Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2022
Quantum Computers That Use Atom-Level States of Uncertainty Are a Matter of Time The National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced a first group of encryption algorithms designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer. Selection of the four algorithms comes after six years of evaluation by the U.S. federal agency.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 5, 2022
Gathering intelligence has always been a key tool for organisational decision making – understanding the external operating environment is the ‘101’ for business. How can you grasp the challenges and opportunities for your company without a deep understanding of all the contributing factors that make the company tick? Related: We’re in the golden age of cyber espionage.
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WIRED Threat Level
JULY 4, 2022
From cryptocurrency thefts to intrusions into telecom giants, state-backed attackers have had a field day in the year’s first half.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 5, 2022
On June 22, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission submitted an updated abstract to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs indicating that it is considering initiating a rulemaking under Section 18 of the FTC Act to curb lax security practices, limit privacy abuses, and ensure that algorithmic decision-making does not result in unlawful discrimination.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JULY 4, 2022
Army Apologizes for Temporary Interruption; Full Investigation Underway The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were briefly taken over on Sunday evening by unidentified hacker(s) who posted content related to cryptocurrency and NFTs. The situation has now been resolved, but the U.K. Ministry of Defense says investigation is ongoing.
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Security Affairs
JULY 7, 2022
Cybersecurity researchers warn of new malware, tracked as OrBit, which is a fully undetected Linux threat. Cybersecurity researchers at Intezer have uncovered a new Linux malware, tracked as OrBit, that is still undetected. The malware can be installed as a volatile implant either by achieving persistence on the compromised systems. The malware implements advanced evasion techniques and hooks key functions to maintain persistence on the infected systems.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 8, 2022
Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity have been an essential aspect of enterprise IT for decades. Whether it’s earthquakes, floods, or power outages, DR is there to ensure operations can continue. But more recently, a lot more has been put on the DR plate. Ransomware has now emerged as one of the key reasons to have a DR plan and DR technology in place.
Data Breach Today
JULY 7, 2022
SHI Took Its Public Websites and Email Offline to Assess the System Integrity A "coordinated and professional malware attack" against SHI left the company without email or public websites for days while the hack was investigated. SHI took its public websites and email offline after being hit during the July Fourth holiday weekend to assess the integrity of those systems.
Dark Reading
JULY 6, 2022
The unsecured server exposed more than 1.5 million files, including airport worker ID photos and other PII, highlighting the ongoing cloud-security challenges worldwide.
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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
JULY 7, 2022
US authorities have issued a joint advisory warning of North Korea-linked APTs using Maui ransomware in attacks against the Healthcare sector. The FBI, CISA, and the U.S. Treasury Department issued a joint advisory that warn of North-Korea-linked threat actors using Maui ransomware in attacks aimed at organizations in the Healthcare sector. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) are
eSecurity Planet
JULY 8, 2022
A six-year quantum cryptography competition just ended, producing four new security standards selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The announcement comes on the heels of a few major strides in quantum computing accessibility and speed—and may hopefully stave off the growing quantum security threat.
Data Breach Today
JULY 5, 2022
Data Has Been Put on Sale for 10 Bitcoin, Equivalent to About $200,000 A misconfigured Alibaba private cloud server has led to the leak of around one billion Chinese nationals' personal details. An unknown hacker, identified as "ChinaDan", posted an advertisement on a hacker forum selling 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoin, equivalent to about $200,000.
Dark Reading
JULY 7, 2022
Improper implementations of authentication APIs at a global crypto wallet service provider could have resulted in the loss of account control — and millions of dollars — from personal and business accounts.
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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
JULY 8, 2022
Emsisoft has released a free decryption tool that allows victims of the AstraLocker and Yashma ransomware to recover their files without paying a ransom. Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft released a free decryptor tool that allows victims of the AstraLocker and Yashma ransomware to recover their files without paying a ransom. The security firm states that the AstraLocker decryptor works for ransomware versions based on the Babuk malware that appends the.Astra or.babyk extensions to the name of the enc
Adam Levin
JULY 6, 2022
A firewall is a network security device or program designed to prevent unauthorized and malicious internet traffic from entering a private network or device. It is a digital safety barrier between public and private internet connections, allowing non-threatening traffic in and keeping malicious traffic out, which in theory includes malware and hackers.
