The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

It is no secret that there is, and has been for some time, a shortage of trained cyber security professionals in corporate IT Security teams. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania observed that “nowhere is the workforce-skills gap more pronounced than in cybersecurity.”. Related: Deploying ‘human’ sensors’ According to data gathered by CyberSeek under a Commerce Department grant, there are currently nearly 465,000 unfilled cyber jobs across the US alone.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some Patients' Care Previously Postponed Due to COVID-19; What Happens Now? Two Indiana hospitals say their IT systems are disabled as they recover from cyberattacks suffered last week. Both hospitals in recent weeks have had to divert patients or postpone elective procedures as COVID-19 cases surged in the state. So what's the impact of the attacks on patient care?

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Ransomware – malware that aims to prevent victims from accessing their data unless they pay their attackers – seems to be in the news more than ever before. Sophos’s most recent annual ransomware survey, The State of Ransomware 2021 , found that 37% of organisations surveyed in 2021 had been affected by ransomware in the previous year. Although this is a year-on-year reduction (51% of surveyed organisations were affected in 2020), the threat remains significant.

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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.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

DSCI: Ransomware Alkhal Likely Spread Via Phishing, Malicious URLs The Data Security Council of India has issued an advisory about newly discovered ransomware Alkhal, which uses a strong encryption tool and has no known decryptor to recover lost data. The ransomware was likely discovered on Oct. 1 by security firms Malwarebytes and Cyclonis.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Social Media Giant Confirms Incident via Twitter; Analysis Suggests DNS Issue Social media giant Facebook experienced a global outage on Monday that also involved its properties - including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. According to Cisco's internet analysis division, ThousandEyes, the tech giant experienced a DNS issue that hindered access to Facebook's tools and apps.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Israeli Aerospace & Defense firm E.M.I.T. Aviation Consulting Ltd. was hit by LockBit 2.0 ransomware, operators will leak files on 07 Oct, 2021. LockBit 2.0 ransomware operators hit the Israeli aerospace and defense firm E.M.I.T. Aviation Consulting Ltd, threat actors claim to have stolen data from the company and are threatening to leak them on the dark web leak site of the group in case the company will not pay the ransom.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

$150 Million in Worldwide Losses Tied to Unnamed Ransomware Operation and Suspects Police in Ukraine have arrested two members of a ransomware operation they say has targeted businesses in North American and Europe, leading to victim losses totaling at least $150 million. The operation also involved French cyber police, the FBI and Interpol, backed by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 4, 2021

From basic coding to threat hunting, here are five skills modern SOC teams need to successfully navigate the future of high-scale detection and response.

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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.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

DOJ: Thousands of US Service Members, Veterans Targeted A former U.S. Army contractor has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $2,331,639.85 in restitution, for conspiring to commit wire fraud and launder money, targeting thousands of military-affiliated individuals, according to a Department of Justice statement.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Users worldwide are experiencing problems while accessing Facebook services, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Users worldwide are not able to access Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp services due to a BGP problems. Users attempting to visit the above services are displaying “DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.” The mobile applications of the social network giant and its Tor hidden services are also not working.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of how a cryptocurrency exchange bug has revealed North Korean monero laundering. Also featured are cyber insurance trends and cybercrime innovation.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Dentons Privacy Community met on September 15, 2021 to discuss how to approach international data transfers in Asia, in particular Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and China. The session explored the evolving regulatory landscape, the key rules and transfer solutions, and recent legislative developments. Below are the key takeaways. Singapore. In addition to transfer solutions that will be familiar to privacy professionals in Europe, such as contracts and binding corporate rules, data exporters in Si

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On September 27, 2021, the transition period allowing companies to continue using the old EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) for new transfers from the EU to a third country ended. Companies entering into new transfer agreements incorporating the SCCs must now use those published by the European Commission on June 4, 2021 (the “new SCCs”). Transfers from the UK that rely on SCCs must continue to use the old SCCs.

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Jamf

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Claris recently announced the general availability of their new purpose-built app created by iSolutions, to address the device, data and document retention requirements mandated by the Federal Communications Commission ECF (Emergency Connectivity Fund) Program.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Two ransomware operators arrested in Kyiv, Ukraine, that are suspected to have attacked more than 100 companies causing more than $150M in damages. A joint international law enforcement operation led to the arrest of the ransomware operators in Kyiv, Ukraine on September 28. The operation was conducted by the Ukrainian National Police, with the support of Europol, the FBI, Interpol, and French Gendarmerie. “On 28 September, a coordinated strike between the French National Gendarmerie (Gend

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An analysis of second-quarter malware trends shows that threats are becoming stealthier.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Pottawatomie County restored operations that were suspended after a ransomware attack hit its systems on September 17, 2021. Officials at Pottawatomie County announced to have fully recovered their IT infrastructure that was hit by a ransomware attack on September 17, 2021. County Administrator Chad Kinsley announced that the county opted to pay the ransomware, they revealed that they have paid less than 10% of the ransomware initially demanded by the ransomware operators.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 4, 2021

A former medical records tech stole PII that was then used to fraudulently claim DoD and VA benefits, particularly targeting disabled veterans.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2021

ChamelGang APT is a new cyberespionage group that focuses on fuel and energy organizations and aviation industry in Russia. ChamelGang is a new APT group that was first spotted in March by researchers at security firm Positive Technologies, it targets Russian companies in the energy and aviation industry. In March, the cyberespionage group was observed leveraging ProxyShell against targets in 10 countries and used a variety of malware in its campaign.

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Jamf

OCTOBER 4, 2021

October is here. You know what that means. It's almost time for JNUC! From the JNUC Junction to braindates and more find out what JNUC 2021 has in store.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

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Rocket Software

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At Rocket, we know our customers are busy working to meet – and exceed – their organization’s IT goals to drive results. When it comes to troubleshooting or learning more about their Rocket solutions, they need to be able to easily search and access the information relevant to their products and interests. These searches need to be specific and instantaneous so that users can conveniently find the content they need, without digging through extraneous files.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Microsoft discusses the security requirements and changes coming to the newest version of its Windows operating system.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 4, 2021

They were all flat on their faces for hours on Monday, throwing off DNS error messages or other server-related errors.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 4, 2021

An attack that took place over two days used a recently disclosed vulnerability in Atlassian's Confluence collaboration software.

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IG Guru

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Check out the article here. The post Irish DPC WhatsApp decision: What do you need to know? from the IAPP appeared first on IG GURU.

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