The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Cybersecurity is a top concern for individuals and businesses in the increasingly digital world. Billion-dollar corporations, small mom-and-pop shops and average consumers could fall victim to a cyberattack. Related: Utilizing humans as security sensors. Phishing is one of the most common social engineering tactics cybercriminals use to target their victims.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
An unpatched flaw in more than 350,000 unique open source repositories leaves software applications vulnerable to exploit. The path traversal-related vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2007-4559.
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Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
This is a fascinating glimpse of the future of automatic cheating detection in sports: Maybe you heard about the truly insane false-start controversy in track and field? Devon Allen—a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles—was disqualified from the 110-meter hurdles at the World Athletics Championships a few weeks ago for a false start.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A disgruntled developer seems to be responsible for the leak of the builder for the latest encryptor of the LockBit ransomware gang. The leak of the builder for the latest encryptor of the LockBit ransomware gang made the headlines, it seems that the person who published it is a disgruntled developer. The latest version of the encryptor, version 3.0 , was released by the gang in June.
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.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Assume Password, Email and IPs Leaked as an Attempt to Export User Database Made One of the internet's worst websites is down following a weekend hack that may have exposed the email, password and IP address of Kiwi Farms yses. A statement on the site says hackers gained access to site administrator Joshua Moon's account. Site users stalk trans and non-binary people.
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The Last Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
The pace and extent of digital transformation that global enterprise organizations have undergone cannot be overstated. Related: The criticality of ‘attack surface management’ Massive global macro-economic shifts have fundamentally changed the way companies operate. Remote work already had an impact on IT strategy and the shift to cloud, including hybrid cloud , well before the onset of Covid 19.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Cyber crime is an increasingly lucrative business, with threat actors reportedly pocketing $6.9 billion (about £6 billion) last year. With the help of progressively more sophisticated techniques and organisations’ growing reliance on digital technology, it’s easy to see why there are so many breaches. Organisations are being urged to respond to the threat by investing more in cyber security defences, but if those solutions aren’t part of a cohesive strategy, the benefits will be minimal.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Cybercriminals Using Social Engineering, Phishing to Divert Payments Cybercriminals are netting multimillion-dollar hauls by targeting healthcare industry payment processing, the FBI warns. The criminals use publicly available personally identifiable information and deploy social engineering techniques to impersonate care providers.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
During a cyberattack, time is of the essence for both attackers and defenders. To accelerate the ransomware encryption process and make it harder to detect, cybercriminal groups have begun using a new technique: intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption allows the ransomware encryption malware to encrypt files partially or only encrypt parts of the files.
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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.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
As ransomware attacks continue to evolve, beyond using security best practices organizations can build resiliency with extended detection and response solutions and fast response times to shut down attacks.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Okay, it’s an obscure threat. But people are researching it : Our models and experimental results in a controlled lab setting show it is possible to reconstruct and recognize with over 75 percent accuracy on-screen texts that have heights as small as 10 mm with a 720p webcam.” That corresponds to 28 pt, a font size commonly used for headings and small headlines. […].
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Intel 471’s Michael DeBolt Says Anti-Ransomware Actions Will Take Time What is the future of ransomware, and is it going to continue with the same intensity of the last few years? Michael DeBolt of Intel471 says anti-ransomware efforts, including government action and better cybersecurity practices, are working. But ransomware isn’t going away soon.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
A retired threat actor has returned with new attacks aimed at the cloud, containers – and encryption keys. The Aqua Nautilus research team observed three attacks that appeared very similar to those performed by TeamTNT, a threat actor specializing in cloud platforms and online instances such as Kubernetes clusters, Redis servers, and Docker APIs.
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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.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert warning of an increase in phishing and other social engineering attacks against healthcare payment processors.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
It's called "spell-jacking": Both browsers have spell-check features that send data to Microsoft and Google when users fill out forms for websites or Web services.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Intel 471’s Michael DeBolt Says Anti-Ransomware Actions Will Take Time What is the future of ransomware, and is it going to continue with the same intensity of the last few years? Michael DeBolt of Intel471 says anti-ransomware efforts, including government action and better cybersecurity practices, are working. But ransomware isn’t going away soon.
