Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Researchers Say Attackers Targeted American and Canadian Banking Customers Cybercriminals targeted mobile banking users by sending malicious SMS messages to their smartphones as part of a phishing campaign to steal account holders' information, including usernames and passwords, according to the cybersecurity firm Lookout.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Crooks are constantly dreaming up new ways to use and conceal stolen credit card data. According to the U.S. Secret Service , the latest scheme involves stolen card information embedded in barcodes affixed to phony money network rewards cards. The scammers then pay for merchandise by instructing a cashier to scan the barcode and enter the expiration date and card security code.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Pending Sale Announced on Eve of Annual RSA Conference in San Francisco Dell Technologies has agreed to sell its RSA security division to private equity firm Symphony Technology Group in an all cash deal worth more than $2 billion, the companies announced Tuesday. The news comes on the eve of the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, which starts Monday.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
The success of any project relies on involving stakeholders early on and keeping them properly informed throughout. A systems development project is no different. If you want the systems that you build, buy, and develop to properly manage information assets across the life cycle, then you have to leverage the knowledge of your RIM team. This was the subject of Kevin Craine's recent interview with Tod Chernikoff, ISD RIM Analyst for the Navy Federal Credit Union.
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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
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Patients Seek Damages, Citing Impact of Security Incident in New Jersey A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against a New Jersey healthcare organization in the wake of a ransomware attack last December in which the entity paid attackers an unspecified ransom to unlock its systems. Why are patients seeking damages?
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
French Technology Firm's Database Was Unprotected, Report Says An unsecured database belonging to a French technology firm that supplies video and digital equipment to plastic surgery and determatology clinics exposed content on 900,000 patients, according to a report from two independent security researchers.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Peripheral devices with unsigned firmware can expose Windows and Linux machines to hack, warn experts from firmware security firm Eclypsium. Experts at firmware security firm Eclypsium have discovered that many peripheral device manufacturers have not implemented security checks to prevent the installation of firmware from an untrusted source. An attacker could exploit the lack of checks to execute malicious firmware and perform malicious actions on both Windows and Linux systems, such as the in
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
"The Human Element" is the theme of the RSA Conference 2020, but there are plenty of technology-rich topics in store for attendees, including session tracks that focus on election security, open source tools, product security and anti-fraud. Britta Glade, a conference director, previews the event.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
A security expert found a flaw in SharePoint that could be exploited to remotely execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted SharePoint application package. Summary: A few days ago I saw a post from Alienvault which says attackers are still exploiting SharePoint vulnerability to attack Middle East government organization. Having said that I found Income Tax Department India and MIT Sloan was also vulnerable to CVE-2019-0604 a remote code execution vulnerability which exists in Micros
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
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Backdoored: Fortinet, Palo Alto and Pulse Secure VPN Servers; Citrix Gateways Unpatched Fortinet, Palo Alto and Pulse Secure VPN servers, as well as Citrix gateways, continue to be targeted by hackers, who are exploiting critical flaws to install backdoors inside corporate networks. Security firm ClearSky warns that apparent Iranian APT attackers are the latest to join the fray.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
A lack of proper code-signing verification and authentication for firmware updates opens the door to information disclosure, remote code execution, denial of service and more.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
On February 9, 2020, amidst the ongoing coronavirus outbreak (“2019-nCoV”) in China, in order to protect personal information collected during the fight against coronavirus, such as the personal data of diagnosed patients, suspected patients and individuals who have been in close contact with diagnosed patients, the Cyberspace Administration of China released a Circular on Ensuring Effective Personal Information Protection and Utilization of Big Data to Support Joint Efforts for Epidemic P
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
When a user interacts with an enterprise system the result can be productivity or disaster. Here are 8 opportunities for the disaster side to win out over the productive.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
It’s common knowledge that if any business is going to survive, let alone thrive, they must adapt to change. The energy industry in particular has always been at the forefront of evolving its practices for a multitude of reasons. Vapo Oy is one of Finland’s leading energy suppliers, and they are taking a head-on approach to how they deal with change.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
This hack was possible because the McDonald's app didn't authenticate the server, and just did whatever the server told it to do: McDonald's receipts in Germany end with a link to a survey page. Once you take the survey, you receive a coupon code for a free small beverage, redeemable within a month. One day, David happened to be checking out how the website's coding was structured when he noticed that the information triggering the server to issue a new voucher was always the same.
DXC Technology
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
You can argue over when cloud computing really began, but one good starting point is 2006 when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at a conference: “I don’t think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It starts with the premise that the data services and architecture should be on servers. We call […].
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Scam threatens to flood sites using Google’s banner-ad program with bot and junk traffic if owners don’t pay $5K in bitcoin.
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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.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Deal with private equity entity Symphony Technology Group revealed one week before the security industry's RSA Conference in San Francisco.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
The lax security of supply chain firmware has been a known concern for years—with precious little progress being made.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
APT34/OilRig and APT33/Elfin have established a highly developed and persistent infrastructure that could be converted to distribute destructive wiper malware.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Insecure developer accounts, legacy software, and nonstandard naming schemes are major problems, Linux Foundation and Harvard study concludes.
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Quest Software
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Rapid Recovery is often compared with other backup products and deemed to be "not enterprise-capable." Many of these comparisons are done without fully understanding Rapid Recovery's design and default configuration. This blog post attempts to dispel.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Make cybersecurity your top priority, moving away from addressing individual problems with Band-Aids and toward attaining a long-term cyber-fitness plan.
ForAllSecure
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
On January 31, 2020, Shmoocon held their annual conference in Washington D.C. Each year, the event offers a glimpse into the upcoming trends of the year, defined by the needs of the federal industry. Outlined below are the top three trends observed by our ForAllSecure engineers.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Network cards, video cameras, and graphics adapters are a few of the subsystems whose lack of security could allow attackers to turn them into spy implants.
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Threatpost
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
OurMine took over the Spanish powerhouse soccer team's Twitter account.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
YouTube is littered with bot-driven videos promising big in-game riches—that also try to steal your personal information.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Ring outlined new security and data privacy measures, Tuesday, following backlash of the connected doorbell in the past year.
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