Weissman's World

JANUARY 14, 2025

For years, youve heard me exhort you to implement information governance because you collected all that information for a reason, right? and infogov is how you get value from it. And while thats true, Im not sure I ever completely brought that sentiment to ground. So let me now close that gap. Over the next… Read More » Turning Information Into Outcomes: What Governance Really is About The post Turning Information Into Outcomes: What Governance Really is About appeared first on Holly

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

Threat Actor 'Codefinger' Targets Cloud Environments A ransomware group is targeting Amazon S3 buckets, exploiting the data stored there using AWSs server-side encryption with customer keys and demanding a ransom in exchange for the encryption key needed to unlock the data. The group uses compromised or publicly exposed AWS account credentials.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 12, 2025

ZDNET editors scoured the show floor for a week and identified all of this year's best products - including those that will make the biggest impact on the future.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond’s inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more fixes than the company has shipped in one go since 2017. Rapid7 ‘s Adam Barnett says January marks the fourth consecutive month where Microsoft has published zero-day vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday without evaluating any of them

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

Fortinet warns of a phishing campaign using legitimate links to hijack PayPal accounts, tricking users into granting unauthorized access. Fortinet uncovered a phishing campaign targeting PayPal users. The scheme employs legitimate links to deceive victims and gain unauthorized access to their accounts. The phishing emails mimic PayPal notifications, including payment details, warnings, a real PayPal sender address, and a genuine URL to bypass security checks.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2025

Designed to replace the current Mail and Calendar apps, the new Outlook can only be removed after it's been installed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 13, 2025

Fifteen Best Practices to Navigate the Data Sovereignty Waters josh.pearson@t Tue, 01/14/2025 - 08:04 Data sovereigntythe idea that data is subject to the laws and regulations of the country it is collected or stored inis a fundamental consideration for businesses attempting to balance harnessing the power of data analytics, ensuring compliance with increasingly stringent regulations, and protecting the privacy of their users.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Experts warn of a new campaign targeting an alleged zero-day in Fortinet FortiGate firewalls with management interfaces exposed online. Arctic Wolf researchers observed a campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate firewalls with exposed management interfaces, likely exploiting a zero-day vulnerability. Threat actors gained unauthorized access to network devices, created accounts, and modified configurations.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

Malware Used a Hardcoded IP Address for Command and Control U.S. federal law enforcement said Tuesday it deleted more than 4,000 instances of PlugX malware used in a Chinese cyberespionage operation after a European partner gained control of the malware's command and control server. PlugX spreads through infected USB drives.

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Collaboration 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2025

Concerned about something going wrong with your Linux system? If so, Timeshift can help return things to a working state should something go awry.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 13, 2025

Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict whos safeand whos a threat.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2025

US marijuana dispensary STIIIZY warns customers of leaked IDs and passports following a November data breach. US marijuana dispensary STIIIZY disclosed a data breach after a vendor’s point-of-sale system was compromised by cybercriminals. The security breach exposed customer data and IDs between October 10 and November 10, 2024. After discovering the security breach, the company investigated the incident and notified law enforcement. “On November 20, 2024, we were notified by a vendo

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

Experts Weigh the Pros and Cons of Work Culture and Merging AML and Fraud Teams A recent report found that more than 57,000 Americans fall victim to scams every day. Financial fraud is rising globally. In response, the National Automated Clearinghouse Association is pushing for real-time fraud monitoring by 2026, requiring closer collaboration between fraud and AML teams.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Using the new Camera Control on the iPhone 16, Visual Intelligence will search for details and answer questions about something that you snap through the camera.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 13, 2025

Anonymised data could help develop treatments, drugs and diagnostic tools but potential misuse worries experts What does AI plan mean for NHS patient data and is there cause for concern? Ministers are considering allowing private companies to make profits from NHS data as part of a push to revolutionise the health service using artificial intelligence, government officials have indicated.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2025

Facebook paid $100,000 to a researcher for discovering a bug that granted him command access to an internal server in October 2024. TechCrunch first reported that Facebook awarded security researcherBen Sadeghipour( @NahamSec ) $100,000 for reporting a vulnerability that granted him access to an internal server. The researcher emphasized the vulnerability of online ad platforms due to extensive server-side data processing, which can expose multiple security issues.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

Proposals Calls for AI Growth Zones and National Data Library British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled a plan for converting the United Kingdom into an artificial intelligence "world leader," allowing it to shape the next phase of the "AI revolution." Key recommendations include creating multiple AI growth zones and a national data library.

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JANUARY 11, 2025

The latest OnePlus flagship sets a high bar for every other premium phone this year, even if there's still one thing holding it back from perfection.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 14, 2025

Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchangewhile facilitating $24 billion in transactions.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 13, 2025

Stealthy credit card skimmer targets WordPress e-commerce sites, injecting malicious JavaScript into CMS database tables to evade detection. Sucuri researchers warn of a stealthy credit card skimmer campaign targeting WordPress e-commerce sites by injecting malicious JavaScript into CMS database tables. The attackers hide the malicious code in the WordPress wp_options table, injecting obfuscated JavaScript into widget_block to evade file scans and maintain persistence. “The malicious code

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

Guardrails Bypassed on Azure OpenAI to Generate 'Thousands of Harmful Images' Microsoft filed a lawsuit targeting a cybercrime service used to generate "thousands of harmful images" by subverting the guardrails built into its Azure generative artificial intelligence tools. The company said attackers built a tool that reverse-engineered the guardrails in its AI platform.

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JANUARY 13, 2025

If you need a lightning-fast, portable Linux distribution to run on aging hardware or spin up a quick server, 4MLinux is a great option.

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Collibra

JANUARY 13, 2025

Were excited to share that Gartner has identified Collibra as a Leader in the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms. This announcement follows a series of recent accomplishments that we believe reinforce our position as a market leader in the data and AI governance space. Gartner describes a data and analytics (D&A) governance platform as having a set of integrated business and technology capabilities that help business leaders and users to develop and deploy a

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

The FBI has removed Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,200 computers in networks across the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice reported. The Justice Department and FBI, along with international partners, announced they deleted PlugX malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide as part of a multi-month law enforcement operation. The malware was operated by a China-linked threat actor, known as Mustang Panda (aka Twill Typhoon, to steal sensitive information from victim compute

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 13, 2025

Alterya's AI-Powered Data Will Combat Scams Across Traditional Financial Ecosystems Alterya's AI agents now power Chainalysis' fraud prevention, integrating off-chain data sources like Venmo and Zelle with blockchain analytics. This acquisition marks a significant step in detecting and stopping scams earlier in the fraud cycle, said CEO Jonathan Levin.

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JANUARY 12, 2025

The rapid pace of change in business today requires professionals to keep developing new skills. These business leaders tell us how.

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KnowBe4

JANUARY 14, 2025

CyberheistNews Vol 15 #02 [HEADS UP] Credential Phishing Increased by 703% in H2 2024

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2025

Russia-linked threat actor UAC-0063 targets Kazakhstan to gather economic and political intelligence in Central Asia. Russia-linked threat actors UAC-0063 is targeting Kazakhstan as part of a cyber espionage campaign to gather economic and political intelligence in Central Asia. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) first detailed the activity of UAC-0063 in early 2023.

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