Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2021
40 Million Credit Applications Also Stolen; Social Security Numbers Exposed T-Mobile USA has confirmed that its systems were breached and that details for 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers and 850,000 prepaid customers as well as records for 40 million individuals who applied for credit were stolen.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 18, 2021
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen T-Mobile customer records went up for sale in the cybercrime underground.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2021
HVAC Vendor Incident Said to Affect Its Boston Hospital Clients A hacking incident reportedly involving a Massachusetts-based vendor that provides HVAC systems to customers including several high profile Boston-area hospitals shines another spotlight on the growing cybersecurity risks involving IoT devices and OT equipment.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 18, 2021
So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.
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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
AUGUST 18, 2021
DOJ: Declan Harrington and Others Stole $530,000 Worth of Cryptocurrency A Massachusetts man who used SIM swapping and other account takeover techniques to target business executives and steal more than $530,000 worth of cryptocurrency has pleaded guilty to several federal charges.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2021
Scope of Incident Remains Unclear The Brazilian government has confirmed that its National Treasury fell victim to a ransomware attack on Aug. 13. The scope of the incident remains unclear, although officials say it did not damage structural systems.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR. The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the Senate Chancellory’s use of the popular videoconferencing tool violates the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2021
Offering Work-Life Balance and a Career Path Are Key Factors Some cybersecurity leaders are finding that when it comes to retaining workers, offering a solid work-life balance and defining a career growth path is more important than salary.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
Adobe has addressed two critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Photoshop image manipulation software. Ad obe released security updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-36065 and CVE-2021-36066, affecting the popular image manipulation software Photoshop. The flaws affect versions of the software for both Windows and macOS, their exploitation could lead to?
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.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2021
I’m starting to see writings about a Chinese espionage tool that exploits website vulnerabilities to try and identify Chinese dissidents.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 18, 2021
The alleged digital operation has deployed hundreds of websites and social media accounts to attack the broadcaster's reporting.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
North Korea-linked InkySquid group leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom implant in attacks aimed at a South Korean online newspaper. Experts from cybersecurity firm Volexity reported that North Korea-linked InkySquid group (aka ScarCruft , APT37 , Group123 , and Reaper ) leverages two Internet Explorer exploits to deliver a custom backdoor in watering hole attacks aimed at the Daily NK South Korean online newspaper (www.dailynk[.]com).
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2021
The once-dominant handset maker BlackBerry is busy squashing BadAlloc bugs in its QNX real-time operating system used in cars in medical devices.
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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.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 18, 2021
Sound the Quantum Alarm! sparsh. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 06:27. When was the last time you considered the cryptography in your organization? Perhaps you had to encrypt your data as part of a regulatory requirement, or you voluntarily understood the value of encryption, and deployed it as a safeguard. Encryption is one of those technologies that, once it is implemented, is typically fairly easy to manage, as most organizations use cryptography supplied through a vendor.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2021
Yaron Kassner, CTO at Silverfort, discusses authentication-bypass bugs in Cisco ASA, F5 Big-IP, IBM QRadar and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet. In July, researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider , the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. The Trickbot botnet was used by threat actors to spread the Ryuk and Conti ransomware families, experts noticed similarities between Diavol and Conti threats.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2021
Attackers stole tens of millions of current, former or prospective customers' personal data, the company confirmed. It's providing 2 years of free ID protection.
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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.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
T-Mobile has confirmed that hackers have stolen records belonging to 48.6 million of current and former customers. Recently T-Mobile has launched an investigation into a possible security breach after a threat actor started offering for sale 100 million T-Mobile customer records on the dark web. Bleeping Computer reported that the seller was asking for 6 bitcoin (around $270,000) for 30 million social security numbers and driver licenses, while privately selling the remaining data.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 18, 2021
Sound the Quantum Alarm! sparsh. Thu, 08/19/2021 - 06:27. When was the last time you considered the cryptography in your organization? Perhaps you had to encrypt your data as part of a regulatory requirement, or you voluntarily understood the value of encryption, and deployed it as a safeguard. Encryption is one of those technologies that, once it is implemented, is typically fairly easy to manage, as most organizations use cryptography supplied through a vendor.
Micro Focus
AUGUST 18, 2021
The importance of us all taking action to protect the environment has never been greater, which is why Micro Focus is proud to sign the CIO Strategy Council’s Sustainable IT Pledge, alongside our peers. The Earth is in a ‘code-red situation,’ as described by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently. We as individuals, as. View Article.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2021
The OS command-injection bug, in the web application firewall (WAF) platform known as FortiWeb, will get a patch at the end of the month.
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IG Guru
AUGUST 18, 2021
Check out the link here. The post Microsoft is looking to use the ethereum blockchain to prevent piracy via Business Insider appeared first on IG GURU.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2021
The apps attempt to swindle users into buying in-app upgrades or clicking on masses of ads.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 18, 2021
The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web.
Threatpost
AUGUST 18, 2021
The botnet cryptominer has already compromised 1,000-plus clouds since June.
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HID Global
AUGUST 18, 2021
Fact or Friction? Top Challenges in Digital Banking. dstevenson. Wed, 08/18/2021 - 09:45.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 18, 2021
Digital evidence is piling up quickly for law enforcement across the globe. In today’s challenging world of evidence management, investigators and detectives often have to access multiple systems to collect evidence and search for clues. That means spending a lot of time looking for, and trying to access and share, needed evidence across disconnected systems.
Adapture
AUGUST 18, 2021
What You Need To Know About Windows 11 Many industry experts thought that Windows 10 was going to be the last version of Windows ever released. Microsoft had planned to continually upgrade and update Windows 10 to keep up with user’s latest needs. That has all changed within the past few weeks. Say Goodbye to Windows 10 in 2025 Windows recently announced that it will end support for Windows 10 in 2025.
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