Data Breach Today
JULY 24, 2024
Cybersecurity Vendor's Preliminary Review Details Problems, Promises Improvements CrowdStrike, in a preliminary report, has blamed internal testing problems for failing to prevent the faulty "rapid content update" that caused worldwide disruption on Friday. The cybersecurity vendor has promised to refine its testing and deployment processes to avoid any repeats.
AIIM
JULY 24, 2024
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KnowBe4
JULY 23, 2024
Incident Report Summary: Insider Threat TLDR: KnowBe4 was in need of a software engineer for our internal IT AI team. Posted the job, got resumes, did the interviews, did the background check, checked the references and hired the person. We sent the Mac and the moment it was received it immediately started to load malware. The EDR software saw it and started to throw alerts to our InfoSec SOC team.
Security Affairs
JULY 24, 2024
A cyber attack against Michigan Medicine resulted in the compromise of the personal and health information of approximately 57,000 patients. The academic medical center of the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, suffered a data breach that impacted 56953 patients. The security incident exposed the personal and health information of the patients.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 25, 2024
$5.4 Billion in Losses Estimated for 500 Largest Public US Firms - Except Microsoft Expect the healthcare and banking sectors to record the greatest direct losses in the U.S. as a result of the global disruptions caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software update crashing Windows systems, an underwriting agency reported, forecasting Fortune 500 direct losses of $5.4 billion.
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WIRED Threat Level
JULY 24, 2024
A former Google engineer has built a search engine, WebXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.
Data Matters
JULY 26, 2024
The protection of minors online continues to be a focus for EU regulators. Following the publication last year by the European Parliament of its guidelines on online age verification methods for children, the European Commission has recently announced it will be holding a dedicated stakeholder workshop in September 2024 to discuss guidelines for age verification and protecting minors.
Data Breach Today
JULY 24, 2024
Open-Source Company Issues Patches After Being Alerted by Palo Alto A widely used generative artificial intelligence framework is vulnerable to a prompt injunction flaw that could enable sensitive data to leak. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks uncovered two arbitrary code flaws in open-source library LangChain.
Security Affairs
JULY 25, 2024
The CVE-2024-21412 flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited to deliver information stealers such as ACR Stealer, Lumma, and Meduza. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a malware campaign exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2024-21412 (CVSS score: 8.1) to spread information stealer, such as ACR Stealer, Lumma , and Meduza.
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Schneier on Security
JULY 24, 2024
Supposedly the DHS has these : The robot, called “NEO,” is a modified version of the “Quadruped Unmanned Ground Vehicle” (Q-UGV) sold to law enforcement by a company called Ghost Robotics. Benjamine Huffman, the director of DHS’s Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), told police at the 2024 Border Security Expo in Texas that DHS is increasingly worried about criminals setting “booby traps” with internet of things and smart home devices, and t
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 23, 2024
The code, the first of its kind, was used to sabotage a heating utility in Lviv at the coldest point in the year—what appears to be yet another innovation in Russia’s torment of Ukrainian civilians.
Data Breach Today
JULY 25, 2024
Also: WazirX Updates; Fractal ID Breach Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, Tornado Cash saw an uptick in use, updates on the WazirX exploit were released, Fractal ID and LI.FI published breach postmortems, and the U.S. moved to recover pig-butchering losses.
Security Affairs
JULY 23, 2024
The US government sanctioned two Russian hacktivists for their cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, including breaches of water facilities. The United States sanctioned Russian hacktivists Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, members of the Russian hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), for their roles in cyber operations against U.S. critical infrastructure.
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Adding high-quality entity resolution capabilities to enterprise applications, services, data fabrics or data pipelines can be daunting and expensive. Organizations often invest millions of dollars and years of effort to achieve subpar results. This guide will walk you through the requirements and challenges of implementing entity resolution. By the end, you'll understand what to look for, the most common mistakes and pitfalls to avoid, and your options.
KnowBe4
JULY 25, 2024
Frequently Asked Questions About KnowBe4's Fake IT Worker Blog July 23, 2024, I wrote a blog post about how KnowBe4 inadvertently hired a skillful North Korean IT worker who used the stolen identity of a US citizen. He participated in several rounds of video interviews and circumvented background check processes commonly used. The intent was to share an organizational learning moment, so you can make sure this does not happen to you.
