Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2019
Hidden Cobra, Also Known as Lazarus, Appears to Be Behind the Malware U.S. CERT has issued a fresh warning about a newly discovered Trojan called Hoplight that is connected to a notorious APT group with links to North Korea. The malware has the ability to disguise the network traffic it sends back to its originators, making it more difficult to track its movements.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 12, 2019
The central dilemma posed by digital transformation is this: How do companies reap the benefits of high-velocity software development without creating onerous security exposures? Related: Golden Age of cyber spying dawns. The best practices standards and protocols to pull off this delicate balancing act have been thoroughly vetted and are readily available.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2019
New Studies Analyzes Breach Trends and Offers Mitigation Advice The healthcare sector was the No. 1 target for major data breaches last year, according to a new report. And the No. 1 cause of breaches in all sectors was phishing. What can be done to prevent these incidents?
Dark Reading
APRIL 12, 2019
These new cloud services seek to help companies figure out what their traditional SIEM alerts mean, plus how they can prioritize responses and improve their security operations.
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
APRIL 12, 2019
Assange Could Still Face More Serious Charges From U.S. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's hacker roots and nontraditional approach to journalism may prove damaging following his arrest on Thursday. He's been charged with one count of conspiracy, but U.S. prosecutors still have time to file more serous charges pending his extradition from the U.K.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an update on a congressional report that slams Equifax for lacking a strong cybersecurity culture. Also featured: A new study on the status of women in the cybersecurity industry and the use of Android phones as security keys.
Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2019
Good news for the victims of the CryptoPokemon ransomware , security experts at Emsisoft just released a free decrypter tool. Victims of the CryptoPokemon ransomware have a good reason to smile, security experts at Emsisoft have released a free decrypter tool. The ransomware was first discovered by experts at IntezerLabs, the CryptoPokemon ransomware is a new strain of ransomware that encrypts files and demands a payment of a 0.02 Bitcoin ransom to decrypt them.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2019
Found Guilty in Case Involving a Massive Botnet Two Romanian nationals have been convicted by a federal jury for their roles in stealing more than $4 million from victims by creating a botnet of more than 400,000 PCs through custom-designed malware called Bayrob.
Dark Reading
APRIL 12, 2019
VPN products by Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, F5 Networks, Pulse Secure, insecurely store session cookies.
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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
APRIL 12, 2019
IBM's Anup Kanti Deb Offers Insights Incident response is an ongoing process, a lifecycle that requires a risk mitigation strategy covering operational, legal and reputational risk.
Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2019
According to experts a vulnerability in the popular WordPress plugin Yuzo Related Posts is exploited by attackers to redirect users to malicious sites. The XSS flaw allows attackers to inject a JavaScript into the sites that redirect visitors to websites displaying scams, including tech support scams , and sites promoting unwanted software. The Yuzo Related Posts plugin was removed from the WordPress plugin store on March 30th, 2019. after a zero-day vulnerability was publicly, and irresponsibly
Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2019
Learn how next-generation AV in the cloud solves a variety of common problems legacy AV users face.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 12, 2019
Flame was discovered in 2012, linked to Stuxnet, and believed to be American in origin. It has recently been linked to more modern malware through new analysis tools that find linkages between different software. Seems that Flame did not disappear after it was discovered, as was previously thought. (Its controllers used a kill switch to disable and erase it.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2019
The hacker that hacked and defaced Matrix.org decided to disclose the security issues discovered during the attack and offers advice. This week, the hacker behind the hack of Matrix.org decided to disclose the vulnerabilities discovered during the attack. Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized real-time communication that is also used for instant messaging, IoT communications, and VoIP or WebRTC signaling.
Dark Reading
APRIL 12, 2019
VPN products by Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, F5 Networks, Pulse Secure, insecurely store session cookies.
Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2019
Siemens Patch Tuesday updates for April 2019 address several serious vulnerabilities, including some DoS flaws in many industrial products. Siemens has released Patch Tuesday updates that address several serious flaws including some DoS vulnerabilities. Siemens published six new advisories that cover a total of 11 vulnerabilities. One of the issues addressed by Siemens is a high-severity DoS vulnerability ( CVE-2019-6575 ) that affects some the SIMATIC, SINEC-NMS, SINEMA, SINUMERIK and TeleContr
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 12, 2019
I am working on a project that requires a lot of research on how people are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in real-world business cases. While AI and ML are two of the hottest trends in technology, they don’t seem to be proliferating as widely or as quickly as we would expect.
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Security Affairs
APRIL 12, 2019
Hackers are using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land ( LotL ) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver malware and a Monero cryptocurrency. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign that is targeting Asian entities using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver malware and a Monero cryptocurrency.
Threatpost
APRIL 12, 2019
Yet another Wordpress plugin, Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer, is being exploited in the wild after two software vulnerabilities were discovered.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 12, 2019
Company illegally shared 34.4m records with 39 companies, information commissioner finds The parenting club Bounty has been fined £400,000 – one of the largest penalties possible – for sharing its data with marketing agencies without users’ permission. Bounty offers support and advice to new parents who sign up through its website and mobile app, or are directly recruited on maternity wards.
Dark Reading
APRIL 12, 2019
Businesses must be aware of the security weaknesses of the public cloud and not assume that every angle is covered.
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Hanzo Learning Center
APRIL 12, 2019
On the afternoon of Monday, April 8th, 2019, I spoke with AP Capaldo , a global compliance attorney and director of E&C at a Fortune 100 technology company, about the compliance implications of Operation Varsity Blues. Our conversation took place just as news broke that Felicity Huffman and 12 others would plead guilty to bribery in the widespread college admissions scandal, and on the heels of coverage of the topic by Hui Chen and other members of the compliance community.
Dark Reading
APRIL 12, 2019
Predictions for cybersecurity investment in 2019 are holding true with funding announcements from four startups.
DXC Technology
APRIL 12, 2019
Happiness in a job depends on a combination of factors, including whether the position fits with your skill set and interests, how it meets your expectations (and how you’re meeting the organization’s expectations), the salary and perks, growth potential, culture, and relevance to the enterprise’s core strategic mission. It’s a very individual thing.
Hunton Privacy
APRIL 12, 2019
Social media platforms, file hosting sites, discussion forums, messaging services and search engines in the UK are likely to come under increased pressure to monitor and edit online content after the UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”) announced in its Online Harms White Paper (the “White Paper”), released this month, proposals for a new regulatory framework to make companies more responsible for users’ online safety.
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Troy Hunt
APRIL 12, 2019
That's the second update in a row I've done on time! It's also another one with a bunch of other things in common with last week, namely commentary on yet more data breaches. It's not just the breaches in HIBP, but the ones I'm busily trying to disclose. This is really sucking a lot of time right now and frankly, well, I summed it up here earlier in the week: Currently going through the process with 4 breach disclosures. 3 of them I just can’t get a response from and the one I can really doesn’t
Dark Reading
APRIL 12, 2019
Working out of Bucharest since 2007, a pair of criminals infected and controlled more than 400,000 individual computers, mostly in the US.
Threatpost
APRIL 12, 2019
Convincing phishing pages and millions of suspicious apps are plaguing tax season.
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