Data Breach Today
APRIL 17, 2024
Russian Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm Adopting Advanced Techniques, Mandiant Warns Russia's preeminent cyber sabotage unit presents "one of the widest and high severity cyber threats globally," warned Mandiant in a Wednesday report. Mandiant newly designated Sandworm as APT44 to differentiate it from another hacking unit it will still track as APT28.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 15, 2024
The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical weakness in March 2021. Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc. , is being sued by multiple U.S. states for allegedly colluding with landlords to illegally raise rents.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2024
Experts Warn AI Tools Can Now Compromise Voice Password Systems Used by Many Banks At many financial institutions, your voice is your password. Tiny variations in pitch, tone and timbre make human voices an ideal method for authenticating customers - as long as computers can't be trained to synthesize those pitch, tone and timbre characteristics in real time.
AIIM
APRIL 16, 2024
Think about your organization for a moment. Is there any employee who doesn't collect, store, transform, analyze, and delete information? We all need information to be successful and help our organizations achieve better business outcomes.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 17, 2024
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 12, 2024
US Cyber Mission Force Led 22 Defensive Cyber Operations in 2023, Commander Says Air Force Gen. Timothy Haugh told the Senate Armed Services Committee the U.S. Cyber Command carried out nearly two dozen defensive cyber operations across the globe in 2023, expanding in size and scope since the "hunt forward" teams were first launched in 2014.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 16, 2024
For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like
AIIM
APRIL 11, 2024
It’s funny how corporate leaders get serious about information governance right after their company has been hit with a lawsuit or regulatory action. OK, it’s not funny at all. But that’s usually when many executives decide it's time to implement information governance and in particular, document retention. We’re here to advise you to not put off having a defensible retention p rogram in place long before any legal action occur s.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 15, 2024
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years. Experts say the US government’s reliance on its systems means the company continues to get a free pass.
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 11, 2024
Mountain View, Calif. – April 11, 2024 – Simbian today emerged from stealth mode with oversubscribed $10M seed funding to deliver on fully autonomous security. As a first step towards that goal, the company is introducing the industry’s first GenAI-powered security co-pilot that integrates secure and intelligent AI solutions into diverse IT environments to maximize coverage and expedite resolutions to security teams’ ever-changing needs.
Collibra
APRIL 15, 2024
Last week we wrapped up our annual Data Citizens conference. This conference brought together data leaders from around the world to share insights, network and imagine a brighter data future. The overarching theme of the conference was imagination and innovation — and this theme rang true throughout all of our mainstage presentations. In a time when AI is constantly challenging us, it is important to think fast and be adaptive so that we can innovate and grow in this dynamic environment.
Data Matters
APRIL 16, 2024
On 12 March 2024, the European Parliament approved the EU Cyber Resilience Act (“ CRA ”) with a large majority of 517-12 votes in favor of the legislation (with 78 abstentions). The CRA aims to ensure that “products with digital elements” (“ PDE ”) i.e., connected products such as smart devices, and remote data processing solutions, are resilient against cyber threats and provide key information in relation to their security properties.
Security Affairs
APRIL 15, 2024
The Ukrainian hacking group Blackjack used a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet in attacks against Russian infrastructure. Industrial and enterprise IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty reported that the Ukrainian Blackjack hacking group claims to have damaged emergency detection and response capabilities in Moscow and beyond the Russian capital using a destructive ICS malware dubbed Fuxnet.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 16, 2024
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 15, 2024
Experts Warn of Growing Threat From Supply Chain Attacks After High-Profile Breach Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm over a rise in supply chain attacks targeting the interconnected systems of global corporate giants after the top U.S. cyber agency urged Sisense customers to reset their credentials following an apparent hack.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 16, 2024
Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain name that ended with “twitter.com,” and (2) it only changed the link’s appearance (anchortext), not the underlying URL. So if you were a clever phisher and registered fedetwitter.com, people would see the link as fedex.com, but it would send people to fedetwitter.com.
KnowBe4
APRIL 11, 2024
In December 2023, a joint alert was issued by the FBI, CISA, NSA, EPA, and INCD regarding Iranian cyber actors known as "CyberAv3ngers" linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Security Affairs
APRIL 11, 2024
Palo Alto Networks fixed several vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS operating system, including 3 issues that can trigger a DoS condition on its firewalls. Palo Alto Networks released security updates to address several high-severity vulnerabilities in its PAN-OS operating system. The company fixed the following DoS vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-3385 – The company reported that a packet processing mechanism in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software allows a remote attacker to reboot hardware-based fire
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 12, 2024
US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend the Section 702 spy program. It passed without an amendment that would have required the FBI to obtain a warrant to access Americans' information.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 15, 2024
Company Released a Hotfix to the Command Injection Vulnerability Firewall appliance manufacturer Palo Alto Networks rushed out a hotfix Friday to a command injection vulnerability present in its custom operating system after security researchers spotted a campaign to exploit the zero-day starting in March, likely from a state-backed threat actor.
Data Matters
APRIL 11, 2024
The newest editions of the Chambers Global Practice Guides have been published and, once again, Sidley lawyers have contributed to two guides: Data Protection & Privacy 2024 and Cybersecurity 2024. These publications cover important developments across the globe and offer insightful legal commentary for businesses on issues related to data privacy and cybersecurity, such as regulatory enforcement and litigation, global cooperation to combat cybercrime, international agreement on ‘Softw
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
KnowBe4
APRIL 16, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares security awareness training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer satisfaction, popularity and market presence.
Security Affairs
APRIL 14, 2024
A threat actor claimed the hack of the Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger and leaked 2.8 million records on a hacker forum. A threat actor, who goes online with the moniker ShopifyGUY, claimed responsibility for hacking the Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger and leaked 2.8 million records on a hacker forum. Giant Tiger is a Canadian discount store chain that operates over 260 stores across Canada.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 11, 2024
Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 16, 2024
Fresh Social Engineering Attacks Resemble Tactics Used Against XZ Utils Maintainer Major open-source software projects are warning that more pieces of code than XZ Utils may have been backdoored by attackers, based on ongoing supply-chain attack attempts that have targeted "popular JavaScript projects," apparently seeking to trick them into sharing code maintainer rights.
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Schneier on Security
APRIL 17, 2024
Canadian legislators proposed 19,600 amendments —almost certainly AI-generated—to a bill in an attempt to delay its adoption. I wrote about many different legislative delaying tactics in A Hacker’s Mind , but this is a new one.
KnowBe4
APRIL 15, 2024
The FBI has issued an alert warning of a widespread SMS phishing (smishing) campaign targeting people in several US states with phony notices of unpaid tolls, BleepingComputer reports.
Security Affairs
APRIL 15, 2024
Cisco Duo warns that a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers exposed multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent by the company via SMS and VOIP to its customers. Cisco Duo warns of a data breach involving one of its telephony suppliers, compromising multifactor authentication (MFA) messages sent to customers via SMS and VOIP. The security breach occurred on April 1, 2024, the threat actors used a Provider employee’s credentials that illicitly obtained through a phishing attac
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