IG Guru

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These gadgets give you a huge advantage over the hackers.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Social news aggregation platform Reddit suffered a security breach, attackers gained unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some business systems. Reddit announced it was hit by a sophisticated and highly-targeted attack that took place on February 5, 2023. A highly-targeted phishing attack hit the employees of the company. The company pointed out that Reddit user passwords and accounts were not compromised.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With the introduction of OpenAI's Chat GPT, artificial intelligence is no longer considered part of science fiction. It has presented a new problem for cybersecurity professionals, as AI-generated malware and hacks can be challenging to detect. AI is undoubtedly having an impact on society, whether it is benefiting or threatening our organizations.

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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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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A broken access control vulnerability could have led to dangerous follow-on attacks for users of the money-management app.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Julius “Zeekill” Kivimäki, a 25-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a local online psychotherapy practice and leaking therapy notes for more than 22,000 patients online, was arrested this week in France. A notorious hacker convicted of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, Kivimäki had been in hiding since October 2022, when he failed to show up in court and Finland issued an international warrant for his arrest.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Throughout 2022, we saw hackers become far more sophisticated with their email-based cyber attacks. Using legitimate services and compromised corporate email addresses became a norm and is likely to continue in 2023 and beyond. Related: Deploying human sensors Additionally, with tools like ChatGPT, almost anyone can create new malware and become a threat actor.

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Weissman's World

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It’s no secret that infogov and records management can be difficult and frustrating – increasingly so as traditional areas like policy development, process improvement, compliance, retention, and destruction have begun banging into once-separate and quickly growing disciplines like privacy and security. What seems to be lesser-known, though, is that there’s a remarkably universal strategic recipe… Read More » Same Recipe, Different Clientele Cooking Up Effective Programs for Records,

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Data Leaked from a Thrid-Party Vendor U.S. wireless telecom USCellular says a data breach at a third party vendor resulted in a leak of 52,000 named and email addresses. The company confirmed that data from the leak is available for download on a criminal data breach forum.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

KrebsOnSecurity will likely have a decent amount of screen time in an upcoming Hulu documentary series about the 2015 megabreach at marital infidelity site Ashley Madison. While I can’t predict what the producers will do with the video interviews we shot, it’s fair to say the series will explore compelling new clues as to who may have been responsible for the attack.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The decision by the House of Representatives to ban TikTok from federal devices is noteworthy, especially as the Chinese spy balloon crisis unfolds. Related: The Golden Age of cyber espionage On December 23, 2022, Congress, in a bipartisan spending bill, banned TikTok from all government devices. The White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, and the State Department have already banned the social media app, as have more than a dozen other states.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

We have an information dilemma on our hands at AIIM. Starting the year, we believed that 2023 is the 80th anniversary of AIIM. We have several blog posts referencing 1943 as AIIM’s founding date. In fact, we celebrated our 75th anniversary just five years ago. 2023 must be our 80th anniversary, right? We believe the National Microfilm Association was founded in 1943.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Aleksanteri Kivimaki Charged With Mental Health Patient Data Breach and Extortion French police arrested hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, 25, who's suspected of hacking and extorting a Finnish mental health service provider, leaking patient data and extorting 25,000 patients. The suspect was formerly convicted of disrupting thousands of websites when he was a teenager.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Authorities in the United States and United Kingdom today levied financial sanctions against seven men accused of operating “ Trickbot ,” a cybercrime-as-a-service platform based in Russia that has enabled countless ransomware attacks and bank account takeovers since its debut in 2016. The U.S. Department of the Treasury says the Trickbot group is associated with Russian intelligence services, and that this alliance led to the targeting of many U.S. companies and government entities.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

ChatGPT has raised alarm among cybersecurity researchers for its unnerving ability in composing everything from sophisticated malware to phishing lures – but it’s important to keep in mind that the tool can help support cybersecurity defenses as well. Shiran Grinberg, director of research and cyber operations at Cynet, told eSecurity Planet that too many companies are deterred by ChatGPT, rather than encouraging employees to leverage its functionality. “After all, I doubt you’l

