The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

You very likely will interact with a content management system (CMS) multiple times today. Related: How ‘business logic’ hackers steal from companies. For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2022

Emergency Directive Says Many Threat Actors Are Exploiting the Bugs in the Wild An emergency directive from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advises all federal agencies in the country to immediately patch and address two vulnerabilities - one with a critical CVSS score and the other with a high score - that affect at least five VMware products.

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

Mobile attacks have been going on for many years, but the threat is rapidly evolving as more sophisticated malware families with novel features enter the scene.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2022

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the changes in the ransomware landscape one year after the attack on Colonial Pipeline. It also revisits the Ryuk ransomware attack on a school district in Illinois and examines common culprits hindering effective Zero Trust adoption.

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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.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2022

A new China-linked cyberespionage group known as ‘Space Pirates’ is targeting enterprises in the Russian aerospace industry. A previously unknown Chinese cyberespionage group, tracked as ‘Space Pirates’, targets enterprises in the Russian aerospace industry with spear-phishing attacks. The group has been active since at least 2017, researchers believe it is linked with other China-linked APT groups, including APT41 (Winnti), Mustang Panda , and APT27.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2022

White hat hackers earned a total of $800,000 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, $450,000 for exploits targeting Microsoft Teams. Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 hacking contest has begun, it is the 15th edition of this important event organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). This year, 17 contestants are attempting to exploit 21 targets across multiple categories.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2022

Incidents Allegedly Involved Conti, Hive Ransomware Gangs Two recent apparent ransomware attacks on health plans have potentially affected hundreds of thousands of individuals. One of the incidents allegedly involved the Conti ransomware group, and the other allegedly involved Hive. One of the health plans is already facing legal fallout.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 19, 2022

A surprising number of websites include JavaScript keyloggers that collect everything you type as you type it, not just when you submit a form. Researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and University of Lausanne crawled and analyzed the top 100,000 websites, looking at scenarios in which a user is visiting a site while in the European Union and visiting a site from the United States.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 19, 2022

Review of 2021 Ransomware Attacks Also Finds Average Ransom Demand Was $247,000 Attackers who successfully infect targets with ransomware primarily first gain access by exploiting poorly secured remote desktop protocol or VPN connections or by using malware-laden phishing emails, reports security firm Group-IB, based on more than 700 attacks it investigated in 2021.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2022

Google addressed a high-severity flaw in its OAuth client library for Java that could allow attackers with a compromised token to deploy malicious payloads. Google addressed a high-severity authentication bypass flaw in Google OAuth Client Library for Java, tracked as CVE-2021-22573 (CVS Score 8.7), that could be exploited by an attacker with a compromised token to deploy malicious payloads.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 19, 2022

In its 2021 state of the industry report, the Association of Intelligent Information Management (AIIM) found that nearly half its members rated their digital transformation as ‘poor’ or ‘needs improvement.’ We all want to use the latest digital technologies, such as AI and IoT, but there’s an elephant in the room: We’ve yet to solve … The post Intelligent Capture is the secret weapon Life Sciences companies need appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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IT Governance

MAY 19, 2022

The Italian police force announced this week that it thwarted a cyber attack on the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition, which took place in Turin last Saturday, is ostensibly an opportunity for European countries to demonstrate the best (or worst) of their nation’s singing talents. However, over the years it’s faced criticism that votes are cast based on political allegiances rather than the quality of the contestants.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 19, 2022

Developers want a great experience that combines straightforward technical documentation with easy-to-follow tutorials and videos. The OpenText Developer Cloud delivers all this and enables users to easily create compelling solutions that enhance existing on-premises investments and bring multi-cloud processes under control. Get ready to learn more at OpenText World EMEA, June 21-22, 2022 This session is … The post The Developer track at OpenText World EMEA is designed to get you ready app

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to fix critical vulnerabilities in VMware products by Monday or remove the products from service. Multiple VMware products are affected by two new critical vulnerabilities that the company issued updates for yesterday. Recorded as CVE-2022-22972 and CVE-2022-22973 , the bugs allow an authentication bypass and a local privilege escalation.

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Outpost24

MAY 19, 2022

Credit Card Fraud Investigation: State of Underground Card Shops in 2022. 20.May.2022. Florian Barre. Thu, 05/19/2022 - 08:08. Beatriz Pimenta Klein and Lidia López Sanz Threat Intelligence Analysts, with contributions from Blueliv Labs team. Threat Intelligence. Teaser. In our latest credit card fraud investigation blog our threat intelligence analysts investigate the current card shop ecosystem, from active shops and the return of Rescator as well as other recently shuttered card shops and cre

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

For the first time in a year, security incidents involving email compromises surpassed ransomware incidents, a new analysis shows.

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Threatpost

MAY 19, 2022

Privilege escalation flaw discovered in the Jupiter and JupiterX Core Plugin affects more than 90,000 sites.

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

Shadowserver Foundation researchers find 380,000 open Kubernetes API servers.

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KnowBe4

MAY 19, 2022

Researchers at Vade Secure warn of a large phishing campaign that's impersonating shipping giant Maersk to target thousands of users in New Zealand.

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

In the three months since the war started, Russian operatives and those allied with the nation's interests have unleashed a deluge of disinformation and fake news to try and sow fear and confusion in Ukraine, security vendor says.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 19, 2022

New research from Google's Threat Analysis Group outlines the risks Android users face from the surveillance-for-hire industry.

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

New professional certification program establishes a pathway into the workforce for students and career changers by demonstrating their foundational knowledge, skills and abilities to employers.

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KnowBe4

MAY 19, 2022

Tell people not to click a link, pat each other on the back, and ride off into the sunset. If only security awareness training was that simple in Europe.

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

CrowdStrike and CyberArk invest in Dig's seed round, which was led by Team8, alongside Merlin Ventures and chairs of MongoDB and Exabeam.

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IG Guru

MAY 19, 2022

Check out the post here! The post Nominations for ARMA International Outside Director Due June 3 appeared first on IG GURU.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 19, 2022

A recent survey conducted by Legal Business, sponsored by OpenText, found that organizations in the DACH region are experiencing a resurgence in regulatory and whistleblower investigations. Top triggers of investigations The survey, which polled senior legal, compliance and investigations professionals within corporations and law firms across the DACH region, cited the top triggers for investigations … The post Maximizing compliance and minimizing risk: corporate investigations in the DACH

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Dark Reading

MAY 19, 2022

QNAP is urging customers of its NAS products to update QTS and avoid exposing the devices to the Internet.

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Jamf

MAY 19, 2022

RGS Worcester admins provide a case study of how the British school, which traces its origins back to the 7th century, managed to succeed at digital transformation by laying the groundwork at the level of culture.

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