Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
UK Toughens Anti-Cybercrime Stance by Sanctioning Accused Operators for First Time As ransomware continues to disrupt British organizations, the U.K. for the first time has sanctioned alleged cybercriminals, including accused Conti and TrickBot operators. Ransomware victims must conduct due diligence before paying any ransom, as violating sanctions carries severe penalties.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
On February 14, 2023, in a Draft Motion for a Resolution on the adequacy of the protection afforded by the proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”), the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (the “Committee”) urged the European Commission not to adopt adequacy based on the Framework, on the basis that it “fails to create actual equivalence” with the EU in the level of data protection that it provides.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Hackers Demanded $80 Million in Ransom Negotiations between the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service gang and Royal Mail appear to have broken down shortly after a postal representative called the criminal group's $80 million extortion demand "absurd." A LockBit ransomware attack incapacitated Royal Mail's international shipping operation.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Microsoft’s February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 75 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated critical, and three (all rated important) that are being exploited. “This is only the second Patch Tuesday of the year, and we have already tripled the number of weaponized threats that need to be fixed in this release,” Syxsense CEO and founder Ashley Leonard told eSecurity Planet. “We also have five patches that resolve vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of more than 9 (critical), which
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.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
$90 Million in Proceeds Illegally Netted by Using Pre-Public Earnings Information Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow-based IT services firm associated with the Russian government, has been found guilty of running a criminal hacking scheme that earned $90 million via insider trading. He faces up to 50 years in prison. His four alleged co-conspirators remain at large.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Police Say Responses to Nonemergencies Are Delayed; Emergency Systems Unaffected The California city of Oakland is in a state of emergency as its response to a ransomware attack enters its second week. The attack did not affect emergency systems, including 911 dispatch and fire services, or the city's financial systems, the city says.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Individual rights could be modelled on the EU’s general data protection regulation or GDPR, a review by the attorney general’s department says Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australians would gain greater control of their personal information, including the ability to opt out of targeted ads, erase their data and sue for serious breaches of privacy, under a proposal to the Albanese government.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
MDR Firm Will Use Money to Boost Threat Analytics, Security Scoring, User Interface Managed detection and response titan Deepwatch has received a $180 million investment to strengthen its threat analytics, user interface and security scoring for clients. The money from Splunk, Springcoast and Vista will allow Deepwatch to invest in R&D, platform innovation and threat intelligence.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A survey by Tanium has found that IT security professionals in the UK say that 64% of avoidable cyber attacks are due to human error, which usually involves falling for phishing attacks. More than half of the respondents said that loss of productivity would be their main concern following a cyber attack.
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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
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
HHS Guidance Comes After Attack Campaigns by Russian Nuisance Hackers Federal authorities are urging healthcare sector entities to take steps to protect their web applications, connected devices and other critical systems against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The warning comes weeks after a wave of DDoS attacks from Russian nuisance hacking group KillNet.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Vladislav Klyushin and co-conspirators used SEC filings stolen from the networks of Tesla, Roku, and other publicly traded companies to earn nearly $100 million in illegal trades.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Split Will Help Open Systems, Ontinue Optimize Engineering Stack and Selling Motion Open Systems has split its MDR and SASE businesses into separate divisions with unique executive teams to help each optimize its engineering stack and selling motion. The 300-person MDR division will be known as Ontinue and led by Geoff Haydon, who had served as Open Systems CEO since February 2021.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
After 16 years, the agency has implemented the software to cryptographically verify digital passport data—and it’s already caught a dozen alleged fraudsters.
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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
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Descope to Help Developers Make Authentication Part of Application Build Process The founding team behind SOAR vendor Demisto has started a passwordless authentication and user management platform company that caters to the developer community. Descope helps developers embed authentication in the application build process and competes with Auth0 in the CIAM space.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
There is a lot to learn from Reddit's recent data breach, which was the result of an employee falling for a “sophisticated and highly-targeted” spear phishing attack.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Adobe Patch Tuesday addressed at least a half dozen vulnerabilities, including critical issues that expose Windows and macOS to hack. Adobe released security updates to address at least a half dozen vulnerabilities impacting Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects for both Windows and macOS users. Adobe addressed four critical issues (CVE-2022-24094, CVE-2022-24095, CVE-2022-24096, and CVE-2022-24097) affecting the After Effects products, successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code exe
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Seemingly repeating the previous year, the FTC’s latest report highlights that nearly 70,000 people reported being the victim of a romance scam last year.
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Citrix released security updates for multiple High-Severity flaws in Virtual Apps and Desktops, and Workspace apps for Windows and Linux. Citrix released security patches to fix multiple vulnerabilities in Virtual Apps and Desktops, and Workspace apps for Windows and Linux. The first issue listed in the support Knowledge Center of the company, tracked as CVE-2023-24483 , is a Privilege Escalation to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM on the vulnerable VDA. “A vulnerability has been identified that, if exp
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Dutch organization Supply Value (a specialist in network optimalisation) together with the website Computable , published an article on their annual research into the top trends in IT for 2023.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
US federal watchdog agency outlines key measures for better protecting sensitive data under the federal government's control.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The City of Oakland has declared a local state of emergency due to the effect of the ransomware attack that hit the city on February 8, 2023. The City of Oakland disclosed last week a ransomware attack , the security breach began on February 8, 2023. In an abundance of caution, the City of Oakland has taken impacted systems offline, while they work to secure the impacted infrastructure.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Factoring user experience and convenience into how employees and tenants access buildings is top concern for security professionals says benchmark industry survey.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
As deepfake technology continues to improve, creators of deepfake technology seek to lock down and safeguard the use of their technology after inappropriate use shows up on the web.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Incident response triage and software vulnerability discovery are two areas where the large language model has demonstrated success, although false positives are common.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware divya Thu, 02/16/2023 - 06:10 Ransomware perpetrators are adopting more sophisticated attack techniques with much success. Attackers are increasingly threatening double and triple extortion in addition to ransom demands, putting more pressure on victims to comply. According to a recent market study 1 , 71% of individuals surveyed said double and triple extortion tactics have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and 65% agree that these new threats
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Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Community Health Systems (CHS) disclosed a data breach, attackers exploited the zero-day vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT platform. Community Health Systems (CHS) is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. CHS operates 79 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Developers don't have to build authentication and user management from scratch, and can devote their energies to the core functions of the application, instead.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Eufy's recent scandal shows it's not so much about the data breach but about how a company responds. Here are a few ways to shop smart.
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