Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
Security Experts Continue to Recommend Password Managers As Security Best Practice Password manager stalwart LastPass acknowledged Thursday that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its source code and proprietary technical information. The attacker does not appear to have gained access to customer data or encrypted password vaults.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 26, 2022
ARN just reported: "The metaverse is seen by many companies as a great business opportunity and for new ways of working. Security provider Trend Micro, however, warns in a recent research report that cyber criminals could misuse the technology for their own purposes.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
Reward for White Hats Valid till Sept. 8 for Merge-related Vulnerabilities Ethereum is offering up to $1 million bounty to white hat hackers who identify merge-related critical vulnerabilities on its blockchain. The four-fold increase in reward will be applicable between Wednesday and Sept. 8. The merge is set to be completed by Sept.
Threatpost
AUGUST 26, 2022
Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.
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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
AUGUST 26, 2022
In many healthcare entities, the amount of data that is being generated and retained continues to grow - and that mounting trove of legacy data is often never disposed, expanding the surface for cyberattacks and other compromises, says Matthew Bernstein of consulting firm Bernstein Data.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
Russian-Based Malware Enables Attackers to Login as Any User and Bypass MFA The recently discovered Russian-linked MagicWeb malware that exploits on-premises Microsoft Active Directory Federated Services servers to persist in compromised systems underscores the benefits of cloud-based infrastructure and a zero trust approach to architecture, security researchers say.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 26, 2022
Atlassian addressed a critical vulnerability in Bitbucket Server and Data Center that could lead to malicious code execution on vulnerable instances. Atlassian fixed a critical flaw in Bitbucket Server and Data Center, tracked as CVE-2022-36804 (CVSS score 9.9), that could be explored to execute malicious code on vulnerable installs. The flaw is a command injection vulnerability that can be exploited via specially crafted HTTP requests. “This advisory discloses a critical severity security
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
Proposed Class Action Accuses Coinbase of Poor Security and Worse Customer Service Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase faces a proposed class action from a user who says poor security led to the theft of $200,000 from his account. Attempts by plaintiff Manish Aggarwal to contact the company turned into a fight with an "impenetrable automated 'customer service' process.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 26, 2022
Microsoft and others say they have observed nation-state actors, ransomware purveyors, and assorted cybercriminals pivoting to an open source attack-emulation tool in recent campaigns.
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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
AUGUST 26, 2022
'Subject X' Suspected in Theft of Nearly 10,000 credentials at 130 Organizations An ongoing phishing campaign has compromised Twilio, Mailchimp and about 130 other organizations by using a lookalike Okta login page to trick employees into divulging their password and multi-factor authentication code. Researchers have traced the attacks to a 22-year-old suspect in North Carolina.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 26, 2022
An attack on Russian mercenaries shows how militaries are increasingly using open source data—with sometimes deadly consequences.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 26, 2022
Also: Former CISA Director’s Tough Message and Cryptocurrency Trends In the latest weekly update, four editors at Information Security Media Group discuss important cybersecurity issues, including implications of the Russia-Ukraine cyberwar, the former CISA director’s somber message to the industry at Black Hat, and how the cryptocurrency landscape is changing.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 26, 2022
Researchers warned that cyberattackers will be probing the code for weaknesses to exploit later.
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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
AUGUST 26, 2022
Justices Say Pegasus Not Confirmed and Government Did Not Cooperate
Dark Reading
AUGUST 26, 2022
DevSecOps can help overcome inheritance mentality, especially in low- and no-code environments.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 26, 2022
The North Korea-linked Kimsuky APT is behind a new campaign, tracked as GoldDragon , targeting political and diplomatic entities in South Korea in early 2022. Researchers from Kaspersky attribute a series of attacks, tracked as GoldDragon, against political and diplomatic entities located in South Korea in early 2022 to the North Korea-linked group Kimsuky.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 26, 2022
Consumers gain control of their data while companies build better relationships with their customers — but third-party ad-tech firms will likely continue to stand in the way.
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WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 26, 2022
The phishing attack on the SMS giant exposes the dangers of B2B companies to the entire tech ecosystem.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 26, 2022
Six out of the eight products achieved an "A" rating or higher for blocking malware attacks. Reports are provided to the community for free.
IG Guru
AUGUST 26, 2022
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 26, 2022
OpenSSF welcomes Capital One as a premier member affirming its commitment to strengthening the open source software supply chain.
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Docuware
AUGUST 26, 2022
Dismantling information silos and giving employees easy access to the knowledge they need to drive processes and complete projects is a key objective of any office automation initiative. With the right tools, your organization can unlock the value of information assets, boost employee collaboration and eliminate complicated, broken workarounds for processes.
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 26, 2022
In the race to offer comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, the product known as network detection and response (NDR) is a standalone solution as well as a central component of XDR. Whereas older solutions like antivirus, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) have long focused on threats at the network perimeter, the intent of NDR is to monitor and act on malicious threats within organization networks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) analysis.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 26, 2022
An Iran-linked Mercury APT group exploited the Log4Shell vulnerability in SysAid applications for initial access to the targeted organizations. The Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) made the headlines in December after Chinese security researcher p0rz9 publicly disclosed a Proof-of-concept exploit for the critical remote code execution zero-day vulnerability ( aka Log4Shell ) that affects the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 26, 2022
By all accounts, this was one of the best weekly updates ever courtesy of a spam caller giving me a buzz at the 38:40 mark and struggling with "pwn" versus "porn" It resulted in an entertaining little on-air call and subsequently caused me to go out and register both haveibeeninpwn.com and haveibeeninporn.com. I figure these will result in much ongoing hilarity the next time I get a call of this nature about one of those domains 🤣 Oh - and there's a whole bunch of da
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Schneier on Security
AUGUST 26, 2022
It’s an Architeuthis dux , the second this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
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