Data Breach Today
MAY 7, 2021
Agency Offers In-Depth Analysis, Risk Mitigation Advice The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an alert providing more details on the threat posed by FiveHands ransomware attacks and offering risk mitigation tips.
Krebs on Security
MAY 7, 2021
John Bernard , a pseudonym used by a convicted thief and con artist named John Clifton Davies who’s fleeced dozens of technology startups out of an estimated $30 million, appears to have reinvented himself again after being exposed in a recent investigative series published here. Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Davies/Bernard is now posing as John Cavendish and head of a new “private office” called Hempton Business Management LLP.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 7, 2021
Check Point Report Describes Flaw's Technical Details A severe vulnerability in a system on certain Qualcomm chips, which has been patched, potentially could have enabled attackers to remotely control Android smartphones, access users' text messages and listen in on conversations, according to a new report from Check Point Software Technologies.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2021
CyberNews researchers found more than 29,000 unprotected databases worldwide that are still publicly accessible, leaving close to 19,000 terabytes of data exposed to anyone, including threat actors. Most organizations use databases to store sensitive information. This includes passwords, usernames, document scans, health records, bank account and credit card details, as well as other essential data, all easily searchable and conveniently stored in one place.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
MAY 7, 2021
Researchers Release Open-Source Detection Tool Security researchers have uncovered a flaw dubbed TsuNAME in DNS resolver software that attackers could used to carry out distributed denial-of-service attacks against authoritative DNS servers. Google and Cisco have resolved the issue in their DNS servers.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 7, 2021
Malware Spread Through Spam Email Campaign Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a new cryptocurrency stealer variant that uses a fileless approach in its global spam email distribution campaign to evade detection.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2021
VMware has fixed a new critical RCE flaw in VMware vRealize Business for Cloud that was reported by sanctioned Russian firm Positive Technologies. VMware has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21984 , in VMware vRealize Business for Cloud. vRealize Business for Cloud is an automated cloud business management solution that allows customers to perform cost analysis, consumption metering, cloud comparison, and planning, delivering the cost visibility and
Data Breach Today
MAY 7, 2021
Panel Also Tackles Critical Ransomware Issues Four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss timely cybersecurity issues, including a call for cryptocurrency regulation and the impact of hospital ransomware attacks.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2021
The UK and US cybersecurity agencies have published a report detailing techniques used by Russia-linked cyberespionage group known APT29 (aka Cozy Bear). Today, UK NCSC and CISA-FBI-NSA cybersecurity agencies published a joint security advisory that warns organizations to patch systems immediately to mitigate the risk of attacks conducted by Russia-linked SVR group (aka APT29 , Cozy Bear , and The Dukes )).
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
MAY 7, 2021
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of whether courts can trust evidence collected by Cellebrite's mobile device forensic tools. Also featured: Report shows attackers' dwell times plummeting; a call for partnership with law enforcement.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2021
The Cuba Ransomware gang has partnered with the crooks behind the Hancitor malware in attacks aimed at corporate networks. The Hancitor downloader has been around for quite some time already. It is known since at least 2016 for dropping Pony and Vawtrak. As a loader, it has been used to download other malware families, such as Ficker stealer and NetSupport RAT , to compromised hosts.
Data Breach Today
MAY 7, 2021
Having a VPN Isn't Enough Anymore
Threatpost
MAY 7, 2021
NY's AG: Millions of fake comments – in favor and against – came from a secret broadband-funded campaign or from a 19-year-old's fake identities.
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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 7, 2021
See Beyond Endpoints to Stay Secure From Increasing Threats
OpenText Information Management
MAY 7, 2021
Organizations rely on information to anticipate trends, take advantage of new opportunities, and succeed in today’s world. As organizations around the world adapted to the disruption caused by the global pandemic, the importance of information—and having the right technology to securely connect employees to the information they need, when they need it—became increasingly clear.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
MAY 7, 2021
By: Samata Masagee , Komson Suntheeraporn , Nahsinee Luengrattanakorn , Thawalkorn Pattanachote. The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (PDPA) came into effect since 28 May 2019 with most provisions scheduled to take full effect on 27 May 2020. Previously, the enforcement of the PDPA for 22 types of businesses listed here 1 has been postponed to 31 May 2021.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2021
HideezKey- This is a deep-dive into a nice concept for a security token & password manager that turned into a horrible product due to lack of proper R&D and Threat Modeling. Prologue: After my first success in bypassing APPROTECT readout protection of the NRF52-based Slok smartlock with #PocketGlitcher (i.e. video below), I started looking around for more interesting and concerning (from a security point of view) NRF52-based products.
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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.
Threatpost
MAY 7, 2021
U.S. intelligence said that the Chaos iPhone remote takeover exploit was used against the minority ethnic group before Apple could patch the problem.
Security Affairs
MAY 7, 2021
Let’s look at what types of threats each layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack may be susceptible to. The task of a computer security system is to safeguard the information transmitted over the network and to adequately preserve the data stored in it. Excluding in this discussion threats due to natural disasters, we can classify the man-made risk, to which an information system is subject, into intentional threats or unintentional threats due to negligence or inexperience.
IG Guru
MAY 7, 2021
Check out the link to Amazon here. The post Records and Information Management 4th Edition by Dr. William Saffady now available appeared first on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
MAY 7, 2021
Despite being a pain in the neck, passwords may hold a psychological purpose that security pros should take into account.
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Jamf
MAY 7, 2021
See how you can perform automatic in-place upgrades to macOS Big Sur with minimal user interaction and authenticated FileVault reboots.
Dark Reading
MAY 7, 2021
The report provides additional details on tactics of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service following public attribution of the group to last year's SolarWinds attack.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 7, 2021
Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
Dark Reading
MAY 7, 2021
Researchers find differences in Kimsuky's operations that lead them to divide the APT into two groups: CloudDragon and KimDragon.
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CGI
MAY 7, 2021
Transforming the grid: Four key benefits of an effective cloud strategy for utilities. For many years, we have heard about the benefits of moving key enterprise applications to the cloud. The story goes: cloud providers can pass along cost savings, leveraging massive scaled infrastructure, such as servers and database storage, shared across multiple clients. dharini.s@cgi.com.
Dark Reading
MAY 7, 2021
We asked you to tell the truth about why you secretly love passwords. From the heartfelt to the hilarious, here's what you had to say.
OneHub
MAY 7, 2021
Collaboration is an essential tool for an organization’s success. It’s also one of the most difficult to master. Many company executives have gone to great lengths to foster workplace collaboration, from open-plan offices to extravagant team-building retreats. . Judging by the responses to a recent survey, these efforts haven’t been successful.
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