The Last Watchdog
MARCH 13, 2023
This year has kicked off with a string of high-profile layoffs — particularly in high tech — prompting organizations across all sectors to both consider costs and plan for yet another uncertain 12 or more months. Related: Attack surface management takes center stage. So how will this affect chief information security officers (CISOs) and security programs?
Dark Reading
MARCH 15, 2023
The sooner CISOs become proactive in understanding the flip side of the organizations they protect, the better they'll be at their jobs.
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Security Affairs
MARCH 12, 2023
Experts warn that employees are providing sensitive corporate data to the popular artificial intelligence chatbot model ChatGPT. Researchers from Cyberhaven Labs analyzed the use of ChatGPT by 1.6 million workers at companies across industries. They reported that 5.6% of them have used it in the workplace and 4.9% have provided company data to the popular chatbot model since it launched.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 15, 2023
Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China have been caught using fake profiles to gather information. But the platform’s tools to weed them out only go so far.
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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.
KnowBe4
MARCH 16, 2023
Attackers are increasingly using techniques to prevent their phishing pages from being detected by security firms, a new report from BlueVoyant has found. The report found that in 2022 there was a 240% increase in phishing pages that attempted to redirect potential security researchers and bots away from the sites.
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Krebs on Security
MARCH 17, 2023
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week arrested a New York man on suspicion of running BreachForums , a popular English-language cybercrime forum where some of the world biggest hacked databases routinely show up for sale. The forum’s administrator “ Pompompurin ” has been a thorn in the side of the FBI for years, and BreachForums is widely considered a reincarnation of RaidForums , a remarkably similar crime forum that the FBI infiltrated and dismantled in 20
Data Protection Report
MARCH 13, 2023
EDPB Guidelines on the interplay between Article 3 and the provisions in Chapter V of the General Data Protection Regulation on international data transfers On 14 February 2023, the European Data Protection Board ( EDPB ) published its Guidelines on the interplay between Article 3 and the provisions in Chapter V of the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) on international data transfers (the Guidelines ).
KnowBe4
MARCH 16, 2023
I talk and present often about DMARC (and SPF and DKIM), including here. A lot of people who think they understand how DMARC works, do not really understand it as well as they think they do. This post is aimed to help clarify some common misunderstandings.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2023
Cybereason Enters Leaders Quadrant While Trellix Falls From Leader to Niche Player Microsoft and CrowdStrike once again dominate Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection. Cybereason has risen to the leaders quadrant and Trellix has fallen to a niche player. The endpoint protection market has rapidly matured in recent years - 50% of organizations have already adopted EDR.
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.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 14, 2023
Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.
IT Governance
MARCH 16, 2023
The UK government has announced plans to ban ministers and civil servants from using TikTok on work devices. It follows concern regarding the data privacy practices of the Chinese-owned app, with the European Parliament making a similar ruling last week. The problems stem from TikTok’s ties to the Chinese government and the ways that people’s personal data could be used for nefarious purposes.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 16, 2023
On March 15, 2023, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published an updated version of its guidance on AI and data protection (the “updated guidance”), following requests from UK industry to clarify requirements for fairness in AI. The key updates are summarized as follows: The updated guidance has been restructured using the data protection principles as the core of the structure.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2023
Also: Please Help the Sector Pay for Cybersecurity, Execs Tell Senate Panel Healthcare executives called on Congress to ensure minimum cybersecurity standards, saying a wholly voluntary approach is failing clinics and hospitals. Gaps are widest at small rural hospitals, testified a former hospital CISO before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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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.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 15, 2023
Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to quash at least 74 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and software. Two of those flaws are already being actively attacked, including an especially severe weakness in Microsoft Outlook that can be exploited without any user interaction. The Outlook vulnerability ( CVE-2023-23397 ) affects all versions of Microsoft Outlook from 2013 to the newest.
