Thu.Apr 21, 2022

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Killer Robots in the Air: Slouching Toward Full Autonomy

Data Breach Today

Security and Ethical Concerns Persist as AI-Driven Lethal Weapon Systems Evolve Fresh warnings are being sounded about the threat posed by semi-autonomous killing machines both on and above the battlefield, especially because lethal weapons keep evolving toward full autonomy but cannot be made hack-proof.

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What Is the Role of Information Management in Customer Experience?

AIIM

There are two things you should know about me. The first is that I love to eat. I have an appetite that was once described as “alarming.” In my teenage years, I would kick back and devour an entire large pizza in one sitting. As I grew older, I refined my pallet and developed a desire for quality ingredients and a craving for a variety of flavors. The second thing you should know is that I hate to cook.

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Getting Away From the Bear in the Forest

Data Breach Today

Marco Túlio Moraes on Defining a Risk Management Strategy Marco Túlio Moraes of OITI, who is a CyberEdBoard executive member, confronts the metaphor of the cyberthreat as a bear in the forest and discusses how an organization must actively assess its environment, understand what its main risks are, and define a strategy to deal with them.

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Zero-Day Exploit Use Exploded in 2021

Dark Reading

Ransomware and other financially motivated threat actors joined nation-state-backed groups in leveraging unpatched flaws in attack campaigns, new data shows.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Leaks Fail to Dent Conti's Successful Ransomware Operation

Data Breach Today

Number of Victims Posted to Data Leak Site Increasing; Innovation Key, Experts Say Despite the recent leak of internal communications and code from the Conti ransomware group, the criminal enterprise appears to have continued operations without breaking stride, in part thanks to constant innovation, security researchers report.

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Who's Behind Attempt to Reboot REvil Ransomware Operation?

Data Breach Today

Researchers Suspect Former REvil Developer of Restarting Server, Data Leak Site Has the notorious REvil ransomware operation come back? Former developers may have restarted the server and data leak site. The original Happy Blog leak site began redirecting to the new blog, which lists both old and seemingly new victims, including Oil India Limited.

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Critical bug in decoder used by popular chipsets exposes 2/3 of Android devices to hack

Security Affairs

A critical RCE flaw in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets could allow access to users’ media files. Security researchers at Check Point Research have discovered a critical remote code execution that affects the implementation of the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets.

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Changing Data Quantification in Security Insurance

Data Breach Today

Lynn Peachey, the director of business development at Arete Incident Response, says that insurance companies have made "a pretty quick turnaround in terms of trying to respond to the ransomware epidemic." She discusses the changes they are making, which include leveraging data quantification.

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APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules Go Global

Hunton Privacy

On April 21, 2022, the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea and Chinese Taipei published a declaration (the “Declaration”) establishing the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules Forum (the “Global CBPR Forum”). The Global CBPR Forum will establish an international certification system based on the existing APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (“CBPR”) and Privacy Recognition for Processors (“PRP”) Systems, enabling participation beyond APEC member economies.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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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Five Eyes Warns of Russian Hacks on Critical Infrastructure

Data Breach Today

Government Hackers and Cybercriminals Are Teaming Up to Launch Attacks on the West Russian government hackers and cybercrime groups are teaming up to launch cyberattacks against the West in retaliation for its support of Ukraine. Some cybercrime groups have pledged to support the Russian government and threatened to go after countries providing material support to Ukraine.

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Static SSH host key in Cisco Umbrella allows stealing admin credentials

Security Affairs

Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) that could allow stealing admin credentials. Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) , tracked as CVE-2022-20773, that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to steal admin credentials remotely. Umbrella is Cisco’s cloud-based Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) platform that provides users with multiple levels of defense against internet-based

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Could $5 Million Reward Rattle North Korean Cybercriminals?

Data Breach Today

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes how the U.S. government is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information to help it disrupt the illicit flow of funds to North Korea. The report also examines approaches to enhance banks' cyber defenses and U.S. regulatory trends.

