Data Breach Today
MARCH 23, 2022
Bulletin Reportedly Issued Just Days Before Biden Warned of Cyber Activity Just days before U.S. President Joe Biden warned that intelligence is pointing toward potential Russian cyberattacks against the U.S., the FBI reportedly issued an urgent bulletin contending that Russian IP addresses have conducted network scanning activity on at least five U.S. energy firms.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 17, 2022
Researchers are tracking a number of open-source “ protestware ” projects on GitHub that have recently altered their code to display “Stand with Ukraine” messages for users, or basic facts about the carnage in Ukraine. The group also is tracking several code packages that were recently modified to erase files on computers that appear to be coming from Russian or Belarusian Internet addresses.
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Data Matters
MARCH 9, 2022
Yesterday DOJ announced its first settlement under the Department’s new “Cyber-Fraud Initiative.” This initiative, announced in October 2021 , aims to “utilize the False Claims Act to pursue cybersecurity related fraud by government contractors and grant recipients.” However, as discussed further here , in addition to targeting traditional government contractors, the initiative presents broader opportunities for DOJ to use the FCA to address data protection practices by healthcare providers.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 28, 2022
Data breaches impact us all as individuals, companies and as governments. Over the last 4 years, I've been providing additional access to data breach information in Have I Been Pwned for government agencies responsible for protecting their citizens. The access is totally free and amounts to APIs designed to search and monitor government owned domains and TLDs.
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.
ARMA International
MARCH 22, 2022
For as long as there has been communication and work, there has been a means of documenting and tracking it. Sales receipts, pay stubs, tax documents, letters, memoranda, and beyond all have value at one time or another. Sometimes, those records need to be revisited or referenced later down the road in connection with, for example, taxes, audits, or other reviews.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2022
Researcher in Belarus Says Bug Bounty Through HackerOne Is Sole Income Sanctions levied against Russia and Belarus for the invasion of Ukraine are affecting security researchers signed up with bug bounty platforms, which can no longer legally make payments. A researcher in Belarus says he's locked out from accessing $25,179 in his HackerOne account.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 8, 2022
Lumen Technologies , an American company that operates one of the largest Internet backbones and carries a significant percentage of the world’s Internet traffic, said today it will stop routing traffic for organizations based in Russia. Lumen’s decision comes just days after a similar exit by backbone provider Cogent , and amid a news media crackdown in Russia that has already left millions of Russians in the dark about what is really going on with their president’s war in Ukr
Data Matters
MARCH 4, 2022
On February 9, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed comprehensive rules for registered advisers and funds. Among other things, these rules will require advisers and funds to implement written policies and procedures designed to address cybersecurity risks, report significant cybersecurity incidents to the SEC within 48 hours using a proposed form, and keep enumerated cybersecurity-related books and records.
Security Affairs
MARCH 5, 2022
Anonymous and its affiliates continue to target Russia and Belarus, it is also targeting the Russian disinformation machine. Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. The attacks were conducted as part of the #OpRussia launched by the collective after the violent and illegitimate invasion of Ukraine.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 22, 2022
In the energy industry, up to 80% of employees' time is spent searching through unstructured information to get work done. The post Integration matters to the world around us appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
IT Governance
MARCH 1, 2022
The cyber security industry, much like the rest of the world, is on edge. Our figures for this month are comparatively low – with 83 data breaches and cyber attacks accounting for 5,127,241 breached records – but there is a sense that we are on the brink of something. In the final days of February, there were a flurry of security incidents related, either directly or indirectly, to the Ukraine conflict.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2022
Despite Russian Aggression, Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks Remain Illegal With Ukraine having called on the world to join its "IT Army" and help it hack Russia and ally Belarus, what could possibly go wrong? For starters, launching distributed denial-of-service attacks - at least from outside Ukraine - remains illegal and risks triggering an escalation by Moscow.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 1, 2022
A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti , an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The chat logs offer a fascinating glimpse into the challenges of running a sprawling criminal enterprise with more than 100 salaried employees.
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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.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 23, 2022
Shifting Risk and Business Environment Demand creates a Shift in Security Strategies. divya. Thu, 03/24/2022 - 05:00. As the world is slowly returning to pre-pandemic conditions, the underlying trends that have always driven information security, such as new technologies, greater compliance mandates and more severe security incidents, continue to be significant change agents.
