Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2023
Expert Etay Maor Says Limitations, Biases Make the AI Bot Unreliable - for Now Technologists were quick to point out that popular AI-based chatbot, ChatGPT, could lower the bar for attackers in phishing campaigns and even write malware code, but Cato Networks' Etay Maor advises taking these predictions "with a grain of salt" and explores the pros and cons of ChatGPT.
Data Protection Report
MARCH 6, 2023
The reform of Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap.486) (the PDPO ) is back on the agenda. In our earlier post in 2020, we reported that the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau published a discussion paper (the Discussion Paper ) seeking the Legislative Council’s Panel on Constitutional Affairs’ (the Panel ) views on proposed changes to the PDPO.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2023
Group Threatens Full Data Dump If Its Extortion Demands Are Not Met Play ransomware hackers attempting to extort the San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland dumped 10 gigabytes of stolen information over the weekend and threatened that more dumps may come. Researchers have spotted similarities between the Play, Hive and Nokoyawa ransomware groups.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 6, 2023
On March 2, 2023, the FTC announced a proposed order against BetterHelp, Inc., an online mental health counseling service, for sharing consumer data, including sensitive mental health information, with third parties for targeted advertising and other purposes. The FTC’s proposed order is notable, in that it is the first such order that would return funds to consumers whose health data was affected.
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
MARCH 6, 2023
Russia-Linked RaaS Group Attacked Pennsylvania Healthcare Group Last Month Russian-speaking ransomware gang BlackCat is leaking data stolen from a Pennsylvania-based healthcare group, including photos of breast cancer patients. The gang posted screenshots of patient diagnoses of a handful of patients and pictures of breast cancer patients disrobed from the waist up.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2023
Credit Card Market BidenCash Again Leaks Free Data as Marketing Ploy Here's further proof many cybercriminals are rampant self-promoters: Credit card market BidenCash, which sells compromised payment card data, dumped 2 million payment cards for free. This shows that competition between carder markets - and increasingly, Telegram-based vendors - is fierce.
Information Governance Perspectives
MARCH 6, 2023
Most people associate blockchain with cryptocurrency, and the buzz around distributed ledger technology continues to make news. Presently, Samuel Bankman-Fried of FTX Trading is being prosecuted for allegedly using the tool, or at least exploiting its allure, to defraud investors around the world out of billions of dollars. But fortunately, entrepreneurs and computer scientists like Ashish Gadnis have demonstrated that you can also use blockchain for the common good.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2023
Germany Issues Arrest Warrants for 3 Suspected Russian DoppelPaymer Operators Police in Germany and Ukraine detained two suspected core members of a ransomware criminal group with a track record of attacking hospitals and emergency services. Seized electronics may lead to additional arrests of members of the group, who are accused of spreading DoppelPaymer ransomware.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MARCH 6, 2023
Authors: Heidi Waem and Simon Verschaeve On 21 February 2023, the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority ruled on a case relating to the lawfulness of a geolocation tracking system for employee vehicles used by a public authority. The decision not only sets out the conditions for the use of such systems, but also includes interesting considerations of the Litigation Chamber on the interpretation of the ‘public interest’ legal basis of article 6.1(e) GDPR.
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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
MARCH 6, 2023
KuppingerCole Report Taps Broad Security Platforms, Pure-Play SD-WAN, SSE Vendors Platform players such as Cisco and Palo Alto Networks and pure-play vendors such as Lookout and Versa Networks top the first-ever vendor evaluation of the SASE market. Versa edged out Palo Alto Networks in product leadership, and Cisco was a distant third, the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass found.
The Security Ledger
MARCH 6, 2023
Removing the ability to automate against a vulnerable API is a huge step forward, as automation is a key enabler for both the exploitation and the extraction of large amounts of sensitive data. The post Malicious Automation is driving API Security Breaches appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related Stories Episode 248: GitHub’s Jill Moné-Corallo on Product Security And Supply Chain Threats Forget the IoT.
Security Affairs
MARCH 6, 2023
Fintech platform Hatch Bank disclosed a data breach, hackers exploited a recently discovered zero-day in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform. Hatch Bank is a fintech firm that provides services to other fintech companies. The company disclosed a data breach and revealed that the attackers have exploited a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in the company’s Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing system, reported Techcrunch.com.
KnowBe4
MARCH 6, 2023
Even the world’s most successful organizations have significant weaknesses in their cybersecurity defenses, which determined hackers can exploit at will. There’s even a term for it: Assume Breach.
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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
MARCH 6, 2023
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, one of the main hospitals in the Spanish city, suffered a cyber attack that crippled its computer system. On Sunday, a ransomware attack hit the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, one of the main hospitals of the Catalan city. The attack crippled the center’s computer system, 150 nonurgent operations and up to 3,000 patient checkups were canceled due to the cyber attack.
KnowBe4
MARCH 6, 2023
Despite hearing mostly about BEC attacks in English-speaking countries , analysis of new attack groups highlight the threat of these kinds of attacks in other languages.
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2023
As digital identity verification challenges grow, organizations need to adopt a more advanced and forward-focused approach to preventing hacks.
KnowBe4
MARCH 6, 2023
Since the goal of ransomware is to initially disrupt operations, the targeting of industrial control systems has been an increasing focus for specific ransomware groups.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2023
A team has found that the Crystals-Kyber encryption algorithm is open to side-channel attacks, under certain implementations.
KnowBe4
MARCH 6, 2023
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI last week issued a joint advisory on Royal ransomware. Royal is noteworthy for its ability to disable various anti-virus tools in the course of exfiltrating data in its double-extortion attacks.
Security Affairs
MARCH 6, 2023
German police announced to have dismantled an international cybercrime gang behind the DoppelPaymer ransomware operation. Europol has announced that an international operation conducted by law enforcement in Germany and Ukraine, with help of the US FBI and the Dutch police, targeted two key figures of the DoppelPaymer ransomware group. “On 28 February 2023, the German Regional Police (Landeskriminalamt Nordrhein-Westfalen) and the Ukrainian National Police (Націона́льна полі́ція Украї́ни),
Data Matters
MARCH 6, 2023
On January 6, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (the Commission) released a unanimously adopted Notice of Proposed Rulemaking , “In the Matter of Data Breach Reporting Requirements” (Proposed Rule). The Commission sought comments through February 22, 2023 on the Proposed Rule which will update its current data breach reporting rule. Reply comments are due on or before March 24, 2023.
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WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 6, 2023
A system used by the Dutch city of Rotterdam ranked people based on their risk of fraud. The results were troubling.
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2023
The Android app unnecessarily accessed clipboard device contents, which often includes passwords and other sensitive data.
CILIP
MARCH 6, 2023
The need for need The pandemic pushed people into new technology at speed. Beth Montague-Hellen, the new Head of Library and Information Services at the Francis Crick Institute, asks how big changes like this can be achieved without the help of a crisis. HUMANS will always struggle when the tools they use are upgraded. “When I’m in my sixties, at the end of my career I’m sure there will be some other new massive technology and I’ll be saying ‘oh no, can’t we just use Teams?’”.
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2023
This is the latest in a line of law-enforcement actions busting up the ransomware scene.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MARCH 6, 2023
Authors: Carolyn Bigg , Yue Lin Lee and Daisy Wong Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”) has issued its first decision on the Legitimate Interests Exception under the PDPA. While the PDPA remains largely a consent-based regime, the Legitimate Interests Exception is one of the exceptions from consent available under the PDPA. This RedMart decision illustrates how organisations may rely on the Legitimate Interests Exception to collect personal data, as well as the steps which mu
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2023
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HID Global
MARCH 6, 2023
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