Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
Agency Offering $1 Million Rewards for Information on 2 Ukrainian Suspects The U.S. Secret Service has published a Most Wanted Fugitives list featuring 10 suspects wanted in connection with financial cybercrimes The agency is offering rewards of up to $1 million for information on two Ukrainian suspects who allegedly targeted the SEC in 2016.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device. One of many similar complaints on Western Digital’s user forum.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
Prosecutors Say Andrii Kolpakov Was a 'Pen Tester' for Payment Card Theft Group A high-ranking member of the FIN7 payment card theft group has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Andrii Kolpako worked as a "pen tester" for the organization, prosecutors say.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
In-the-wild XSS attacks have commenced against the security appliance (CVE-2020-3580), as researchers publish exploit code on Twitter.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
Cryptocurrency Exchange Acknowledges Flow of Illicit Funds a Big Problem Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it recently assisted police in tracking down individuals accused of laundering money for the Clop ransomware group. The exchange acknowledges that illicit money from cyberattacks circulating on virtual currency exchanges is a big security problem.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
Microsoft Promises Better 'Zero Trust' Capability, Passwordless Access Security specialists are offering preliminary feedback on Microsoft's sneak peek at the new security measures to be included in the Windows 11 operating system, which is slated for release in December.
Jamf
JUNE 25, 2021
Apple gave us a glimpse of its vision for the future of mobile device management (MDM) at its 2021 World Wide Developers Conference with the introduction of Declarative Management.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
AT&T's Alien Labs: Malware Designed to Target Servers Hosting VMware Virtual Machines The DarkSide Russian-speaking cybercrime group, which announced May 13 it was closing its ransomware-as-a-service operation, had earlier completed a Linux version of its malware designed to target ESXi servers hosting VMware virtual machines, according to AT&T’s Alien Labs.
Security Affairs
JUNE 25, 2021
Fortinet has recently fixed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. Fortinet has recently addressed a high-severity vulnerability ( CVE-2021-22123 ) affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF), a remote, authenticated attacker can exploit it to execute arbitrary commands via the SAML server configuration page.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
Also: Updating SOCs, Communicating With the Board In the latest weekly update, a panel of Information Security Media Group editors discusses key topics, including open-source software vulnerabilities, and provides insights on updating SOCs and communicating effectively with the board.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
For over three years, a vendor was recklessly driving the cloud-stored data of luxury-car-owning customers and wannabe buyers.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
Information Handled by the Police Department Exposed The city of Tulsa issued a warning this week that a ransomware group that attacked the city in May leaked more than 18,000 city files on the dark web; it's advising residents to take precautions.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 25, 2021
This edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of CISA's finding that agencies could have prevented follow-on attacks after the SolarWinds supply chain attack by properly configuring firewalls. Also featured: Congressman discusses deterring nation-state attacks; insider threat mitigation tips.
Dark Reading
JUNE 25, 2021
How serious is the company about safeguarding its customers and their genetic information? "We're hiding data even from ourselves," says the biotech and genetic testing company's head of security.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
Threat actors have so far made about $2 million from Crackonosh, which secretly mines Monero cryptocurrency from affected devices.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
News from Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology: China Claims Its AI Can Beat Human Pilots in Battle: Chinese state media reported that an AI system had successfully defeated human pilots during simulated dogfights. According to the Global Times report , the system had shot down several PLA pilots during a handful of virtual exercises in recent years.
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Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
“I am totally screwed,” one user wailed after finding years of data nuked. Western Digital advised yanking the NAS storage devices offline ASAP: There's an exploit.
Data Matters
JUNE 25, 2021
The European Data Protection Board (“ EDPB ”), adopted on 18 June 2021 its final recommendations describing how controllers and processors transferring personal data outside the European Economic Area (“ EEA ”) may comply with the Schrems II ruling (“ Final Schrems II Recommendations ”). The Final Schrems II Recommendations, together with the new Standard Contractual Clauses (“ SCCs” ) adopted by the European Commission on 4 June 2021, will now allow organizations to proceed with addressing inte
Security Affairs
JUNE 25, 2021
Threat actors are wiping many Western Digital (WD) My Book Live and My Book Live Duo NAS devices likely exploiting an old vulnerability. Owners of Western Digital (WD) claim that their My Book Live and My Book Live Duo network-attached storage (NAS) devices have been wiped. Threat actors forced a factory reset on the devices resulting in the deletion of all files. “When I couldn’t access any of the 4 Network drives I created, I went to Network and double clicked on the MyBookLive Icon, whi
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 25, 2021
Free speech advocates raised concerns after the Justice Department seized more than 30 domains this week.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Security Affairs
JUNE 25, 2021
CyberNews researchers analyzed the recently discovered Epsilon Red operations and found that more than 3.5K servers are still vulnerable. Several weeks later, security researchers from Sophos have discovered a new ransomware variant known as Epsilon Red. Now, we know exactly how it was carried out – and what you should do to be safe from it. Seemingly, a variant of the ransomware , Epsilon Red , relies on vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
One of the Carbanak cybergang's highest-level hackers is destined to serve seven years while making $2.5 million in restitution payments.
Security Affairs
JUNE 25, 2021
The Clop ransomware members that were recently arrested laundered over $500M in ransomware payments for several malicious actors. The members of the Clop ransomware gang that were recently arrested in Ukraine laundered over $500M for several cybercrime groups. Data related to the money laundering activities were provided by the cryptocurrency exchange portal Binance, who tracked the group as FancyCat , the funds resulted from the operations of Clop and Petya ransomware.
Collibra
JUNE 25, 2021
Data-driven organizations are depending on modern technologies and AI to get the most out of their data assets. But they struggle with data quality issues all the time. Incomplete or inaccurate data, security problems, hidden data – the list is endless. Several surveys reveal the extent of cost damages across many verticals due to the problems associated with data quality.
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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
JUNE 25, 2021
On January 10, 2021, the New York City Council enacted a new biometric law requiring certain commercial establishments within New York City that collect “biometric identifier information” to prominently display signage that such information is being collected and prohibiting those establishments from selling or sharing the information with others.
OpenText Information Management
JUNE 25, 2021
The latest announcement by OpenText of Cloud Editions includes some great updates to OpenText™ Axcelerate™. Check out the latest updates below. June 2021: What’s new in OpenText Axcelerate CE 21.2 Legal teams and law firms are under pressure to contain the cost of eDiscovery against rising data volumes and new forms of data such as … The post What’s new in OpenText Axcelerate appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
IG Guru
JUNE 25, 2021
Check out the article here. The post NATO Warns it Will Consider a Military Response to Cyber-Attacks via Information Security Magazine appeared first on IG GURU.
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