Data Breach Today
JULY 11, 2020
Newly Formed Task Force Combines Electronic and Financial Crimes Units The U.S. Secret Service is combining its electronic and financial crimes units into a single task force that will focus on investigating cyber-related financial crimes such as BEC schemes and ransomware attacks. The move comes as lawmakers want the Secret Service to take a more active role in fighting cybercrime.
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
More Devices Affected by 'Ripple20' Vulnerabilities Federal regulators have issued another round of security alerts about vulnerabilities in medical device products from several manufacturers, including an update on those affected by so-called "Ripple-20" flaws earlier identified in the Treck TCP/IP stack.
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WIRED Threat Level
JULY 29, 2020
A disinfo operation broke into the content management systems of Eastern European media outlets in a campaign to spread misinformation about NATO.
Micro Focus
JULY 2, 2020
Introduction In its seventh decade, COBOL’s heritage is legendary. This month sees yet another stride forward in COBOL innovation, with the latest release of the Micro Focus Visual COBOL and Enterprise product sets. But what of its practitioners? Where is the investment? We caught up two new members of the COBOL community, from our recent. View Article.
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.
Krebs on Security
JULY 31, 2020
Three individuals have been charged for their alleged roles in the July 15 hack on Twitter , an incident that resulted in Twitter profiles for some of the world’s most recognizable celebrities, executives and public figures sending out tweets advertising a bitcoin scam. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s Twitter account on the afternoon of July 15.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 27, 2020
Hack Blamed on Credentials Stolen via Breach of Third-Party Service Provider Waydev Mobile-only banking app Dave has suffered a data breach that exposed personal details for at least 3 million users. But the fintech startup says no account information was exposed, and there are no signs of fraud. Dave says the incident traces to credentials stolen from Waydev, a third-party service provider.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 1, 2020
The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.
Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2020
Devices out of sight for the past several months could spell trouble when employees bring them back to work.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 22, 2020
Twitter's new policy won't make the conspiracy group disappear. But experts say it could dramatically reduce its ability to spread.
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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.
Krebs on Security
JULY 24, 2020
Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills. Here’s a look at a recent survey that identified some of the bigger skills gaps, and some thoughts about how those seeking a career in these fields can better stand out from the crowd.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2020
It took a global pandemic and the death of George Floyd to put deep-seated social inequities, especially systemic racism, front and center for intense public debate. Related: Will ‘blockchain’ lead to more equitable wealth distribution? We may or may not be on the cusp of a redressing social injustice by reordering our legacy political and economic systems.
Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2020
Social Media Firm Says Fraudsters Executed Their Cryptocurrency Scam Within a Day The hackers who hijacked 130 high-profile Twitter accounts as part of a cryptocurrency scam earlier this month used a telephone-based spear-phishing attack to obtain employee credentials, the social media company says.
Lenny Zeltser
JULY 22, 2020
10 years after the initial release of REMnux , I’m thrilled to announce that REMnux version 7 is now available. This Linux distribution for malware analysis includes hundreds of new and classic tools for examining executables, documents, scripts, and other forms of malicious code. To start using REMnux v7, you can: Download REMnux as a virtual appliance Set up a dedicated REMnux system from scratch Add REMnux to an existing Ubuntu 18.04 host Run REMnux distro as a Docker container.
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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.
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 12, 2020
Boris Johnson’s chief adviser declines to explain reason for payments to Faculty A private company owned and controlled by Dominic Cummings paid more than a quarter of a million pounds to the artificial intelligence firm that worked on the Vote Leave campaign. The prime minister’s chief adviser is declining to explain the reason for the payments to Faculty, which were made in instalments over two years.
erwin
JULY 9, 2020
Enterprise architecture plays a key role in the modern enterprise, so the average enterprise architect salary reflects the demand. In this post: Average Salary for an Enterprise Architect. What Does an Enterprise Architect Do? Enterprise Architect Salary Expectations. What’s Influencing Enterprise Architecture Salaries? The Tools Enterprise Architects Need to Thrive.
Krebs on Security
JULY 30, 2020
Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards.