Schneier on Security
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Someone in the UK is stealing smartphones and credit cards from people who have stored them in gym lockers, and is using the two items in combination to commit fraud: Phones, of course, can be made inaccessible with the use of passwords and face or fingerprint unlocking. And bank cards can be stopped. But the thief has a method which circumnavigates those basic safety protocols.
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eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
For years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) strongly advised public companies to improve their cybersecurity. However, after minimal corporate adoption of stronger cybersecurity, the SEC has drafted rules to require more formal cybersecurity reporting and disclosure. This requirement copies the strategies of previous legislation that dramatically improved financial reporting for both public and private companies.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Threat actors are targeting unpatched Atlassian Confluence servers as part of an ongoing crypto mining campaign. Trend Micro researchers warn of an ongoing crypto mining campaign targeting Atlassian Confluence servers affected by the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability. The now-patched critical security flaw was disclosed by Atlassian in early June, at the time the company warned of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability affecting all Confluence Server and Data Center supported versio
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Current and Former Customers' Contact Details Exposed, But No Financial Information Australian telecommunications giant Optus is warning that current and former customers' personal details were exposed, including some driver's license and passport details, but no passwords or financial details, after it suffered a major data breach.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
On September 20, 2022, Indonesia’s parliament ratified the Personal Data Protection Act (the “Act”). The Act is the first comprehensive data protection law to be enacted in Indonesia and will come into effect on a date set by the Minister of State Secretariat. Organizations subject to the Act will have two years to come into compliance with the Act’s requirements.
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KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A survey by GetApp has found that the number of organizations using phishing simulations has risen from 30% in 2019 to 70% in 2022. Despite this positive trend, however, attackers continue to increase both the sophistication and volume of their phishing emails, which has led to a significant rise in employees clicking on phishing links.
Data Matters
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
On September 2, 2022, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (the “Act”) (effective July 1, 2024) was passed by the California legislature, and on September 15, 2022 was signed into law by Governor Newsom. This Act dramatically expands business obligations and will force entities that provide an online service, product, or feature that is “likely to be accessed by children” (“Product”) to implement stringent privacy settings for users under 18.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
Group Thanked FBI Agent for Insider Information About Weaknesses The LockBit group has paid the first payment of $50,000 as part of its bug bounty program for researchers willing to aid in cybercriminality. The group had announced that it will pay individuals who find exploitable vulnerabilities in the software it uses to maliciously encrypt files.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Every security team craves clear visibility into the endpoints, networks, containers, applications, and other resources of the organization. Tools such as endpoint detection and response (EDR) and extended detection and response (XDR) send an increasing number of alerts to provide that visibility. Unfortunately, the high storage and processing fees for traditional security information and event management (SIEM) tools often cause security teams to limit the alerts and logs that they feed into th
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.
KnowBe4
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
GitHub has issued an alert warning of a phishing campaign targeting users by impersonating the popular DevOps tool CircleCI, BleepingComputer reports. The phishing emails inform users that they’ll need to click on a link and log into their GitHub account in order to review CircleCI’s new terms of service. The phishing site is designed to harvest credentials as well as time-based one-time-password (TOTP) authentication codes.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Over the past year, the popularity of SOC 2 has surged. This has been led in part by UK several government departments deciding to use the framework as a requirement for vendors. SOC 2 is already widely adopted in the US by service organisations looking to partner with or provide services to other companies. That the framework is now also being implemented in the UK and across Europe will have downstream effects for all organisations.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Names, Addresses, Emails and Telephone Numbers Exposed But Money Is Safe Customers of app-based bank Revolut should be on guard for phishing attempts after a data breach exposed personal details such as names, emails and telephone numbers. The London-based fintech startup told Lithuanian authorities the hacking incident affects more than 50,000 customers.
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