2022

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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked

Krebs on Security

InfraGard , a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly with members through the InfraGard portal online — using a new account under the assumed identity of a financial industry CEO tha

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MY TAKE: Businesses gravitate to ‘passwordless’ authentication — widespread consumer use up next

The Last Watchdog

Google, Microsoft and Apple are bitter arch-rivals who don’t often see eye-to-eye. Related: Microsoft advocates regulation of facial recognition tools. Yet, the tech titans recently agreed to adopt a common set of standards supporting passwordless access to websites and apps. This is one giant leap towards getting rid of passwords entirely. Perhaps not coincidently, it comes at a time when enterprises have begun adopting passwordless authentication systems in mission-critical parts of their inte

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Google to Pay $85 Million to Settle Arizona Geolocation Tracking Privacy Suit

Hunton Privacy

On October 3, 2022, Google LLC (“Google”) agreed to pay the State of Arizona $85 million to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit that alleged the company surreptitiously collected consumers’ geolocation data on smartphones even after users disabled location tracking. . Arizona’s lawsuit followed a 2018 Associated Press article that alleged Google continued to track the location of Android devices even after users disabled the Location History setting on the device.

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FBI: Russian Forums Sell Higher Education Credentials

Data Breach Today

Agency Spotted Compromised Credentials On Various Dark Web Forums The FBI is warning the U.S. higher education sector about compromised sensitive credentials and network access information advertised for sale across various public and Dark Web forums. The agency states that this access to credentials could potentially lead to a cyberattack.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

Technology professionals developing generative AI applications are finding that there are big leaps from POCs and MVPs to production-ready applications. They're often developing using prompting, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and fine-tuning (up to and including Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)), typically in that order. However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are le

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AIIM Names Tori Miller Liu Chief Executive Officer

AIIM

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.

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A new Linux flaw can be chained with other two bugs to gain full root privileges

Security Affairs

Qualys researchers demonstrated how to chain a new Linux flaw with two other two issues to gain full root privileges on an impacted system. Researchers at the Qualys’ Threat Research Unit demonstrated how to chain a new Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3328 , with two other flaws to gain full root privileges on an affected system. The vulnerability resides in the snap-confine function on Linux operating systems, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu.

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Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV

Troy Hunt

How best to punish spammers? I give this topic a lot of thought because I spend a lot of time sifting through the endless rubbish they send me. And that's when it dawned on me: the punishment should fit the crime - robbing me of my time - which means that I, in turn, need to rob them of their time. With the smallest possible overhead on my time, of course.

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Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping

Schneier on Security

Some sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes. These parameters have no functionality that is relevant to the user, but sites rely on them to track users across pages and properties. Mozilla introduced support for URL stripping in Firefox 102 , which it launched in June 2022. Firefox removes tracking parameters from web addresses automatically, but only in private browsing mode or when the browser’s Tracking Protection feature is set to strict.

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UpdateAgent Adapts Again

Jamf

The Jamf Threat Labs team has recently identified changes to the UpdateAgent malware dropper. These changes primarily focus on new executables written in Swift that reach out to a registration server to pull down a new set of instructions in the form of a bash script. Perhaps one of the most identifiable features of the malware is that it relies on the AWS infrastructure to host its various payloads and perform its infection status updates to the server.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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NOYB open letter on the new EU – US data deal

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Max Schrems, through his organisation, ‘My Privacy is None of your Business’ (“ noyb.eu ”) has issued an open letter to U.S. and EU officials about the announcement of an ‘agreement in principle’ for a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (“ letter ”). The letter coincides with a visit to Washington, D.C. by a delegation of several members of the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee, to discuss EU-U.S. cooperation in the protection of personal data.

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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

Krebs on Security

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. The move comes just months after Google rolled out a new policy enabling people under the age of 18 (or a parent/guardian) to request removal of their images from Google search results.

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Canada’s artificial intelligence legislation is here

Data Protection Report

On 16 June 2022 the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-27, also known as the Digital Charter Implementation Act 2022. If passed, this package of laws will: Implement Canada’s first artificial intelligence ( AI ) legislation, the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act ( AIDA ). Reform Canadian privacy law, replacing the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act with the Consumer Privacy Protection Act.

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Top 5 Cyber Security Risks for Businesses

IT Governance

In an increasingly digital world, there are an escalating number of cyber security risks for business to address. Criminal hackers are adept at spotting weaknesses, while organisations do themselves no favours when they fail to adequately protect their systems. IT Governance identified more than 1,200 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2021 , while another report found that security incidents cost almost £3 million on average.

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Beware of Pixels & Trackers on U.S. Healthcare Websites

The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.

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Mango Markets Set to Pay $47M Bug Bounty to Hacker

Data Breach Today

96% of Voting Tokens favor Deal; Mango Markets Will Not Pursue Criminal Charges Decentralized finance exchange Mango Markets is set to pay $47 million as bug bounty to the hacker who stole $117 million in digital assets on Wednesday. Mango Markets is a trading platform riding on the Solana blockchain.

