Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Commerce Department Says Social Media Apps Pose National Security Threat The U.S. Commerce Department is banning the downloading and hosting of China-based social media apps TikTok and WeChat effective on Sunday, citing national security concerns. The announcement comes as Oracle continues to negotiate a deal for partnering on TikTok's U.S. operations.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Ease of Use and Few Alternatives Keep Bringing Users Back Empire is the latest darknet market to "exit scam," meaning administrators ran away with users' cryptocurrency, leaving the market to fail. Given the ongoing risk of exit scams, as well as police often targeting such markets, why do they persist?
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Micro Focus
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The letter of the law Virtually anyone who has worked in IT over a meaningful period of time has experienced a software audit, which is sometimes called a License Verification (or LV) process. This practice is commonly carried out both internally within an organization (often under the IT Asset Management domain) and by vendors in. View Article.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department this week indicted seven Chinese nationals for a decade-long hacking spree that targeted more than 100 high-tech and online gaming companies. The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
AIIM
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Growing up, my parents taught me that there are some questions that aren’t appropriate to ask. Generally, it’s safe to avoid asking people their age, their salary, their weight, their politics, etc. Some questions can make the people being asked feel uncomfortable and so should be avoided. Are bots one of these hot-button topics that we avoid asking about at work?
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Data Protector
SEPTEMBER 13, 2020
Early train from Euston, just a croissant and two teas Didn't get to eat last night Who today will I see pleading on their knees Liz, I had a dreadful fright I've breached the GDPR You don't know how lucky you are, boys Breaching the GDPR Been away so long I barely know the place BC, it's good to be back home Don't make me pack my case Honey disconnect the phone I'm fed up with the GDPR’s ploys You don't know how lucky you are, boys Breaching the GD Breaching the GD Breaching the GDPR Well paid
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
U.S. authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges. The Justice Department unsealed indictments against Russian nationals Danil Potekhin and Dmitirii Karasavidi , alleging the duo was responsible for a sophisticated phishing and money laundering campaig
AIIM
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
This week brings another great episode of AIIM On Air , where we continue to explore the challenges, opportunities, and technologies that are driving digital transformation today. I was pleased to speak with Regina Martin , Records Manager at Howard County Government from Columbia, Maryland, in this episode. I caught up with Regina at the AIIM20 conference in Dallas earlier this year.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Release of Code on Russian Darknet Forums Leads to Broader Use, Enhancements The posting on Russian underground forums of source code for the Android mobile banking Trojan Cerberus has led to an increase in attacks as well as updates to the malware, the security firm Kaspersky reports.
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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
The Maze ransomware operators now use a virtual machine to encrypt a computer, a tactic previously adopted by the Ragnar Locker malware. The Maze ransomware operators have adopted a new tactic to evade detection, their malware now encrypts a computer from within a virtual machine. This technique was first adopted by Ragnar Locker gang in May, at the time the Ragnar Locker was deploying Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim’s files while bypassing security measures.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Most of us automatically put our guard up when someone we don’t know promises something too good to be true. But when the too-good-to-be-true thing starts as our idea, sometimes that instinct fails to kick in. Here’s the story of how companies searching for investors to believe in their ideas can run into trouble. Nick is an investment banker who runs a firm that helps raise capital for its clients (Nick is not his real name, and like other investment brokers interviewed in this stor
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
There’s a new unpatched Bluetooth vulnerability : The issue is with a protocol called Cross-Transport Key Derivation (or CTKD, for short). When, say, an iPhone is getting ready to pair up with Bluetooth-powered device, CTKD’s role is to set up two separate authentication keys for that phone: one for a “Bluetooth Low Energy” device, and one for a device using what’s known as the “Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate” standard.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Siva Sivasubramanian of SingTel Optus on Measuring Success An organization has successfully implemented a "zero trust" framework when it can achieve context-aware resolution of a risk, says Dr. Siva Sivasubramanian, CISO of SingTel Optus, an Australian telecommunications firm.
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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.
erwin
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Replace manual and recurring tasks for fast, reliable data lineage and overall data governance. It’s paramount that organizations understand the benefits of automating end-to-end data lineage. Critically, it makes it easier to get a clear view of how information is created and flows into, across and outside an enterprise. The importance of end-to-end data lineage is widely understood and ignoring it is risky business.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
On September 18, 2020, as confirmed by Brazilian firm Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados , Brazil’s President signed a bill from Brazil’s Congress bringing the new Brazilian data protection law ( Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais , “LGPD”) into effect with a retroactive applicability date of August 16, 2020. The LGPD’s sanctions provisions will apply beginning August 1, 2021, based on a previous delay passed by Brazil’s legislature.
OneHub
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
The sudden transition to remote working has meant that virtual tools and technologies are now uppermost in most business leaders minds. From chat and video to file sharing and more, there’s lots to consider when it comes to empowering teams to work efficiently from home. Businesses need to adapt existing elements of the business tech stack to make them more remote work friendly – as well as tackle new security and licensing issues.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
CISA Alert Says 'Pioneer Kitten' Group Targeting U.S. Businesses, Agencies The hacking group "Pioneer Kitten," which has suspected ties to the Iranian government, is taking advantage of several unpatched vulnerabilities and using open source tools to target U.S. businesses as well as federal government agencies, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for COVID19, El Pais newspaper revealed. The El Pais newspaper reported that Chinese hackers have stolen information from Spanish laboratories working on a vaccine for COVID19. While pharmaceutical companies worldwide are working on the research of a vaccine for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, threat actors are conducting cyber espionage campaigns in the attempt of stealing information on the work.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Detecting doctored media has become tricky -- and risky -- business. Here's how organizations can better protect themselves from fake video, audio, and other forms of content.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Introducing the new Jamf Teacher app for Jamf Pro, which allows teachers to manage student access during set hours while allowing admins to configure how long restrictions may be set on student devices.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
ISMG View: Unless There's More To It, Database Appears to be Scraped Public Data A leaked database compiled by a Chinese company has suddenly become the focus of multiple media reports, warning that it could be used as an espionage instrument by Beijing. But on closer examination, the alleged "social media warfare database" looks like public information largely scraped from social media sites.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers’ order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified its customers that their order data have been accessed by threat actors without authorization. The office retail giant sent out a data breach notification letter to the impacted customers, the incident took place around September 2.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Detecting doctored media has become tricky -- and risky -- business. Here's how organizations can better protect themselves from fake video, audio, and other forms of content.
DXC Technology
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
The insurance industry is in the midst of a brutal stress test, due to the current environment. The loss of customers who become unemployed, already an issue, is likely to worsen. Some insurance products may become uneconomical. And many insurers will come under pressure to reduce their spending. Given this fast-changing business environment, insurers need […].
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
FBI Releases Advisory on Previously Undisclosed Iranian Malware The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on an Iranian advanced persistent threat group, 45 associated individuals and a front company the Iranian government used for a years-long malware campaign that targeted Iranian dissidents, journalists and others.
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Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) has suffered a ransomware attack, SunCrypt ransomware operators also leaked the data they have stolen. Systems at the University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) were encrypted with the SunCrypt ransomware, threat actors also stolen documents from the institution and leaked it online. The incident took place in September.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Sara-Jayne Terp uses the tools of cybersecurity to track false claims like they’re malware. Her goal: Stop dangerous lies from hacking our beliefs.
Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
The 'BLESA' flaw affects the reconnection process that occurs when a device moves back into range after losing or dropping its pairing, Purdue researchers said.
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