Data Breach Today
MAY 20, 2021
CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna Says Clues Come From Analysis of Virtual Builds SolarWinds has uncovered evidence that intruders were in its systems in January 2019, about eight months earlier than originally believed. CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna says the company discovered the clues by analyzing terabytes of data from its virtual build systems.
AIIM
MAY 20, 2021
The practice of Knowledge Management carries many benefits for your organization , including increased efficiency, better decision-making, improved customer service, and more. With these benefits in mind, let’s get into specific knowledge management tactics you can use to maximize the use of your company’s knowledge assets - six steps you can start working through today!
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Data Breach Today
MAY 20, 2021
RSA 2021 Panel Calls for Federal Breach Notification Law and More In a session at RSA Conference 2021, three cybersecurity experts said top priorities among the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission's recommendations that have not yet been carried out are adopting a federal data breach notification law and improving public-private partnerships.
Schneier on Security
MAY 20, 2021
Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets. …the program can be delivered in a couple of ways — either via malicious links contained within spam emails, or through a trojanized app. Using these sneaky methods, trojan operators will implant the malware onto a target device, where it will install a sophisticated backdoor that “contains more than 100 commands and allows the attackers to steal online banking account credentials,”
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
MAY 20, 2021
Bitdefender: Malware Loader Doesn't Contain Ransomware A new WastedLocker malware variant, dubbed WastedLoader, is exploiting two vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer to insert malicious advertisements into legitimate websites, the security firm Bitdefender reports.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 20, 2021
Latest in a String of Incidents at Public Health Agencies Globally Alaska's Department of Health and Social Services is the latest in a series of public health departments hit by cyberattacks in recent weeks. Why are these government agencies experiencing so many breaches lately?
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 20, 2021
In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.
Data Breach Today
MAY 20, 2021
FortiGuard Labs Describes Variant, Which Is No Longer Active Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have uncovered another DarkSide ransomware variant with destructive capabilities. But the researchers say the variant is "unrelated to the Colonial Pipeline campaign" and no longer active.
Threatpost
MAY 20, 2021
Company is using threat of attacks as defense in case brought against it by Epic Games after Fortnite was booted from the App Store for trying to circumvent developer fees.
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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
MAY 20, 2021
Experts discovered a Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in the WP Statistics plugin which is installed on over 600,000 WordPress sites. Researchers from the Wordfence Threat Intelligence discovered a Time-Based Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics , which is a WordPress plugin with over 600,000 active installs. The plugin was developed by VeronaLabs, it provides complete website statistics to site owners.
Threatpost
MAY 20, 2021
Several mobile apps, some with 10 million downloads, have opened up personal data of users to the public internet – and most aren't fixed.
Security Affairs
MAY 20, 2021
Microsoft warns of a malware campaign that is spreading a RAT dubbed named STRRAT masquerading as ransomware. Microsoft Security Intelligence researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is spreading a remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as STRRAT. The RAT was designed to steal data from victims while masquerading as a ransomware attack. The Java-based STRRAT RAT was distributed in a massive spam campaign, the malware shows ransomware-like behavior of appending the file name extension.crimson to
Reltio
MAY 20, 2021
Data governance has not had a very exciting reputation over the years. Dare I say it, many have regarded it as rather dull and begrudgingly accepted it as a “necessary evil”, even those who apply it. Data Governance has typically been considered the job of IT and, until recently, it was mostly avoided by business users. Now, it seems to have undergone a transformation over the last few years.
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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
MAY 20, 2021
The time that attackers stay hidden inside an organization’s networks is shifting, putting pressure on defenders and upping the need to detect and respond to threats in real-time.
OpenText Information Management
MAY 20, 2021
Every area of business has faced its own challenges over the past 15 months—from sales and marketing, to customer support and product development. On top of all that, cyber threats have grown as criminals rushed to take advantage of remote working and the weaknesses it exposes in cyber resilience. As we emerge from this crisis, it has become clear that things will not simply go back to the way they were before.
Security Affairs
MAY 20, 2021
Russian hacker Anton Bogdanov was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for attempting to steal $1.5 million in tax refunds by hacking into tax preparation firms. The Russian citizen Anton Bogdanov (35), aka Kusok, was sentenced by a US Chief District Judge to 5 years of prison for wire fraud conspiracy and computer intrusions. The man attempted to hack into private tax preparation firms, steal personal information, use that information to file federal tax returns and fraudulently attempted t
Dark Reading
MAY 20, 2021
Researchers who examined 23 Android apps report developers potentially exposed the data of more than 100 million people.
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Security Affairs
MAY 20, 2021
Check Point researchers found 23 Android apps that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million users. Security researchers from Check Point have discovered 23 Android applications that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million users due to misconfigurations of third-party cloud services. The experts pointed out that the misconfiguration also expose developer’s internal resources, such as access to update mechanisms and storage, at risk. “This misconfiguration of real-time d
Jamf
MAY 20, 2021
Selecting iPad as a device to compliment Microsoft tools for Education is a game-changer for teachers, students and parents.
Dark Reading
MAY 20, 2021
A modernized US technology strategy must account for the growing ideological divide between authoritarians and democracies over the use of cyber and emerging technologies.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 20, 2021
On May 18, 2021, New York Attorney General (“AG”) Letitia James announced a settlement agreement with Filters Fast LLC (“Filters Fast”) over a data breach that compromised personal information of approximately 324,000 consumers nationwide, including over 16,500 New York state residents. The breach affected purchases made on Filters Fast website for almost a year – from July 16, 2019 to July 10, 2020.
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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.
Dark Reading
MAY 20, 2021
Resilience planning should be based on data and backed by technology, cybersecurity pros agreed at this week's RSA Conference.
Threatpost
MAY 20, 2021
Enterprises are embracing on-demand freelance help – but the practice, while growing, opens up entirely new avenues of cyber-risk.
Dark Reading
MAY 20, 2021
However, senior technology managers express concerns about whether their current infrastructure can properly safeguard them.
IG Guru
MAY 20, 2021
Check out the article here. The post Iron Mountain (IRM) to Sell IPM Business to NCC Group for $220M via Yahoo! Finance appeared first on IG GURU.
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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.
Security Affairs
MAY 20, 2021
Which are privacy concerns on the way organizations collect personal information through the use of cookies? Data is constantly being tracked, stored and processed right under our noses, and it is quite frightening to know just how much data a company might have on you. They may not have your deepest darkest secrets (or maybe they do), but they have a track of your interests and behaviour, so much so that in this day and age, organizations have enough information about you that they can replicat
Threatpost
MAY 20, 2021
On Wednesday, Google quietly slipped updates into its May 3 Android security bulletin for bugs that its Project Zero group has confirmed are zero-days.
Dark Reading
MAY 20, 2021
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