Data Breach Today
AUGUST 6, 2020
Vulnerability Could Enable Hackers to Access User Data, Including Direct Messages Twitter rushed out a fix for a flaw in the Android version of its social media platform that could have allowed hackers to access user data, including within the direct message feature. The news comes as more details have emerged about a recent Twitter hacking incident.
AIIM
AUGUST 6, 2020
Some people are hyper-technical, and they can be intimidating if you don’t feel technically minded. It can feel like you’re not even speaking the same language as they seem to bury you in TLAs and FLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms and Four-Letter Acronyms). Information professionals can communicate with their technical colleagues – even when they’re not that technical.
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 2, 2020
BleepingComputer researchers confirmed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware. BleepingComputer first revealed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover the files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware in the recent attack. On July 23, smartwatch and wearables maker Garmin has shut down several of its services due to a ransomware attack that targeted its internal network and some production systems.
IT Governance
AUGUST 3, 2020
After mammoth amounts of personal data were leaked in May and June, we’ve seen a reversion to the mean this month. By our count, 77,775,496 records were leaked in 86 incidents. This includes the Twitter hack on 130 people, including Bill Gates, Barack Obama and Elon Musk, as well as the less flashy but equally concerning attack on dozens of universities and charities across the UK, US and Canada.
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
AUGUST 7, 2020
Interpol: Fraudsters Shifting Focus to Governments, Health Infrastructure, Corporations Cybercriminals have shifted their focus from individuals and smaller businesses to target governments, critical health infrastructure and major corporations to maximize their profits and disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Interpol report warns.
Information Management Today brings together the best content for information management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 4, 2020
Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble have discovered user records of American online food ordering and delivery platform UberEats on DarkWeb. Another day, another data breach made the headlines, this time the alleged victim is UberEATS. UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. During the process of darkweb and deep web monitoring, the Cyble Research Team came across a threat actor who leaked user records of UberEATS.
erwin
AUGUST 6, 2020
How Data Literacy Turns Data from a Burden to a Benefit. Today, data literacy is more important than ever. Data is now being used to support business decisions few executives thought they’d be making even six months ago. With your employees connected and armed with data that paints a clear picture of the business, your organization is better prepared to turn its attention to whatever your strategic priority may be – i.e. digital transformation, customer experience, or withstanding this cur
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 4, 2020
Bitcoin Accounts Linked to Driver's Licenses, Leading to Arrests Suspects in the epic attack against Twitter were uncovered in part by the use of their real photo identification for cryptocurrency accounts they used to broker the sale of stolen usernames. The mistakes proved crucial to their identification, according to court documents.
Threatpost
AUGUST 7, 2020
Fully opening the door to allow people to contribute to – and notably, tinker with – the code for the data-breach information service will be an entirely next-level effort, according to founder Troy Hunt.
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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
AUGUST 2, 2020
A critical flaw in the wpDiscuz WordPress plugin could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take over the hosting account. Security experts from Wordfence discovered a critical vulnerability impacting the wpDiscuz WordPress plugin that is installed on over 80,000 sites. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely after uploading arbitrary files on servers hosting the vulnerable WordPress sites. wpDiscuz provides an Ajax real-time
Dark Reading
AUGUST 3, 2020
With data collection growing, and increased concern about how it is handled, a synergy between security and data teams will be essential.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2020
Sophos Says Malware Designed to Avoid Security Measures WastedLocker, a ransomware strain that reportedly shut down Garmin's operations for several days in July, is designed to avoid security tools within infected devices, according to a technical analysis from Sophos.
IT Governance
AUGUST 5, 2020
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have warned that the switch to remote working would negatively affect organisations’ ability to detect and contain security incidents. Of course, many employers didn’t have a choice. Government guidelines in the UK and many other parts of the world urged people to work from home wherever possible. So what affect has this had on organisations’ cyber security?
