Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Experts Speculate About Whether the Hack Involved the ScreenConnect Flaw Exploit Pharmacies at U.S. military hospitals and clinics worldwide are among the entities affected by the cyberattack on Optum's Change Healthcare this week, which has forced the IT services company to take many of its applications offline. Change Healthcare disconnected its IT systems on Wednesday.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
On February 21, 2024, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (“CIPL”) published a white paper on Building Accountable AI Programs: Mapping Emerging Best Practices to the CIPL Accountability Framework. The white paper showcases how 20 leading organizations are developing accountable AI programs and best practices. The white paper discusses how organizational accountability is fundamental to the responsible development and deployment of AI.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Officials Reschedule Big Reveal of LockBit Ransomware Group Leadership's Identity Who is LockBitSupp? On Friday morning, when law enforcement promised to reveal the identity of the public mouthpiece of the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service operation they infiltrated and disrupted earlier this week, authorities instead announced a delay.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Today, people don’t just prefer instant communication; they expect it. Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) leads the charge in breaking down barriers between businesses and their audiences. This class of AI-based tools, including chatbots and virtual assistants, enables seamless, human-like and personalized exchanges. Beyond the simplistic chat bubble of conversational AI lies a complex blend of technologies, with natural language processing (NLP) taking center stage.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Authorities Uncover 30,000 LockBit Bitcoin Addresses Cryptocurrency trading platform Binance restricted access to 85 accounts as part of an action against the LockBit ransomware affiliates, and authorities estimated that members of the now-defunct ransomware-as-a-service operation had pocketed "hundreds of millions" in ransom.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
After Teasing 'Who is LockBitSupp,' Cops Say He's 'Engaged With Law Enforcement' "Who is LockBitSupp?" Police teased they would reveal the answer to that question Friday, but when the big reveal came, they disclosed very little, except to cryptically say the apparent member of the LockBit ransomware group's leadership team "has engaged with law enforcement.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
New research : LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites Abstract: In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly capable and can now interact with tools (i.e., call functions), read documents, and recursively call themselves. As a result, these LLMs can now function autonomously as agents. With the rise in capabilities of these agents, recent work has speculated on how LLM agents would affect cybersecurity.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
New Reporting Measures Follow Data Breach Affecting Prison Communications Provider Global Tel Link, a major prison communications provider in the U.S., will be required to notify its users - as well as the Federal Trade Commission - about certain data breaches and security events after suffering a major data breach in 2020 that left users’ sensitive information available online.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Australian telecommunications provider Tangerine disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 230,000 individuals. Tangerine suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 230,000 individuals. The security breach occurred on Sunday 18 February 2024, but Tangerine management became aware of the incident on Tuesday 20 February 2024.
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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
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Breaches and Complaints Continue to Soar as Regulatory Duties Increase As the volume of major health data breaches rises, the federal agency charged with investigating those incidents told Congress this week that it lacks the needed funding to keep up with its mounting workload. The agency also separately announced its second ransomware HIPAA breach settlement.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
It's just been a joy to watch the material produced by the NCA and friends following the LockBit takedown this week. So much good stuff from the agencies themselves, not just content but high quality trolling too. Then there's the whole ecosystem of memes that have since emerged and provided endless hours of entertainment 😊 I'm sure we'll see a lot more come out of this yet and inevitably there's seized material that will still be providing value to further inves
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Identity Security Expert Jeremy Grant Discusses Challenges, Innovations and Trends In the latest weekly update, Jeremy Grant of Venable LLP joins editors at ISMG to discuss the state of secure identity in 2024, the challenges in developing next-generation remote ID proofing systems, and the potential role generative AI can play in both compromising and protecting identities.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Check out the 29 new pieces of training content added in February, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
With Over $1 Billion in Annual Proceeds, Don't Expect Attackers to Give Up the Life Once the dust settles on the LockBit disruption, what will be the state of ransomware? Expect attackers to continue refining their tactics for maximizing profits via a grab bag of complementary strategies, including crypto-locking shakedowns and data-theft extortion.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
On February 8, 2024, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (“CIPL”) published a discussion paper on Comparison of U.S. State Privacy Laws: Data Protection Assessments. The paper analyzes the data protection assessment requirements set forth in an ever-growing number of comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws. The paper represents the first deliverable of CIPL’s ongoing project on U.S. state privacy laws, in which CIPL is collaborating with its member organization
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Venturebeat had the scoop on a fresh Group-IB report. They discovered the first banking trojan that steals people’s faces. Unsuspecting users are tricked into giving up personal IDs and phone numbers and are prompted to perform face scans. These images are then swapped out with AI-generated deepfakes that can easily bypass security checkpoints.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the European Union’s landmark data privacy law, took effect in 2018. Yet many organizations still struggle to meet compliance requirements, and EU data protection authorities do not hesitate to hand out penalties. Even the world’s biggest businesses are not free from GDPR woes. Irish regulators hit Meta with a EUR 1.2 billion fine in 2023.
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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.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Biometric data of more than 2,000 staff at 38 leisure centres was unlawfully processed to check attendance, watchdog finds Britain’s data watchdog has ordered a Serco subsidary to stop using facial recognition technology and fingerprint scanning to monitor the attendance of staff at the leisure centres it operates. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found that the biometric data of more than 2,000 employees had been unlawfully processed at 38 centres managed by Serco Leisure to check up
IG Guru
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Check out the article here. The post Meta Warns of 8 Spyware Firms Targeting iOS, Android, and Windows Devices via The Hacker News first appeared on IG GURU.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
On February 12, 2024, California bill AB-1949 was referred to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection. The bill would amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act) (the “CCPA”) to significantly expand businesses’ obligations with respect to the personal information of consumers under the age of 18.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco signaled robust future enforcement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against crimes involving, and aided by, artificial intelligence (AI) in her remarks at Oxford University last week and reiterated shortly thereafter at the Munich Security Conference. The post U.S. Department of Justice Signals Tougher Enforcement Against Artificial Intelligence Crimes appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Data Protection Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
On February 21, 2024, President Biden signed an Executive Order and issued several federal rules aimed at improving the cybersecurity of U.S. ports and maritime supply chains. The measures introduce new cybersecurity requirements and standards for stakeholders of the U.S. Marine Transportation System (MTS) and increase the authority of the U.S. Coast Guard in its ability to address cyber threats.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Learn about IT and security compliance, answering critical questions about their differences, similarities and more importantly, how best practices help your organization develop their IT security compliance plan.
Information Matters
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Search engine volume is expected to fall by 25% over the next few years, according to a new prediction by research firm Gartner. The decline will be driven by the Read more The post Search Volume to Drop 25% by 2026 Due to AI Agents, Predicts Gartner appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at my telco and they land smack bang in my SMS inbox. However, I don't fall for the scams because I look for the warning signs: a sense of urgency, fear of missing out, and strange URLs that look nothing like any
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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.
Information Matters
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Accounting firm PwC UK has launched an AI-powered tax assistant tool developed in collaboration with startups Harvey and OpenAI. The model is now available to all 2,300 PwC UK tax Read more The post PwC UK Launches AI Tax Assistant with Harvey and OpenAI appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Its filtering capability ensures that only certain network application data is transmitted, which has an impact on the security of protocols including FTP, Telnet, RTSP, and BitTorrent. Understanding ALGs involves knowing how they work, their pros and cons, and how they integrate with or differ from other types of firewalls.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
A single account being phished caused millions of French healthcare policyholder records to be breached, putting all 20 million of them on notice that.
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