Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Guidance Spells Out Best Risk Mitigation Practices The U.S. National Security Agency has released new guidance to help federal agencies as well as business enterprises protect their unified communications channels and voice/video over IP calls from cyberthreats.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 18, 2021
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. [ NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the Avaddon ransomware gang's retirement and the crackdown on the Clop ransomware gang in Ukraine. Also featured: Bitcoin as ally in the ransomware battle; strengthening U.S. cybersecurity defenses.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 18, 2021
There’s a never ending cycle between the measures cybersecurity providers introduce to prevent or remediate cyber threats and the tactics cyber criminals use to get around these security measures. As soon as a security company develops a way to mitigate the latest threat, attackers develop a new threat to take its place. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a critical tool cybersecurity companies leverage to stay ahead of the curve.
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
JUNE 18, 2021
Experts Discuss Impact of 'Transformational Moment' After U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed cybersecurity issues at their Wednesday summit meeting in Geneva, security experts and analysts began sizing up what the next steps might be following what some are calling a "transformational moment.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Prosecutors: Crypting Provider Helped Infect 50,000 Computers A Russian national has been convicted of aiding a botnet scheme that infected victims' devices with malicious Kelihos malware and ransomware, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Dark Reading
JUNE 18, 2021
The more you know, the more you grow. The Edge takes a fresh look at leading security certifications that can help advance your career.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
When seeking cyber insurance or other types of insurance policies that provide organizations coverage for certain data security incidents, it's critical to carefully consider the "war exclusions" contained in those policies, says insurance attorney Peter Halprin.
Threatpost
JUNE 18, 2021
This is the fourth time in a bit over a year that Carnival’s admitted to breaches, with two of them being ransomware attacks.
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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
JUNE 18, 2021
As 'Trusted Telecom Portal' Launched, Chinese Vendors May Be Excluded From Market In a key move toward ensuring telecom companies only use technologies from trustworthy sources, the government of India has launched a Trusted Telecom Portal designed to evaluate and approve technologies and suppliers.
Security Affairs
JUNE 18, 2021
The supermarket chain Wegmans US Wegmans discloses a data breach, customers information was exposed on the Internet due to a misconfiguration issue. Wegmans Food Markets disclosed a data breach, the supermarket chain notified customers that some of their information was exposed as a result of the accidental availability online of two of its databases due to a configuration issue.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Bipartisan Legislation Would Require Notifying CISA Within 24 Hours of a Breach Discovery A bipartisan group of senators is circulating a draft of a federal breach notification bill that would require federal agencies, federal contractors and businesses that have oversight over critical infrastructure to report significant cyberthreats to CISA within 24 hours of discovery.
Security Affairs
JUNE 18, 2021
A n outage suffered by CDN, cybersecurity and cloud services provider Akamai was caused by an issue with its Prolexic DDoS attack protection service. CDN, cybersecurity and cloud services provider Akamai revealed that the recent outage suffered by the company was caused by a problem with its Prolexic DDoS attack protection service. The Prolexic Routed DDoS protection is a fully managed DDoS scrubbing service.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Closing EncroChat and Sky, Plus Careful Word-of-Mouth Management, Drove Anom Uptake The global law enforcement "Anom" honeypot operation racked up impressive statistics for the number of criminals tricked into using the encrypted communications service. Psychology was at play: Officials say users flocked to the service after they disrupted rivals EncroChat and Sky Global.
Security Affairs
JUNE 18, 2021
A researcher discovered multiple vulnerabilities in smart switches of Cisco’s Small Business 220 series, including some issues rated as high severity. Security researcher Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse has discovered multiple vulnerabilities Cisco’s Small Business 220 series smart switches. The vulnerabilities impact devices running firmware versions prior 1.2.0.6 and which have the web-based management interface enabled.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Nokia Deepfield: Number of Attacks Surged 50% Over 15 Months The daily peak of DDoS attack traffic increased 100% from January 2020 to May 2021, reaching 3 Tbps, with most of the high-bandwidth, high-intensity attacks originating from fewer than 50 hosting companies, Nokia Deepfield reports.
Threatpost
JUNE 18, 2021
Rather than steal credentials or hold data for ransom, a recent campaign observed by Sophos prevents people from visiting sites that offer illegal downloads.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Customer and Employee Data Again Exposed For the second time in less than a year, Carnival has informed customers and employees of a data breach after an unauthorized intruder gained access to a portion of its IT network and infrastructure in March.
Security Affairs
JUNE 18, 2021
Carnival Corp. said that the data breach it has suffered in March might have impacted its customers and employees. Carnival Corp. this week confirmed that the data breach that took place in March might have exposed personal information about customers and employees of Carnival Cruise Line, Holland America Line, and Princess Cruises. Carnival Corporation & plc is a British-American cruise operator, currently the world’s largest travel leisure company, with a combined fleet of over 100 vessels
Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Meanwhile, Jen Easterly's Nomination to Serve as CISA Director Is on Hold The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved Chris Inglis as national cyber director. He assumes the role as the country is still reeling from a series of ransomware attacks and the SolarWinds supply chain attack. Meanwhile, confirmation of a new CISA director is on hold.
Threatpost
JUNE 18, 2021
A DarkSide doppelganger mounts a fraud campaign aimed at extorting nearly $4 million from each target.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 18, 2021
Also Featured: Analysis of Regulatory Landscape; Comments From Rep. Jim Langevin In the latest weekly update, a panel of Information Security Media Group editors discusses key topics, including NATO's new cyber defense policy, the outlook for congressional regulatory action to address the ransomware threat, and cybersecurity comments by U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin.
Threatpost
JUNE 18, 2021
What's the low-hanging fruit for ransomware attackers? What steps could help to fend them off, and what’s stopping organizations from implementing those steps?
Data Matters
JUNE 18, 2021
The European Commission has formally launched its legislative initiative aimed at increasing access to and further use of data, so that more public and private actors can benefit from technologies such as Big Data and machine learning. The Commission has published its inception impact assessment on the forthcoming Data Act, on which interested stakeholders can submit comments until 25 June 2021.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 18, 2021
Sigstore will make code signing free and easy for software developers, providing an important first line of defense.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Threatpost
JUNE 18, 2021
Troy Gill, manager of security research at Zix, discusses the most common ways sensitive data is scooped up by nefarious sorts.
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 18, 2021
Water-cooler talk and quick chats in the office disappeared with the pandemic. But online chat—already a prevalent form of communication prior to the pandemic—took off as the preferred way for remote employees to communicate. In the past year, over 600 billion chat messages were sent globally among businesses alone. Microsoft™ Teams™ usage increased by more … The post How to handle chat data in eDiscovery and investigations appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
JUNE 18, 2021
Research reports highlight growing concerns around insider negligence that leads to data breaches.
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