Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private details in your consumer credit history. If you’ve been holding out because you’re not particularly worried about ID theft, here’s another reason to reconsider: The credit bureaus profit from selling copies of your file to others, so freezing your file also lets you deny these dinosaurs a valuable reven

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Payment Card Theft, Ransomware Facilitated by Cybercrime-as-a-Service Offerings One mystery with the recently discovered payment card sniffing attacks against such organizations as British Airways and Newegg has been how attackers might have first gained access to the victims' networks. But a number of cybercrime markets sell such access, in some cases for as little as 50 cents.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

For many start-ups, DevOps has proven to be a magical formula for increasing business velocity. Speed and agility is the name of the game — especially for Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. Related: How DevOps enabled the hacking of Uber. DevOps is a process designed to foster intensive collaboration between software developers and the IT operations team, two disciplines that traditionally have functioned as isolated silos with the technology department.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Ransomware Crypto-Locked via Domain Controller, Complicating Restoration Scotland's Arran Brewery fell victim to a Dharma Bip ransomware attack that infected its Windows domain controller and crypto-locked files and local backups, leading to the loss of three months' worth of sales data. The brewery refused to pay the attackers' two bitcoin ransom demand.

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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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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

An InsuranceBee survey released this week revealed the extent to which SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) are unprepared for cyber attacks. The average cost for a SME to recover from a cyber attack is about £90,000, but 83% of the survey’s respondents said they didn’t have any money reserved to recover from a data breach, and a quarter were unaware that it would cost money to put things right.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

NIST has released a new study concluding that the AES encryption standard has resulted in a $250 billion world-wide economic benefit over the past twenty years. I have no idea how to even begin to assess the quality of the study and its conclusions -- it's all in the 150-page report, though -- but I do like the pretty block diagram of AES on the report's cover.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Allan Stojanovic of the University of Toronto on Fraud-Fighting Challenges Business email compromises have been at the center of a number of procurement fraud scams, says Allan Stojanovic, a security architect and analyst at the University of Toronto, who describes the fraud and why it's so difficult to thwart.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

How Park Jin Hyok - charged by the US government for alleged computer crimes for the Sony, Bank of Bangladesh, WannaCry cyberattacks - inadvertently blew his cover via email accounts.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Gary Sockrider of Netscout Arbor on Mitigation Techniques DDoS attacks have increased significantly in scale via IoT botnet attacks. Gary Sockrider of Netscout Arbor discusses best practices for dealing with this significant threat.

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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.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Lots of people are e-mailing me about this new result on the distribution of prime numbers. While interesting, it has nothing to do with cryptography. Cryptographers aren't interested in how to find prime numbers, or even in the distribution of prime numbers. Public-key cryptography algorithms like RSA get their security from the difficulty of factoring large composite numbers that are the product of two prime numbers.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Seeking better operational efficiency and ROI, many enterprises have begun significant software automation and orchestration efforts without accounting for the inherent security risks they may bring, says Jeffery Kok of CyberArk.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

A security researcher from Trend Micro Security Research team disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. The researcher Lucas Leong of the Trend Micro Security Research team publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. The flaw is an out-of-bounds (OOB) write in the JET Database Engine that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable systems.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Jade Catalano of Splunk Discusses Early Detection Methods Connecting the dots between disparate forms of machine data can prove to be valuable in discovering fraud patterns, says Jade Catalano of Splunk, who explains how.

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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.

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PerezBox

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

When you’re building or leading your team, it’s easy to be crippled by the myriad of decisions, and indecisions, you’re faced with on a daily basis. It’s easy to be. Read More. The post Don’t Allow Yesterday’s Failures Stop You From Getting to Tomorrow appeared first on PerezBox.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report takes a look at the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, including the outlook for enforcement and common misconceptions about its provisions.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Cisco has patched vulnerability in its video surveillance manager software that could give an unauthenticated, remote attacker the ability to execute arbitrary commands on targeted systems.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Money Transfer Scam – Scammers hack the victims’s email accounts, monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents, send instructions on where to wire the money. A new homebuyer moves through a period of vulnerable transition as they invest in their future. This sensitive stage — a confusing flurry of representatives, documentation and planning — represents an attractive target for con artists with ill intentions.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The White House is changing the rules on its use of digital weapons to fight adversaries targeting US networks.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Many different threat actors are using this crypting service/tool for their operations, possibly buying it from the developer itself.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It's another day-late weekly update courtesy of another hectic week. Scott and I were at NDC Sydney doing a bunch of talks and other events and I just simply didn't get time to push this out until sitting at the airport waiting for the plan home. This week's update is a little different as we did it at SSW's recording setup in front of a live audience.

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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Ever feel like you are constantly jumping between two worlds? You know, the world where your content is created in Microsoft® Office 365®, and the world where your key business processes live in your ERP, CRM or HCM applications? Today I want to talk about how to work in both worlds at the same time, … The post The Best of Both Worlds at Your Fingertips appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Attack against the Metropolitan Police Department was disrupted before malware could be sent to additional systems.

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OpenText Information Management

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Unstructured content is everywhere in an organization. It’s floating, filed, hidden, hoarded, siloed and stored in innumerable repositories across the enterprise. It includes emails, videos, documents, pictures, presentations, social media, and much more. I’d be willing to bet you don’t even know some of it exists within your enterprise—or where to find it if you … The post Empowering intelligent and connected business processes appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Move beyond generic, annual security awareness training with these important tips.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Microsoft said that it's working on a fix for a zero-day flaw in its JET Database Engine.

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Information Management Resources

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

New research from ISACA underscores the ascent of artificial intelligence as a technology with growing potential – and how urgently enterprises must rise to the occasion of addressing the related risk and security implications.

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Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The company said it has issued a patch for the issue, which has been ongoing since May 2017.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Effective September 21, 2018, Section 301 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”) requires consumer reporting agencies to provide free credit freezes and year-long fraud alerts to consumers throughout the country. Under the Act, consumer reporting agencies must each set up a webpage designed to enable consumers to request credit freezes, fraud alerts, extended fraud alerts and active duty fraud alerts.

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