Security Affairs
MARCH 17, 2022
The collective Anonymous and its affiliated groups continue to target the Russian government and private organizations. The collective Anonymous, and other groups in its ecosystem, continue to target the Russian government and private organizations. Let’s summarize the most interesting attacks observed in the last few days. Yesterday Anonymous announced the hack of the website of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia, the hackers defaced them and published the message: “Don’t t
Jamf
MARCH 8, 2022
Introducing Jamf School of Thought, a monthly "blogcast" for educators featuring interviews with key leaders in K-12 and higher education. Listen and participate live or catch up with on-demand installments to learn about new solutions and workflows transforming the presence of Jamf + Apple in the classroom.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 7, 2022
A SaaS security company says a spike in cyber attacks from Russia and China in recent weeks suggests the two countries may be coordinating their cyber efforts. SaaS Alerts, which helps managed service providers (MSPs) manage and protect customers’ SaaS apps, mentioned the finding in conjunction with the release of its annual SaaS Application Security Insights (SASI) report. “Over the last several weeks, SaaS Alerts has seen a sharp rise in activity from countries with consistently hi
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2022
Critical Infrastructure Defense Project From Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Ping Identity As Western cybersecurity officials warn that Russia's Ukraine invasion poses an elevated cybersecurity risk to all, kudos to Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity for offering free endpoint security and other defenses to the healthcare sector and power sectors, for at least four months.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 11, 2022
As their cities suffered more intense bombardment by Russian military forces this week, Ukrainian Internet users came under renewed cyberattacks, with one Internet company providing service there saying they blocked ten times the normal number of phishing and malware attacks targeting Ukrainians. John Todd is general manager of Quad9 , a free “anycast” DNS platform.
IT Governance
MARCH 15, 2022
Cyber threat management is the process of identifying, analysing, evaluating and addressing an organisation’s cyber security requirements. With more than a 1,000 publicly disclosed security incidents last year – and countless others that weren’t reported – cyber security is a growing priority. It’s only by actively monitoring threats throughout their lifecycle that organisations can identify the risks that they face and the steps they should take to mitigate them.
Security Affairs
MARCH 10, 2022
The U.S. CISA has updated the alert on Conti ransomware and added 98 domain names used by the criminal gang. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has updated the alert on Conti ransomware operations, the agency added 100 domain names used by the group. The joint report published by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) in September warned of an increased number of Conti ransomware attacks against US organizations.
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.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 3, 2022
On February 18, 2022, California Assembly Member Evan Low (D) introduced a pair of bills – AB 2871 and AB 2891 – that would extend the duration of the current exemptions in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”)) for certain HR data and business-to-business (“B2B”) customer representative personnel data from most of the law’s requirements.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 4, 2022
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released comprehensive network security guidance on March 3, on the same day that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its longest-ever list of exploited vulnerabilities. With organizations around the world on heightened alert in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine, government agencies have stepped up efforts too.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 25, 2022
FBI Puts Russian Carder on the Most Wanted List of Cybercriminals The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted a 23-year-old Russian national for operating a cybercriminal marketplace that sold thousands of stolen login credentials, PII and authentication tools, according to U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston of the Eastern District of Texas.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 7, 2022
An Alexa can respond to voice commands it issues. This can be exploited : The attack works by using the device’s speaker to issue voice commands. As long as the speech contains the device wake word (usually “Alexa” or “Echo”) followed by a permissible command, the Echo will carry it out, researchers from Royal Holloway University in London and Italy’s University of Catania found.
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Jamf
MARCH 24, 2022
With 2021 in the rearview, we revisit the biggest threats businesses faced during the year. In looking back, we summarize both macOS and mobile endpoint security threats along with their impact. We also turn an eye toward the future by focusing on the upcoming threats the enterprise will be facing, such as ransomware as a service, and on how Jamf can help you prevent security threats.
Security Affairs
MARCH 25, 2022
Anonymous announced that the affiliate group Black Rabbit World has leaked 28 GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia. This week the Anonymous hacker collective claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and stole accessed 35,000 documents. The group of hacktivists announced that will leak the stolen documents in 48 hours. Anonymous hacks Russia's Central Bank and more than 35,000 files will be exposed in 48 hours. pic.twitter.com/0VUhqVmo89 — Anonymous (@LatestAnonPres
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 2, 2022
On February 17, 2022, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) announced at a board meeting that it will delay the publication of final regulations under the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). As drafted, the CPRA provides for regulations to be finalized by July 1, 2022, to allow for a six-month compliance window ahead of the law’s January 1, 2023 effective date.
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