Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 17 was not related to a security incident, but rather a technical issue that materialized during planned network maintenance. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2023

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. Google obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot information stealer.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source: Truesec According to Telekom Security , DarkGate Loader’s developer, who goes by the name RastaFarEye, has been developing the malware since 2017 and has been advertising it as a malware-as-a-service model since 16 June 2023. More recently, it has mainly distributed the JSSLoader malware for the Sangria Tempest group.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2020

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a crypto-mining botnet, tracked as Vollgar, that has been hijacking MSSQL servers since at least 2018. Researchers at Guardicore Labs discovered a crypto-mining botnet , tracked as Vollgar botnet , that is targeting MSSQL databases since 2018. ” reads the analysis published by Guardicore.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. The post Steelcase office furniture giant hit by Ryuk ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs. ” continues the form.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Is business becoming dulled to the cyber security threat As cyber fears decrease, the technological risk landscape has fragmented, with executives nearly as concerned about the perceived threat posed by disruptive new technologies, such as AI, as the risk of cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

.” states a security notice published by the company. ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack. .” The post Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains appeared first on Security Affairs.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Open-source AI projects and libraries, freely available on platforms like GitHub, fuel digital innovation in industries like healthcare, finance and education. The readily available nature of open-source AI also raises security concerns; malicious actors could leverage the same tools to manipulate outcomes or create harmful content.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Ransomware.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts at Flashpoint discovered the availability of the access to over 3,000 compromised sites sold on Russian black marketplace MagBo. “ Illicit access to compromised or backdoored sites and databases is used by criminals for a number of activities, ranging from spam campaigns, to fraud, or cryptocurrency mining.”

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica for consortia is a collaborative platform that has enabled the members of FLO to combine requirements, resources and buying power, and work together to preserve and provide secure public access to each library’s digital assets.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2019

Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the popular WordPress plugin Social Warfare. Experts uncovered hacking campaigns exploiting two critical security vulnerabilities in the Social Warfare plugin to take control over WordPress websites using it. ” concludes PaloAlto Network.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. When it comes to many of the things I am going to talk about here, I am not an expert. It’s Broke. Let’s Fix It.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Experts warn of a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ). Cloud security firm Aqua discovered a large-scale cryptocurrency mining campaign exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control ( RBAC ) to create backdoors and run miners.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 30, 2020

The Decipher Security podcast by Duo Security analyzes the news, explores the impact of the latest risks, and provides informative and educational material for readers intent on understanding how security affects our world. He posits that security, particularly secure software, is a value add to businesses.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is relatively new. Easterly was appointed by Congress a few weeks ago.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The sharp increase in ransomware attacks can be attributed to many reasons, from the low level of cyber hygiene of some enterprises to insufficient training and education of employees and patch management issues, according to Derek Manky, chief of security insights and global threat alliances for Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The data included official government ID numbers, phone numbers, family records, birthdates, death dates (where applicable), marriage dates, education histories, and work records. The database was discovered by vpnMentor and was traced back to Ecuadorean company Novaestra. It contained 20.8

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently. Educators can provide a more valuable learning experience and environment for students. Transforming Industries with Data Intelligence.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

Remember when web security was all about looking for padlocks? If it had a padlock, you could trust it and there's weren't a lot of exceptions to that. But as time has gone by and HTTPS has become increasingly ubiquitous and obtainable by all, the veracity of that advice has taken a serious hit. " It means "this is private."

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. IT governance and security. RSA Archer.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

As one of the founders of BSides and as a community advocate for Tenable, Jack provides guidance on how we can re-emerge and successfully amplify and support people of different ethnicities, faiths, and genders within our infosec communities without being patronizing. I'm attending in person this year, as are a lot of people in the InfoSec world.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. IT governance and security. RSA Archer.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

grade rosters) that might appear within certain categories, to mine applicable data. While safety and security record categories appeared underrepresented for such combustible record types (missing from 42% of the schedules), HR/personnel records are covered more consistently in 88% of the schedules.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. MUSIC] VAMOSI: If you haven’t been paying attention, cloud security is critical right now.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In addition to that, CloudNine conducted another great NineForum Discovery Education Series where prominent and highly respected eDiscovery and litigation support experts delivered 9 TED-style talks, 20 minutes each, covering important topics impacting the legal community. Cite Often! The 2019-2020 Cases That Every Practitioner Should Know.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I started out by talking about the value of education ; let's do a better job of stopping these incidents from occurring in the first place by avoiding well-known coding and configuration flaws. And then yesterday, I encouraged people to make disclosure easier because there are way too many cases where serious issues go unreported.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. It's the absolute best bang for your buck by a massive margin and it pays off over and over again across many years and many projects. Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure. Who Owns Our Personal Data? The cat site?

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

Today, let’s take a look back at cases related to cooperation, form of production, privilege and confidentiality disputes, social media related disputes and a key case regarding biometric security. BIOMETRIC SECURITY. We grouped those cases into common subject themes and will review them over the next few posts. COOPERATION.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. However, we’d like to know more about how our readers use this data, and what you’d like to see in this list in the future.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 27, 2015

We made early acquaintances with Legal and Information Security leaders. in higher education (substitute your vertical market) were invaluable not only in getting up to speed with the industry, but also in empathizing with various university functions and their professionals. What a year and a half it has been! Learn the Institution.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 19, 2020

The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in government, education, and finance sectors. FritzFrog is a new sophisticated botnet that has been actively targeting SSH servers worldwide since January 2020. ” reads the report published by Guardicore Lab.

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