Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2023
Mikhail Matveev Indictment Shows Police Tracking Top Alleged Ransomware Affiliates How many hackers can claim to have caused a national cheese shortage, not least in the Gouda-loving Netherlands? Enter Mikhail Matveev, a Russian national who's been indicted for wielding not one but three strains of ransomware, in what experts say is a needed focus on ransomware affiliates.
Krebs on Security
MAY 30, 2023
A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a Web browser bookmark. This attack involves malicious Javascript that is added to one’s browser by dragging a component from a web page to one’s browser bookmarks.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2023
UK Financial Services Firms Record $1.5 Billion in Losses Last Year Due to Fraud Losses to fraud reported by Britain's financial services sector exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022, declining by 8% from 2021, says trade association UK Finance. About 40% of losses tied to authorized push payment fraud, in which victims get tricked into transferring funds to attackers.
AIIM
MAY 30, 2023
This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. It was originally published in the AIIM Florida Chapter Newsletter in April 2023. Learn more about the AIIM Florida Chapter at [link]. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).
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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
MAY 30, 2023
Snyk Rises to Leader, HCL Software Falls to Challenger as Supply Chain Takes Focus Synopsys stands head and shoulders above the competition in Gartner's application security testing rankings, with Snyk rising and HCL Software falling from the leaders category. Longtime app security players Veracode, Checkmarx and OpenText joined Synopsys and Snyk atop the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2023
Microsoft Researchers Say Flaw Allowed Hackers to Load Undetectable Malware A now-patched macOS vulnerability allows attackers with root access to bypass a kernel-level security feature that prevents malicious software from modifying protected files. An attacker could use the exploit to load malware itself shielded by Apple's System Integrity Protection.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 30, 2023
In March, Microsoft announced its Security Copilot service. The software giant built the technology on cutting-edge generative AI – such as large language models (LLMs) – that power applications like ChatGPT. In a blog post , Microsoft boasted that the Security Copilot was the “first security product to enable defenders to move at the speed and scale of AI.
Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2023
Computing Giant Avoid 60,000 Euro Daily Fines from French Privacy Regulator Microsoft Ireland revised its cookie policy for the Bing search engine in France after it received a reprimand from the country's data protection agency for privacy violations. The revision ensures Microsoft will not pay an additi0oanl 60,000 euro fine for each day of noncompliance.
Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
A Trojan SDK snuck past Google Play protections to infest 101 Android applications, bent on exfiltrating infected device data.
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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
MAY 30, 2023
Steve Low of KLAS Research and Ed Gaudet of Censinet Discuss New Benchmarking Study Many hospitals are still more reactive than proactive in terms of embracing recommended best practices that can advance their cybersecurity maturity level, said Steve Low, president of KLAS Research, and Ed Gaudet, CEO of consulting firm Censinet, who discuss findings of a recent benchmarking study.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 30, 2023
On May 22, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief in support of a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that COPPA does not preempt state laws claims that are consistent with COPPA. The brief was filed in the case of Jones v. Google. The lawsuit, which was brought by parents on behalf of their children, alleges that video sharing platform YouTube, which is owned by Google, and specific YouTube channel owners violated state laws by collecting persona
Hanzo Learning Center
MAY 30, 2023
Workplace collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams have become ubiquitous in many organizations. However, they also present unique challenges for data governance and ediscovery in the event of litigation. To avoid potential legal issues and fines, it is crucial to have a tailored retention policy, acceptable use policy, and employee training in place.
National Archives Records Express
MAY 30, 2023
Digitization project at Archives 1 (Room 18W2) National Archives Identifier: 184341402 This is our fourth blog post taking a deep dive into 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E–Digitizing Permanent Records , which takes effect next week. In this post, we address quality management (QM) which includes the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) requirements provided in the regulation.
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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.
Collibra
MAY 30, 2023
Are you relying on data for reporting and analytics but questioning the accuracy of the data? Are you spending a fortune on testing the quality of your data? Are you making decisions based on obsolete data? Are you concerned about the additional cost of quality as your business scales up? Data quality challenges As a data user, you want your data to be high quality and ready for use as soon as it arrives.
Security Affairs
MAY 30, 2023
“file archiver in the browser” is a new phishing technique that can be exploited by phishers when victims visit a.ZIP domain. A new phishing technique called “file archiver in the browser” can be used by phishers to “emulate” a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a.ZIP domain. The security researcher mr.d0x detailed the new attack technique.
Schneier on Security
MAY 30, 2023
It’s neither hard nor expensive : Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold. As a result, a successful fingerprint brute-force attack requires only that an inputted image provides an acceptable approximation of an image in the fingerprint database.
KnowBe4
MAY 30, 2023
At KB4-CON 2023, we had a customer panel that I hosted discussing the connection between security and compliance training content when trying to change organizational security culture.
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Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
On-demand human solvers are now augmenting automated website cyberattacks, offering a better way around tougher anti-bot puzzles.
KnowBe4
MAY 30, 2023
Threat actors are using encoded phishing links to evade security filters, according to Jeremy Fuchs at Avanan. The phishing emails purport to be notifications from McAfee informing the user that they need to renew their subscription.
Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
Tightening access controls and security clearance alone won't prevent insider threat risks motivated by lack of trust or loyalty.
Security Affairs
MAY 30, 2023
PyPI is going to enforce two-factor authentication (2FA) for all project maintainers by the end of this year over security concerns. Due to security concerns, PyPI will be mandating the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) for all project maintainers by the end of this year. Over the past few years, there has been a rise in supply chain attacks targeting the Python software repository.
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Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
Targeted attacks against Saudi Arabia and other Middle East nations have been detected with a tool that's been in the wild since 2020.
Security Affairs
MAY 30, 2023
Researchers devised an attack technique, dubbed BrutePrint Attack, that allows brute-forcing fingerprints on smartphones to bypass authentication. Researchers have devised an attack technique, dubbed BrutePrint, that allows to brute-force fingerprints on smartphones to bypass user authentication. The attack technique exploits two zero-day vulnerabilities, called Cancel-After-Match-Fail (CAMF) and Match-After-Lock (MAL), in the smartphone fingerprint authentication (SFA) framework.
KnowBe4
MAY 30, 2023
Found this highly amusing article: Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461).
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 30, 2023
IBM continues to be committed to supporting your journey with the WebSphere platform. There is no planned end-of-support date for WebSphere 8.5.5 and 9.0.5. IBM intends on supporting these WebSphere releases beyond Oracle’s stated extended support date for Java 8. For more details, see the WebSphere Application Server traditional Lifecycle. The post WebSphere Application Server support appeared first on IBM Blog.
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Hunton Privacy
MAY 30, 2023
On May 22, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed order against education technology provider Edmodo, LLC (“Edmodo”) for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA Rule”) and Section 5 of the FTC Act. As alleged in the FTC’s complaint , until approximately September 2022, Edmodo offered a platform for virtual classes to schools and teachers in the United States and collected the personal information of students ( e.g. , name, email address, date of birth
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 30, 2023
Welcome IBM Tech Now, our video web series featuring the latest and greatest news and announcements in the world of technology. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified every time a new IBM Tech Now video is published. IBM Tech Now: Episode 77 This episode, we’re covering the following topics: IBM Watson Code Assistant IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh IBM Event Automation Stay plugged in You can check out the IBM Blog Announcements for a full rundown of all cloud news, ann
Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
As the second Kaminsky Fellow, Dr. Andrews will study the use of threat intelligence to track campaigns against the human rights community.
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