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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
AUGUST 5, 2020
ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has obtained a copy of the list with the help of threat intelligence firm KELA and verified confirmed the authenticity of the data.
Elie
AUGUST 6, 2020
This talk showcases SCALD, our tool that leverages deep-learning explainability and dynamic execution to automatically find which parts of a crypto-hardware implementation is responsible for leaking the information exploited by side-channel attacks.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 4, 2020
CISA, DOD, FBI Issue Warning About Campaign Using Taidoor RAT A trio of U.S. government agencies is warning organizations about a hacking campaign using a malware strain that has previously been tied to Chinese hackers. The Taidoor RAT, which has been around for over 10 years, has recently been spotted in several campaigns against IT service providers.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
AUGUST 3, 2020
The Japanese Diet has recently approved a bill to amend the APPI. This is expected to result in a strengthening of rights for data subjects while making data breach notifications mandatory and increasing penalties for noncompliance. Is your business ready for these upcoming changes? Overview of the Amendment. On 5 June 2020, the Japanese Diet approved a bill to partially amend the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (the “ APPI” ).
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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
AUGUST 2, 2020
The FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations. The FBI has issued a new security flash alert to warn of Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations. The feds are recommending victims, not to pay the ransom and reporting incidents to their local FBI field offices.
Elie
AUGUST 5, 2020
In recent years, Side-Channel Attacks Assisted with Machine Learning aka SCAAML have been proven a very effective approach to carry-out side-channel attacks even against the toughest hardware cryptographic implementations in a semi-automatic manner. Building on this line of work, this talk showcases how to take it a step further and demonstrates how to combine the recent advances in deep-learning explainability with dynamic execution to quickly assess which parts of a hardware cryptographic impl
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 5, 2020
Bureau Says Attackers Can Use Vulnerable RDP Connections to Access Networks The FBI is warning organizations that are still using Microsoft Windows 7 they are in danger of attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in the unsupported operating system to gain network access. The agency points to an uptick in such attack attempts.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 6, 2020
I love security. I love privacy. Consequently, it will come as no surprise that I love tools that help people achieve those objectives. Equally, I have no patience for false promises, and I've been very vocal about my feelings there: But one of them is literally called “Secure VPN”, how is this possible?! “Are You Using These VPN Apps? Personal Info Of 20 Million Users Leaked: That’s 1.2TB Data” [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 20, 2020 VPNs are a great example of where a tool can be us
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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.
Threatpost
AUGUST 5, 2020
During Black Hat USA 2020, Threatpost talks to Sherrod DeGrippo, with Proofpoint, about Emotet's recent return -and how a cyber vigilante is attempting to thwart the malware's comeback.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 5, 2020
By reverse-engineering apps intended for cyclists, security researchers found they could cause delays in at least 10 cities from anywhere in the world.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2020
DOJ: Valerian Chiochiu Provided Cybercriminals Help Through Infraud Site A member of the infamous Infraud Organization and the creator of a malware strain called FastPOS has pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges, according to the Justice Department. Valerian Chiochiu assisted other cybercriminals through the Infraud site before authorities shuttered it in 2018.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 5, 2020
Researchers from TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) have discovered another 4 new zero-day vulnerabilities in the WOWZA Streaming Engine product. Last month, the TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) disclosed 2 new vulnerabilities affecting the Oracle Business Intelligence product with High severity. Today, the TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered 4 new vulnerabilities that have been addressed by the manufacturer WOWZA Streaming Engine, between the end of 2019 and
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.
Threatpost
AUGUST 6, 2020
Researchers went into detail about the discovery and disclosure of 19 security flaws they found in Mercedes-Benz vehicles, which have all been fixed.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 6, 2020
A campaign called Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, software development kits, chip designs, and more.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 1, 2020
Russian, Chinese, North Korean Individuals and Entities Cited The European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against individuals and entities from Russia, China and North Korea for their alleged role in hacking activities and cyberattacks that targeted EU citizens and organizations.
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