Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Cybereason Nocturnus Team reported a spike in the activity of the Iran-linked APT group APT35 (aka Phosphorus or Charming Kitten). The Cybereason Nocturnus Team observed a spike in the activity of the Iran-linked APT group APT35 (aka ‘ Charming Kitten ‘, ‘ Phosphorus ‘, Newscaster , and Ajax Security Team). The Phosphorus group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social me

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Disappointed with the lack of US response to the Hermit Kingdom's attacks against US security researchers, one hacker took matters into his own hands.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Tens of thousands of applications that are critical to the operations of data centers around the globe are exposed to the internet, with many secured with default factory passwords, posing a significant cyber risk to enterprises worldwide. Researchers with cybersecurity firm Cyble this week said that along with the public-facing data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software, they also found intelligent monitoring devices, thermal cooling management and power monitors for racks vulnerable

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On January 28, 2022, in celebration of Data Privacy Day, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office issued prepared remarks from Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and published guidance on data security best practices. In his remarks, Attorney General Weiser highlighted the importance of protecting data security and outlined his office’s plans for implementing the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), which takes effect July 1, 2023.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Enterprises interested in managed detection and response (MDR) services to monitor endpoints and workloads should make sure the providers have rock-solid expertise in detecting and responding to threats.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Following the ICO’s public consultation , launched in August last year, the final version of the international data transfer agreement ( IDTA ), as well as the international data transfer addendum to the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for international data transfers ( Addendum ), has been laid before Parliament. The IDTA aims to address the UK’s regulatory position, following exit from the EU, in relation to the Schrems II decision of the CJEU and the need to refresh the (le

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Bureau says sophisticated hacking tool was never used in support of any investigation The FBI has confirmed that it obtained NSO Group’s powerful Pegasus spyware, suggesting that it bought access to the Israeli surveillance tool to “stay abreast of emerging technologies and tradecraft”. In a statement released to the Guardian, the bureau said it had procured a “limited licence” to access Pegasus for “product testing and evaluation only”, and suggested that its evaluation of the tool partly relat

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Security researcher discovered an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Brave browser and reported it through the HackerOne platform. Security researcher Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani discovered an Information Disclosure vulnerability in the Brave Browser and reported it to the company through the HackerOne platform. The researcher discovered that when the browser is used with Tor it could leak the referer. “Brave browser has a function of New Private Window with Tor.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Open Source Security Foundation announced $10 million in funding from a pool of tech and financial companies, including $5 million from Microsoft and Google, to find vulnerabilities in open source projects: The “Alpha” side will emphasize vulnerability testing by hand in the most popular open-source projects, developing close working relationships with a handful of the top 200 projects for testing each year. “Omega” will look more at the broader landscape of open sour

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Antivirus firm ESET addressed a local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. Antivirus firm ESET released security patches to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to misuse the AMSI scanning feature to elevate privileges in specific scenarios. “According to the report, submitted by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), an

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The social media platform's global security chief boils it down to being consistent, keeping it fun, and demonstrating the impact of choices.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Trend Micro recently addressed two high-severity flaws affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. Trend Micro released security updates to fix two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-23119 and CVE-2022-23120 , affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. The vulnerabilities affect Deep Security and Cloud One workload security solutions.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now-patched issue in Essential Addons for Elementor gives attackers a way to carry out local file inclusion attacks, researchers say.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Despite what security vendors might say, there is no way to comprehensively solve our supply-chain security challenges, posits JupiterOne CISO Sounil Yu. We can only manage them.

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IG Guru

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

How Microsoft and Thales Offer Enhanced Security and Compliance for Microsoft Office 365. madhav. Thu, 02/03/2022 - 04:49. At the 2021 Thales Cloud Security Summit, I caught up with Benjy Levin, Program Manager, Microsoft, to discuss enhanced security and compliance for Microsoft Office 365 using Double Key Encryption (DKE) with Thales external keys and hardware security modules (HSMs).

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ransomware and online attacks can cause deadly real-world harm. Governments need to raise their game in response.

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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.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Attackers increasingly are using malicious JavaScript packages to steal data, engage in cryptojacking and unleash botnets, offering a wide supply-chain attack surface for threat actors.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Security technology has to evolve as new threats emerge and defenses improve. Here is a look back at the old breeds that are dying out.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

China’s Winter Games are overshadowed by human rights problems and overreaching state surveillance.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The effect is nuanced — and fundamental to cyber defense for organizations and nations.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In 2012, we saw the first release of the Adwind malware family which were Java-based remote access tools (RATs) called “Frutas”. Since then, it has been rebranded several times with names such as Adwind, UnReCoM, Alien Spy, JSocket, JBifrost, UnknownRat, and JConnectPro. The OpenTextTM MDR has seen infections from the Adwind RAT family as recently … The post Stopping Remote Access Trojans (RATs) in their tracks with OpenText MDR appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A firewall is still a valuable part of the IT security stack, but businesses need to consider all their attack surfaces.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The notorious Iranian APT is fortifying its arsenal with new malicious tools and evasion tactics and may even be behind the Memento ransomware.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

As companies shift more operations to the cloud, a shortfall in security talent and too much security data wastes more than half of the time spent on security issues, a survey finds.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Conti gang strikes again, disrupting the nom-merchant's supply chain and threatening empty supermarket shelves lasting for weeks.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

CASB Cato converges a full CASB into its global SASE platform to defend enterprises against data breach and cloud-delivered threats.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Today, industry leaders remain laser-focused on expanding their digital advantage to increase agility, innovation and resiliency, all while setting their sights on developing future revenue streams. Artificial intelligence (AI) is an essential instrument for reshaping businesses both now and in the future, with three in four organizations deploying or ramping up their AI efforts, according to Morning Consult’s April 2021 research.

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