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3 Ways We Can Improve Cybersecurity

Dark Reading

To better manage risks, companies can concentrate on resilience, sharing information to protect from cyber threats, and making the cybersecurity tent bigger by looking at workers with nontraditional skill sets.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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Critical Steps for Enhancing 3rd-Party Risk Management

Data Breach Today

Recent security incidents involving third-party software, including Okta and Log4j, underscore the importance of healthcare entities taking steps to enhance their vendor risk management programs, says Chris Frenz, assistant vice president of IT security at Mount Sinai South Nassau.

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Cybercriminals Deliver IRS Tax Scams & Phishing Campaigns By Mimicking Government Vendors

Security Affairs

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right before the end of the 2021 IRS income tax return deadline in the U.S.

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Long Article on NSO Group

Schneier on Security

Ronan Farrow has a long article in The New Yorker on NSO Group, which includes the news that someone — probably Spain — used the software to spy on domestic Catalonian sepratists.

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LinkedIn is the Most Impersonated Brand in Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

Social media companies, particularly LinkedIn, are now the most impersonated brands in phishing campaigns, researchers at Check Point have found.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Why You Need to Tune EDR to Secure Your Environment

eSecurity Planet

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions typically deploy in a standard configuration meant to deliver the least number of false positive alerts in a generic environment. This allows EDR to deploy very quickly, but it also allows for a number of security vulnerabilities. Here we’ll discuss why EDR vendors choose these configurations, and how organizations can tune their EDR systems to fit their organization and improve security.

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UK Information Commissioner: Many Cybersecurity Incidents are “Preventable”

KnowBe4

In a recent article about the largest cyberthreats currently facing the UK , John Edwards – the UK’s newly-appointed information commissioner- talks about the need for a security culture in the workplace.

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Exploring Biometrics and Trust at the Corporate Level

Dark Reading

Biometric measurements should be part of any multifactor authentication (MFA) strategy, but choose your methods carefully: Some only establish trust at the device level.

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US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK warn of Russia-linked threat actors’ attacks

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warn of cyberattacks conducted by Russia-linked threat actors on critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) issued a joint advisory warning of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by Russia-linked threat actors and criminal cyber threats.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

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.

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UntitledNew Zscaler Research Shows Over 400% Increase in Phishing Attacks With Retail and Wholesale Industries at Greatest Risk

Dark Reading

Annual ThreatLabz Report reveals phishing-as-a-service as the key source of attacks across critical industries and consumers globally; underscores urgency to adopt a zero-trust security model.

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Critical: CISA Warns of Potential Attacks on Infrastructure by Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Gangs

KnowBe4

In a joint multi-country cybersecurity advisory (CSA), governments are warning their respective critical infrastructure organizations to be vigilant against increased malicious cyber threat activity.

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Redcentric Partners with Thales to Provide Scalable, Flexible Remote Access

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Redcentric Partners with Thales to Provide Scalable, Flexible Remote Access. divya. Thu, 04/21/2022 - 07:42. A recent forecast predicted the managed services provider (MSP) market will reach $309.4 billion by 2025. This huge projected growth in the MSP model reflects large and small organisations seeking to outsource various IT services to third parties specialising in those services.

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New Phishing Attack Targets MetaMask Users for their Crypto Wallet Private Keys

KnowBe4

A new phishing campaign impersonates MetaMask, informs victims their cryptocurrency wallets aren’t “verified” and threatens suspension.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Devo Acquires Threat Hunting Company Kognos

Dark Reading

Acquisition will blend autonomous threat hunting with cloud-native security analytics for automating security tasks.

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If You Got a “Your Bill Is Paid For” Text, You’re Part of a Massive T-Mobile Texting Scam

KnowBe4

The latest scam targeting T-Mobile customers impersonating T-Mobile and focused on collecting your personal data by tempting you with free “gifts”.

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Enhancing the Retail Experience While Improving Operations: Here’s How

HID Global

Enhancing the Retail Experience While Improving Operations: Here’s How. tseeley. Thu, 04/21/2022 - 14:49.

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