Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Great Resignation is upon us, and insider IP theft is surging as a result. But it is a solvable problem.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Researchers at AT&T discovered a new BotenaGo botnet that is using thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo is a new botnet discovered by researchers at AT&T that leverages thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. Below is the list of exploits used by the bot: Vulnerability Affected devices CVE-2020-8515 DrayTek Vigor2960 1.3.1_Beta, Vigor3900 1.4.4_Beta, and Vigor300B 1.3.3_Beta, 1.4.2.1_Beta, and 1.4.4_Beta devices CVE-20

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Visitors to pro-democracy and media sites in the region were infected with malware that could download files, steal data, and more.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The One Font BEC campaign targets Microsoft 365 users and uses sophisticated obfuscation tactics to slip past security protections to harvest credentials.

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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.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Palo Alto Networks warns of an easy exploitable Remote Code Execution vulnerability in its GlobalProtect VPN product. Palo Alto Networks disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3064 , in its GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces. The cybersecurity vendor warns that the vulnerability is easily exploitable by an unauthenticated network-based attacker.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On November 5, 2021, IAB Europe (“IAB EU”) announced that, in the coming weeks, the Belgian Data Protection Authority plans to share with other data protection authorities a draft ruling on the IAB EU Transparency & Consent Framework (“TCF”). The TCF is a GDPR consent solution built by IAB EU that has become a widely used approach to collecting consent to cookies under the GDPR.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Ransomware volumes are up 1000%. Aamir Lakhani, cybersecurity researcher and practitioner at FortiGuard Labs?, discusses secure email, network segmentation and sandboxing for defense.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In this episode of the podcast (#230) Siddarth Adukia, a regional Director at NCC Group, joins host Paul Roberts to talk about the (cyber) risks and (public health) rewards of vaccine passport systems: how they work, how they can be compromised and what to do about it. The post Episode 230: Are Vaccine Passports Cyber Secure? appeared first on. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

ArsTechnica’s Sean Gallagher has a two – part article on “securing your digital life.” It’s pretty good.

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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.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Renowned hardware security expert raises alarm on the risk and dangers of cyberattackers targeting the current time-synchronization infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks soared in the third quarter, giving organizations yet another cyber threat to worry about. Kaspersky researchers reported that total attacks were up by about a third from the second quarter. Even the slowest days saw 500 DDoS attacks; the busiest day, Aug. 18, saw a whopping 8,825 attacks. Kaspersky observed that “Q3 was unusually explosive for the number of DDoS attacks,” with “several thousand attacks per day on some days.”.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The rapid shift to a hybrid workplace and accelerated adoption of new technologies means it's time to rethink networking security approaches.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The FBI warned private industry partners of attempts by an Iranian threat actor to buy stolen information belonging to US organizations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a private industry notification (PIN) to warn private industry partners that Iran-linked threat actors are attempting to buy stolen information belonging to US businesses and organizations abroad.

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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.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A bill introduced this week would regulate ransomware response by the country's critical financial sector.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Threat actors compromised a server managing customer data for a Queensland water supplier and remained undetected for nine months. A served used by the SunWater statutory Queensland (Australia) Government-owned water supplier was compromised and threat actors remained undetected for nine longs, the annual financial audit report published by the Queensland Audit Office revealed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Don't Encrypt Everything; Protect Intelligently. divya. Thu, 11/11/2021 - 09:30. The volume of confidential documents created daily is, frankly, incalculable, and the volume of “everything” distributed across multiple data centers around the world is much, much more. And though you likely cannot calculate exactly how much data your organization holds; you know it is going to be a big and costly problem to “Encrypt Everything.”.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The US DoJ sentenced a Russian man for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called Methbot (‘3ve’). The US DoJ sentenced the Russian nation Aleksandr Zhukov, aka the ‘King of Fraud,’ for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called Methbot (‘ 3ve ‘) that stole at least $7 million from US organizations.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Enterprises are more dependent than ever on open source software and need to manage the risk posed by vulnerabilities in components and third-party vendors.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A Russian-language threat group is available for hire, to steal data on journalists, political leaders, activists and from organizations in every sector.

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Jamf

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Mobile device management (MDM) has become a basic requirement for small businesses to keep things running smoothly. But many small- and medium-sized business need powerful, scalable solutions with expanded capabilities to survive, let alone compete in today’s market.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Come join us for a very informative learning opportunity on Microsoft Teams Records Management and Information Governance. REGISTER HERE November 2021 ARMA AZ Chapter MeetingThursday, November 18, 2021, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. MSTLocation: Zoom (link provided after registration)#learning #microsoftteams#ARMA. The post Webinar: Records Management and Information Governance in Microsoft Teams via ARMA Arizona on November 18th, 2021 at 8am MST appeared first on IG GURU.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

ClusterFuzzLite is a stripped-down version of continuous fuzzing tool ClusterFuzz that integrates CI tools.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Cyberspace Administration of China ( CAC ) released the draft Security Review Measures for Cross-Border Data Transfer (the Draft Security Review Measures ) for public comments on 29 October 2021 – shortly before the effective date of the Personal Information Protection Law ( PIPL ), 1 November 2021. The three pillars of China’s cyber security and data legislation – the Cyber Security Law ( CSL , effective on 1 June 2017), the Data Security Law ( DSL , effective on 1 September 2021), and the

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

New report suggests attacker is targeting trusted supply chain companies in order to compromise large numbers of downstream customers.

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Docuware

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Document management solutions have hundreds of features with the potential to improve the way your organization does its work. However, you wouldn’t purchase software solely because of any one of these capabilities. Based on our experience with DocuWare’s more than 15,000 customers in 100+ countries, we’ve determined which document management capabilities matter most.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Researchers detail their investigation of a cryptomining campaign stealing AWS credentials and how attackers have evolved their techniques.

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Zapproved

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Optical character recognition (OCR) identifies letters and numbers in image- or paper-based discovery, converting it to searchable electronic text.

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Rocket Software

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When two companies come together, there are seemingly endless details that must be considered to integrate the activities of the organizations. Merger and acquisition (M&A) negotiations take careful planning and input from every level and department within each organization. At Rocket, we’ve been busy welcoming the ASG team into our Rocket family , and we’ve been intentional with each step to have a successful merger of the two communities.

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