Debunking the Top 5 Myths about Office 365 Backup & Recovery
Quest Software
AUGUST 4, 2019
Learn about the common misconceptions surrounding Office 365 data protection and the truth behind the myths.( read more ).
Quest Software
AUGUST 4, 2019
Learn about the common misconceptions surrounding Office 365 data protection and the truth behind the myths.( read more ).
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2019
SSRF Appears to Fit Scenario, But Details Are Slim Capital One's enormous data breach is a subject of intense scrutiny as well as fear. A definitive post mortem is likely months away. But security professionals have ideas as to how the breach was achieved and the weaknesses that led to it.
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Dark Reading
AUGUST 6, 2019
Teams need to manage perceived risks so they can focus on fighting the real fires.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 7, 2019
Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptick in SIM-swapping attacks that lead to multi-million dollar cyberheists.
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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
AUGUST 8, 2019
Security experts at CheckPoint discovered a series of vulnerabilities in WhatsApp that could be exploited by attackers to tamper with conversations. A team of Check Point security researchers composed of Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin, and Oded Vanunu devised three attacks that leverage the vulnerabilities in WhatsApp to tamper with conversations. The flaws could allow attackers to intercept and manipulate messages by WhatApp users sent in both private and group conversations.
Information Management Today brings together the best content for information management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
AIIM
AUGUST 5, 2019
In my previous blog on change management , we examined the natural and inevitable cycle of change that people go through during times of change. We explored how resistance to change is often a more troubling problem than even the most complicated tangle of technology, and how project managers and systems integrators need to account for these human factors.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 5, 2019
If you bank online and choose weak or re-used passwords, there’s a decent chance your account could be pilfered by cyberthieves — even if your bank offers multi-factor authentication as part of its login process. This story is about how crooks increasingly are abusing third-party financial aggregation services like Mint , Plaid , Yodlee , YNAB and others to surveil and drain consumer accounts online.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 6, 2019
Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 6, 2019
Points to the Need to Make IoT Devices More Secure Microsoft warned on Monday that Russia-linked attackers are gaining access to corporate networks through poorly configured devices, such as office printers and VOIP phones. The remedy is paying more attention to deployed IoT devices, including establishing security policies and regular testing.
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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.
AIIM
AUGUST 7, 2019
When I was a kid in grade school, I always hated homework because it often stood in the way of going outside to play with my friends. I can remember joking around with them and saying that we needed to build a robot to do our homework for us. That way, we could spend our after school time riding bikes and playing together. At the time, we were just kids being kids - we didn't think that we could actually build something like that.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 9, 2019
A ransomware outbreak that hit QuickBooks cloud hosting firm iNSYNQ in mid-July appears to have started with an email phishing attack that snared an employee working in sales for the company, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. It also looks like the intruders spent roughly ten days rooting around iNSYNQ’s internal network to properly stage things before unleashing the ransomware. iNSYNQ ultimately declined to pay the ransom demand, and it is still working to completely restore customer access
Elie
AUGUST 7, 2019
In this talk we look into Gmail telemetry to illuminate the differences between phishing groups in terms of tactics and targets.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 8, 2019
Former Secret Service agent Jeff Dant now heads fraud operations and intelligence for the financial crimes unit at BMO Financial Group. Which threats and threat actors does he focus on, and how does his law enforcement experience help? Dant previews a session at the upcoming Cybersecurity Summit in New York.
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“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.
AIIM
AUGUST 8, 2019
Several months ago, I developed a nagging pain in my right shoulder. Nothing much at first, but over time, it got worse. Initially, I ignored the pain and hoped it would resolve itself. But it didn’t. So I tried several common over-the-counter remedies; the ones that everyone takes. They provided some improvement, but none resolved my problem. Eventually, the pain began to affect my ability to use my arm effectively.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2019
A crook involved in a spear phishing scheme and that was in Kenya is facing up to 20 years in the US federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars from US universities. Amil Hassan Raage, 48, pleaded guilty last week in a southern California court to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme. The man charged of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud risks a maximum of 20 years jail sentence. “Amil Hassan Raage pleaded guilty to fraudulently receiv
Micro Focus
AUGUST 6, 2019
90% of the data on the internet has been created since 2016, according to an IBM Marketing Cloud study. People, businesses, and devices have all become data factories that are pumping out incredible amounts of information to the web each day. This post has been tracking the growth of data created on the internet for. View Article.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 6, 2019
Software Bug Meant Some Numbers Were Stored Unencrypted Monzo, a U.K. mobile-only bank that plans to expand into the U.S., alerted about 480,000 customers to change their PINs this week after the company's security team found that a software bug meant some numbers were stored unencrypted in plaintext.
