Data Breach Today
JUNE 15, 2021
Data Was Left Unsecured by Unidentified Marketing Services Company Volkswagen and its Audi subsidiary are notifying 3.3 million people in the U.S and Canada of a breach of personal information by a marketing services supplier. Volkswagen says 90,000 of those affected may have also had their driver's license number, loan data and other personal information exposed.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 15, 2021
Leading Industrial Nations Call on Moscow to Crack Down on Domestic Cybercrimals Based on Russian-language cybercrime chatter, "fear" likely drove the lucrative Avaddon ransomware-as-a-service operation to announce its retirement as the U.S. exerts increasing diplomatic pressure on Moscow to disrupt such activity, experts say. But are criminals simply laying low until the heat dies down?
The Guardian Data Protection
JUNE 15, 2021
Swedish retailer found guilty of gathering data to sift out potential trouble-makers among employees The home furnishings group Ikea has been ordered to pay €1.1m (£861,000) in fines and damages by a French court after being found guilty of spying on staff. Two former Ikea France executives were also convicted and fined over an elaborate scheme to gather information on hundreds of employees, job applicants and even customers over several years, using private detectives and police sources.
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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
JUNE 15, 2021
Data Was Left Unsecured by Unidentified Marketing Services Company Volkswagen and its Audi subsidiary are notifying 3.3 million people in the U.S and Canada of a breach of personal information by a marketing services supplier. Volkswagen says 90,000 of those affected may have also had their driver's license, loan data and other personal information exposed.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 15, 2021
As the cyberthreat landscape grows exponentially more complicated, the insurance industry is trying to keep pace. Yet, many organizations still lack cybersecurity insurance. Lynn Peachey, director of business development at Arete Incident Response, breaks down the basics of these insurance policies.
Threatpost
JUNE 15, 2021
SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 15, 2021
Agency Warns That Attackers Could Exploit Vulnerabilities, Gain Device Management Control A half-dozen security vulnerabilities recently identified in older versions of the Zoll Defibrillator Dashboard could allow an attacker to take remote control of device management, including executing arbitrary commands, as well as gain access to sensitive information and credentials, CISA warns.
Security Affairs
JUNE 15, 2021
The MASQ tool could be used by attackers to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls. The Resecurity® HUNTER unit has identified a new tool available for sale in the Dark Web called MASQ , enabling bad actors to emulate device fingerprints thus allowing them to bypass fraud protection controls, including authentication mechanisms.
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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
JUNE 15, 2021
A Guide to ISMG's Video Interviews With Thought Leaders With the RSA Conference virtual this year, ISMG replaced its two live on-site studios with a suite of home studios and produced a diverse group of interviews on timely topics with thought leaders who will be solving cybersecurity's most urgent problems.
Security Affairs
JUNE 15, 2021
A new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked as Moobot, was spotted scanning the Internet for vulnerable Tenda routers. Researchers from AT&T Alien Lab have spotted a new variant of the Mirai botnet, tracked asu Moobot, which was scanning the Internet for the CVE-2020-10987 remote code-execution (RCE) issue in Tenda routers. The botnet was linked to a new malware hosting domain that has been serving Mirai variants for several different botnets over the past year.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 15, 2021
Group-IB Analyzes Impact of Supply Chain Attack That Affected SITA, Air India, Others The China-backed advanced persistence threat group APT41 apparently was responsible for the breach of SITA, an international provider of IT services for the air transport industry worldwide, that led to customer data at Air India and other airlines being compromised, according to the security firm Group-IB.
Security Affairs
JUNE 15, 2021
The REvil ransomware gang made the headlines again, the group hit the US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens and stole the victim’s data. US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens was hit by a cyberattack carried out by the REvil ransomware operators, which claims to have stolen data. Sol Orien provides consultant services to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), it confirmed to have suffered a cyber attack via Twitter.
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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
JUNE 15, 2021
Russian President Says He's Open to Cybercriminal Extraditions - If They Are Mutual Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday indicated he would consider handing over Russian cybercriminals to the United States if the U.S. does the same for Moscow.
Threatpost
JUNE 15, 2021
Forcepoint’s Nico Fischbach, global CTO and VPE of SASE, and Chase Cunningham, chief strategy officer at Ericom Software, on using SASE to make Zero Trust real.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 15, 2021
Society has become increasingly isolated and disintegrated, leaving us vulnerable to exploitation by our adversaries. Enemies can easily take advantage of this lack of cohesion to sow seeds of misinformation and disinformation. Elisabeth Braw elaborates on the threat of narcissism.
Security Affairs
JUNE 15, 2021
Japanese multinational conglomerate Fujifilm announced that it has restored operations following the recent ransomware attack. On June 4, the Japanese multinational conglomerate Fujifilm announced that it was hit by a ransomware attack and shut down its network in response to the incident. Around two weeks later the Japanese giant announced that it has restored operations following the attack.
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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.
Threatpost
JUNE 15, 2021
A supply-chain component lays open camera feeds to remote attackers thanks to a critical security vulnerability.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 15, 2021
Really interesting two part analysis of the audit conducted after the 2020 election in Windham, New Hampshire. Based on preliminary reports published by the team of experts that New Hampshire engaged to examine an election discrepancy, it appears that a buildup of dust in the read heads of optical-scan voting machines (possibly over several years of use) can cause paper-fold lines in absentee ballots to be interpreted as votes… New Hampshire (and other states) may need to maintain the accu
Threatpost
JUNE 15, 2021
Varied cloud infrastructure was used to phish email credentials, monitor for and forward finance-related messages and automate operations.
CGI
JUNE 15, 2021
Wanted: More insurance innovation. This CGI blog post discusses the need and opportunities for insurers to drive more innovation. dharini.s@cgi.com. Tue, 06/15/2021 - 07:04.
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Threatpost
JUNE 15, 2021
Forcepoint’s Michael Crouse talks about risk-adaptive data-protection approaches and how to develop a behavior-based approach to insider threats and risk, particularly with pandemic-expanded network perimeters.
Security Affairs
JUNE 15, 2021
Instagram has addressed a new flaw that allowed anyone to access private accounts viewing archived posts and stories without having to follow them. Researcher Mayur Fartade has found a vulnerability in Instagram that allowed anyone to access private accounts, viewing archived posts and stories without having to follow them. The expert reported the flaw to the Facebook’s security team on April 16, 2021, and the company addressed the issue on June 15.
Jamf
JUNE 15, 2021
Jamf Pro 10.30 brings some exciting and much-anticipated updates that deliver more modern and easy-to-use admin workflows.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 15, 2021
On June 15, 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) released its judgment in case C-645/19 of Facebook Ireland Limited, Facebook Inc., Facebook Belgium BVBA v. the Belgian Data Protection Authority (“Belgian DPA”). We previously reported on the background of the case and the Advocate General’s opinion. The CJEU mainly examined the question of whether a national supervisory authority that is not the lead supervisory authority (“lead SA”) under the EU General Data Protectio
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 15, 2021
Digital driver’s licenses have had a slow start in the US so far, but iOS 15 Wallet will give the nascent technology a serious push.
Threatpost
JUNE 15, 2021
Decision throws out previous ruling in favor of hiQ Labs that prevented Microsoft’s business networking platform to forbid the company from harvesting public info from user profiles.
IG Guru
JUNE 15, 2021
Check out the article here. The post This is how fast a password leaked on the web will be tested out by hackers via ZDNet appeared first on IG GURU.
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