Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2022
Attackers Targeted More Than 10,000 Organizations Since Last September Attackers used a phishing campaign to direct unwitting Microsoft business email customers into supplying logon credentials to a proxy server. Attackers stole online session cookies, allowing them to defeat MFA and access inboxes. From there, they emailed corporate vendors to obtain financial data.
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2022
Vulnerability will remain a "significant" threat for years to come and highlighted the need for more public and private sector support for open source software ecosystem, Cyber Safety Review Board says.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2022
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes why the number of ransomware attacks and the amounts being paid in ransoms are both on the rise. It also discusses today's cyberthreat landscape and whether organizations should rely on user training to improve security.
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2022
Attackers use scam security checks to steal victims' government documents, photos, banking information, and email passwords, researchers warn.
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
JULY 14, 2022
CyberArk Has Pushed Beyond Its Legacy in PAM to Address Broader Identity Use Cases CyberArk has pushed beyond privileged access management to address broader identity use cases as the rise of machine identities creates new challenges. The company will offer more holistic protection to user and nonuser identities by expanding into secrets management and cloud privilege security.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2022
Latest Analysis of HHS OCR Health Data Breach Trends A little more than halfway into the year, hacking incidents, and especially ransomware incidents, as well as breaches involving business associates, are dominating the hundreds of major health data breaches affecting millions of individuals being reported to federal regulators.
Data Matters
JULY 14, 2022
As the year approaches its halfway point, Chinese government accelerates the legislation for cross-border data transfers. Certification Rules for Cross-Border Data Processing Activities Are Finalized. Following an exposure draft dated April 29, TC260 finalized and released the Certification Rules for Cross-Border Data Processing Activities on June 24, 2022.
Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2022
Threat actors carried out smishing attacks on nearly 10,000 Autralian higher education students enrolled at Deakin University and downloaded PII of about 47,000 students. Hackers compromised an employee's credentials to access the university's third-party SMS solutions provider to execute the attack.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 14, 2022
On June 30, 2022, the New York Office of the Attorney General (“NYOAG”) announced a $400,000 agreement with Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. (“Wegmans”) in connection with a cloud storage security issue. The NYOAG alleges that Wegmans exposed the personal information of three million consumers by storing the data in misconfigured cloud storage containers.
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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
JULY 14, 2022
Joshua Schulte Is Guilty on Nine Counts Ranging From Espionage to Obstruction Joshua Schulte now faces a minimum of 80 years in prison after a Manhattan federal jury returned guilty verdicts in all nine counts brought against the former CIA programmer by U.S. prosecutors. Schulte leaked a trove of classified hacking secrets used in espionage.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2022
You may want to be careful about clicking on a student loan forgiveness ad. The Tech Transparency Project reviewed the top Google searches with 'student loan forgiveness' and found almost 12% of the ads were showing potential malicious intent.
Data Breach Today
JULY 14, 2022
Rui Ribeiro, the founder and CEO of Jscrambler, a company that monitors and obfuscates JavaScript code, discusses the proliferation of web applications that use third-party code, the liability risks that often exist, and how Jscramber's products can increase the security of all application code.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2022
Microsoft Security recently released a report which detailed a widely successful phishing attack technique used against over 10,000 of its customers …a phishing attack that worked even if the customers were using supposedly super secure multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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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
JULY 14, 2022
Microsoft published the exploit code for a vulnerability in macOS that can allow an attacker to escape the sandbox. Microsoft publicly disclosed technical details for an access issue vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26706 , that resides in the macOS App Sandbox. “Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability in macOS that could allow specially crafted codes to escape the App Sandbox and run unrestricted on the system.” reads the post published by Microsoft.
Jamf
JULY 14, 2022
For over 10 years, Apple admins from near and far have gathered, be it in person or virtually, at the Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC). At JNUC, Apple IT, users and InfoSec leaders get a front-row seat to learn new and better ways to manage and secure Apple devices that simplify workflows and keep users productive. This year’s event will be even bigger, better and back in person !
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2022
A creative mix of phishing emails, solid social engineering , use of Facebook Messenger, brand and site impersonation, and a sense of urgency all add up to a believable attack.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2022
Former CIA programmer, Joshua Schulte, was convicted in a US federal court of the 2017 leak of a massive leak to WikiLeaks. The former CIA programmer Joshua Schulte (33) was found guilty in New York federal court of stealing the agency’s hacking tools and leaking them to WikiLeaks in 2017. The huge trove of data, called “ Vault 7 ,” exposed the hacking capabilities of the US Intelligence Agency and its internal infrastructure.
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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.
Collibra
JULY 14, 2022
How many data quality dimensions do you have? How do you arrive at those dimensions? . How do they serve your company’s needs? As a former data management consultant, I find that data quality strategy falls into both the tradecraft of data governance and the disruption of complex industry dynamics. The former, tradecraft, is a technological process that challenges leaders to prioritize data governance to the equivalency of any other prized commodity.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2022
Researchers warn of a new vulnerability, dubbed Retbleed, that impacts multiple older AMD and Intel microprocessors. ETH Zurich researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi discovered a new vulnerability, dubbed Retbleed, that affects multiple older AMD and Intel microprocessors. An attacker can exploit the flaw to bypass current defenses and perform in Spectre -based attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 14, 2022
Researchers have found a way to use the web's basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2022
The largest HTTPS DDoS attack recently mitigated by Cloudflare was launched by the Mantis botnet. In June 2022, DDoS mitigation firm Cloudflare announced it has mitigated the largest HTTPS DDoS attack that was launched by a botnet they have called Mantis. The Mantis botnet generated 26 million request per second using approximately 5000 hijacked virtual machines and powerful servers. “The Mantis botnet was able to generate the 26M HTTPS requests per second attack using only 5,000 bots.
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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.
Threatpost
JULY 14, 2022
Since 2021, various state-aligned threat groups have turned up their targeting of journalists to siphon data and credentials and also track them.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2022
Cybercriminals almost always need to leverage credentials as part of just about any kind of cyberattack. To no surprise, phishing and social engineering play a dominant role.
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2022
A poor, permanent hire can be a very expensive error, whereas a mis-hire on a virtual CISO can be rapidly corrected.
KnowBe4
JULY 14, 2022
Scammers are continuing to abuse the QuickBooks tax accounting software to send phishing scams, according to Roger Kay at INKY.
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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.
Schneier on Security
JULY 14, 2022
Researchers have a new way to de-anonymize browser users, by correlating their behavior on one account with their behavior on another: The findings, which NJIT researchers will present at the Usenix Security Symposium in Boston next month, show how an attacker who tricks someone into loading a malicious website can determine whether that visitor controls a particular public identifier, like an email address or social media account, thus linking the visitor to a piece of potentially personal data
Dark Reading
JULY 14, 2022
Phishing retained its place as the top root cause of data compromises, according to new data from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
Security Affairs
JULY 14, 2022
VMware addressed a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-22048, in vCenter Server IWA mechanism. VMware addressed a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-22048 (CVSSv3 base score of 7.1.), in vCenter Server ‘s IWA (Integrated Windows Authentication) mechanism after eight months since its disclosure.
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