Data Breach Today
JULY 8, 2022
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eSecurity Planet
JULY 8, 2022
Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity have been an essential aspect of enterprise IT for decades. Whether it’s earthquakes, floods, or power outages, DR is there to ensure operations can continue. But more recently, a lot more has been put on the DR plate. Ransomware has now emerged as one of the key reasons to have a DR plan and DR technology in place.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 8, 2022
State of Goa Blames Lack of Antivirus and Outdated Firewalls Monsoon season in India can result in extreme rainfall but a ransomware attack in the southwestern state of Goa is preventing state authorities from obtaining data from flood monitors located on major rivers. The attack appears to have been made with a variant of Phobos ransomware.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 8, 2022
A six-year quantum cryptography competition just ended, producing four new security standards selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The announcement comes on the heels of a few major strides in quantum computing accessibility and speed—and may hopefully stave off the growing quantum security threat.
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
JULY 8, 2022
Email Addresses of 6 Companies Leaked on Purpose by Now-Fired Employee The "deliberate actions" of a now-fired senior engineer at Customer.io put at risk email addresses of six client companies, including NFT marketplace OpenSea. The email delivery vendor did not specify how many individuals are now at elevated risk of phishing attacks.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 8, 2022
Executive Order Addresses Concerns in Aftermath of SCOTUS Ruling The Biden administration continues to react to the Supreme Court's overturn of precedent guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion, issuing Friday an executive order that includes provisions to help safeguard the privacy of patients' data.
Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
Dark Reading's digest of the other don't-miss stories of the week, including a new ransomware targeting QNAP gear, and a destructive attack against the College of the Desert that lingers on.
Data Breach Today
JULY 8, 2022
The Proceeds Will Help Coalition Grow in the UK and Aid Its Executive Risk Coverage Coalition has secured $250 million on a $5 billion valuation to grow in the United Kingdom and accelerate its executive risk coverage business. The money will allow Coalition to push beyond the United States and Canada into the U.K. by the end of 2022 and cover additional executive risk segments.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 8, 2022
On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued two guidance documents to “help protect patients seeking reproductive health care, as well as their providers” following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. These guidance documents address the legal protections for individuals’ protected health information (“PHI”) relating to abortion and other reproductive health care, as well as how individuals can protect their medical
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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.
Security Affairs
JULY 8, 2022
Cisco fixed a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Expressway series and TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) products. Cisco released security patches to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20812 (CVSS score of 9.0), in the Expressway series and TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS). A remote attacker can trigger the flaw to overwrite files on the underlying operating system with root privileges.
Threatpost
JULY 8, 2022
The novel threat steals data and can affect all processes running on the OS, stealing information from different commands and utilities and then storing it on the affected machine.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JULY 8, 2022
Authors: Carolyn Bigg , Venus Cheung , Fangfang Song , Gwyneth To. We have all been waiting for a confirmed approach on legitimising overseas transfers. Finally, we have a clear answer on what organisations need to do to transfer or access for personal data and “important data” outside of Mainland China; and the message is clear – all organisations must determine the correct approach and take steps to get compliant by 1 March 2023.
Security Affairs
JULY 8, 2022
Experts documented the evolution of the LockBit ransomware that leverages multiple techniques to infect targets and evade detection. The Cybereason Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) Team published the Cybereason Threat Analysis Reports that investigates the threat landscape and provides recommendations to mitigate their attacks. The researchers focused on the evolution of the Lockbit ransomware, they detailed two infections occurring at two very different time periods highlighting the evo
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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.
KnowBe4
JULY 8, 2022
This week Marriott International, one of the largest hotel chains, suffered a second data breach of 2022. The breach took place in early June by a group named 'Group with No Name' (GNN), and they used social engineering to trick one of the hotels employees into granting access to the hotel's computer.
Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
Latest campaigns are a break from its usual financially motivated attacks and appear aligned with Russian interests, security researchers say.
KnowBe4
JULY 8, 2022
A “Fake Job” scam allows cybercriminals to gain entrance to the network at Sky Mavis, makers of the game Axie Infinity, and eventually take the company for half a billion dollars in crypto.
Schneier on Security
JULY 8, 2022
Apple has introduced lockdown mode for high-risk users who are concerned about nation-state attacks. It trades reduced functionality for increased security in a very interesting way.
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Security Affairs
JULY 8, 2022
Taiwanese vendor QNAP wars of a new strain of ransomware, dubbed Checkmate, that is targeting its NAS devices. The Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning of a new family of ransomware targeting its NAS devices using weak passwords. Threat actors are targeting devices exposed online with the SMB service enabled, they perform brute-force attacks against accounts using weak passwords. “A new ransomware known as Checkmate has recently been brought to our attention.
Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
Security experts criticize company for reversing course on a decision it made just this February to block macros in files downloaded from the Internet.
Security Affairs
JULY 8, 2022
The operators behind the TrickBot malware are systematically targeting Ukraine since the beginning of the war in February 2022. IBM researchers collected evidence indicating that the Russia-based cybercriminal Trickbot group (aka Wizard Spider , DEV-0193, ITG23 ) has been systematically attacking Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion of the country.
Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
Acronyms serve as a gatekeeper — if you don't sling the lingo, you don't belong. So here's a quick guide to the letter salad of cloud cybersecurity.
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WIRED Threat Level
JULY 8, 2022
The US Federal Communications Commission says a man posing as a fake broadband service promised victims discounts on internet services and devices.
KnowBe4
JULY 8, 2022
As Amazon Prime Day approaches, Checkpoint research is sending a warning that Amazon Prime Day scams will ramp up very soon.
Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
Fraudster allegedly passed off refurbished, modified Cisco equipment as new to hospitals, schools, and even the military.
Security Affairs
JULY 8, 2022
This is a transcription of my complete interview with the program NEWSFEED at TRT, during which we discussed NGL software and the risks of bullying. Why are anonymous social apps like NGL cause for concern? What exactly makes them dangerous for minors? We have long debated the potential impact of social media on the mental health of youngsters. The problems are bigger when dealing with anonymous social apps that could be abused for bullying, harassment, and any kind of scam or dangerous challeng
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Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
The Colonial Pipeline and JBS attacks, among others, showed us our national resilience is only as strong as public-private sector collaboration.
Threatpost
JULY 8, 2022
State-sponsored actors are deploying the unique malware--which targets specific files and leaves no ransomware note--in ongoing attacks.
KnowBe4
JULY 8, 2022
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