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DHS: Conflict With Iran Could Spur 'Wiper' Attacks

Data Breach Today

US Reportedly Responded to Drone Downing With Cyber Strike Iran is increasing its malicious cyber activity against the U.S, which could manifest in attacks that render computers unusable, a top U.S. cybersecurity official says. The warning comes after the U.S. reportedly targeted Iranian computer systems in response to the downing of a surveillance drone.

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What is angler phishing?

IT Governance

A version of this blog was originally published on 19 June 2017. Many of us live out whole lives on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, publicising our thoughts, interacting with friends, strangers and businesses, and keeping abreast of current affairs. But all that activity has made social media a breeding ground for a new form of cyber attack known as angler phishing.

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Alleged AlphaBay Moderator Faces Racketeering Charges

Data Breach Today

Investigation Into Shuttered Darknet Site Continues An alleged moderator of the AlphaBay underground marketplace has been indicted for facilitating sales on the darknet site before law enforcement shut it down.

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How automating AI empowers humans to master business innovation

IBM Big Data Hub

With the automated AI and ML advancements, you may find yourself wondering--what are the overall impacts to business? How will all of this technological progress impact the ways we run our business and perform our jobs?

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Medical Device Cybersecurity: The Top Challenges

Data Breach Today

Access and identity management continues to be a top medical device cybersecurity challenge, says security expert Mark Sexton of the consultancy Clearwater, who offers a variety a risk mitigation tips.

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Developing a Robust Third-Party Risk Management Program

Data Breach Today

Too many organizations around the world take a "bare minimum" approach to third-party risk management, says Jonathan Ehret, founder of the Third Party Risk Association, who offers risk mitigation insights.

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Never Trust, Always Verify: Demystifying Zero Trust to Secure Your Networks

Dark Reading

The point of Zero Trust is not to make networks, clouds, or endpoints more trusted; it's to eliminate the concept of trust from digital systems altogether.

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Iran Targeting U.S. With Destructive Wipers, Warns DHS

Threatpost

The Department of Homeland Security is warning that U.S. agencies are being targeted by Iranian-backed cyberattacks with destructive wiper malware.

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CVE-2019-10149: “Return of the WiZard” Vulnerability: Crooks Start Hitting

Security Affairs

Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB observed many attack attempts trying to spread malware abusing the CVE-2019-10149 issue. Introduction. Figure 1: Exposed EXIM server in Italy (Reference: ZoomEye ). In the past days, a really important issue has been disclosed to the public: “ Return of the WiZard ” vulnerability (ref. EW N030619 , CVE-2019-10149 ).

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back

WIRED Threat Level

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

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Microsoft warns of attacks delivering FlawedAmmyy RAT directly in memory

Security Affairs

Researchers at Microsoft uncovered a malicious campaign that delivers the infamous FlawedAmmyy RAT directly in memory. Experts at Microsoft uncovered a malicious campaign that delivers the FlawedAmmyy RAT directly in memory. The FlawedAMMYY backdoor borrows the code of the Ammyy Admin remote access Trojan, it allows attackers to get full access to a victim’s machine.

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Tools TSLAC Uses To Access and Make Available Older Formats

The Texas Record

If you’ve ever taken our Managing Electronic Records class or perused our electronic records webinars, you’re aware that a major responsibility for storing records electronically is providing continuous access to those records throughout their life cycle. In our courses, we offer several strategies for providing continuous access, one of which involves holding onto older hardware and software needed to access these older formats.

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SocialEngineered forum hacked and data leaked online

Security Affairs

SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. Hackers accessed data from tens of thousands of members and leaked them online on a hacker forum.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Election Security

Schneier on Security

Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center has published a long report on the security of US elections. Summary: it's not good.

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OpenSSH introduces a security feature to prevent Side-Channel Attacks

Security Affairs

OpenSSH introduces a new feature to prevent Side-Channel attacks, latest release encrypts secret keys in memory as temporary solution. Memory side-channel vulnerabilities continue to threaten modern processors, Spectre, and Meltdown , Rowhammer , and RAMBleed are just some samples, Now OpenSSH encrypts secret keys in memory against Side-Channel attacks.

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A Socio-Technical Approach to Cybersecurity's Problems

Dark Reading

Researchers explore how modern security problems can be solved with an examination of society, technology, and security.

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WeTransfer incident: file transfer emails were sent to unintended email addresses

Security Affairs

Problems for the popular file transfer service WeTransfer, its staff discovered that some file transfer emails were sent to the wrong people. WeTransfer, the popular file transfer service, issued a security notice to inform users that file transfer emails were sent to unintended email addresses on June 16 and 17. In response to the incident, the company logged out of some users from their account and forced them to reset their password.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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BEST PRACTICES: Do you know the last time you were socially engineered?

The Last Watchdog

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Illinois Seeks to Impose Restrictions on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Job Interviews

Hunton Privacy

The Illinois legislature recently passed the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act , which prohibits an Illinois employer from using artificial intelligence (“AI”) to evaluate job interview videos unless the employer complies with certain requirements. Under the law, an Illinois employer that uses AI to analyze job interview videos must take the following actions prior to asking applicants to submit video interviews: (1) notify each applicant before the interview that AI may be used to ana

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Free proxy service runs on top of Linux Ngioweb Botnet

Security Affairs

Researchers from Netlab, discovered a website offering free and commercial proxy servers leveraging a huge botnet (Ngioweb) of hacked WordPress sites. Researchers from Netlab, discovered that Free-Socks.in proxy service is leveraging a huge botnet of hacked WordPress sites. According to the experts, traffic managed by the proxy service is routed through a network of hacked WordPress sites.

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Raspberry Pi Used in JPL Breach

Dark Reading

NASA report shows exfiltration totaling more than 100 GB of information since 2009.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.

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Automate work while on-the-go

Ascent Innovations

Automate work while on-the-go Intelligent Workplace & Workforce: Part of the series. Create parallel approval workflows with Microsoft Flow. In today’s, matrix management structure of the global workforce especially in newer industries, there is a need to inform and get approval of your absence (eg. vacation) so that your project managers are part of your scheduling decisions.

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DDoS-for-Hire Services Doubled in Q1

Dark Reading

Impact of FBI's takedown of 15 'booter' domains last December appears to have been temporary.

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5 things your enterprise must do to prepare for AI

DXC Technology

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into your enterprise takes a lot more than registering a bunch of shared devices with Alexa for Business. AI initiatives require a purpose and strategy if they’re going to succeed in the long run. Here are five steps that are essential when preparing an organization to implement and leverage smart machines […].

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Health Insurer Reports Data Breach That Began 9 Years Ago

Dark Reading

Dominion National first spotted something awry in April of 2019.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Facebook Faces Lawsuit Over Massive 2018 Data Breach

Threatpost

An attempt by Facebook to block a lawsuit, regarding a massive 2018 data breach, has been shot down.

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The Building Blocks of Information Governance

Information Governance Perspectives

Information Governance (IG) is quite the buzzword these days, yet too many organizations still find themselves struggling with implementing a practical roadmap for success. Here’s a proven strategy and a few tips I picked up while developing board level IG programs for the Fortune 500. Walk Before You Run It’s true that your strategy needs Continue reading.

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A Likely Chinese Hacker Crew Targeted 10 Phone Carriers to Steal Metadata

WIRED Threat Level

In one case, they stole the location and call record data of 20 specific individuals.