January, 2023

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3 Ways ChatGPT Will Change Infosec in 2023

Dark Reading

OpenAI's chatbot has the promise to revolutionize how security practitioners work.

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Expect Hacking, Phishing After Leak of 200M Twitter Records

Data Breach Today

Database Will Provide Intelligence of Use to Online Criminals, Expert Warns Expect the recently leaked database containing over 200 million Twitter records to be an ongoing resource for hackers, fraudsters and other criminals operating online, even though 98% of the email addresses it contains have appeared in prior breaches, experts warn.

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian’s website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer’s report.

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Phishers Trick Microsoft Into Granting Them 'Verified' Cloud Partner Status

Dark Reading

Everyone on Twitter wants a blue check mark. But Microsoft Azure's blue badges are even more valuable to a threat actor stealing your data via malicious OAuth apps.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

Schneier on Security

A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not yet done so—break 2048-bit RSA. This is something to take seriously. It might not be correct, but it’s not obviously wrong. We have long known from Shor’s algorithm that factoring with a quantum computer is easy. But it takes a big quantum computer, on the orders of millions of qbits, to factor anything resembling the key sizes we use today.

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Security Outlook 2023: Cyber Warfare Expands Threats

eSecurity Planet

After a year that saw massive ransomware attacks and open cyber warfare, the biggest question in cybersecurity for 2023 will likely be how much of those attack techniques get commoditized and weaponized. “In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. 2023, he predicted, “will not be any easier when it comes to keeping users’

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LockBit Ransomware Group Reportedly Behind Royal Mail Attack

Data Breach Today

Attack Is Disrupting International Mail Export Services The cyber incident at the Royal Mail that is impeding exports from the United Kingdom is reportedly a ransomware attack by the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service group. Britain's national postal service told customers Thursday not to post export items.

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New T-Mobile Breach Affects 37 Million Accounts

Krebs on Security

T-Mobile today disclosed a data breach affecting tens of millions of customer accounts, its second major data exposure in as many years. In a filing with federal regulators, T-Mobile said an investigation determined that someone abused its systems to harvest subscriber data tied to approximately 37 million current customer accounts. Image: customink.com In a filing today with the U.S.

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PayPal Breach Exposed PII of Nearly 35K Accounts

Dark Reading

The credential-stuffing attack, likely fueled by password reuse, yielded personal identifiable information that can be used to verify the authenticity of previously stolen data.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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The FBI Identified a Tor User

Schneier on Security

No details , though: According to the complaint against him, Al-Azhari allegedly visited a dark web site that hosts “unofficial propaganda and photographs related to ISIS” multiple times on May 14, 2019. In virtue of being a dark web site—­that is, one hosted on the Tor anonymity network—­it should have been difficult for the site owner’s or a third party to determine the real IP address of any of the site’s visitors.

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Blank-Image Attacks Impersonate DocuSign

KnowBe4

An unusual phishing technique has surfaced this week. Avanan, a Check Point Software company, released a blog Thursday morning detailing a new attack in which hackers hide malicious content inside a blank image within an HTML attachment in phishing emails claiming to be from DocuSign.

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OpenText Welcomes Micro Focus Customers, Partners and Employees

OpenText Information Management

OpenText has completed the acquisition of Micro Focus and I am delighted to welcome customers, partners and employees to OpenText. We are the platform of platforms for Information Management. Digital life is life, and with Micro Focus’ great products, amazing talent and strategic partners, we will help organizations of all sizes accelerate their digital transformations. … The post OpenText Welcomes Micro Focus Customers, Partners and Employees appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Ransomware Profits Dip as Fewer Victims Pay Extortion

Data Breach Today

As Funding From Ransoms Goes Down, Gangs Embrace Re-Extortion, Researchers Warn Bad news for ransomware groups: Experts find it's getting tougher to earn a crypto-locking payday at the expense of others. The bad guys can blame a move by law enforcement to better support victims, and more organizations having robust defenses in place, which makes them tougher to take down.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Experian Glitch Exposing Credit Files Lasted 47 Days

Krebs on Security

On Dec. 23, 2022, KrebsOnSecurity alerted big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian that identity thieves had worked out how to bypass its security and access any consumer’s full credit report — armed with nothing more than a person’s name, address, date of birth, and Social Security number. Experian fixed the glitch, but remained silent about the incident for a month.

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Attackers Crafted Custom Malware for Fortinet Zero-Day

Dark Reading

The "BoldMove" backdoor demonstrates a high level of knowledge of FortiOS, according to Mandiant researchers, who said the attacker appears to be based out of China.

