports conclude that Russia and Iran tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, but their attempts to manipulate votes proved unsuccessful. The reports also note that hackers cracked the security of networks associated with campaigns - and accessed some data.
Security Affairs
MARCH 16, 2021
Palo Alto researchers uncovered a series of ongoing attacks to spread a variant of the infamous Mirai bot exploiting multiple vulnerabilities. Security experts at Palo Alto Networks disclosed a series of attacks aimed at delivering a Mirai variant leveraging multiple vulnerabilities. Below the list of vulnerabilities exploited in the attacks, three of which were unknown issues: ID Vulnerability Description Severity 1 VisualDoor SonicWall SSL-VPN Remote Command Injection Vulnerability Critical 2
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2021
'Unsophisticated' Code Has Scant Resemblance to WannaCry Namesake, Researchers Say Fresh ransomware targeting an unpatched Microsoft Exchange email server flaw appears to have been rushed to market by criminals trying to capitalize on new opportunities before the competition stepped in, resulting in relatively shoddy attack code, security firm Sophos reports.
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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.
Information Governance Perspectives
MARCH 16, 2021
The big five – the internet of things, blockchain, big data, artificial and quantum computing. Those five technologies will transform every aspect of our lives, good or bad. If you want to start the next charity or the next big thing, you’d better be knowledgeable about these areas because although you might end up being a brain surgeon, you’re still probably going to need to understand one of these five.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2021
K.L.S. Capital Reportedly Did Not Pay Ransom Israeli car financing company K.L.S. Capital Ltd. says that hackers recently stole customer information, ID photos, vehicle licenses, scans of checks and loan information from its servers.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
Public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for ProxyLogon could be fanning a feeding frenzy of attacks even as patching makes progress.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2021
People’s United Bank’s Karen Boyer on Using Consumers' Devices for Authentication To mitigate the fraud risks posed by synthetic IDs, banks should use consumers' devices to help with authentication, says Karen Boyer, vice president of financial crimes and fraud intelligence at People’s United Bank, based in Connecticut.
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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
MARCH 16, 2021
Crooks devised a new method to hide credit card data siphoned from compromised e-stores, experts observed hackers hiding data in JPG files. Cybercriminals have devised a new method to hide credit card data siphoned from compromised online stores, experts from Sucuri observed Magecart hackers hiding data in JPG files to avoid detection and storing them on the infected site.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
A new Mirai variant is targeting known flaws in D-Link, Netgear and SonicWall devices, as well as newly-discovered flaws in unknown IoT devices.
Security Affairs
MARCH 16, 2021
Microsoft is reportedly investigating whether the recent attacks against Microsoft Exchange servers could be linked to information leaked by a partner security firm. According to a report published by The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is investigating whether the threat actors behind the recent wave of attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers worldwide may have obtained sensitive information to launch the attack from a partner security firm.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 16, 2021
Why Data Visibility is Important for Security. sparsh. Tue, 03/16/2021 - 07:47. Today, organizations are struggling to control their data environments. The amount of data created is forecasted to grow and be spread in a wide diverse ecosystem: the cloud, on premises, in data lakes and big data. The shift to working from home over the past year, as reviewed in “ 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Digital Pulse ” published on October 2020, identifies the “information security as the priority
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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.
Security Affairs
MARCH 16, 2021
Microsoft released an Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to small businesses for the fix of ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. On March 2nd, Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 16, 2021
Andrew Appel and Susan Greenhalgh have a blog post on the insecurity of ES&S’s software authentication system: It turns out that ES&S has bugs in their hash-code checker: if the “reference hashcode” is completely missing, then it’ll say “yes, boss, everything is fine” instead of reporting an error. It’s simultaneously shocking and unsurprising that ES&S’s hashcode checker could contain such a blunder and that it would go unnoticed by
IG Guru
MARCH 16, 2021
What started as a few vulnerabilities in firewall equipment has snowballed into a global extortion spree via WIRED. The post The Accellion Breach Keeps Getting Worse—and More Expensive via WIRED appeared first on IG GURU.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
A Florida high-school student faces jail time for rigging her school's Homecoming Queen election.
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OpenText Information Management
MARCH 16, 2021
According to Gartner research, “IoT deployments require the ability to process data where and when it is valuable. This may be on the asset, such as a compressor, or it may be in the cloud, where asset data is aggregated with other contextual data to drive decisions”.1 With CE 21.1 for the OpenText™ Internet of … The post What’s new in CE 21.1 for OpenText Internet of Things Platform appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
Google has released the side-channel exploit in hopes of motivating web-application developers to protect their sites.
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2021
Telemetry suggests that threat actor behind Operation Dianxun is Mustang Panda, McAfee says.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
A major spike of attacks against higher ed, K-12 and seminaries in March has prompted the FBI to issue a special alert.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2021
While service accounts solve many of the challenges presented by automation, they can also create serious problems when it comes to cybersecurity.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2021
At SafeDNS, we see three entangled hurdles for MSPs in 2021 and the coming years— tied with the current economic uncertainty and somewhat linked to the pandemic.
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2021
Startup Rumble enters major new phase with venture capital investment led by Cisco-backed fund as well as big-name security entrepreneurs.
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