Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2023
Blame Police Crackdowns on Big Names, Hacker Thrift, Ransomware Grifters in Trouble What's behind the a profusion of reported attacks involving stolen or reused strains of ransomware? Blame a variety of factors, including law enforcement crackdowns, evolving ransomware business models and at least one case of a ransomware group leader with poor morale building skills.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 29, 2023
The threat of bad actors hacking into airplane systems mid-flight has become a major concern for airlines and operators worldwide. Related: Pushing the fly-by-wire envelope This is especially true because systems are more interconnected and use more complex commercial software than ever before, meaning a vulnerability in one system could lead to a malicious actor gaining access to more important systems.
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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 29, 2023
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot , a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computers.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 31, 2023
The National Safety Council leaked thousands of emails and passwords of their members, including companies such as NASA and Tesla. The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and passwords of their members, exposing 2000 companies, including governmental organizations and big corporations. The National Safety Council (NSC) is a non-profit organization in the United States providing workplace and driving safety training.
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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?
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 31, 2023
Child safety group Heat Initiative plans to launch a campaign pressing Apple on child sexual abuse material scanning and user reporting. The company issued a rare, detailed response on Thursday.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 31, 2023
George Kurtz Says Clients Spot 'Point Products Masquerading as Platform Stories' CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said point product companies "are quickly going the way of legacy antivirus" as rivals SentinelOne and BlackBerry reportedly hunt for buyers. The endpoint security market is quickly consolidating from being "littered with dozens of companies" to just several vendors.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 13, 2023
LAS VEGAS – Just when we appeared to be on the verge of materially shrinking the attack surface, along comes an unpredictable, potentially explosive wild card: generative AI. Related: Can ‘CNAPP’ do it all? Unsurprisingly, generative AI was in the spotlight at Black Hat USA 2023 , which returned to its full pre-Covid grandeur here last week.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 30, 2023
No surprise: phishing attacks are on the rise, and a new technique is becoming increasingly popular: open redirect flaws. These flaws allow attackers to redirect victims to malicious websites, even if the link in the phishing email appears to be legitimate.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 28, 2023
Japan’s JPCERT warns of a new recently detected ‘MalDoc in PDF’ attack that embeds malicious Word files into PDFs. Japan’s computer emergency response team (JPCERT) has recently observed a new attack technique, called ‘MalDoc in PDF’, that bypasses detection by embedding a malicious Word file into a PDF file. The researchers explained that a file created with MalDoc in PDF has magic numbers and file structure of PDF, but can be opened in Word.
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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.
Elie
AUGUST 20, 2023
We introduce a hybrid digital signature scheme based on two building blocks: a classically-secure scheme, ECDSA, and a post-quantum secure one, Dilithium. Our hybrid scheme maintains the guarantees of each underlying building block even if the other one is broken, thus being resistant to classical and quantum attacks.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 29, 2023
Today, the US Justice Department announced a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to disrupt the botnet and malware known as Qakbot and take down its infrastructure. Beyond just taking down the backbone of the operation, the FBI began actively intercepting traffic from the botnet and instructing infected machines the uninstall the malware: To disrupt the botnet, the FBI was able to redirect Qakbot botnet traffic
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2023
US Funds for Regional SOC, Use of Trusted 5G Providers Follows Big 2022 Cyberattack Costa Rica will build a national cybersecurity operations center with substantial U.S. backing following a crippling cyberattack last year while also committing to using only trusted 5G providers. The State Department extended $25 million to build a virtual security operations center.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 6, 2023
LAS VEGAS — One fundamental reason some 7,000 or so IT pros are making the trek here this week is that no one ever wants to get caught in the crossfire of a devastating data breach. Related: A call to regulate facial recognition That said, a few dozen CISOs attending Black Hat USA 2023 will get to experience, hands-on, what it must have been like to be in the crucible of milestone hacks like Capital One, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline.
