Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Ransomware Attack Locks Up Westmount Services and Takes Down Email System The nefarious LockBit 3.0 cybercriminal group is claiming responsibility for the ransomware attack that halted municipal services and shut down employee email accounts in Westmount, Quebec, giving the city a deadline of Dec. 4 to make an undisclosed ransom payment.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Endpoints are where all are the connectivity action is. Related: Ransomware bombardments. And securing endpoints has once more become mission critical. This was the focal point of presentations at Tanium’s Converge 2022 conference which I had the privilege to attend last week at the Fairmont Austin in the Texas capital. I had the chance to visit with Peter Constantine, Tanium’s Senior Vice President Product Management.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
On the heels of the recent FTX financial meltdown came the theft of millions of dollars that left thousands of investors, exchanges and others in the lurch. Hugh Brooks of CertiK shares the status of data that FTX stores, the role of regulations and best cybersecurity practices for crypto exchanges.
AIIM
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
I know Halloween has come and gone, but I’d love for you to entertain a horrifying scenario for a moment. It’s March 15, 2020, and the United States has just gone into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Empire State Building in New York City, the Prudential Center in Boston, Willis Tower in Chicago, and office buildings across the country have become vacant ghost towns.
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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
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
In Part 1 of this exclusive two-part series, Dr. Raj Iyer, CIO of the U.S. Army, lays out the vision for 2023-2024, which includes a tectonic shift from on-premises data centers to cloud and modernization and the migration of over 5,000 applications to augment war-fighting capabilities.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
UK's Competition Authority Announces Probe as Broadcom Awaits EU Clearance for M&A Broadcom's acquisition of VMware faces challenges from European regulatory authorities over potential competitive advantages. The $61 billion deal announced in May still needs clearance from the EU and also faces scrutiny by U.K. authorities before it can be finalized.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? divya. Wed, 11/23/2022 - 07:07. Have you ever walked into your favorite store or restaurant, and when you tried to finalize your purchase, you were told that they could not process any credit cards? Have you ever thought that this might be the result of a successful breach and not because of a point-of sale (POS) malfunctioning?
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
CEO Shares How Digital Shadows Acquisition Helped Clients to Customize Threat Intel ReliaQuest customers have tailored Digital Shadows' threat intelligence to their organizations to ensure conversations about their brands or products are being captured, says CEO Brian Murphy. The security operations firm says the Digital Shadows deal has fortified its detection and response muscle.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Let’s give a look at API vulnerabilities by reading the API Security Top 10 published by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). It’s no secret that cyber security has become a leading priority for most organizations — especially those in industries that handle sensitive customer information. And as these businesses work towards building robust security strategies, it’s vital that they account for various threat vectors and vulnerabilities.
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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
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Attorney General Group Says Third-Party Apps Threaten Reproductive Health Privacy Ten state attorneys general are urging Apple to address privacy and security gaps in third-party applications available on the App Store that track, collect or store reproductive health data. The letter comes as scrutiny intensifies over how large tech firms handle sensitive health data.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
As the open source social media network blows up due to Twitter's troubles, researchers caution about vulnerabilities within the application.
OpenText Information Management
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
By now, we all know that Elon Musk has finally completed his purchase of Twitter, but that purchase was anything but a smooth process. It only occurred after Twitter filed suit against Musk after he terminated his bid to acquire Twitter (only to subsequently revive the bid and complete the purchase). While the lawsuit was … The post Twitter v.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Microsoft has observed a threat actor that’s been running a phishing campaign since August 2022. The threat actor, which Microsoft tracks as “DEV-0569,” is using phishing emails to distribute malicious installers for legitimate applications, including TeamViewer, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Flash Player, Zoom, and AnyDesk. The phishing campaign leads to the installation of ransomware and information-stealing malware.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Kochhar & Co. reports that, on November 18, 2022, the Government of India (“Government”) released the long-awaited fourth draft of India’s proposed privacy law, now renamed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. Terms and Application. The draft law uses terminology similar to past versions: the data controller is called the “data fiduciary,” the data subject is called the “data principal,” and personal information is referred to as “personal data.
Data Protection Report
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The emergence of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in Canada will present a number of cybersecurity challenges and risks. AV manufacturers will need to consider these risks and address them early in the design and development process of their products. In this post, we discuss some of the key cybersecurity risks associated with AVs, strategies to mitigate them, and potential liability stemming from cyberattacks.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The Emotet malware is back and experts warn of a high-volume malspam campaign delivering payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. Proofpoint researchers warn of the return of the Emotet malware, in early November the experts observed a high-volume malspam campaign delivering payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is operated by a threat actor tracked as TA542.
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Researchers claim that supposedly anonymous device analytics information can identify users: On Twitter , security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry have found that Apple’s device analytics data includes an iCloud account and can be linked directly to a specific user, including their name, date of birth, email, and associated information stored on iCloud.
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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
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Researchers warn of threat actors employing a new Go-based malware dubbed Aurora Stealer in attacks in the wild. Aurora Stealer is an info-stealing malware that was first advertised on Russian-speaking underground forums in April 2022. Aurora was offered as Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) by a threat actor known as Cheshire. It is a multi-purpose botnet with data stealing and remote access capabilities.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Orgs are in the middle of a rapid increase in the use of new collaboration tools to serve the needs of an increasingly dispersed workforce — and they're paying a very real security price.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
A researcher revealed how to bypass some of the filters in Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliance and deliver malware using specially crafted emails. An anonymous researcher publicly disclosed a series of techniques to bypass some of the filters in Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliance and deliver malware using specially crafted emails. The researcher pointed out that the attack complexity is low, it also added that working exploits have already been published by a third party.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Google Workspace's team is seeing a spike in phishing and spam hitting Gmail — up 10% in just the last two weeks.
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Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn for allegedly running a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Two Estonian nationals were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, after being indicted in the US for running a fraudulent cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that caused more than $575 million in losses. According to the indictment, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 37, allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of victims through a crypto Ponzi scheme.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
After months of meticulous planning, investigators finally move in to catch AlphaBay’s mastermind red-handed. Then the case takes a tragic turn.
KnowBe4
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Long gone are the days of tacky landing pages that barely impersonate a brand; threat actors are improving their social engineering game well enough to make anyone believe it’s the real thing.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Cybercrooks have drained DraftKings accounts of $300K in the past few days thanks to credential stuffing, just as the 2022 FIFA World Cup starts up.
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Jamf
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Check out Jamf how-to video shorts for no-nonsense training and support tutorials from your Jamf Customer Success team.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
As SASE adoption grows, with its allure of simplified protection via one network and security experience for hybrid workers, remember: Have an overall plan, integrate and migrate to scale usage, and start small.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Finding high-quality detection canines is hard enough—and the pandemic only dug a deeper hole.
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