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Dubai Issues Its First Crypto Law Regulating Virtual Assets

Hunton Privacy

On February 28, 2022, the Emirate of Dubai enacted Law No. 4 of 2022 on the Regulation of Virtual Assets (“ VAL ”) and established the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (“ VARA ”). By establishing a legal framework for businesses related to virtual assets, including crypto assets and non-fungible tokens ( NFTs ), this landmark law reflects Dubai’s vision to become one of the leading jurisdictions for entrepreneurs and investors of blockchain technology.

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DHS Review Board Deems Log4j an 'Endemic' Cyber Threat

Dark Reading

Vulnerability will remain a "significant" threat for years to come and highlighted the need for more public and private sector support for open source software ecosystem, Cyber Safety Review Board says.

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Palo Alto Networks fixed a high-severity auth bypass flaw in PAN-OS

Security Affairs

Palo Alto Networks addressed a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the PAN-OS 8.1 software. Palo Alto Networks released security patches to address a high-severity authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0030 (CVSS score 8.1), impacting the PAN-OS 8.1 software. “An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 web interface allows a network-based attacker with specific knowledge of the target firewall or Panorama appliance to imper

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes. In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. From understanding its distributed architecture to unlocking its incredible power for industries like healthcare, finance, retail and more, experience how Cassandra® can transform your entire data operations.

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New Highly-Evasive Linux Malware Infects All Running Processes

eSecurity Planet

Intezer Labs security researchers have identified a sophisticated new malware that targets Linux devices. Dubbed OrBit , the malware can gain persistence quickly, evade detection and hide its presence in network activity by manipulating logs. The module hooks functions called in shared libraries, which is pretty common for malware, but it also implements “advanced evasion techniques” and “remote capabilities over SSH.”.

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On the Dangers of Cryptocurrencies and the Uselessness of Blockchain

Schneier on Security

Earlier this month, I and others wrote a letter to Congress, basically saying that cryptocurrencies are an complete and total disaster, and urging them to regulate the space. Nothing in that letter is out of the ordinary, and is in line with what I wrote about blockchain in 2019. In response, Matthew Green has written —not really a rebuttal—but a “a general response to some of the more common spurious objections …people make to public blockchain systems.” In it, he

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Advisory: macOS devices bound to Active Directory and CVE-2021-42287

Jamf

The remediation for a serious security vulnerability in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) prevents Apple macOS from binding. Affected machines will lose the ability to communicate with AD domain controllers, resulting in user lockout and potential data loss.

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How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs

Troy Hunt

I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud" I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved before. I wrote many blog posts about doing big things for small dollars and did talks all over the world about the great success I'd had with these approaches.

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Krebs on Security

If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me , an online identity verification service that requires applicants to submit copies of bills and identity documents, as well as a live video feed of their faces via a mobile device.

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UK GDPR Reform: government publishes response to consultation – likely to form basis of forthcoming UK Data Reform Bill

Data Protection Report

UK GDPR Reform: government publishes response to consultation – likely to form basis of forthcoming UK Data Reform Bill. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has finally published the UK government’s long-awaited response to the consultation on the future of the UK data protection regime. The government set out very high level principles for a Data Reform Bill in the Queen’s Speech in May.

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Defensible Disposition Program: Article One—Let’s get down to Basics

ARMA International

For as long as there has been communication and work, there has been a means of documenting and tracking it. Sales receipts, pay stubs, tax documents, letters, memoranda, and beyond all have value at one time or another. Sometimes, those records need to be revisited or referenced later down the road in connection with, for example, taxes, audits, or other reviews.

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Microsoft Says Phishing Campaign Skirted MFA to Access Email

Data Breach Today

Attackers Targeted More Than 10,000 Organizations Since Last September Attackers used a phishing campaign to direct unwitting Microsoft business email customers into supplying logon credentials to a proxy server. Attackers stole online session cookies, allowing them to defeat MFA and access inboxes. From there, they emailed corporate vendors to obtain financial data.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act Enters into Force

Hunton Privacy

On June 1, 2022, Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”) entered into force after three years of delays. The PDPA, originally enacted in May 2019, provides for a one-year grace period, with the main operative provisions of the law originally set to come into force in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the Thai government issued royal decrees to extend the compliance deadline to June 1, 2022. .

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Attacker Apparently Didn't Have to Breach a Single System to Pwn Uber

Dark Reading

Alleged teen hacker claims he found an admin password in a network share inside Uber that allowed complete access to ride-sharing giant's AWS, Windows, Google Cloud, VMware, and other environments.

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Experts disclose technical details of now-patched CVE-2022-37969 Windows Zero-Day

Security Affairs

Researchers disclosed details of a now-patched flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-37969, in Windows Common Log File System (CLFS). The CVE-2022-37969 (CVSS score: 7.8) flaw is a Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. The Common Log File System (CLFS) is a general-purpose logging subsystem that can be used by applications running in both kernel mode and user mode for building high-performance transaction logs, and is implemented in the driver CLFS.sys.

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