Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Cybercrime Gang Wields Phishing Emails and Proficiency for VMware Environments Beware ransomware and data extortion shakedowns that trace to a cybercrime gang called Daixin Team, which is especially targeting the healthcare sector, as well as wielding phishing emails and a proficiency with VMware server environments, warns a new U.S. government cybersecurity advisory.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Burnout has led one-third of cybersecurity staffers to consider changing jobs over the next two years, potentially further deepening the talent shortage, research shows.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Imagine if the world went dark and there were no internet. Even for a day. For a week. Consider the massive fallout for organizations everywhere. Digitalization has morphed from a useful function to a bedrock of society. It is at the center of all future growth. But as our technology advances beyond human limits, carrying … The post The Anticipant Organization appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Britain's data watchdog has fined major construction group Interserve with a £4.4m fine. This was due to a cyber attack stole personal and financial details for over 113,000 employees and the company failed to stop the attack.
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AIIM
OCTOBER 24, 2022
The Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM), the world’s leading association dedicated to the information management industry and its practice, announced today that it has appointed Tori Miller Liu as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective December 1, 2022. She replaces Peggy Winton who, earlier this year, announced her decision to step down after serving in this position for seven years.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Humans are rather easily duped. And this is the fundamental reason phishing persists as a predominant cybercriminal activity. Related: How MSSPs help secure business networks. Tricking someone into clicking to a faked landing page and typing in their personal information has become an ingrained pitfall of digital commerce. The deleterious impact on large enterprises and small businesses alike has been – and continues to be — profound.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Information is at the core of being human, the universe and evolution itself. Information creation is accelerating, and its use is transformative in nature. Machines generate more information than humans today. Machines share their knowledge instantly and understand the nuances of language. One day, machines will directly enhance the human mind, and allow each human … The post The Future of Human Intelligence: A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Poland Senate Alleges Russian Connection to DDoS Attack Parliament IT systems in two East European capitals were disrupted Thursday. The Poland Senate said a distributed denial-of-service attack partially originated from inside Russia. In Slovakia, a Parliament speaker postponed voting after telling lawmakers that vote-counting systems were not working.
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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.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 28, 2022
GitHub proofs of concept (PoCs) for known vulnerabilities could themselves contain malware as often as 10% of the time, security researchers have found. Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science have alerted security professionals about risks associated with GitHub and other platforms like pastebin that host public PoCs of exploits for known vulnerabilities.
Data Protection Report
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity practices of target companies are being increasingly scrutinized throughout the due diligence process in M&A transactions. Particularly, buyers want to understand the risk and value inherent in sellers’ data assets and sellers want to manage transactional and post-closing risks. In the course of their privacy and cybersecurity due diligence, buyers should consider the following when assessing the risks associated with purchasing a company: First, how robust are the
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 25, 2022
From ransomware to remote workers to cyber-extortion gangs to Fred in shipping who clicks on the wrong link, cybersecurity concerns can keep you awake this season and all seasons.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Medical Records and Credit Card Details of Patients Compromised One of Australia's largest private testing laboratories announced a data breach affecting 223,000 Australians. Ransomware-as-a-service group Quantum took credit for the incident, posting an 86-gigabyte file in June. "There is no evidence of misuse of any of the information," says Medlab Pathology.
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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.
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The OpenSSL project this week announced plans to release version 3.0.7 on November 1 to patch a critical security flaw affecting versions 3.0 and later. Co-founder Mark J. Cox noted it’s only the second critical patch “since we started rating flaws back in 2014.” OpenSSL identifies critical issues as those affecting common configurations and likely to be exploitable, with examples including “significant disclosure of the contents of server memory (potentially revealing us
IT Governance
OCTOBER 27, 2022
A new version of ISO 27001 was published this week, introducing several significant changes in the way organisations are expected to manage information security. The Standard was last revised almost a decade ago (although a new iteration of the supplementary standard ISO 27002 was published in February 2022), meaning that the release of ISO 27001:2022 has been much needed and highly anticipated.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2022
On September 23, 2022, New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes introduced S9563 , also known as the “New York Child Data Privacy and Protection Act.” The bill, which resembles the recently passed California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act , bans certain data collection and targeted advertising and requires data controllers to, among other obligations, assess the impact of their products on children.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Interserve Ran Obsolete Servers and Didn't Verify Malware Deletion The U.K. Information Commissioner levied a nearly $5 million fine against Interserve Group Limited for its lack of security protections in the run-up to a 2020 ransomware attack. The firm kept employee data on servers running obsolete versions of Windows and used outdated antivirus software.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Juniper Networks devices are affected by multiple high-severity issues, including code execution vulnerabilities. Multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Juniper Networks devices. “Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the J-Web component of Juniper Networks Junos OS. One or more of these issues could lead to unauthorized local file access, cross-site scripting attacks, path injection and traversal, or local file inclusion.” reads the advisory pu
IT Governance
OCTOBER 27, 2022
This week, we discuss the new mechanism for transferring EU residents’ personal data to the US, the first GDPR Data Protection Seal, a new ransomware attack targeting Ukraine and its allies, and the first layer in a defence-in-depth approach to cyber security: detection. Now available on Spotify , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud. The post IT Governance Podcast Episode 11: EU-US Data Privacy Framework, Ransomware & Cyber Detection appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 24, 2022
A CISA advisory warns that the Daixin Team ransomware group has put the US healthcare system in its crosshairs for data extortion, and provides tools to fight back.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 28, 2022
About 4M Australians Affected by Extortion Demand Made Against the Health Insurer Fallout from the hack of Australian health insurer Medibank continues to worsen as the company twice this week acknowledged a wider set of affected individuals. Hackers had access to the personal data of 4 million individuals and significant amounts of health claims data.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Apple released updates to backport the recently released security patches for CVE-2022-42827 zero-day to older iPhones and iPads. Apple has released new security updates to backport security patches released this week to address actively exploited CVE-2022-42827 in older iPhones and iPads, addressing an actively exploited zero-day bug. Early this week, Apple addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year.
Hunton Privacy
OCTOBER 25, 2022
On October 20, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Google alleging various violations of Texas’s biometric privacy law , including that the company unlawfully collected and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining proper consent. The laws u it alleges that, since 2015, Google has collected millions of biometric identifiers of Texas consumers, such as voiceprints and records of face geometry, through Google’s various products, including Google Photo
eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Symantec researchers are warning that a BlackByte ransomware affiliate has begun using a custom data exfiltration tool, Infostealer.Exbyte, to steal data from victims’ networks as part of their attacks. Still, as a recent breach of an Indian power company by a different ransomware group demonstrates, the extra effort of stealing data doesn’t always pay off for the attackers — even when it leads to embarrassing data leaks for the victim.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Immediate Updating Recommended as Any App in iOS and iPad Exploitable Apple has issued a slew of security updates amidst reports that its iOS devices are being actively exploited via a zero-day vulnerability in the kernel. While Apple hasn't attributed the exploits to any specific group, experts say surveillance malware developers are a likely culprit.
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
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Original post at [link]. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Attackers could use the details for a supply-chain attack.
KnowBe4
OCTOBER 28, 2022
A newly released report on ransomware preparedness shows organizations are improving their security stance in comparison to last year, but overall still aren’t doing enough.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The (ISC)² 2022 Cybersecurity Workforce Study reported that 3.4 million more workers are required to meet the global cyber security skills gap. This is a huge employment opportunity, but do you know what knowledge and skills you need to develop your career as a cyber security professional? Given the complexity of cyber security, it’s not surprising that UK cyber security professionals have a bewildering range of job titles and responsibilities.
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