Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche Software Flaws Exposed Data, Vehicle Controls Software vulnerabilities installed by luxury car manufacturers including Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce and Porsche that could allow remote attackers to control vehicles and steal owners' personal details have been fixed. Cybersecurity researchers uncovered the vulnerabilities while vacationing.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

After a year that saw massive ransomware attacks and open cyber warfare, the biggest question in cybersecurity for 2023 will likely be how much of those attack techniques get commoditized and weaponized. “In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. 2023, he predicted, “will not be any easier when it comes to keeping users’

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Class Action Lawsuit Says Security Company Failed to Safeguard Customer Data A class action lawsuit against LastPass alleges that a data breach in August resulted in the theft of $53,000 in bitcoin. An unnamed plaintiff alleges that negligence in the password management company's data security practices led to the Thanksgiving weekend theft.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 5, 2023

Wise, Kevin Kelly is. Today I’d like to ponder something Kevin Kelly – a fellow co-founding editor of Wired – said to me roughly 30 years ago. During one editorial conversation or another, Kevin said – and I’m paraphrasing here – “The most creative act a human can engage in is forming a good question.” That idea has stuck with me ever since, and informed a lot of my career.

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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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Authorized payment scams are on the rise, and banking regulators are putting pressure on financial institutions to do more to protect customers. The biggest challenge is that the customers are driving the process, says Bradley Haacke, vice president and financial crimes director at Fifth Third Bank.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes why Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over users' personal data, how the median stock price dropped 40% among publicly traded security firms in 2022, and why an infrastructure change is needed in SOCs.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2023

Twitter is in the middle of yet another PR disaster after a criminal hacker leaked more than 220 million users’ email addresses. The fraudster, who goes by the name ‘Ryushi’, initially demanded $200,000 (about £166,000) to hand over or delete the stolen information. A week later – after presumably being rebuffed by Twitter – the hacker put the data up for sale on the hacking forum Breached.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Crypto Exchange to Pay $50M Penalty, Invest $50M to Boost AML Compliance Coinbase agreed to a $100 million settlement with the New York financial regulator on Wednesday over cybersecurity lapses and failure to comply with anti-money laundering guidelines that allowed criminals to use the platform for fraud, money laundering and other illicit activities.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 5, 2023

With inflation, rising interest rates and general economic uncertainty, last year presented several challenges for financial services institutions (FSIs). As we move into 2023, FSIs will need to focus their increasing IT spend and direct their attention to delivering on the total experience for their customers and employees and on environmental, social and governance initiatives … The post Top predictions for financial services in 2023 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

How to Defend Against Cyberattacks in Healthcare Organizations Hackers can strike any industry, but there has been an alarming increase in targeted and successful cyberattacks in healthcare. Now, more than ever, it's essential that your healthcare organization is prepared and has strategies in place for managing data breaches. Here are seven strategies to use.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 5, 2023

ZDNet summarized the problem as follows: "Up to 1,981 schools, 290 hospitals, 105 local governments and 44 universities and colleges were hit with ransomware in the US alone during 2022, demonstrating how ransomware attacks remain a significant cyber threat to the public sector and civil society.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

French Data Protection Agency Says Apple Lacked Consent for Ad Personalization The French data privacy agency has fined Apple 8 million euros for an ad personalization tracker that violated the country's privacy laws. The fine against Apple was announced on the same day the Irish Data Protection agency fined Meta Ireland for similar violations.

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Collibra

JANUARY 5, 2023

We are at an inflection point. Despite all the innovations of the last decade — Hadoop, data lakes, Spark, Python, TensorFlow, the ascendancy of AI — businesses still struggle deriving value from data. Data initiatives begin with great promise and lead to crushing disappointments when they aren’t scalable or reliable. . The truth is the way we organize the people and the process around data needs to change.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

Continuous Integration Software Development Platform Suspects 2-Week Intrusion CircleCI, which is used by over 1 million developers to build, test and deploy software, has issued a brief security alert warning all customers to immediately "rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI" as it continues to probe a suspected two-week intrusion.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 5, 2023

Interest in the handheld open-source multi-function cybersecurity tool by techies has risen to a new campaign seeking to steal crypto funds through illegitimate “sales” of the device.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 5, 2023

In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast, Paul speaks with Jill Moné-Corallo, the Director of Product Security Engineering Response at GitHub. Jill talks about her journey from a college stint working at Apple’s Genius bar, to the information security space - first at product security at Apple and now at GitHub, a massive development. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2023

The popular AI chatbot ChatGPT might be used by threat actors to hack easily hack into target networks. Original post at [link]. Cybernews research team discovered that the AI-based chatbot ChatGPT – a recently launched platform that caught the online community’s attention – could provide hackers with step-by-step instructions on how to hack websites.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 5, 2023

Strap yourself in, this is a big one! Big video, big breach (scrape?), and a big audience today. The Twitter incident consumed a heap of my time before, during and after this live stream, but then I go and get a sudden itch to do stuff like the number plate capturing and, well, there goes even more hours I don't have. But hey, I love what I do and I have no regrets, I hope you enjoy watching this week's vid 😊 Oh - one more thing: today I set up an official Mastodon account for

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2023

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta Platforms €390 million over data processing operations for the delivery of its services. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) concluded two inquiries into the data processing operations of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) over the delivery of its Facebook and Instagram services. DPC fined Meta Platforms a total of €390 million (roughly $414 million). “Final decisions have now been made by the DPC in which it has fined Met

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2023

The hosting services provider shared new details on the breach that took down its Hosted Exchange Email service.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Enterprise collaboration platform Slack disclosed a data breach, hackers stole some of its private source code repositories. The enterprise collaboration platform Slack has announced to have suffered a security breach, threat actors have stolen some of its private source code repositories. The company pointed out that its customers were not affected. “We recently became aware of a security issue involving unauthorized access to a subset of Slack’s code repositories.” reads the securi

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 5, 2023

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has outlined the top six most impersonated UK government agencies in 2022. The most impersonated entity was the National Health Service (NHS), followed by TV Licensing, HM Revenue & Customs, Gov.uk, DVLA, and Ofgem.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2023

Zoho is warning its customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-47523, affecting multiple ManageEngine products. Zoho is urging its customers to address a critical SQL Injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-47523, that affects multiple ManageEngine products. “This security advisory is to let you know that a high severity vulnerability was detected in ManageEngine Password Manager Pro.” reads the advisory published by Zoho. “An SQL Injection vulnerability(CV

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 5, 2023

The pandemic has precipitated a fundamental shift in the way citizen services are delivered. In the past year, governments have made strides towards improving citizen experience while ensuring security. However, there is still work to be done. In the year ahead, governments will focus on implementing technology that can help them improve citizen experience, be … The post 6 predictions for the public sector industry in 2023 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2023

Security teams may be missing targeted attacks and advanced exploits if attackers are using evasive techniques to avoid detection. Defenders need to up their game.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 5, 2023

The infamous, FSB-connected Turla group took over other hackers' servers, exploiting their USB drive malware for targeted espionage.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 5, 2023

The financially motivated threat group, also known as OPERA1ER, demonstrated an evolution in tactics in its compromise of three Francophone financial institutions in Africa, likely adding to its $11 million to-date haul.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 5, 2023

Healthcare organizations face another challenging year in 2023, as many struggle to answer the high demand for care. In the last few months, health systems have faced a flare up in Respitory Syncytial Virus (RSV), the seasonal flu, and ongoing COVID cases that is stretching demand for care to unsustainable levels. In addition, the uncertain economy, … The post Healthcare predictions 2023: It’s all about the patient appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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