Schneier on Security
JULY 25, 2024
I am the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. , the company that is commercializing Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid open W3C standard for distributed data ownership. This week, we announced a digital wallet based on the Solid architecture. Details are here , but basically a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard.
Data Breach Today
JULY 25, 2024
Bank Execs at Senate Hearing Defend Zelle Reimbursements, Payment Fraud Programs During a hearing Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., revealed that Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo only reimbursed 38% of unauthorized Zelle transactions - leaving consumers on the hook for $100 million in fraud losses. The banks disputed the committee's findings.
Security Affairs
JULY 25, 2024
A critical flaw in some versions of Docker Engine can be exploited to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-41110 (CVSS score of 10.0), in certain versions of Docker Engine can allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. “An attacker could exploit a bypass using an API request with Content-Length set to 0, causing the Docker daemon to forward the request without the body to the Aut
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KnowBe4
JULY 23, 2024
Several threat actors are abusing legitimate cloud services to launch phishing attacks against users in Latin America, according to Google’s latest Threat Horizons Report.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 22, 2024
The failed CrowdStrike sensor update that affected Windows systems may have put those computers at risk, but this is just one potential vulnerability during an interesting week. SolarWinds recently patched 13 vulnerabilities, and Ivanti has fixed yet another flaw in its Endpoint Manager product. The CISA requires federal agencies to patch their instances of GeoServer by August 5, and Wiz recently reported on a major AI model training vulnerability.
Data Breach Today
JULY 24, 2024
Static Scanning Limitations Usher Malware Onto Corporate Network Phishing hackers have developed a new technique for smuggling malware past secure email gateway defenses, said researchers at Cofense who uncovered a recent info stealer campaign. "I honestly think that it was someone testing the water to see if it would work - and it did work," a researcher said.
Security Affairs
JULY 21, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe Commerce and Magento, SolarWinds Serv-U, and VMware vCenter Server 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-2024-34102 Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE) Vulnerability CVE-2024-28995 SolarW
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Troy Hunt
JULY 24, 2024
Just over 13 years ago, Microsoft gave me my first "Most Valuable Professional" award. Out of the blue, as far as I was concerned. It wasn't something I'd planned for and it certainly wasn't something I'd expected, but it has become a cornerstone of my professional identity. Indulge me while I go off on a bit of a tangent here: like the other things in my professional life that have turned into a success, the things I did to earn that first MVP award were things I was
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 22, 2024
The DOD wants to refurbish ICBM silos that give it the ability to end civilization. But these missiles are useless as weapons, and their other main purpose—attracting an enemy’s nuclear strikes—serves no end.
Data Breach Today
JULY 22, 2024
Microsoft's Tool Requires Physical Access, a 'Time-Consuming and Laborious Task' Microsoft's statement that a faulty CrowdStrike update affected less than 1% of active Windows systems doesn't tell the full story, since large organizations in critical sectors make up a disproportionate part of the user base, as the outages in healthcare, transportation and banking demonstrate.
Security Affairs
JULY 20, 2024
CrowdStrike warns that threat actors are exploiting the recent IT outage caused by their faulty update to distribute Remcos RAT malware. CrowdStrike spotted threat actors attempting to benefit from the recent IT outage caused by the faulty update of the cybersecurity firm to distribute Remcos RAT malware. The threat actors attempted to distribute the Remcos RAT to the customers of the cybersecurity firm in Latin America under the guise of providing an emergency fix for the problem.
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Collaboration 2.0
JULY 25, 2024
The Arrowmax SES ultra mini power screwdriver kit combines high-quality hardware with customizable settings, and its one of the first I've seen with its own display.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 25, 2024
A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.
Data Breach Today
JULY 25, 2024
Sam Curry and Heather West on Authentication, AI Labelling and Adaptive Security As deepfakes evolve, they pose significant cybersecurity risks and require adaptable security measures. In this episode of "Proof of Concept," Sam Curry of Zscaler and Heather West of Venable discuss strategies for using advanced security tactics to outpace deepfake threats.
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