Data Breach Today
AUGUST 12, 2021
Darknet Market Only Accepts Monero, Promotes Malware and Botnets, Bans Ransomware The notorious AlphaBay darknet marketplace appears to be getting rebooted by "DeSnake," who claims to have been the security administrator for the previous iteration, which law enforcement officials took down in 2017. Whether buyers and sellers will trust it, or the site will survive any takedown efforts, remains to be seen.
AIIM
AUGUST 12, 2021
We've all been there, adding in our personal information online to complete a form, make a purchase, or sign up for an offer, and before we click the submission button, we think, " Is this information safe? How might it be used? " We ask ourselves these questions more and more as we continue to grow and expand our online experiences using our personal information.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 12, 2021
Trend Micro: Underground Forum Seeks Testers An advertisement on an underground forum seeks testers for an under-construction version of the malware builder called "Chaos," researchers at Trend Micro report.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 12, 2021
More than 3 years ago now, Scott Helme and I launched a little project called Why No HTTPS? It listed the world's largest websites that didn't properly redirect insecure requests to secure ones. We updated it December before last and pleasingly, noted that more websites than ever were doing the right thing and forcing browsers down the secure path.
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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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 12, 2021
RansomEXX Gang Claims It Stole Sensitive Data The RansomEXX gang reportedly hit Taiwan-based computer hardware maker Gigabyte last week with a ransomware attack that temporarily shut down its website and other internal services. The attackers have now reportedly threatened to leak 112GB of business data if a ransom is not paid.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 12, 2021
Clearer Lines of Demarcation Needed, House Members Say In a letter sent to National Cyber Director Chris Inglis this week, a bipartisan group of lawmakers says clearer lines of demarcation are needed to better define the responsibilities of federal officials involved in cybersecurity.
Threatpost
AUGUST 12, 2021
Threat actors are targeting everyone from job hunters to Bitcoin traders to college students wanting a break on their student loans, by exploiting the popular technology's trust relationship with users.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 12, 2021
Report: Government Making Cybersecurity Progress, But More Work Needs to Be Done While the U.S. government is making strides in improving the nation's cybersecurity, it needs to do more to protect critical infrastructure from attacks and create public-private partnerships to improve national security, the, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission notes in a report published Thursday.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 12, 2021
Microsoft warns of a long-running spear-phishing campaign that has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks since July 2020. Microsoft revealed that a year-long spear-phishing campaign has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks starting with July 2020. The attackers used invoice-themed XLS.HTML attachments, Microsoft reported that they changed obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, a circumstance that demonstrates high motivation and the threat actors
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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
AUGUST 12, 2021
Europol: Scammers Waged Operation Related to COVID-19 Europol says it used a sting operation to derail an organized crime group that waged an email fraud campaign that stole about 1 million euros ($1.1 million).
Security Affairs
AUGUST 12, 2021
Microsoft is warning of another zero-day Windows print spooler vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-36958, that could allow local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. Microsoft published a security advisory to warn its customers of another remote code execution zero-vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-36958 , that resides in the Windows Print Spooler component.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 12, 2021
Practice Says Determining Exactly Whose Data Might Have Been Exposed Was Too Costly A Houston-based gastroenterology practice notified all 162,000 of its patients and employees that their information had potentially been compromised in a January ransomware incident, saying it would have been too costly and time-consuming to pinpoint which individuals had data exposed.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 12, 2021
Threat actors behind the Magniber Ransomware are using PrintNightmare exploits in attacks aimed at Windows servers. Threat actors behind the Magniber Ransomware are exploiting the PrintNightmare flaws ( CVE-2021-1675 , CVE-2021-34527 , and CVE-2021-36958 ) to infect Windows servers. The PrintNightmare flaws reside in the Windows Print Spooler service, print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature.
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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
AUGUST 12, 2021
Securi Offers Advice on Risk Mitigation Researchers at Sucuri have discovered five backdoor methods to access Adobe's Magento e-commerce platform. They offer risk mitigation advice.
Threatpost
AUGUST 12, 2021
Unit 42 puts the average payout at over half a million, while Barracuda has tracked a 64 percent year over year spike in the number of attacks.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 12, 2021
Security firms Trend Micro is warning its customers of attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in its Apex One and Apex One as a Service products. On July 28, Trend Micro released security patches for multiple incorrect permission assignment privilege escalation, incorrect permission preservation authentication bypass, arbitrary file upload, and local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Apex One and Apex One as a Service products.
CGI
AUGUST 12, 2021
Making green hydrogen a viable strategy to drive decarbonization. Green hydrogen is fast emerging as a promising strategy to drive decarbonization and achieve climate goals. It uses electricity from renewable energy sources to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using a process called electrolysis. During this process, no CO2 is produced, making it one of the most encouraging enablers of the energy transition. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 12, 2021
Laura Liguori of Portolano Cavallo reports that on June 10, 2021, the Italian Data Protection Authority ( Garante or “DPA”) adopted a new version of its guidelines for cookies and other tracking mechanisms (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines replace the resolution dated May 8, 2014, which set out simplified arrangements to provide information and obtain consent regarding cookies.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
AUGUST 12, 2021
On 11 August 2021, the Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO ) launched a public consultation on its draft international data transfer agreement ( IDTA ) and guidance on data transfers. These updates have been expected for some time to address the UK regulatory position, following exit from the EU, in relation to the Schrems II decision of the CJEU last year and the need to refresh the Standard Contractual Clauses ( SCCs ) for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
IG Guru
AUGUST 12, 2021
Tomorrow’s Jobs Today is written by Rafael Moscatel and his spouse Abby Moscatel. Rafael is a well-respected Information Governance Professional (IGP), Certified Records Manager (CRM), and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM). Abby is a California trial attorney for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. Both of their bios are available in the book.
Threatpost
AUGUST 12, 2021
A crush of new attacks using the well-known adware involves at least 150 updated samples, many of which aren't recognized by Apple's built-in security controls.
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“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.
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 12, 2021
Accenture officials are saying they staved off a ransomware attack this week by a cybercriminal ring using the LockBit malware even as the hacker group claimed to have captured data from the massive global IT and business consulting firm and has threatened to release it. A CNBC reporter on Aug. 11 sent out a series of Tweets noting that the group had posted on the Dark Web that it was proposing selling insider information from Accenture to interested parties and apparently taunting the company,
Reltio
AUGUST 12, 2021
A New Business Landscape. Businesses have transformed over the past year in ways we never could have imagined. The world has faced shifts in global supply chains, healthcare, education, and workplace environments that we did not anticipate in 2019. This is true across almost every industry in every part of the globe. As we slowly come out of lockdowns, many are imagining what the future holds for business, and cataloging the ways that things will be different as we move forward.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 12, 2021
New research found that several of the major gaming platforms are hosting extremist activity, from racist livestreams to open support for neo-Nazis.
Threatpost
AUGUST 12, 2021
The out-of-band warning pairs with a working proof-of-concept exploit for the issue, circulating since mid-July.
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 12, 2021
Carriers know where you are every time your phone re-connects to the cell network—but with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, they wouldn't have to.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 12, 2021
On August 11, 2021, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) launched a consultation on its draft international data transfer agreement (“IDTA”) and guidance for organizations on international transfers (the “Guidance”). Once finalized, the IDTA will replace the existing EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) in the UK. The consultation follows both the UK’s exit from the EU, and the July 2020 Schrems II judgment, in which the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) (1) invalid
Threatpost
AUGUST 12, 2021
Threatpost interviews Wiz CTO about a vulnerability recently patched by Amazon Route53's DNS service and Google Cloud DNS.
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