Dark Reading
MARCH 14, 2023
One researcher thinks trust is broken in AD. Microsoft disagrees that there's a security vulnerability. But enterprise IT environments should be aware of an authentication gap either way.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 13, 2023
On March 9, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled administrative charges against Blackbaud Inc. The case stems from disclosures Blackbaud made to investors regarding a 2020 ransomware attack that targeted donor data management software the company provides to non-profit organizations. The SEC’s order alleges that Blackbaud initially announced details of the incident on the company’s website and notified impacted customers in July 2020.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2023
On Radar: Zoll, CHU Saint-Pierre, Latitude Financial, LA Housing Authority In this week's data breach roundup: medical device manufacturer Zoll, CHU University hospitals, Australian company Latitude Financial, Hawaiian death registry, Los Angeles Housing Authority, Indian Railway ticketing app, updates on U.S. Marshals Service and Congress, and a new ransomware decryptor!
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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
MARCH 13, 2023
According to Microsoft's Security Intelligence team, a recent business email compromise attack (BEC) has shown that threat actors are quickening the pace of these attacks, with certain elements only taking a few minutes.
Dark Reading
MARCH 15, 2023
Over the weekend, cybercriminals laid the groundwork for Silicon Valley Bank-related fraud attacks that they're now starting to cash in on. Businesses are the targets and, sometimes, the enablers.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 17, 2023
On March 15, 2023, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office finalized rules implementing the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). The finalized rules were released with an official redline that reflects prior revisions of the rules dated December 21, 2022 , January 27, 2023 , and February 23, 2023. The rules will be published in the Colorado Register later this month and will go into effect on July 1, 2023, when the CPA takes effect.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 17, 2023
European Parliament and Council of the EU Set to Engage in Trilogue The European Parliament approved Thursday legislation creating a continentwide framework for digital identity that European leaders hope will diminish the role of big tech companies such as Google and Apple. Members of the European Parliament have pushed for additional privacy measures.
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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.
KnowBe4
MARCH 13, 2023
DomainTools warns that a sophisticated West Africa-based fraud group is impersonating the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to target users in the United States, according to researchers at DomainTools. The threat actors are attempting to trick investors into providing sensitive documents in order to verify their identities. Users can avoid falling for these attacks if they’re familiar with FINRA’s legitimate roles.
Information Governance Perspectives
MARCH 13, 2023
The home I grew up in, Beverly Hills, California, figures prominently in my new memoir, The Bastard of Beverly Hills. I can't reveal too much because the setting is part of the book's mystery, but I can share some other odd facts about the home's history and it's owners that might blow your mind. The post If These Walls Could Talk: A Century of Scandals and Secrets Behind the Oldest House in Beverly Hills appeared first on The Bastard's Blog.
Security Affairs
MARCH 17, 2023
A new Golang-based DDoS botnet, tracked as HinataBot, targets routers and servers by exploiting known vulnerabilities. Akamai researchers spotted a new DDoS Golang-based botnet, dubbed HinataBot, which has been observed exploiting known flaws to compromise routers and servers. The experts reported that the HinataBot bot was seen being distributed since the beginning of 2023 and its operators are actively updating it.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2023
'Inaccessible Computers' Incident Initially Reported as Affecting 501 People A vendor of clinical and third-party administrative services to managed care organizations and healthcare providers serving elderly and disabled patients said a cybersecurity incident last summer has affected more than 4.2 million individuals.
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KnowBe4
MARCH 15, 2023
As cybercriminals increasingly turn to malwareless phishing attacks, the ability for security solutions to correctly identify a malicious email is becoming more and more difficult.
Jamf
MARCH 14, 2023
In the most recent episode of Jamf After Dark, co-hosts Kat Garbis, senior channel program Manager, and Sean Rabbitt, senior consulting engineer, Identity, discuss the current mobile security landscape with Jamf security experts Michael Covington, Garry Scotts and Suzan Sakarya.
Security Affairs
MARCH 17, 2023
Hitachi Energy disclosed a data breach, the Clop ransomware gang stole the company data by exploiting the recent GoAnywhere zero-day flaw. Hitachi Energy disclosed a data breach, the company was hacked by the Clop ransomware gang that stole its data by exploiting the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in the GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer).
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