Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
The Ad, Now Deleted, Lured Users to a Phishing Website to Harvest Credentials Chinese security researcher Zhi has discovered a malware targeting Mac users. The malware, spread via a paid advertisement on search engine Baidu, is intended to harvest user credentials, he says. The advertisement has now been taken down.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
TTEC , [ NASDAQ: TTEC ], a company used by some of the world’s largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing with disruptions from a network security incident resulting from a ransomware attack, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. While many companies have been laying off or furloughing workers in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, TTEC has been massively hiring.
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IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
It has been another month of comparatively few reported cyber attacks and data breaches, with our August list containing 84 incidents accounting for 60,865,828 breached records. And it would have been even fewer if not for the attack on T-Mobile. The mobile network disclosed a hack earlier this month, which it originally said affected 7.8 million customers and 40 million records.
Data Protection Report
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
You may not believe that dogs have much to do with privacy and security, but on September 20, 2021, New Jersey’s highest state court ruled that dog owners’ names and addresses were public and therefore not exempt from disclosure by a city dog licensing authority, but other information (such as dog breed and name) raised security concerns. Bozzi v. City of Jersey City , — A.3d —- (2021) (2021 WL 4256377).
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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
The popular whistleblower Edward Snowden recommends customers of ExpressVPN VPN service to stop using it. Last week the Israeli cybersecurity firm Kape Technologies has acquired the industry’s leading virtual private networks ExpressVPN, as part of a $936 million deal. Kape announced that the acquisition will more than double its overall customer base, from almost 3 million customers to more than 6 million.
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Many Files Crypto-Locked Before July 13 Unlockable via Free Bitdefender Decryptor Score one for the good guys in the fight against ransomware: Anyone who fell victim to REvil, aka Sodinokibi, crypto-locking malware before July 13 can now decrypt their files for free, thanks to a decryptor released by security firm Bitdefender.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Microsoft Corp. warns that attackers are exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows 10 and many Windows Server versions to seize control over PCs when users open a malicious document or visit a booby-trapped website. There is currently no official patch for the flaw, but Microsoft has released recommendations for mitigating the threat.
Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
For the last few years, I've been welcome national governments to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and granting them full and free access to domain-level searches via a dedicated API. Today, I'm very happy to welcome the Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency who can now query their government domains along with the 26 other nations that have come before them.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
An investigation by McAfee researchers into a case of a suspected malware infection uncovered a cyber attack that had been sitting in the victim organization’s network for years stealing data. The investigators said the advanced threat actors used a mixture of known and unique malware tools in the attack – which they dubbed Operation Harvest – to compromise the victim’s IT environment, exfiltrate the data and evade detection.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked as M?ris. The Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country to an internet shutdown.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
How did Kaseya get a universal decryptor after a mind-bogglingly big ransomware attack? A REvil coder misclicked, generated & issued it, and “That’s how we sh*t ourselves.”.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Transparency Shortfalls Cited, as WhatsApp Accused of Not Revealing Data Sharing Ireland's privacy law enforcer, the Data Protection Commission, has hit WhatsApp with a 225 million euro ($266 million) fine, finding that it violated the EU's General Data Protection Regulation in part by not telling users how it was sharing their data with parent company Facebook.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That service quickly went offline, but new research reveals a number of competitors have since launched bot-based services that make it relatively easy for crooks to phish OTPs from targets.
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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.
Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
111 years ago almost to the day, a murder was committed which ultimately led to the first criminal trial to use fingerprints as evidence. We've all since watched enough crime shows to understand that fingerprints are unique personal biometric attributes and to date, no two people have ever been found to have a matching set. As technology has evolved, fingers (and palms and irises and faces) have increasingly been used as a means of biometric authentication.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Executive Order About Cybersecurity Urging Zero Trust Adoption. divya. Thu, 09/02/2021 - 07:09. During the 2021 Thales Crypto Summit , which brings together a group of experts to speak about cryptographic and key management to keep organizations secure, President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) was a key point of discussion. Aimed at “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity”, the EO was issued on May 12, 2021, which is the starting point by which many of the requirements and due dates are measured.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
By the end of the 2018, the Spanish Parliament belatedly completed the framework provided by EU’s GDPR approving a new Data Protection Act. Following a local tradition dated in 1992, the Spanish legislators deviated themselves from the mainstream position in the EU. The new Spanish law included, among other deviations, new digital rights unknown by the GDPR, a special period of retention of personal data in favor of public authorities after the data had to be deleted or corrected, a genera
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
On September 13, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission published final revisions to five rules promulgated pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), to clarify that the rules apply only to motor vehicle dealers. The final revisions were made to bring the rules in line with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Entities other than motor vehicle dealers are still subject to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB’s”) FCRA counterpart rules and the concurre
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Microsoft Sparred with SecureWorks Over Impact But Relents Microsoft has indicated it will make changes to reduce the risk around what a security vendor says is a vulnerability that lets attackers run brute-force credential attacks against Azure Active Directory. The issue was reported to Microsoft in June by SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with a mobile phone and discover its owner’s phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused to redirect the Good Samaritan to an iCloud phishing page — or to any other malicious website.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Hundreds of thousands of email credentials, many of which double as Active Directory domain credentials, came through to credential-trapping domains in clear text.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is bringing its enterprise-class security to small business and home markets with Okyo , a Wi-Fi 6 hardware device announced today. At $349 a year, the security and router system seems attractively priced for small businesses and companies looking to secure remote workers , who have surged in number since the start of the Covid pandemic 18 months ago.
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.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 8, 2021
Organisations that adopted hybrid working during the pandemic have had to adjust many policies and processes, but one that they may have overlooked is their CIR (cyber incident response) plan. Before the pandemic, you could safely assume that most employees were based in the office and therefore a controlled environments. That made planning for disruptions comparatively straightforward: you knew where everyone was located, you had complete visibility over your threat landscape and you could comm
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
On August 19, 2021, the Belgian Council of State confirmed a decision of the regional Flemish Authorities to contract with an EU branch of a U.S. company using Amazon Web Services (“AWS”). The decision was made in the context of a tender granted by the Flemish Authorities to a company that used AWS cloud services. An unsuccessful tender participant had challenged the outcome of the tender process before the Council of State, deploying several arguments, including that a lack of appropriate safeg
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Large Illinois Group Practice Says PHI Exposed After suffering a network systems outage that lasted at least a week in July, DuPage Medical Group, the largest mulispeciality group practice in Illinois, is now reporting a data breach affecting more than 655,000 individuals.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn’t an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or data leaks. Or maybe it isn’t entirely clear who should get the report when remote access to an organization’s internal network is being sold in the cybercrime underground.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
With the help of malicious insiders, a fraudster was able to install malware and remotely divorce iPhones and other handsets from the carrier's U.S. network -- all the way from Pakistan.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Apple has addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors in attacks in the wild to take over iPhones and Macs. Apple has released security updates to address three zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks in the wild to compromise iPhones and Macs running vulnerable iOS and macOS versions. Apple confirmed that at least one of the flaws was exploited by threat actors to infect the device with the NSO Pegasus spyware.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Cyber security is becoming an expensive endeavour for organisations – and in many cases, the costs are so high that they can’t deal with threats appropriately. In fact, a Kaspersky report has found that only half of organisations have a dedicated IT security team, and only one in five has the tools to monitor and respond to cyber security incidents.
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