Security Affairs
JULY 5, 2020
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned enterprises about cyberattacks from the Tor network. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning enterprises of cyberattacks launched from the Tor network. Threat actors leverage the Tor network to hide the real source of their attacks and avoid that their C2 infrastructure could be identified and shut down by.
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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
JULY 18, 2020
Security Researchers Detect New Spam Campaigns in US and UK After a nearly six-month hiatus, the Emotet botnet has sprung back to life with a spam campaign targeting the U.S. and U.K., according to multiple security research reports. Victims are hit with phishing emails that contain either a malicious URL or Word document attachment that downloads the malware.
Lenny Zeltser
JULY 1, 2020
Writing about cybersecurity threats, such as phishing campaigns, malware infections, and attack groups, is challenging for many reasons. How should you decide what details to include? How can you persuade the readers that your analysis is sound? How might you address the needs of multiple audiences? I’m happy to share what I’ve learned over the years about writing effective threat reports in the following 36-minute video.
IT Governance
JULY 6, 2020
The number of UK businesses that have suffered cyber attacks has doubled in the past five years, according to a new report. Beaming’s Five Years in Cyber Security found that 1.5 million organisations fell victim to cyber crime in 2019. This equates to 25% of all UK businesses, compared to 13% in 2015. Phishing and malware were the most common tools for cyber crime – and the larger the organisation, the more likely they were to fall victim.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 7, 2020
When compared to the EU or the U.S., China has lacked a comprehensive data protection and data security law that regulates in detail requirements and procedures relating to the collection, processing, control and storage of personal data. In recent years, China has seen developments on data protection both in legislation and in practice. Recently, another significant draft law on data security was issued by the Chinese legislative authority.
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.
Krebs on Security
JULY 27, 2020
Identity thieves who specialize in running up unauthorized lines of credit in the names of small businesses are having a field day with all of the closures and economic uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. This story is about the victims of a particularly aggressive business ID theft ring that’s spent years targeting small businesses across the country and is now pivoting toward using that access for pandemic assistance loans and unemployment benefits.
Security Affairs
JULY 15, 2020
A group of hacktivists that goes online with the name Ghost Squad Hackers has defaced a site of the European Space Agency (ESA). A group of hackers that goes online with the name Ghost Squad Hackers has defaced a site of the European Space Agency (ESA), [link]. I have reached them for a comment and they told me that the attack was not targeted, they defacted the site only for fun. “We are hacktivists, we usually hack for many various causes related to activism.” Ghost Squad Hackers&#
Data Breach Today
JULY 6, 2020
In Latest Case, Florida Practice Sued for Damages, and Security Mandates Sought A lawsuit seeking damages as well as security mandates has been filed against a Florida-based orthopedic group in the wake of a ransomware incident. It's the latest in a series of such legal actions in healthcare, including one in which a preliminary settlement has been reached.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 16, 2020
IBM's X-Force security team obtained five hours of APT35 hacking operations, showing exactly how the group steals data from email accounts—and who it's targeting.
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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.
IT Governance
JULY 1, 2020
The first half of 2020 ended on a familiarly bad note, with 92 security incidents accounting for at least 7,021,195,399 breached records. That figure was boosted significantly by KeepNet Labs finally bowing to pressure and admitting that a third party did in fact briefly expose five billion records online. The only saving grace for the organisation – which didn’t do itself any favours by initially denying the story and threatening to sue people who reported on it – is that the leaked database co
erwin
JULY 30, 2020
ArchiMate is an enterprise architecture (EA) modeling language from The Open Group and used to communicate an organization’s enterprise architecture. Pronounced “ AR-ki-mayt” , the modeling language’s name comes from a compounding of “ archi tecture” and “ani mate.” The name conveys its aim to provide a way to visualize an organization’s EA. Unlike other modeling languages such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), ArchiMate is designed to be narrow in
Krebs on Security
JULY 13, 2020
Data Viper , a security startup that provides access to some 15 billion usernames, passwords and other information exposed in more than 8,000 website breaches, has itself been hacked and its user database posted online. The hackers also claim they are selling on the dark web roughly 2 billion records Data Viper collated from numerous breaches and data leaks, including data from several companies that likely either do not know they have been hacked or have not yet publicly disclosed an intrusion.
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