Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Hacked Accounts May Have Made District an Easy Ransomware Target The Labor Day weekend ransomware attack against Los Angeles Unified School District is drawing serious attention from the U.S. government, which has dispatched the FBI. The attack vector is unknown, but nearly two dozen compromised district accounts appeared on the Dark Web in the months leading up to the attack.
The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Finally, Uncle Sam is compelling companies to take cybersecurity seriously. Related: How the Middle East paved the way to CMMC. Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification version 2.0 could take effect as early as May 2023 mandating detailed audits of the cybersecurity practices of any company that hopes to do business with the Department of Defense.
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Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
From analyzing your company's risk profile to knowing where keys are stored and who can access them, prioritize key clean-up and management. Make compliance an outcome and develop a risk management strategy.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
PSG Funding Will Enable Bitwarden to Get into Passwordless and Developer Secrets Bitwarden has raised $100 million to expand into new product areas including developer secrets, passwordless and privileged access management. The investment will help the firm debut new features for individual and business users and expand its footprint in Japan, Germany, France and South America.
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.
The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Network security has been radically altered, two-plus years into the global pandemic. Related: ‘ Attack surface management’ rises to the fore. The new normal CISOs face today is something of a nightmare. They must take into account a widely scattered workforce and somehow comprehensively mitigate new and evolving cyber threats. Criminal hacking collectives are thriving, more than ever.
Information Management Today brings together the best content for information management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Data Matters
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Privacy never sleeps in California. In recent days and as California’s legislative session comes to a close, there have been a number of significant legislative and regulatory developments in the state, each of which will likely (again) change the privacy landscape in California and, by extension, the rest of the country. For businesses operating in California or whose websites, products or services reach California residents, these changes mean new compliance obligations, some of which could
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Also: Vice Society Ransomware Gang Claims Credit for Attack The only surprising aspect of the ransomware attack against Los Angeles Unified School District is that it didn’t happen sooner. The district was warned of cybersecurity weaknesses in the 20 months leading to its ransomware attack. The Vice Society gang has claimed credit.
The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
The internet has drawn comparisons to the Wild West, making ransomware the digital incarnation of a hold-up. Related: It’s all about ‘ attack surface management ‘ However, today’s perpetrator isn’t standing in front of you brandishing a weapon. They could be on the other side of the globe, part of a cybercrime regime that will never be discovered, much less brought to justice.
Troy Hunt
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
The first time I ever wrote publicly about a company's security vulnerabilities, my boss came to have a word with me after seeing my name in the news headlines. One of the worst days I've ever had was right in the middle of the Have I Been Pwned sale process, and it left me an absolute emotional wreck. When I wrote about how I deal with online abuse, it was off the back of some pretty nasty stuff. which I've now included in this book 😊 These are the stories behind the stor
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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
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
Electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a new data breach after some of its US systems were compromised in July. After the attack that hit the company in late July 2022, Samsung disclosed a data breach. The Electronics giant discovered on August 4 that threat actors have had access to its systems and exfiltrated customer personal information. The threat actors had access to Samsung customers’ names, contacts, dates of birth, product registration data, and demographic information.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
APT42 Operates on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps An Iranian state-sponsored group in operation since 2015 relies on highly targeted social engineering to try and attack individuals and organizations that Tehran deems enemies of the regime, says a new report from cyberthreat intelligence firm Mandiant.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint released today. The report , “Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care,” surveyed 641 healthcare IT and security practitioners and found that the most common consequences of cyberattacks are delayed procedures and tests, resulting in poor patient outcomes for 57% of the healthcare prov
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Researchers at Resecurity have discovered a new Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called “EvilProxy” that’s being offered on the dark web. EvilProxy is designed to target accounts on a variety of platforms, including Apple, Facebook, GoDaddy, GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Instagram, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, Yandex.
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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 9, 2022
Threat actors claimed to have stolen classified NATO documents from the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA). After discovering that Classified NATO documents belonging to the Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal (EMGFA) were offered for sale on the darkweb, the Portuguese agency discovered it has suffered a cyberattack. The Armed Forces General Staff (Portuguese: Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas), or EMGFA, is the supreme military body of Portugal.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
EvilProxy Bypasses MFA By Capturing Session Cookies One of the biggest challenges for cybercriminals is how to defeat multifactor authentication. New research has uncovered a criminal service called “EvilProxy” that steals session cookies to bypass MFA and compromise accounts.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Welcome to our September 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 an ongoing phishing campaign targeting online service providers, and delve into a sophisticated scam that has caught out Facebook Business/Ads users.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Anyone who has run security awareness programs for a while knows that changing human behaviour is not an easy task. And that sometimes the problem with awareness is that "awareness" alone does not automatically result in secure behavior.
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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 9, 2022
Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy, Wordfence researchers warned. On September 6, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team was informed of a vulnerability being actively exploited in the BackupBuddy WordPress plugin. This plugin allows users to back up an entire WordPress installation, including theme files, pages, posts, widgets, users, and media files.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Major Drama in the Online Underworld Who's been disrupting ransomware operations' data leak sites by targeting them with distributed denial-of-service attacks? No one has yet claimed credit for the ongoing disruptions and slowdowns, but one likely theory is that rival operations are attempting to cause each other pain.
Collibra
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Data-driven organizations are depending on modern technologies and AI to get the most out of their data assets. But they struggle with data quality issues all the time. Incomplete or inaccurate data, security problems, hidden data – the list is endless. Several surveys reveal the extent of cost damages across many verticals due to the problems associated with data quality.
Jamf
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
Cost optimization is always on the corporate agenda – how can we get more from less? But making informed, cost-efficient decisions about which technologies you need is challenging when you don’t know the level of Shadow IT in your organization.
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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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Cisco fixed new security flaws affecting its products, including a recently disclosed high-severity issue in NVIDIA Data Plane Development Kit. The most severe issues fixed by Cisco are an unauthenticated Access to Messaging Services Vulnerability affecting Cisco SD-WAN vManage software and a vulnerability in NVIDIA Data Plane Development Kit. The two issues have been tracked as CVE-2022-20696 (CVSS score: 7.5) and CVE-2022-28199 (CVSS score: 8.6) respectively.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Mark Cristiano of Rockwell Automation discusses Rockwell's cybersecurity journey, the particular challenges of deploying cybersecurity in an OT environment, and the minimum and proper industrial protections that organizations need to have in place.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 3, 2022
The operators of the emerging cross-platform ransomware BianLian increased their command and control infrastructure this month, indicating an acceleration in their operational pace.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 4, 2022
Researchers at Vade warn that an email phishing campaign is informing users that their Instagram account is eligible to receive a blue verification badge. If a user clicks the link, they’ll be taken to a spoofed Instagram login page designed to steal their credentials.
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.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
CISA added 12 more security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog including four D-Link vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 12 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , including four vulnerabilities in D-Link routers, two Chrome zero-day issues, and a recently disclosed flaw in the QNAP Photo Station.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
K-12 Schools Increasingly Are Ransomware Targets California's largest public school district and the second-largest in the U.S. is undergoing a ransomware attack. The attack has disrupted the district's email system but fundamental school system functions - including instruction and transportation, food and after-school programs - are unaffected.
CGI
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Energy and utilities companies are increasingly moving to the cloud to gain a number of business advantages, including enhanced data security and access. Migrating data to the cloud is not only a more secure way to store data, but also makes it easier to access the data. With the cloud, data is managed in tightly secured offsite locations (versus on-premise) with “back-ups of back-ups,” so to speak, and far greater business continuity capabilities than typically found onsite.
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