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I think I've pretty much captured it all in the title of this post but as of about a day ago, Pwned Passwords now has full parity between the SHA-1 hashes that have been there since day 1 and NTLM hashes. We always had both as a downloadable corpus but as of just over a year ago with the introduction of the FBI data feed , we stopped maintaining downloadable behemoths of data.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Hackers Actively Scanning for Backups to Steal Access Credentials, Researchers Warn Researchers at Sansec warn that 12% of e-commerce sites they studied publicly expose private backups and that hackers are actively scanning for them. Such backups can give attackers customer data, passwords and other details required to gain remote, administrator-level access to an environment.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. This month, we look at a UK government warning about a resurgence in Russian cyber attacks and concerns that the much-discussed AI programme ChatGPT could be used for fraud.

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Information Governance Perspectives

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In literature like Prufrock, modernists often recycled myths and other masterworks to support their impressions of daily life and present-day experiences. They juxtaposed different voices, traditions, and arguments and emphasized form itself as the "carrier of meaning." The post Lovin’ The Prufrock: Celebrating 108 Years of T.S. Eliot’s Modernist Masterpiece appeared first on Rafael Moscatel.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With the proliferation of electronic data, the vast majority of business communication is now in electronic format. It is not surprising that the use cases for eDiscovery technology have expanded beyond the typical litigation review for production use cases. In the eDiscovery Today 2023 State of the Industry Report, survey respondents reported that the expanded … The post Sometimes in eDiscovery more is better appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Updates by Attacker Block Decryption Workaround and Tracking, Researchers Warn Attackers targeting unpatched VMware ESXi hypervisors to hit virtual machines have reportedly modified their ESXiArgs ransomware to prevent victims from using decryption workarounds identified by researchers. The campaign has already amassed nearly 3,000 known victims and could have many more.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This week, we discuss a Which? investigation into basic security flaws on banks’ websites and apps, a ransomware attack on the financial firm ION Cleared Derivatives, and a phishing attack that compromised the emails of Stewart McDonald MP. Now available on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud. The post IT Governance Podcast 2023-3: Bank security flaws ranked, ION ransom paid, MP hacked appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The global assault on vulnerable VMware hypervisors may have been mitigated by updating to the latest version of the product, but patch management is only part of the story.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Last week I was delighted for OpenText to complete the acquisition of Micro Focus and welcome its customers, partners and employees to OpenText. We have significantly expanded our mission in Information Management. Before completing the acquisition, but after we announced the transaction, IBM brought a lawsuit against Micro Focus alleging copyright infringement by Micro Focus … The post OpenText comments on IBM’s meritless claim against Micro Focus appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Twitter Falters After Post Length for Twitter Blue Users Rises to 4,000 Characters Three of the planet's largest social media platforms suffered outages Wednesday, blocking some users at Twitter, Instagram and YouTube from accessing their accounts. At Twitter, many users received a message Wednesday saying they were "over the daily limit" and were unable to post.

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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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Jamf

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

ChatGPT, the AI-based chatbot is the newest technology in the software sandbox which like most new technologies, has just as many proponents as it does opponents. Specifically in the educational sector, concerns over how the tool is used have spurned debate between detractors worried about what it will do to education and attractors that are enthusiastic to see the changes it will bring.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Researchers reported that the top-of-the-line Android mobile devices sold in China are shipped with malware. China is currently the country with the largest number of Android mobile devices, but a recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Edinburgh and the Trinity College of Dublin revealed that top-of-the-line Android devices sold in the country are shipped with spyware.

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Hanzo Learning Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Last year , the FTC announced they were going to “crackdown on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security,” and have been pursuing a number of lawsuits as a result. Many of these are bold in their approach, which may catch many corporate legal teams off guard.

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