Sat.Dec 31, 2022 - Fri.Jan 06, 2023

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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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GUEST ESSAY: These common myths and misconceptions make online browsing very risky

The Last Watchdog

For the average user, the Internet is an increasingly dangerous place to navigate. Related: Third-party snooping is widespread. Consider that any given website experiences approximately 94 malicious attacks a day , and that an estimated 12.8 million websites are infected with malware. So, in response to these numbers, users are seeking ways to implement a more secure approach to web browsing.

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Five Guys Data Breach Puts HR Data Under a Heat Lamp

Dark Reading

Job applicants could face a raft of follow-on attacks after cyber intruders accessed their data in an opportunistic attack.

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Data Breach: CircleCI Says Immediately 'Rotate Your Secrets'

Data Breach Today

Continuous Integration Software Development Platform Suspects 2-Week Intrusion CircleCI, which is used by over 1 million developers to build, test and deploy software, has issued a brief security alert warning all customers to immediately "rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI" as it continues to probe a suspected two-week intrusion.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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.

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Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?

WIRED Threat Level

When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.

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What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy? divya. Thu, 01/05/2023 - 05:52. As geopolitical tensions persist and economic instability looms, organizations should get ready for a rise in cyber risks. What will 2023 bring in the realms of cybersecurity and privacy? Here are six predictions I think you should consider for the year ahead.

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Data architecture strategy for data quality

IBM Big Data Hub

Poor data quality is one of the top barriers faced by organizations aspiring to be more data-driven. Ill-timed business decisions and misinformed business processes, missed revenue opportunities, failed business initiatives and complex data systems can all stem from data quality issues. Just one of these problems can prove costly to an organization.

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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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Google will pay $29.5M to settle two lawsuits over its location tracking practices

Security Affairs

Google will pay $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits in the US over its deceptive location tracking practices. Google decided to pay $29.5 million to settle two different lawsuits brought by the states of Indiana and Washington, D.C., over its deceptive location tracking practices. The IT giant will pay $9.5 million to D.C. and $20 million to Indiana after the states filed two lawsuits against the company charging it with having tracked users’ locations without their express cons

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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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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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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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Neeva Combines AI and Search – Now Comes The Hard Part

John Battelle's Searchblog

The Very Hardest Thing. What’s the hardest thing you could do as a tech-driven startup? I’ve been asked that question a few times over the years, and my immediate answer is always the same: Trying to beat Google in search. A few have tried – DuckDuckGo has built itself a sizable niche business, and there’s always Bing, thought it’s stuck at less than ten percent of Google’s market (and Microsoft isn’t exactly a startup.

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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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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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Leaked Emails of 200M Twitter Users Now Available for Free

Data Breach Today

63GB Database of Names, Email Addresses Posted to Hacker Forum for All to Download A member of a criminal data breach forum that tried to sell the email addresses of 400 million Twitter users to CEO Elon Musk last month has now posted the stolen data for free for anyone to download. The 63 GB of data includes names, handles, creation dates, follower counts and email addresses.

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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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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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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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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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Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Luxury Cars Now Fixed

Data Breach Today

Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce, Porsche Software Flaws Exposed Data, Vehicle Controls Software vulnerabilities installed by luxury car manufacturers including Ferrari, BMW, Rolls Royce and Porsche that could allow remote attackers to control vehicles and steal owners' personal details have been fixed. Cybersecurity researchers uncovered the vulnerabilities while vacationing.

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ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence: An Upcoming Cybersecurity Threat?

Dark Reading

The role of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity is growing. A new AI model highlights the opportunities and challenges.

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There is a New Trend in Social Engineering with a Disgusting Name; "Pig-butchering"

KnowBe4

The technique began in the Chinese underworld, and it amounts to an unusually protracted form of social engineering. The analogy is with fattening up a pig, then butchering it for all it’s worth. In this case the analogy is wayward, since the criminal doesn’t really fatten up the pig, not that much, anyway, but it works at least this far: they develop the marks slowly, and they get the marks to fatten up the accounts they ultimately drain.

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Criminal Hackers Leak Email Addresses of 220 Million Twitter Users

IT Governance

Twitter is in the middle of yet another PR disaster after a criminal hacker leaked more than 220 million users’ email addresses. The fraudster, who goes by the name ‘Ryushi’, initially demanded $200,000 (about £166,000) to hand over or delete the stolen information. A week later – after presumably being rebuffed by Twitter – the hacker put the data up for sale on the hacking forum Breached.

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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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Irish Privacy Watchdog Fines Meta 390 Million Euros for Ads

Data Breach Today

Social Media Company Fined for GDPR Violation Related to Ad Personalization The Irish Data Protection Commission has imposed a fine of 390 million euros against Meta Ireland for violating the General Data Protection Regulation related to user data processing. Meta confirmed it will contest the penalty, which targets ad personalization by Facebook and Instagram.

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PurpleUrchin Gang Embraces DevOps in Massive Cloud Malware Campaign

Dark Reading

The Automated Libra group is deploying all components of its campaign in an automated manner via containers, stealing free trial resources for cryptomining, but the threat could get larger.

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Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles

Schneier on Security

This group has found a ton of remote vulnerabilities in all sorts of automobiles. It’s enough to make you want to buy a car that is not Internet-connected. Unfortunately, that seems to be impossible.

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Five Guys Hit with BIPA Class Action

Hunton Privacy

On December 20, 2022, a former employee in Illinois brought a class action suit against Five Guys Enterprises, LLC (“Five Guys”), a burger chain, alleging that Five Guys violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). . According to the complaint filed in the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, Five Guys utilizes a time clock system that require employees to scan and input their fingerprints or thumbprints to log in and out of the time clock system.

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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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Texas County EMS Agency Says Ransomware Breach Hit 612,000

Data Breach Today

Emergency Medical, Ambulance Providers Face Extra Security Threats, Experts Say A municipal ambulance services provider that serves 15 cities in a Texas county has reported to federal regulators a ransomware breach potentially affecting 612,000 individuals, which is equivalent to nearly 30% of the county's 2.1 million population.

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Black Hat Flashback: The Day That Dan Kaminsky Saved the Internet

Dark Reading

Dark Reading's Kelly Jackson Higgins explains the enormous legacy left behind by Dan Kaminsky and his seminal "Great DNS Vulnerability" talk at Black Hat 2008.

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In 2023, let’s focus on balance.

Jamf

Jamf CEO Dean Hager takes a look at lessons we learned in 2022— and predicts how we can apply those lessons in 2023 for a successful year, even during difficult times.

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