Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Governor Describes 'Aggressive' Incident Response Efforts After a ransomware attack on Monday forced Louisiana's government to take several servers and websites offline to prevent the malware from spreading, state officials spent Tuesday restoring online services.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month that affected more than half of those properties, separating many veterinary practices from their patient records, payment systems and practice management software.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Also, House Committee Scrutinizes Google/Ascension Patient Data Sharing Deal In the wake of Google's plan to buy Fitbit, two U.S. senators have introduced legislation that aims to protect the privacy of consumer health data collected on wearable devices. Meanwhile, a House committee is scrutinizing the healthcare system Ascension's sharing of patient data with Google.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
A malicious spam campaign that informs victims it contains a “critical Windows update” instead leads to the installation of Cyborg ransomware, researchers have found. Further, they were able to access its builder, which can be used to create malware variants. The email-based threat, discovered recently by researchers at Trustwave, is unique in a few ways, […].
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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 19, 2019
Payment Card Data Stolen by JavaScript Added to Checkout and 'My Account' Pages Macy's says hackers successfully infiltrated its e-commerce website and planted rogue JavaScript, enabling them to steal customer data, including payment card information. Macy's says the breach has been contained and all stolen card numbers shared with card issuers.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Numerous regulations and standards have been introduced globally to help curtail online fraud. What makes EMV 3D Secure stand out? Matt Cooke and Paul Dulany of Broadcom weigh in on the implementation and benefits of EMV 3DS.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Another ransomware attack made the headlines, the victim is the state government of Louisiana, numerous services have been impacted. The state government of Louisiana was hit by a ransomware attack that affected multiple state services including the Office of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Health, and the Department of Transportion and Development.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
While IoT devices are entering enterprises at a rapid pace, the security practices around them are as much as 20 years behind those for enterprise computing, says Sean Peasley of Deloitte, who outlines steps organizations can take to ensure safe IoT computing.
IBM Big Data Hub
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In the latest release of IBM Cloud Pak for Data, v2.5 has three key themes: Red Hat integration, new key built-in capabilities like Watson tools and runtimes, and a heavy focus on open source.( [link] ). Open source is widely adopted in enterprises especially as products and vendors mature and expand their reach. We are expanding the support for open source technologies to our enterprise clients and ensuring the governance of all open source within an enterprise.
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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
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Traditional Methods to Thwart Successful Attacks are Becoming Less Effective The new method of weak and compromised continuous password monitoring can reduce user frustration and IT burden.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
A feature that's supposed to make your account more secure -- adding a cellphone number -- has become a vector of attack in SIM-swapping incidents. Here's how it's done and how you can protect yourself.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Cloud solutions, the mobile workforce, the skills gap - these are among the security impacts that don't get enough attention when discussing digital transformation. David Ryder of Avast Business opens up on these topics.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019 , detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among 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.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Know Your Enemy: How banks can identify and beat the evolving threat of financial crime Mobile technology allows customers complete control over their banking security via their smartphones, however recent fraud cases have seen criminals virtually hijacking mobile phones to intercept alerts and texts.
Jamf
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Jamf Pro 10.17 provides Google Secure LDAP integration and updates to User Enrollment and Enrollment Customization. Full details here.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Automate Screening of Exposed Passwords and Password Policy Enforcement Here are four automated password policy options we recommend for NIST compliance.
Jamf
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Jamf Pro 10.17 provides Google Secure LDAP integration and updates to User Enrollment and Enrollment Customization. Full details here.
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“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Experts found multiple flaws (CVE-2019-2234) in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung that could allow attackers to spy on users. Cybersecurity experts from Checkmarx discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung could have been exploited by hackers to spy on hundreds of millions of users.
Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Data belonging to more than 450,000 players of popular online games were exposed on an unprotected database accessible online. Wizards of the Coast, the company behind games such as Magic: The Gathering , MTG Arena , and Magic Online accidentally left a database unprotected on an online Amazon Web Services storage bucket. The first and last names, email addresses, and passwords of 452,634 players and 470 employees were exposed.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Google has disclosed a now-fixed issue that enabled third-party apps to access a disturbing set of permissions for its Camera App built into Android phones.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Group-IB's and Rapid7's separate analysis of attack activity in recent months shows threat actors are making life harder for enterprise organizations in a variety of ways.
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Information Management Resources
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
More than half of risk professionals worldwide say their organization’s risk levels have increased in the past 12 months, according to new research.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
The industry's fixation on complex exploits has come at the expense of making fundamentals easy and intuitive for end users.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Obfuscated Magecart script was discovered on two Macys.com webpages, scooping up holiday shoppers' payment card information.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Trusted Platform Modules are well-suited to a wide range of applications, but for the strongest security, architect them into "defense-in-depth" designs.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Macy’s has started notifying some of its customers that crooks used a software skimmer to steal their personal and financial information. Macy’s has started notifying some of its customers that discovered a software skimmer on its website used by crooks to steal their personal and financial information. The malicious software was discovered on October 15, attackers injected it into the checkout page and the My Account wallet page on the macys.com website.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
DDoS attacks of all sorts were up by triple-digit percentages, with smaller volume attacks growing most rapidly.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Why did I started CTHoW? As someone with a huge passion for information security. It is always a must to keep on top of the latest TTPs of adversaries to be able to defend your network. I was always impressed with the MITRE ATT&CK framework that helps the community by sharing the latest techniques, attackers are using nowadays in their engagements, and how companies can defend and mitigate these attacks to reduce down the impact of a (cyber ) -attack.
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