Data Breach Today
JULY 1, 2021
NSA: Attackers Targeting Cloud Services for Espionage The NSA, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies are tracking an ongoing Russian cyberespionage campaign in which attackers are using brute-force methods to access Office 365 and other cloud-based services.
Krebs on Security
JULY 1, 2021
Financial services giant Intuit this week informed 1.4 million small businesses using its QuickBooks Online Payroll and Intuit Online Payroll products that their payroll information will be shared with big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax starting later this year unless customers opt out by the end of this month. Intuit says the change is tied to an “exciting” and “free” new service that will let millions of small business employees get easy access to employment and i
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Data Breach Today
JULY 1, 2021
Roger Lang, who has experience in SaaS and fintech and has invested in various cybersecurity companies, says that education is the key to making real progress on cybersecurity issues.
AIIM
JULY 1, 2021
As the amount of data entering the organization proliferates, and the amount of content with business value (deemed a “record” in many cases) also increases, organizations everywhere are struggling with a massive information overload problem. Content is running rampant and sprawling, and records are being captured improperly, making discoverability and the resulting value of that information significantly lower.
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
JULY 1, 2021
Social Media Platform Says No Private Data Exposed Some 700 million records of LinkedIn users have reportedly been offered for sale on a hacker forum. The social media platform, and several security experts, say that the offering stems from the "scraping" of records from websites and not a data breach.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 1, 2021
Tool Designed to Gauge Whether Organizations Have Adequate Defense, Recovery Measures The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a Ransomware Readiness Assessment audit tool to help organizations size up their ability to defend against and recover from attacks.
IT Governance
JULY 1, 2021
We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly.
Data Breach Today
JULY 1, 2021
Ransomware Group Posts Stolen Data The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada acknowledged it had been the victim of a cyberattack after a newspaper discovered stolen data had been posted on the darknet site of ransomware-as-a-service gang REvil.
Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
Data leaks are a serious concern for companies of all sizes; if one occurs, it may put them out of business permanently. Here's how you can protect your organization from data theft.
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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
JULY 1, 2021
Europol: Servers, Domains Supported Ransomware Attacks In a multinational effort led by the Dutch National Police, authorities seized servers and web domains used by DoubleVPN, a Russia-based company that allegedly provided a safe operating infrastructure for cybercriminals, according to Europol.
Security Affairs
JULY 1, 2021
The US CISA has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA), a new ransomware self-assessment security audit tool. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA) , a new ransomware self-assessment security audit tool for the agency’s Cyber Security Evaluation Tool ( CSET ).
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 1, 2021
While SolarWinds rightly drew attention earlier this year, Moscow's Fancy Bear group has been on a password-guessing spree this whole time.
Schneier on Security
JULY 1, 2021
As ransomware becomes more common, I’m seeing more discussions about the ethics of paying the ransom. Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than it’s helping. However, the most pressing challenge currently facing the industry is ransomware. Although it is a societal problem, cyber insurers have received considerable criticism for facilitating ransom payments to cybercriminals.
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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
JULY 1, 2021
Most security pros believe their responses could be dramatically quicker were the right logs available, and usually they're not.
Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
Aamir Lakhani, cybersecurity researcher and practitioner at FortiGuard Labs, explains the rise of RaaS and the critical role of threat intel in effectively defending against it.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 1, 2021
On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez held in a 5-4 decision that certain members of a class action lawsuit, whose inaccurate credit reports were not provided to third parties, did not suffer a “concrete” injury sufficient to confer Article III standing. This case builds upon the Court’s 2016 decision in Spokeo, Inc. v.
Dark Reading
JULY 1, 2021
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Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
Microsoft researchers discovered the firmware flaws in the DGN-2200v1 series router that can enable authentication bypass to take over devices and access stored credentials.
Security Affairs
JULY 1, 2021
About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online , it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. Hours ago, a 68MB JSON database containing LinkedIn data recently collected from 88,000 US business owners was shared on a popular hacker forum.
Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
The gang's source code is now available to rivals and security researchers alike - and a decryptor likely is not far behind.
Security Affairs
JULY 1, 2021
US and UK cybersecurity agencies said the Russia-linked APT28 group is behind a series of large-scale brute-force attacks. US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world.
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Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum.
Dark Reading
JULY 1, 2021
Fancy Bear nation-state hacking team add a modern twist on old-school hacking method by using a cluster of Kubernetes software containers to expedite credential theft.
Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
Criminals behind the potent REvil ransomware have ported the malware to Linux for targeted attacks.
Dark Reading
JULY 1, 2021
A new module provides a set of practices to help organizations assess how well-equipped they are to defend and recover from ransomware.
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Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
LimeVPN has confirmed a data incident, and meanwhile its website has been knocked offline.
Data Matters
JULY 1, 2021
On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez , which tightened the Court’s requirements for showing standing and will significantly affect class action litigation, particularly in cases involving causes of action created by federal statute or involving allegations of a potential risk of injury.
Threatpost
JULY 1, 2021
The IndigoZebra APT is targeting the Afghan government using Dropbox as an API that leaves no traces of communications with weirdo websites.
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