Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 10, 2024
SEGs have performed admirably for many years, but they’re no match for this new generation of email attacks, and relying on outdated tools can have catastrophic consequences. By upgrading to a behavioral AI-based solution, you can defend against emerging threats and become more proactive in the fight against cybercrime.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The hack exposed the data of 31 million users as the embattled Wayback Machine maker scrambles to stay online and contain the fallout of digital—and legal—attacks.
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OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 8, 2024
As we reach the conclusion of the Threat Hunters blog series, it’s clear that the role of these cybersecurity specialists has never been more important. Over the past several weeks, we’ve delved into the world of threat hunters—exploring their day-to-day activities, the challenges they face, and the unique skills that set them apart. This series has highlighted how threat hunters are at the frontline, proactively defending organizations against increasingly sophisticated and evolving cyber threa
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 11, 2024
OpenAI disrupted 20 cyber and influence operations in 2023, revealing Iran and China-linked actors used ChatGPT for planning ICS attacks. OpenAI announced the disruption of over 20 cyber and influence operations this year, involving Iranian and Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The company uncovered the activities of three threat actors abusing ChatGPT to launch cyberattacks.
Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage
This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets. This highlights an increasing demand for advanced authentication methods like passkeys and multi-factor authentication (MFA), which provide robust security for most use cases.
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WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the recording-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian jail cell.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 11, 2024
The Internet Archive disclosed a data breach, the security incident impacted more than 31 million users of its “The Wayback Machine.” The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library website that provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 117 security holes in Windows computers and other software, including two vulnerabilities that are already seeing active attacks. Also, Adobe plugged 52 security holes across a range of products, and Apple has addressed a bug in its new macOS 15 “ Sequoia ” update that broke many cybersecurity tools.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Russia, Iran and China Investing in Cyber Ops, Warns MI5 Director Ken McCallum Nation-state actors are investing aggressively in advanced cyber operations to target government information and technology in a bid to sow "mayhem on British and European streets," warned a top British intelligence official. Russia, Iran and China are using proxies and hacking agencies.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Perfctl malware is hard to detect, persists after reboots, and can perform a breadth of malicious activities.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 11, 2024
GitLab issued updates for CE and EE to address multiple flaws, including a critical bug allowing CI/CD pipeline runs on unauthorized branches. GitLab released security updates for Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a critical bug, tracked as CVE-2024-9164 (CVSS score of 9.6), allowing CI/CD pipeline runs on unauthorized branches. “An issue was discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 12.5 prior to 17.2.9, st
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 10, 2024
An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending that data back to the vendor to train their AIs. Ecovacs’s privacy policy— available elsewhere in the app —allows for blanket collection of user data for research purposes, including: The 2D or 3D map of the user’s house generated by the device Voice recordings from the device’s microphone Photos or vide
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Nonprofit Digital Archive Also Suffers Denial-of-Service Attacks, Defacement The nonprofit Internet Archive has been hit by hackers, who stole usernames and for 31 million accounts, including email addresses and bcrypt-hashed passwords. In recent days, the digital archive has also suffered defacement and repeat denial-of-service attacks.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Jscrambler researchers found a skimming campaign using unique JavaScript obfuscation with accented characters to hide a skimmer named Mongolian Skimmer. Jscrambler researchers uncovered a skimming campaign using unique JavaScript obfuscation with accented characters to hide a skimmer dubbed ‘Mongolian Skimmer.’ The attackers used unusual Unicode characters for variables and function names.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 11, 2024
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing. At this point, we would like feedback on titles. Here are four possibilities: Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship The Thinking State: How AI Can Improve Democracy Better Run: How AI Can Make our Politics, Government, Citizenship More Efficient, Effective and Fair AI a
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 11, 2024
New Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Rule Paves Way for Implementation The Department of Defense is set to implement significant changes to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, effective October 15, streamlining compliance for contractors by introducing a tiered system while enhancing security standards.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Upgrading its capabilities to Imagen 3, Google Gemini's new skills are accessible to both free and paid users. Here are 3 ways to try them today.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Mozilla released an urgent Firefox update to fix a critical use-after-free vulnerability actively exploited in ongoing attacks. Mozilla released an emergency security update for its Firefox browser to address a critical use-after-free vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, that is actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerability CVE-2024-9680 resides in Animation timelines.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Earlier this year, Google ditched its plans to abolish support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. While privacy advocates called foul, the implications for users is not so clear cut.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Justice Department Aiming to Emphasize Privacy and Security in AI Deployment The U.S. Department of Justice is drafting new guidelines for law enforcement on the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition tools to enhance public safety while safeguarding civil rights and ensuring ethical deployment, a senior official said Wednesday.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Twelve South's HiRise 2 Deluxe wireless charger is a sophisticated charging solution for two devices at once.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 6, 2024
China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon breached U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data. China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon (also known as FamousSparrow and GhostEmperor ) breached U.S. broadband providers, including Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, potentially accessing systems for lawful wiretapping and other data.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Plus: Harvard students pack Meta’s smart glasses with privacy-invading face-recognition tech, Microsoft and the DOJ seize Russian hackers’ domains, and more.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Cyber Bill Says the Government Can't Use Information to Prosecute Victims Ransom payments are typically tightly held secrets between cybercriminals and their victims, but the Australian government has introduced a cybersecurity bill in Parliament that would require require larger businesses to report ransom payments to the government.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Collaboration 2.0
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon is a pro-level laptop with a light design and near-bezel-less display, and it's still 40% off following Amazon's October Prime Day.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 9, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Windows and Qualcomm bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2024-43047 Qualcomm Multiple Chipsets Use-After-Free Vulnerability CVE-2024-43572 Microsoft Windows Management Console Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2024-43573 Microsoft Windows MSHTML Platf
AIIM
OCTOBER 10, 2024
At the AIIM Information and Data Leadership Symposium on October 1, 2024, in Arlington, VA, James Crifasi (COO & CTO, RedZone Technologies) and Jay Leask (Principal Technical Architect, Microsoft) engaged in a fascinating discussion about defending and protecting unstructured data.
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