Krebs on Security
JUNE 1, 2023
Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. Both of these qualities make stolen or ill-gotten code-signing certificates attractive to cybercriminal groups, who prize their ability to add stealth and longevity to malicious software.
Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2023
Mikhail Matveev Indictment Shows Police Tracking Top Alleged Ransomware Affiliates How many hackers can claim to have caused a national cheese shortage, not least in the Gouda-loving Netherlands? Enter Mikhail Matveev, a Russian national who's been indicted for wielding not one but three strains of ransomware, in what experts say is a needed focus on ransomware affiliates.
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KnowBe4
MAY 31, 2023
As audio deepfake technology continues to go mainstream as part of the evolution in AI-based tools, new data shows there are plenty of victims and they aren’t prepared for such an attack.
Dark Reading
MAY 31, 2023
Some companies have moved on from using Salesforce. But without remembering to fully deactivate their clouds, Salesforce won't move on from them.
Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into
Data Breach Today
MAY 27, 2023
More than 100 Agencies, Health Entities Impacted by Data Breach Discovered in March An insurance provider that services many state Medicaid agencies and the Children's Health Insurance Program told regulators that hackers compromised the personal and protected health information of nearly 9 million patients in an incident discovered in March.
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The Last Watchdog
MAY 31, 2023
The world of Identity and Access Management ( IAM ) is rapidly evolving. Related: Stopping IAM threats IAM began 25 years ago as a method to systematically grant human users access to company IT assets. Today, a “user” most often is a snippet of code seeking access at the cloud edge. At the RSAC Conference 2023 , I sat down with Venkat Raghavan , founder and CEO of start-up Stack Identity.
AIIM
MAY 30, 2023
This article was written by AIIM Florida Chapter Board Member Alvaro Arias Cruz , District Director of Archives of Bogotá. It was originally published in the AIIM Florida Chapter Newsletter in April 2023. Learn more about the AIIM Florida Chapter at [link]. Colombia has one of the most robust and comprehensive archives laws in the Latin American region, identified as the General Archives Law (Law 594 of 2000).
Data Breach Today
MAY 29, 2023
UK Financial Services Firms Record $1.5 Billion in Losses Last Year Due to Fraud Losses to fraud reported by Britain's financial services sector exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022, declining by 8% from 2021, says trade association UK Finance. About 40% of losses tied to authorized push payment fraud, in which victims get tricked into transferring funds to attackers.
Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
The government-sponsored dental and oral healthcare provider warned its customers that a March attack exposed sensitive data, some of which was leaked online by the ransomware group.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
eSecurity Planet
MAY 30, 2023
In March, Microsoft announced its Security Copilot service. The software giant built the technology on cutting-edge generative AI – such as large language models (LLMs) – that power applications like ChatGPT. In a blog post , Microsoft boasted that the Security Copilot was the “first security product to enable defenders to move at the speed and scale of AI.
AIIM
JUNE 2, 2023
AIIM has been discussing the next generation of information management leaders and how the industry can better attract and retain young professionals quite a lot in 2023, and with good reason. The demographics of the workforce are changing. Generation Z (people born between 1997-2012) will account for 30 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force by 2030, according to the U.S.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 2, 2023
Mandiant Said TTPs of Threat Group Behind Exploiting MOVEit Appear Similar to FIN11 Adversaries have taken advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software's managed file transfer product to deploy web shells and steal data, Mandiant found. An unknown threat actor began exploiting the critical SQL injection vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer on May 27.
Dark Reading
JUNE 2, 2023
A recent campaign tricks victims into visiting credential harvesting sites by hiding malicious URLs behind photos advertising deals from trusted brands.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 31, 2023
Well that was something. Yesterday the Center for AI Safety, which didn’t exist last year, released a powerful 22-word statement that sent the world’s journalists into a predictable paroxysm of hand-wringing: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 1, 2023
Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement , coordinated by the Center for AI Safety: Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. The press coverage has been extensive, and surprising to me. The New York Times headline is “A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn.” BBC : “Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn.”
Data Breach Today
MAY 31, 2023
Amazon-Owned Ring Will Pay $5.8 Million to Settle FTC Investigation Amazon agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission investigation into allegedly poor cybersecurity practices by its Ring home surveillance device subsidiary. The company is also poised to come under two decades' worth of outside reviews of a mandated data and security program.
Dark Reading
MAY 31, 2023
The newly found misconfigured cloud services are discovered just two weeks after an initial data breach affecting millions came to light.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
MAY 30, 2023
On May 22, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief in support of a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that COPPA does not preempt state laws claims that are consistent with COPPA. The brief was filed in the case of Jones v. Google. The lawsuit, which was brought by parents on behalf of their children, alleges that video sharing platform YouTube, which is owned by Google, and specific YouTube channel owners violated state laws by collecting persona
Hanzo Learning Center
MAY 30, 2023
Workplace collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams have become ubiquitous in many organizations. However, they also present unique challenges for data governance and ediscovery in the event of litigation. To avoid potential legal issues and fines, it is crucial to have a tailored retention policy, acceptable use policy, and employee training in place.
Data Breach Today
MAY 29, 2023
Data Breach Exposed Nearly 20 Years of 'Indefinitely' Stored Payment Card Data Online sports retailer Sports Warehouse has agreed overhaul its security program and pay a $300,000 fine to New York State after hackers stole 20 years' worth of payment card data and customer information the company was storing in plaintext on its e-commerce server.
Dark Reading
JUNE 2, 2023
Russia's FSB intelligence agency says the zero-click attacks range far beyond Kaspersky, and it has blamed them on the United States' NSA. Those allegations are thus far uncorroborated.
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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.
KnowBe4
JUNE 2, 2023
A new study found that ChatGPT can accurately recall any sensitive information fed to it as part of a query at a later date without controls in place to protect who can retrieve it.
Schneier on Security
MAY 30, 2023
It’s neither hard nor expensive : Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold. As a result, a successful fingerprint brute-force attack requires only that an inputted image provides an acceptable approximation of an image in the fingerprint database.
Data Breach Today
MAY 31, 2023
Threat Actor's Targets This Year Include Government Agencies in Brunei, Indonesia A recently emerged threat actor dubbed Dark Pink is updating its custom tool set in a bid to evade detection while expanding its operations to new Southeast Asian targets. Threat intel firm Group-IB counts 13 total victims of Dark Pink, which first became active in mid-2021.
Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2023
A Trojan SDK snuck past Google Play protections to infest 101 Android applications, bent on exfiltrating infected device data.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
National Archives Records Express
MAY 30, 2023
Digitization project at Archives 1 (Room 18W2) National Archives Identifier: 184341402 This is our fourth blog post taking a deep dive into 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E–Digitizing Permanent Records , which takes effect next week. In this post, we address quality management (QM) which includes the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) requirements provided in the regulation.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 31, 2023
There are many overlapping business usage scenarios involving both the disciplines of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing. But there is one very practical and promising use case that has been commonly deployed without many people thinking about it: connected products. This use case involves devices and equipment embedded with sensors, software and connectivity that exchange data with other products, operators or environments in real-time.
Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2023
UK Financial Services Firms Record $1.5 Billion in Losses Last Year Due to Fraud Losses to fraud reported by Britain's financial services sector exceeded $1.5 billion in 2022, declining by 8% from 2021, says trade association UK Finance. About 40% of losses tied to authorized push payment fraud, in which victims get tricked into transferring funds to attackers.
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