The Last Watchdog

MAY 7, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud security is stirring buzz as RSA Conference 2024 ramps up at Moscone Convention Center here. Related: The fallacy of ‘security-as-a-cost-center’ Companies are clambering to mitigate unprecedented exposures spinning out of their increasing reliance on cloud hosted resources. The unfolding disruption of Generative AI — and rising compliance requirements — add to the mix.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2024

Russian National Faces US Criminal Indictment, Sanctions The Russian national known as LockBitSupp, head of ransomware-as-a-service group LockBit, came under indictment Tuesday in U.S. federal court and faces sanctions from the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prosecutors say LockBitSupp's real identity is Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 7, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO – The already simmering MSSP global market just got hotter. Related: The transformative power of GenAI/LLM This week at RSA Conference 2024 , AT&T announced the launch of LevelBlue – a top-tier managed security services business formed by an alliance with AT&T and WillJam Ventures. I had the chance to sit down earlier with Theresa Lanowitz , Chief Evangelist of AT&T Cybersecurity /Agent at LevelBlue, to discuss this alliance.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2024

Phones, Wi-Fi, Digital Payments Are Among the Affected Systems The city administration of Kansas's largest city shut down IT systems and switched to cash transactions in the wake of a ransomware attack detected on Sunday. Municipal officials from the city of Wichita said Tuesday that no timetable yet exists for the restoration of systems.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 7, 2024

This attack has been feasible for over two decades: Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted tunnel designed to protect it from snooping or tampering. TunnelVision, as the researchers have named their attack, largely negates the entire purpose and selling point of VPNs, which is to encapsulate incoming and outgoing Internet traffic in an encrypted tunnel and to cloa

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2024

MITRE published more details on the recent security breach, including a timeline of the attack and attribution evidence. MITRE has shared more details on the recent hack , including the new malware involved in the attack and a timeline of the attacker’s activities. In April 2024, MITRE disclosed a security breach in one of its research and prototyping networks.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2024

Panel on Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Keynote, Risk and Emerging Tech From the RSA Conference in San Francisco, four ISMG editors discussed highlights from the first day including the keynote on global threats by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, enterprise risk management concerns and the role of the board, and the latest technology innovations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2024

The FBI, UK National Crime Agency, and Europol revealed the identity of the admin of the LockBit operation and sanctioned him. The FBI, UK National Crime Agency, and Europol have unmasked the identity of the admin of the LockBit ransomware operation, aka ‘LockBitSupp’ and ‘putinkrab’ , and issued sanctions against him. It was the first time that the admin of the notorious group was identified by law enforcement.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2024

Nordstrom CISO Nicole Darden Ford Shares Her Journey From B2B to B2C Industry From working in B2B industries to now shifting to a B2C industry, Nicole Darden Ford, CISO, Nordstrom, is confident of bringing a fresh perspective to tackling the retail sector's complex cybersecurity and fraud challenges.

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Collibra

MAY 7, 2024

There’s no feeling quite like getting together with customers and partners to celebrate the amazing achievements they’ve made as well as introduce them to new innovations available now, and on the horizon. While Data Citizens ‘24 was filled with engaging sessions and content, more importantly, it brought together our community of data and AI professionals to learn and connect with one another.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2024

First-Ever US National Cybersecurity Posture Report Highlights AI, Cloud Migrations The Office of the National Cyber Director released the United States' first-ever report on the nation's overall cybersecurity posture, revealing significant improvements despite an ever-changing threat landscape and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence that pose new challenges.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 7, 2024

Law enforcement officials say they’ve identified, sanctioned, and indicted the person behind LockBitSupp, the administrator at the heart of LockBit’s $500 million hacking rampage.

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KnowBe4

MAY 7, 2024

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Kimsuky is launching spear phishing attacks against individuals working at think tanks and academic institutions in the US, according to a joint advisory from the US State Department, the FBI, and the NSA.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 7, 2024

DSAR and CIAM: A Strategic Guide for Businesses madhav Tue, 05/07/2024 - 09:30 Introduction to Data Subject Access Requests and CIAM When the GDPR was enforced in 2018, it set out to give individuals control over their data by granting eight data subject rights. One of these controls is the right of access, which allows individuals to request information about the personal data held by organizations and to find out how that information is being used.

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KnowBe4

MAY 7, 2024

Innovative analysis of data breaches shows which attack vectors are being used and how they’re enabled, highlighting the roles phishing and credentials play.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 7, 2024

Understanding how microservice applications works on Kubernetes is important in software development. In this article, we will discuss why observing microservice applications on Kubernetes is crucial and several metrics that you should focus on as part of your observability strategy. Why should you observe microservice health running on Kubernetes and what are the Kubernetes metrics you should monitor?

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KnowBe4

MAY 7, 2024

New data from Verizon makes it clear that the Education sector is under attack, but also breaks down which threat actions and patterns are used most.

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IG Guru

MAY 7, 2024

Check out the article here. The post Cisco Systems joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican pledge to ensure ethical use and development of AI via AP first appeared on IG GURU.

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KnowBe4

MAY 7, 2024

A phishing campaign is impersonating fashion retailer Shein in an attempt to steal users’ credentials, according to researchers at Check Point.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 7, 2024

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KnowBe4

MAY 7, 2024

[EPIC FAIL] Phishing Failures: How Not to Phish Your Users

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 7, 2024

Imagine that you are a talent acquisition manager at a large corporation, and you’re struggling to find suitable candidates for a critical role. Despite posting the description on multiple job boards, the résumés received are either unqualified or uninteresting. This results in wasted valuable time and resources on manual screening, causing frustration among hiring managers.

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Unwritten Record

MAY 7, 2024

Today’s post was written by Rachael Brittain and Ken Myers. In celebration of National Nurses Day and World Red Cross Day, the National Archives would like to commemorate the work and sacrifices nurses and Red Cross staff make to contribute to our nation’s health and safety. We invite you to celebrate their contributions with the American Red Cross collection.

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IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Plus, a further 3,029,461 known records newly breached Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight More than 6 million accounts compromised from streaming service MovieBoxPro MovieBoxPro, a streaming service of “questionable legalit

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2024

Secretary of State Antony Blinken Debuts New Policies to Propel US Tech Advancement U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlights a new international cyberspace strategy at RSA Conference 2024, aiming to protect democratic values and maximize technological potential in an era of rapid digital advancement through global cooperation.

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.