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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 31, 2023
A hacker published a real gem of an infostealer to GitHub that requires zero coding knowledge to use. Then a community sprung up around it, polishing the code to a high shine and creating new, even more robust features.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 31, 2023
Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. On March 20, 2023, the fashion retailer Forever 21 has discovered a cyber incident that impacted a limited number of systems. The company immediately launched an investigation into the incident with the help of leading cybersecurity firms.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 31, 2023
A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more LCD monitors than a Counterstrike LAN party. They can be used to monitor any of six different video inputs including a videoscope camera. A videoscope and a borescope are very similar as they’re both cameras on the ends of optical fibers, so the same tech you’d use to inspect cylinder walls is also useful for surveillance.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 29, 2023
On August 29, 2023, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) Board issued draft regulations on Risk Assessment and Cybersecurity Audit (the “Draft Regulations”). The CPPA Board will discuss the Draft Regulations during a public meeting on September 8, 2023. In issuing the Draft Regulations, the CPPA Board makes clear that it has not yet started the formal rulemaking process for cybersecurity audits, risk assessments or automated decision-making technology, and that these Draft Regulatio
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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
AUGUST 30, 2023
'Spamouflage' Controlled Thousands of Facebook Pages But Struggled for Engagement Facebook parent Meta unearthed a Chinese propaganda campaign active across dozens of social media sites in what the company calls the largest known cross-platform influence operation in the world. "Spamouflage" operates across more than 50 platforms and forums.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 31, 2023
Customers of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX are already receiving phishing emails following a breach of personal data held by several crypto companies, CoinDesk reports.
Hanzo Learning Center
AUGUST 29, 2023
Our focus is to gain knowledge about any challenges that corporate legal teams encounter in relation to these new data types and their relationship with ediscovery and information governance. The adoption of collaboration tools such as Slack and Microsoft Teams in enterprises has experienced remarkable growth in recent years. These platforms offer a wide range of features that are specifically designed to enhance communication, collaboration, and productivity within organizations.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 31, 2023
Researchers demonstrated how attackers can abuse the Windows Container Isolation Framework to bypass endpoint security solutions. Researcher Daniel Avinoam at the recent DEF CON hacking conference demonstrated how attackers can abuse the Windows Container Isolation Framework to bypass endpoint security solutions. The expert explained that Windows OS separates the file system from each container to the host and avoids duplication of system files.
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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.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 30, 2023
Interesting story of an Apple Macintosh app that went rogue. Basically, it was a good app until one particular update…when it went bad. With more official macOS features added in 2021 that enabled the “Night Shift” dark mode, the NightOwl app was left forlorn and forgotten on many older Macs. Few of those supposed tens of thousands of users likely noticed when the app they ran in the background of their older Macs was bought by another company, nor when earlier this year that c
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 31, 2023
Across the market segments we serve at OpenText, it’s always a delight to receive acknowledgement from some of the top firms in the industry analyst community. Recently, Gartner, Forrester, and IDC have placed us in several leadership positions for key enterprise software categories. Industry analyst firm rankings provide independent assessments of the value and business … The post Industry analyst round up – top rankings for OpenText appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 31, 2023
Tomer Weingarten Nixes Wiz Reselling Agreement After Not Seeing 'Any Contribution' SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten hit back at endpoint security rivals CrowdStrike and Microsoft as well as rumored M&A suitor Wiz for publicly fanning acquisition flames. The endpoint security firm called Wiz acquisition rumors "a headscratcher," "far from fact" and "pure speculation on their part.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2023
"Operation Doppelganger" has convincingly masqueraded as multiple news sites with elaborate fake stories containing real bylines of journalists, blasting them out on social media platforms.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 30, 2023
A WIRED investigation into a cache of documents posted by an unknown figure lays bare the Trickbot ransomware gang’s secrets, including the identity of a central member.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 28, 2023
A security researcher demonstrated how to discover a target’s IP address by sending a link over the Skype mobile app. The security researcher Yossi discovered that is possible to discover a target’s IP address by sending a link over the Skype mobile app. The researcher pointed out that the attack only requires the target to open the message. The problem only impacts the Skype mobile app.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 29, 2023
Interesting story : Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after his sibling’s death as an infant, and used the stolen identity to obtain Social Security benefits under both identities, multiple passports and state identification cards, law enforcement officials said. […] A new investigation was launched in 2020 after facial identification software indicated Gonzalez’s face was on two state identification cards.
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