Krebs on Security
AUGUST 27, 2020
Yesterday’s piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo , a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any other convicted cybercriminal. Ngo was recently deported back to his home country after serving more than seven years in prison for running multiple identity theft services.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 27, 2020
Feds Accuse Former Uber CSO of Covering Up Hacker Attack and Data Breach Federal prosecutors have charged Uber's former CSO, Joe Sullivan, with covering up a hack attack and data breach. It's apparently the first case that involves attempting to hold a security officer personally responsible for a breach - beyond simply being fired. Is this the start of a trend?
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AIIM
AUGUST 27, 2020
There’s no doubt that the world has changed as a result of the pandemic. In our personal lives, we’ve made the necessary changes to our daily routines, added a mask to our list of things to remember when we leave the house along with our cell phones, wallet, and keys, and moved many of our social gatherings online. But, this change has impacted our lives at work too.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 27, 2020
Exchange Unable to Function for Three Days The New Zealand Stock Exchange remained shuttered for a third day Thursday after a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks that swamped the exchange and rendered its homepage inaccessible.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 27, 2020
On August 26, 2020, as reported by Brazilian firm Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados , the Brazilian Senate unexpectedly rejected the President’s Provisional Measure that was previously passed by the House of Representatives and aimed to postpone the applicability of the new Brazilian data protection law ( Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, or “LGPD”).
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2020
Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis that was designed to steal information from infected systems. This week, Microsoft warned of a recently uncovered piece of malware, tracked as Anubis, that was distributed in the wild to steal information from infected systems. Anubis is the name of an Android malware well-known in the community of malware analysts, but the family reported by Microsoft is not related to it.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 27, 2020
Check Point Research: Message Content Used to Personalize Phishing Emails The operators behind the Qbot banking Trojan are deploying a new version of the malware that uses hijacked Outlook email threads to send personalized phishing emails, according to Check Point Research. This campaign has targeted over 100,000 victims worldwide.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2020
Experts found an unsecured data bucket containing seven gigabytes worth of unencrypted files that include 350,000,000 strings of unique email addresses. Original post at: [link]. The CyberNews research team uncovered an unsecured data bucket owned by an unidentified party, containing seven gigabytes worth of unencrypted files that include 350,000,000 strings of unique email addresses.
Threatpost
AUGUST 27, 2020
Malicious attachments continue to be a top threat vector in the cybercriminal world, even as public awareness increases and tech companies amp up their defenses.
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 27, 2020
Rather than just reacting to security issues in the COVID-19 era, CISOs are now in a position to be change agents alongside their C-suite peers.
Threatpost
AUGUST 27, 2020
Magecart's successes have led to threat actors actively advertising 'sniffers' that can be injected into e-commerce websites in order to exfiltrate payment cards.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2020
New Zealand’s stock exchange (NZX) confirmed it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad that knocked it offline two days. New Zealand’s stock exchange ( NZX ) has been hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that took it offline for two days, trading activity was interrupted until the connectivity was restored.
Threatpost
AUGUST 27, 2020
Former Cisco employee Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh admitted to accessing Cisco’s cloud infrastructure and deleting 16,000 Webex Teams employee accounts.
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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.
CGI
AUGUST 27, 2020
Will the pandemic impact the energy transition? The COVID-19 pandemic has caused energy and fossil consumption to plummet and has driven the oil price to historic lows. Production needed to be lowered and in some cases stopped to stabilize the market amid the crisis. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 03:21.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 27, 2020
Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies are monopolies. I think it's both. Surveillance capitalism has some unique properties that make it particularly unethical and incompatible with a free society, and Zuboff makes them clear in her book.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2020
Microsoft addressed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Sphere that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or to the elevation of privileges. Microsoft has recently addressed some vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft Azure Sphere that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code or to elevate privileges. Azure Sphere OS adds layers of protection and ongoing security updates to create a trustworthy platform for new IoT experiences.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 27, 2020
Elon Musk confirmed Thursday night that a ransomware gang had approached a Gigafactory employee with alleged promises of a big payout.
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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
AUGUST 27, 2020
New Zealand Exchange officials say the motive for the attacks is unclear.
Threatpost
AUGUST 27, 2020
While privacy experts praised Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 updates, Facebook said the new features could cut its advertising business in half.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 27, 2020
There's a lot going on with the USPS right now. Here's a complete state-by-state guide to how to get your ballot—and when it's due.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 27, 2020
REvil ransomware operators claimed to have breached another healthcare organization, the victim is Valley Health Systems. During ordinary monitoring activity of data leaks, the Cyble Research Team identified a leak disclosure post published by the REvil ransomware operators claiming to have breached a healthcare organization, the Valley Health Systems. .
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 27, 2020
In China, the messaging platform blocked thousands of keywords related to the virus, a new report reveals.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
AUGUST 27, 2020
The Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information for the German State of Baden-Württemberg ( Landesbeauftragter für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg – “LfDI BW”) recently published guidance for international transfers of personal data in the post- Schrems II era. Background. The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) not only invalidated the EU-U.S.
Data Matters
AUGUST 27, 2020
In almost the first three quarters of 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has settled three cases related to alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), totaling $1,165,000. These settlements underscore OCR’s continued focus on enforcement of the HIPAA Security Rule.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 27, 2020
Latest version of Qbot has acquired a new feature for collecting email threads from Outlook clients.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
AUGUST 27, 2020
The Brazilian Senate, in the voting of MP 959/20 decided on 26 August 2020, to reject the article of the MP that provided for the extension of the enforceability of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD). Based on this decision, the LGPD will be in force within 15 business days (after the approval or veto of the rest of the MP 959/20). This decision does not encompass the articles related to the National Authority – which were already in force – and the ones related to the
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 27, 2020
Mozilla has rewritten the app to rely on its own infrastructure rather than Google’s. But will its privacy and UI tweaks convince people to make the switch?
Dark Reading
AUGUST 27, 2020
How internal manipulators can actually degrade your organization's cyber defense, and how to defend against them.
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