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Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2022: 408 Million Breached Records

IT Governance

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. Here, you’ll find an overview of the cyber security landscape in 2022, including the total number of publicly disclosed security incidents, the number of compromised records and the sectors most susceptible to data breaches.

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Is the Most Creative Act a Human Can Engage in the Formation of a Good Question?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Wise, Kevin Kelly is. Today I’d like to ponder something Kevin Kelly – a fellow co-founding editor of Wired – said to me roughly 30 years ago. During one editorial conversation or another, Kevin said – and I’m paraphrasing here – “The most creative act a human can engage in is forming a good question.” That idea has stuck with me ever since, and informed a lot of my career.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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ChatGPT’s Dark Side: An Endless Supply of Polymorphic Malware

eSecurity Planet

CyberArk researchers are warning that OpenAI’s popular new AI tool ChatGPT can be used to create polymorphic malware. “[ChatGPT]’s impressive features offer fast and intuitive code examples, which are incredibly beneficial for anyone in the software business,” CyberArk researchers Eran Shimony and Omer Tsarfati wrote this week in a blog post that was itself apparently written by AI. “However, we find that its ability to write sophisticated malware that holds no mali

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Why Do Ransomware Victims Pay for Data Deletion Guarantees?

Data Breach Today

Paying for Promises That Can't Be Audited Paints a Repeat-Attack Target on Victims Many ransomware-wielding attackers are expert at preying on their victims' compulsion to clean up the mess. Witness victims' continuing willingness to pay a ransom - separate to a decryptor - in return from a promise from extortionists that they will delete stolen data.

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Colorado AG Publishes Second Draft of Colorado Privacy Act Rules

Hunton Privacy

On December 21, 2022, the Colorado Attorney General published an updated version of the draft rules to the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). The draft, which follows the first iteration of the proposed rules published on October 10, 2022, solicits comments on five topics: (1) new and revised definitions; (2) the use of IP addresses to verify consumer requests; (3) a proposed universal opt-out mechanism; (4) streamlining the privacy policy requirements; and (5) bona fide loyalty programs.

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200M Twitter Profiles, with Email Addys, Dumped on Dark Web for Free

Dark Reading

A data dump of Twitter user details on an underground forum appears to stem from an API endpoint compromise and large-scale data scraping.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.

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Kevin Mitnick Hacked California Law in 1983

Schneier on Security

Early in his career, Kevin Mitnick successfully hacked California law. He told me the story when he heard about my new book , which he partially recounts his 2012 book, Ghost in the Wires. The setup is that he just discovered that there’s warrant for his arrest by the California Youth Authority, and he’s trying to figure out if there’s any way out of it.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2022 – 31.5 million records breached

IT Governance

December can be the best or worst time to suffer a data breach. On the one hand, people have started to wind down to the end of the year, all attention is on holidays and a data breach is more likely to fall under the data. But for the very same reasons, a December data breach can be the worst possible scenario. Your team suddenly has a mountain of work on its hands as it mitigate the damage.

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ChatGPT Doesn’t Get Writer’s Block. Discuss.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash How long have I been staring at a blank screen, this accusing white box, struggling to compose the first sentence of a post I know will be difficult to write? About two minutes, actually, but that’s at least ten times longer than ChatGPT takes to compose a full page. And it’s those two minutes – and the several days I struggled with this post afterwards – that convince me that ChatGPT will not destroy writing.

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Patched Chromium Vulnerability Allowed File Theft

Data Breach Today

Bug Exploited Symbolic Links to Find a File Path to Sensitive Data A high-severity vulnerability patched by Google Chrome a few months ago allowed hackers to steal sensitive files such as crypto wallets. Hackers increasingly are targeting individuals and organizations that hold cryptocurrencies, writes Imperva security researcher Ron Masas, who discovered the flaw.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

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.

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How Technology Can Help With HR Investigations

Hanzo Learning Center

Workplace complaints are serious. Even if a claim doesn’t lead to disciplinary action, the fact that an employee has made an accusation usually indicates workplace problems that need to be addressed for productivity, morale, and quality of work life.

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Sneaky New Stealer Woos Corporate Workers Through Fake Zoom Downloads

Dark Reading

Rhadamanthys spreads through Google Ads that redirect to bogus download sites for popular workforce software — as well as through more typical malicious emails.

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Security Analysis of Threema

Schneier on Security

A group of Swiss researchers have published an impressive security analysis of Threema. We provide an extensive cryptographic analysis of Threema, a Swiss-based encrypted messaging application with more than 10 million users and 7000 corporate customers. We present seven different attacks against the protocol in three different threat models. As one example, we present a cross-protocol attack which breaks authentication in Threema and which exploits the lack of proper key separation between diff

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