IT Governance
AUGUST 16, 2021
When it comes to the ideal post-pandemic work environment, employers and employees and have very different ideas. According to a Microsoft study , 73% of workers want to keep the flexible work arrangements created in response to COVID-19, and 67% want a return to in-person collaboration.
Record Nations
AUGUST 16, 2021
Hard drive health and data security are very closely connected. A failing hard drive can pose a number of security risks to any business. It’s important to recognize the signs of a failing drive, as well as what can be done to make sure that the data within remains accessible. We spoke to the founder […]. The post Hard Drive Health & Data Security appeared first on Record Nations.
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Threatpost
AUGUST 19, 2021
Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra, lays out the different layers of ransomware defense all companies should implement.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2021
Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company.
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
AUGUST 17, 2021
Security Experts Size Up Impact of US Rush to Leave Afghanistan It's unlikely that the U.S. abandoning its embassy and other facilities in Afghanistan poses cyber risks, thanks to the emergency planning that was already in place, some security experts say.
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AIIM
AUGUST 19, 2021
Despite the proven operational improvements to be gain by going paperless, paper is still prevalent in too many core business processes today including loan applications, insurance claims, and customer onboarding. After last year's mad dash to accommodate distributed workers and work places, the reticence to digitize paper processes is decreasing. 70% of AIIM survey respondents indicate that they plan to expand their efforts to encourage and support more digitally-born documents this year.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 16, 2021
Communications giant T-Mobile said today it is investigating the extent of a breach that hackers claim has exposed sensitive personal data on 100 million T-Mobile USA customers, in many cases including the name, Social Security number, address, date of birth, phone number, security PINs and details that uniquely identify each customer’s mobile device.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Cato Networks: Malware Now Used to Spoof Devices Researchers at SASE platform provider Cato Networks say they have discovered a novel use of the Houdini malware for spoofing of devices.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 18, 2021
So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. Way back in 1990, Symantec acquired Norton Utilities and made Norton the heart of its antivirus subscription offering. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.
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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?
AIIM
AUGUST 17, 2021
In both our personal and professional lives, the amount of information we deal with on a daily basis is growing exponentially. At the same time, the variety of this information is evolving -- audio files, video files, and more. The cummulative effect? Information Chaos ! For many organizations, information is largely viewed as an achilles heel that must be tamed and controlled.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 18, 2021
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen T-Mobile customer records went up for sale in the cybercrime underground.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 16, 2021
Group Claims GGSN Misconfiguration Led to 100 Million User Accounts T-Mobile USA says it is investigating a claim that as many as 100 million accounts may have been compromised in a data breach. The person who claims responsibility for the alleged breach says T-Mobile misconfigured a Gateway GPRS Support Node.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2021
Apple’s NeuralHash algorithm — the one it’s using for client-side scanning on the iPhone — has been reverse-engineered. Turns out it was already in iOS 14.3, and someone noticed : Early tests show that it can tolerate image resizing and compression, but not cropping or rotations. We also have the first collision : two images that hash to the same value.
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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.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 17, 2021
A security researcher discovered that a secret FBI’s terrorist watchlist was accidentally exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021. A security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered a secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records that were exposed on the internet for three weeks between July 19 and August 9, 2021.
Elie
AUGUST 15, 2021
This keynote discusses whether applying deep-learning to cryptanalysis will revolutionize the field or if it will go out of fashion in a few years due to the lack of breakthroughs.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 20, 2021
Firm Says Singapore Unit Was Targeted Tokio Marine, a Japan-based property and casualty insurer, says its Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore unit was hit by a ransomware attack this week.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 19, 2021
It’s a big one : As first reported by Motherboard on Sunday, someone on the dark web claims to have obtained the data of 100 million from T-Mobile’s servers and is selling a portion of it on an underground forum for 6 bitcoin, about $280,000. The trove includes not only names, phone numbers, and physical addresses but also more sensitive data like social security numbers , driver’s license information, and IMEI numbers , unique identifiers tied to each mobile device.
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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.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union’s GDPR. The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) warns that the Senate Chancellory’s use of the popular videoconferencing tool violates the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Elie
AUGUST 15, 2021
This keynote discusses whether applying deep-learning to cryptanalysis will revolutionize the field or if it will go out of fashion in a few years due to the lack of breakthroughs.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 18, 2021
40 Million Credit Applications Also Stolen; Social Security Numbers Exposed T-Mobile USA has confirmed that its systems were breached and that details for 7.8 million current T-Mobile postpaid customers and 850,000 prepaid customers as well as records for 40 million individuals who applied for credit were stolen.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 20, 2021
In this post, I’ll collect links on Apple’s iPhone backdoor for scanning CSAM images. Previous links are here and here. Apple says that hash collisions in its CSAM detection system were expected, and not a concern. I’m not convinced that this secondary system was originally part of the design, since it wasn’t discussed in the original specification.
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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.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 18, 2021
Adobe has addressed two critical security vulnerabilities affecting its Photoshop image manipulation software. Ad obe released security updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-36065 and CVE-2021-36066, affecting the popular image manipulation software Photoshop. The flaws affect versions of the software for both Windows and macOS, their exploitation could lead to?
Threatpost
AUGUST 16, 2021
Lost productivity & mopping up after the costly attacks that follow phishing – BEC & ransomware in particular – eat up most costs, not payouts to crooks.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 16, 2021
Hospitals Diverting ER Patients to Other Area Facilities Memorial Health System in Ohio is the latest healthcare entity hit with an apparent ransomware incident that is disrupting patient care services.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 18, 2021
I’m starting to see writings about a Chinese espionage tool that exploits website vulnerabilities to try and identify Chinese dissidents.
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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.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 16, 2021
T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. Yesterday the company announced it launched an investigation into a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data of its customers.
Threatpost
AUGUST 17, 2021
A remote attacker could exploit a critical vulnerability to eavesdrop on live audio & video or take control. The bug is in ThroughTek’s Kalay network, used in 83m devices.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 19, 2021
Updated Malware Now Includes Spyware and a Backdoor Researchers at the security firm Cisco Talos have spotted an ongoing campaign using an updated variant of the "Neurevt" Trojan to target customers of financial institutions in Mexico.
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