Data Breach Today
JULY 4, 2022
DTEK Group Alleges Russian Hackers/Military Behind Hybrid Attacks Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK group alleges that the Russian federation has carried out a cyberattack against its facilities, crippling its infrastructure in retaliation for its owners' support of the country in its war against Russian invaders.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 7, 2022
Welcome to OpenText. We are the information company. We power and protect information to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. In this day and time, information is ubiquitous and everywhere. It is scattered throughout organizations. Structured and unstructured. Tracked and untracked. Internal and external. In fact, there is so much … The post Discover your Information Advantage appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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
JULY 4, 2022
Threat actors claim to have breached a database belonging to Shanghai police and stole the data of a billion Chinese residents. Unknown threat actors claimed to have obtained data of a billion Chinese residents after breaching a database of the Shanghai police. If the incident will be confirmed, this data breach is the largest one in the country’s history. “Shangai authorities have not publicly responded to the purported hack.
Dark Reading
JULY 5, 2022
Company says it is making changes to its security controls to prevent malicious insiders from doing the same thing in future; reassures bug hunters their bounties are safe.
Data Breach Today
JULY 8, 2022
Also: Highlights From ISMG's Upcoming Healthcare Summit Four ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including the hot topics at ISMG roundtable discussions - such as challenges around software supply chain security, highlights from ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Summit, and how some cybersecurity vendors are creating their own venture funds.
IT Governance
JULY 5, 2022
Welcome to our July 2022 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 their personal data. This month, we look at a cyber attack at OpenSea, a US school district that was tricked into transferring funds to a crook and a report on the rising threat of phishing.
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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
JULY 6, 2022
Experts observed an increase in malicious activity targeting law enforcement agencies at the beginning of Q2 2022. Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies worldwide, has registered an increase in malicious activity targeting law enforcement agencies at the beginning of Q2 2022. Threat actors are hacking email and other accounts which belong to police officers and their internal systems.
Threatpost
JULY 7, 2022
A radio control system for drones is vulnerable to remote takeover, thanks to a weakness in the mechanism that binds transmitter and receiver.
Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2022
Group Now Uses MS Office Word Documents to Deliver Payload The Evilnum hacking group has updated its tactics, techniques and procedures, now uses MS Office Word documents and leverages document template injection to deliver malicious payloads to its victims' machines. First seen in 2018, the group mainly targets fintech firms in the U.K. and Europe.
Troy Hunt
JULY 4, 2022
Continuing the rollout of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) to national governments around the world, today I'm very happy to welcome Poland to the service! The Polish CSIRT GOV is now the 34th onboard the service and has free and open access to APIs allowing them to query their government domains. Seeing the ongoing uptake of governments using HIBP to do useful things in the wake of data breaches is enormously fulfilling and I look forward to welcoming many more national CSIRTs in the future.
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Security Affairs
JULY 6, 2022
Hive ransomware operators have improved their file-encrypting module by migrating to Rust language and adopting a more sophisticated encryption method. The operators of the Hive ransomware upgraded their malware by migrating the malware to the Rust language and implementing a more sophisticated encryption method, Microsoft researchers warn. “The upgrades in the latest variant are effectively an overhaul: the most notable changes include a full code migration to another programming language
Dark Reading
JULY 8, 2022
Dark Reading's digest of the other don't-miss stories of the week, including a new ransomware targeting QNAP gear, and a destructive attack against the College of the Desert that lingers on.
Data Breach Today
JULY 6, 2022
Swimlane Wants to Expand in Europe and Asia as well as Outside the Fortune 2000 Swimlane has raised $70 million to expand its clientele beyond the Fortune 2000 and acquire more customers in Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company plans to hire more personnel focused on sales, marketing and partnerships to make the company's low-code security automation platform accessible.
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