Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
British Security Expert Pleaded Guilty to Creating Kronos Trojan Marcus Hutchins, who rose to fame by helping to stop the WannaCry ransomware attacks, was spared jail time on Friday after pleading guilty earlier this year to creating the Kronos banking malware.
erwin
JULY 26, 2019
Enterprise architecture (EA) isn’t dead, you’re just using it wrong. Part three of erwin’s digital transformation blog series. . I’ll let you in on a little secret: the rumor of enterprise architecture’s demise has been greatly exaggerated. However, the truth for many of today’s fast-moving businesses is that enterprise architecture fails. But why?
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Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
Researchers at Imperva Say Incident Mimicked Mirai-Style DDoS Attack A massive botnet attack earlier this year utilized more than 400,000 connected devices over the course of 13 days, according to researchers at the security firm Imperva.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2019
LibreOffice users have to know that their unpatched computers could be hacked by simply opening a specially crafted document. Bad news for LibreOffice users, the popular free and open-source office suite is affected by an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability. Recently, LibreOffice released the latest version 6.2.5 that addresses two severe flaws tracked as CVE-2019-9848 and CVE-2019-9849.
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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
JULY 26, 2019
At Least One of Four School Districts Confirmed Ransomware Louisiana's governor issued an emergency declaration on Wednesday in response to a rash of malware infections, hitting some of the state's public schools. The move will allow the state to marshal more resources to deal with the incidents.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
Incident Plunges Parts of South Africa City Into Dark City Power, the local electrical utility that powers Johannesburg in South Africa, is recovering Friday after an unknown ransomware variant that locked-up the company's applications, network and databases for most of the day on Thursday. The attack knocked out power and services for some residents for most of the day, according to local reports.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 26, 2019
A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure it pay ups.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
Critics Say the Deal Doesn't Do Enough to Protect Users' Privacy Facebook's $5 billion privacy settlement with the FTC this week did little to satisfy critics who argue that the social media giant still holds too much sway over its users' personal data.
Schneier on Security
JULY 26, 2019
Add to the "not very smart criminals" file : According to court documents, Tinley provided software services for Siemens' Monroeville, PA offices for nearly ten years. Among the work he was asked to perform was the creation of spreadsheets that the company was using to manage equipment orders. The spreadsheets included custom scripts that would update the content of the file based on current orders stored in other, remote documents, allowing the company to automate inventory and order management
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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
JULY 26, 2019
Florida Dentist Describes Recovering from Ransomware Attack Dentist Carl Bilancione is a survivor in more ways than one, including surviving a recent ransomware attack on the accounting software of his small Florida practice. What should other small entities should learn from these seemingly random attacks?
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2019
New study found that any database containing 15 pieces of demographic data could be used to identify individuals.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
Senate Intelligence Committee Report Finds Extensive Interference A report from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee finds that Russia targeted election systems and infrastructure in all 50 states during the run-up to the 2016 Presidential elections. The committee, however, could find no evidence that vote tallies were altered.
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2019
Of particular interest for cybercriminals is the Domain Name System, which plays a central role in orchestrating all Internet and application traffic.
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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
JULY 26, 2019
Learn about trends in information security risk assessment that align with business risk. This webinar explores communication challenges around information security, the typical journey organizations are taking to bring information risk management into the broader umbrella of business risk management, and the advantages accruing to organizations as they mature their information risk management programs.
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2019
Marcus Hutchins, the researcher known for stopping WannaCry, avoids jail time over charges of creating and distributing Kronos malware.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
Enterprises today have many digital ways of interacting with their customers - and therefore just as many ways for authenticating those users and transactions. Sesh Venkataraman of CA Technologies explains the business value of omnichannel authentication solutions.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2019
An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. The man, who is also known as Libertas also provided customer support to Silk Road users in 2013, for this job he received a weekly salary.
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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
JULY 26, 2019
Flat-out, traditional IAM practices are insufficient to secure a modern enterprise that relies on such diverse endpoints and connected devices. But API management can play a strong complementary role, says Jay Thorne of CA Technologies, a Broadcom company.
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2019
The low cost of records reflects the huge supply of PII after many breaches at hospitals, government agencies, and credit bureaus.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers a deep dive on the debate about whether law enforcement officials should have a "backdoor" to circumvent encryption. Also featured: An analysis of Equifax's settlement with the FTC and a discussion of a new report on the cost of data breaches.
Troy Hunt
JULY 26, 2019
What. A. Week. I've been in San Fran meeting with a whole bunch of potential purchasers for HIBP and it's been. intense. Daunting. Exciting. It's actually an amazing feeling to see my "little" project come to this where I'm sitting in a room with some of the most awesome tech companies whilst flanked by bankers in suits. I try and give a bit of insight into that in this week's video, keeping in mind of course that I'm a bit limited by how much detail I can go into right now.
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Threatpost
JULY 26, 2019
Attackers are hiding PHP scripts in EXIF headers of JPEG images to hack websites, just by uploading an image.
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2019
Exposed files include mortgage and loan information, passport and driver's license scans, internal corporate files, and shipping labels.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 26, 2019
On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Senate Bill S5575B (the “Bill”), an amendment to New York’s breach notification law (the “Act”). The Bill expands the Act’s definition of “breach of the security of the system” and the types of information ( i.e. , “private information”) covered by the Act, and makes certain changes to the Act’s requirements for breach notification.
Threatpost
JULY 26, 2019
Attacks on at least three school districts and likely others have prompted the state's first emergency due to cyberattack.
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Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2019
Cybersecurity expert Bart Stump explains what it's like to reliably deliver a useful, high-security network for one of the toughest audiences in the world.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 26, 2019
When you have millions of customers worldwide that need to seamlessly connect and exchange information every day, data integration becomes a major challenge. Global software company, SAP Ariba, found itself in exactly this situation. Its solution was to move to Integration Managed Services on the OpenText™ Business Network. Here’s why. In a recent Forrester report, … The post SAP Ariba helps customers procure more effectively appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 26, 2019
The European Data Protection Board (the “EDPB”) recently adopted its Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of personal data through video devices (the “Guidelines”). Although the Guidelines provide examples of data processing for video surveillance, these examples are not exhaustive. The Guidelines aim to provide guidance on how to apply the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in all potential areas of video device use.
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