Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
What privacy and security issues are raised by patients using smartphone apps to access health records? Attorney Helen Oscislawski and security expert Jarrett Kolthoff offer an analysis.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The U.S. Department of Defense has disclosed the details about four critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Defense has disclosed details of four vulnerabilities in its infrastructure, two high severity rating issues and other two critical flaws. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by threat actors to hijack a subdomain, execute arbitrary code remotely, or view files on the vulnerable system.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Users of Financial and Ecommerce Websites Are Frequent Victims So-called "cybersquatting" attacks are surging, with financial and ecommerce websites - including those of PayPal, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of America and Amazon - among the most frequent targets, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
A school district in North Carolina disclosed a data breach after having unencrypted files stolen during a SunCrypt Ransomware attack. The Haywood County School district in North Carolina has suffered a data breach after having unencrypted files stolen during a SunCrypt Ransomware attack. The ransomware attack took place on August 24th, 2020, but at the time the family of malware that infected the school district was not revealed.
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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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
CISA Orders Departments to Create Disclosure Programs by March 2021 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is ordering most executive branch agencies and departments to create vulnerability disclosure programs by March 2021. Some agencies, such as the Pentagon, already have robust programs in place.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Attackers User Specialized Crypter to Hide Malicious Code A recently uncovered malicious email campaign is delivering to businesses multiple types of malware, including a Trojan designed to steal banking credentials and other financial information, according to a research report from Cisco Talos.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The company committed to more transparency about app flaws, with an advisory page aimed at keeping the community better informed of security vulnerabilities.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Are Organizations Failing to Spot Breaches, or to Report Them, as Required by GDPR? The number of cybersecurity incidents reported to the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog has continued to decline, recently plummeting by nearly 40%. But is the quantity of data breaches going down, or might organizations be failing to spot them or potentially even covering them up?
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
A phishing campaign uses overlay screens and email 'quarantine' policies to steal targets' Microsoft Outlook credentials.
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
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Breach Clarity's Al Pascual on Keeping Pace With Emerging Risks Fraud prevention practices are not keeping up with changes in risks, says Al Pascual, COO at Breach Clarity, who offers insights on leveraging the latest tools.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Police increasingly ask Google and other tech firms for data about who was where, when. Two judges ruled the investigative tool invalid in a Chicago case.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features a discusssion with Equifax CISO, Jamil Farshchi, on the lessons learned from the credit reporting firm's massive data breach three years ago. Also featured: Australians' driver's licenses leaked; privileged access management tips.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
It's all fun and games until someone loses their V-Bucks, right? Here's how cyberattackers are cheating the gaming biz -- and winning big.
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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.
Adam Levin
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The controversial collection of details on billions of American phone calls by the National Security Agency (NSA) was illegal and possibly unconstitutional, according to a ruling by a federal appeals court. Under the NSA program, information and metadata from calls placed by U.S. citizens were collected in bulk and screened for possible connections to terrorist activity.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Marketing officers may have accepted ad fraud as a cost of doing business, but infosec pros take heed -- fraud can be a step to more significant attacks. Here's what to know and how to take action.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
By Denise Lebeau-Marianna – Partner and Yaël Hirsch – Senior Associate. The French Supervisory Authority (the “ CNIL ”) has issued new updated guidelines on data retention during the month of July (the “ CNIL’s Guidelines ”) [1]. They provide more practical guidance and update the CNIL previous Recommendations dated 11 October 2005 on the conditions of archiving personal data [2].
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
If the social-media behemoth finds a bug in another platform's code, the project has 90 days to remediate before Facebook goes public.
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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.
Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
I kicked off a little bit earlier on this one in order to wrap up before the Burning Minds keynote, and it's interesting to see just how much difference that little sliver of sunlight makes to the video quality. Check the very start of the video versus the very end; this is the sunset slipping through the crack in the fully drawn blinds, make a massive difference.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Cybersecurity researchers Brian Gorenc and Dustin Childs talk about the biggest vulnerability disclosure challenges in IoT and the industrial vertical.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
For decades, the Japanese automotive and manufacturing industries have been the envy of the world. They have exported production models that companies globally have copied. But things are changing. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the cracks were beginning to appear. Japanese automakers’ dominance was being eroded by competitors from Germany and elsewhere.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
It's "anything goes," according to renowned hacker the Grugq, who drew a bright line between cyberwar and cyber warfare at this week's virtual Disclosure Conference.
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Cybercriminals can use social media in many ways in order to trick employees.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Today's enterprises depend on mission-critical applications to keep them productive, help better serve customers, and keep up with demand. It's important that they also know the risks.
IG Guru
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Interesting how mobile devices really impacted the browser market. The post Most Popular Web Browsers between 1995 and 2019 via Data is Beautiful appeared first on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The number of DDoS attacks affecting educational resources was far higher between February and June 2020 compared with 2019.
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The company Edgenuity sells AI systems for grading tests. Turns out that they just search for keywords without doing any actual semantic analysis.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
A ruling in an appeal by four men convicted of material support for terrorism finds that the National Security Agency's metadata collection program not only violated the prevailing law at the time but was also likely unconstitutional.
Import.IO
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Before embarking on a project to write your own web scrapers, here are 10 questions to ask yourself and your team: Does your team have the experience in writing code for web scraping? (It is harder than it looks) What are the server / networking / storage costs to continually. The post 10 questions to ask before writing your own web scrapers appeared first on Import.io.
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