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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.
Elie
AUGUST 8, 2019
This talk provides a step-by-step introduction on how to use deep learning to perform AES side-channel attacks. After providing a brief overview of what side channels and deep-learning are, we walk you through how to use Tensorflow to build an end-to-end attack that will recover TinyAES keys from SMT32F415 chips using deep learning. Along the way we will discuss what work and what doesn't based on our experience attacking many hardware AES implementations over the last few years.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 3, 2019
Dragonblood researchers found two new weaknesses in WPA3 protocol that could be exploited to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords. passwords. A group of researchers known as Dragonblood (Mathy Vanhoef and Eyal Ronen ) devised new methods to hack WPA3 protected WiFi passwords by exploiting two new vulnerabilities dubbed Dragonblood flaws. We first met this team of experts in April when they discovered weaknesses in WPA3 that could be exploited to recover WiFi passwords by abusing timing or cache-ba
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 5, 2019
Preparing for Data Security in the Quantum Computing Era. Each passing day brings the world closer to the exciting reality of powerful quantum computing. Weather prediction, air traffic control, urban planning, defense strategies, medical research and so much more will be affected by the new era of computing power in ways we can’t even yet predict. But one thing is foreseeable: along with this greater power, some of today’s foundational crypto algorithms will be broken by quantum computers, maki
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2019
RSA's Holly Rollo on the Importance of Third-Party Risk Management Organizations going through a digital transformation need to make sure they develop a sound third-party risk management strategy, says RSA's Holly Rollo, who discusses best practices.
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.
Elie
AUGUST 7, 2019
With over 1.4 billion active users and million of companies entrusting it to handle their email, Gmail has a unique vantage point on how phishing groups operate. In this talk we look into Gmail telemetry to illuminate the differences between phishing groups in terms of tactics and targets. Then, leveraging insights from the cognitive and neuro-science fields on user's susceptibility and decision-making, we discuss why different types of users fall for phishing and how those insights can be used
Security Affairs
AUGUST 7, 2019
Experts discovered a new variant of the Spectre vulnerability (SWAPGS Attack) that affects modern Intel CPUs which leverage speculative-execution , and also some AMD processors. Experts discovered a new Spectre speculative execution flaw (SWAPGS attack), tracked as CVE-2019-1125, that affects all Modern Intel CPUs and some AMD processors. The flaw could be exploited by unprivileged local attackers to access sensitive information stored in the operating system privileged kernel memory ( i.e. pass
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 9, 2019
Sue Gordon's departure is the latest sign that US national security might be stretching its leaders too thin—and risks putting the wrong people into roles that American lives depend upon.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 7, 2019
Scheme Involved Unlocking 2 Million Smartphones to Enable Fraud The Justice Department has indicted two men on charges of paying more than $1 million in bribes to AT&T employees who helped plant malware on the carrier's network and access the company's internal systems. The complicated scheme involved unlocking 2 million smartphones from AT&T's network, prosecutors say.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
erwin
AUGUST 7, 2019
A data catalog benefits organizations in a myriad of ways. With the right data catalog tool, organizations can automate enterprise metadata management – including data cataloging, data mapping, data quality and code generation for faster time to value and greater accuracy for data movement and/or deployment projects. Data cataloging helps curate internal and external datasets for a range of content authors.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 8, 2019
Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. . Avast recently discovered a new strain of Clipsa malware that is able to scan the Internet and launches brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. “ Avast researcher
Data Matters
AUGUST 9, 2019
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“ ICO ”) has recently issued a draft version of its statutory code of practice for sharing of personal data between controllers under the GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (“ DPA ”) (the “ Draft Code ”) which provides a number of practical recommendations which controllers should take into account when sharing personal data.
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