Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
But Information Compiled by Other Attackers May Involve Millions of Other Accounts Information amassed on 5.4 million Twitter users by an attacker who abused one of the social network's APIs has been dumped online for free. While Twitter confirmed that breach, a researcher suggests other attackers also abused the feature to amass information for millions of other users.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh , which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mob
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Fine Tied to Data Scrapping Incident Revealed in 2021 Facebook will pay a 265 million euro fine to the Irish data protection authority to resolve a 2021 incident when the scrapped data of 533 million users appeared online. The data contained names, phone numbers and birth dates. Facebook says it takes active measures against data scrapping.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) fixed a cross-tenant vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access to resources. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has addressed a cross-tenant confused deputy problem in its platform that could have allowed threat actors to gain unauthorized access to resources. The problem was reported to the company by researchers from Datadog on September 1, 2022, and the bug was solved on September 6.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Law Enforcement Agencies Also Took Down 200,000 Cyber Infrastructure Crooks A 27-nation joint investigation in Africa led to the arrest of 11 cybercrooks accused of defrauding $800,000 from victims across the world. The authorities also took down nearly 200,000 elements of malware infrastructure used by the fraudsters for phishing and other scams.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Civil Society Groups Ask PM Sunak to Reconsider Decryption Clause in Legislation The United Kingdom is the newest front in the long-fought conflict over end-to-end encryption, as a slew of civil society groups urge the prime minister not to back legislation empowering regulators to force online intermediaries into providing decrypted messages.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Laptop technicians routinely violate the privacy of the people whose computers they repair: Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs from laptops after receiving overnight repairs from 12 commercial shops. The logs showed that technicians from six of the locations had accessed personal data and that two of those shops also copied data onto a personal device.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
5 Million People Are Affected by This Breach and 2 Similar Incidents An Indiana healthcare network, Community Health Network, is the latest medical entity to classify its use of online tracking code as a data breach reportable to federal regulators. It said the unauthorized access/disclosure breach affected 1.5 million individuals.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
ESET announced the discovery of a vulnerability impacting Acer laptops that can allow an attacker to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot. ESET researchers announced in a series of tweets the discovery of a vulnerability impacting Acer laptops, the issue can allow an attacker to deactivate UEFI Secure Boot. The experts explained that the flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4020 , is similar to the Lenovo vulnerabilities the company disclosed earlier this month.
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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
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Online Learning and Student Chromebooks Disabled for Thousands of Schoolchildren Staffers reacted with incredulity after a cyber incident at a Greater Toronto school district kept systems offline and forced teachers to take attendance manually. Online learning and student Chromebooks were not working at Durham District School Board, which serves more than 74,000 students.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Several Ukrainian organizations were hit by Russia-based RansomBoggs Ransomware in the last week, ESET reports. Researchers from ESET observed multiple attacks involving a new family of ransomware, tracked as RansomBoggs ransomware, against Ukrainian organizations. The security firm first detected the attacks on November 21 and immediately alerted the CERT US.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The shortage of cybersecurity professionals in the United States includes a scarcity of expertise in medical device security, says Bill Aerts, senior fellow and managing director of the University of Minnesota's recently launched Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity.
John Battelle's Searchblog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
There’s so much to say about what’s happening at Twitter, but I’m going to start with one word: “Hardcore.” That’s what Elon said he wants from all his employees going forward – a “hardcore” mentality, a coder-first culture, a sleep-at-the-office-and-pound-Red-Bull kind of sensibility. I’m pretty familiar with this culture – an earlier, less toxic version of it pervaded the pre-Elon tech world, a culture I reported on at Wired , t
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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
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
On November 25, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) and the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, issued a joint statement setting out how they intend to work together to “ensure coherence between the data protection and the new online safety regimes.” The regulators noted that the statement is primarily intended for online service providers that are likely to be regulated under the online safety regime, but it also will be of interest to other stakeholders as an indication of
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook’s users’ data from scraping. Meta has been fined €265 million ($275.5 million) by the Irish data protection commission (DPC) for the data leak suffered by Facebook in 2021 that exposed the data belonging to millions of Facebook users. The Data Protection Commission is also imposing a range of corrective measures on Meta. “The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the conclusion to an in
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It’s easy to think of the typical online holiday scam as something that affects mostly individuals. Sad, maybe, and unfortunate, but not something that might seriously threaten a business, or another organization.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Don’t fuss now — just another spoonful of multifactor authentication to keep the organization strong and the data safer.
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KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The ransomware group is using Qakbot to make the initial point of entry before moving laterally within an organization’s network.
The Guardian Data Protection
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner has been fined nearly €1bn by EU since September 2021 Facebook’s owner has been fined €265m (£230m) by the Irish data watchdog after a breach that resulted in the details of more than 500 million users being published online. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Meta had infringed two articles of the EU’s data protection laws after details of Facebook users from around the world were scraped from public profiles in 2018 and 2019.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Meta has been found in violation of Europe's GDPR rules requiring the social media giant to protect user data by "design and default.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
What is the NIS2 Directive and How Does It Affect You? divya. Tue, 11/29/2022 - 06:08. The European Union enacted the Network and Information System (NIS) regulation in July 2016 with the intention of ensuring a specific level of security for networks and information systems belonging to critical and sensitive infrastructures in EU member states. Six years later, modifications to this regulation are gaining momentum, with the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council reaching
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The enterprise's shift to the cloud means digital forensics investigators have had to adopt new remote techniques and develop custom tools to uncover and process evidence off compromised devices.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Valuable information is buried in emails – from your clients, sensitive projects and legal matters. It is increasingly difficult to find, organize and see the full set of relevant information lawyers and other knowledge workers need to respond quickly and stay on top of their projects and cases. An ever-growing volume of email often leads … The post How to find information faster in email appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
More than 1,000 systems are exposed to a campaign hunting weak Windows servers and more.
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OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
After several years pause when competition authorities around the world suspended on-the-spot inspections during the global pandemic, dawn raids have resumed with full force. In less than a year, more than 40 dawn raids have been reported by 16 different competition authorities across EMEA, the Americas and Asia alone involving companies in the automotive sector, … The post Crises, cartels and collusion: dawn raids resume with full force appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Financing and acquisitions are trending toward smaller deals, which means fewer high-valuation purchases and funding, but likely fewer post-merger layoffs as well.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Metadata management performs a critical role within the modern data management stack. It helps blur data silos, and empowers data and analytics teams to better understand the context and quality of data. This, in turn, builds trust in data and the decision-making to follow. However, as data volumes continue to grow, manual approaches to metadata management are sub-optimal and can result in missed opportunities.
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