Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
U.S.-Led Sanctions Do Little to Curtail North Korea's Development of AI South Korea's intelligence agency has reported that North Korean hackers are using generative AI to conduct cyberattacks and search for hacking targets. Experts believe North Korea's AI capabilities are robust enough for more precise attacks on South Korea.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2024
Thousands of GitLab servers are vulnerable to zero-click account takeover attacks exploiting the flaw CVE-2023-7028. GitLab has recently released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities impacting both the Community and Enterprise Edition. The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score 10), is an account takeover via Password Reset.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
Experts Warn Against Increasing Federal Reliance on Chinese Technology Experts are raising fresh concerns about the "significant risk" for Chinese espionage against U.S. federal networks after a government watchdog caught the government's main acquisition arm purchasing unauthorized, Chinese-manufactured video conference cameras.
IT Governance
JANUARY 24, 2024
Expert insight from Leon Teale into the implications of this historic data breach The security researcher Bob Diachenko and investigators from Cybernews have discovered an open instance with more than 26 billion data records, mostly compiled from previous breaches – although it likely also includes new data. Organisations associated with these data records include: Tencent QQ – 1.4 billion records; Weibo – 504 million records; Myspace – 360 million records; X/Twitter – 281 million records; Deeze
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
'Midnight Blizzard' Was Inside Company Network for 7 Months Hewlett Packard Enterprise in an after-hours regulatory filing disclosed that suspected Russian state hackers had gained access to corporate email inboxes for more than seven months. A threat group tracked as "Midnight Blizzard" first penetrated HPE's cloud-based email service in May 2023.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
Voluntary Rules Will Set Baseline Security Requirement for Software Vendors, Users The U.K. government is mulling the rollout of a voluntary set of rules urging software vendors to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in their systems. The measure comes as the government continues to face criticism over poor management of legacy infrastructure.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2024
Researchers released PoC exploit code for a recently disclosed critical authentication bypass flaw in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer). Researchers with cybersecurity firm Horizon3’s Attack Team published technical details of the recently disclosed vulnerability CVE-2024-0204 impacting Fortra GoAnywhere MFT. The security experts also published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that allows the creation of new admin users on vulnerable instances exposed online. “
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
Tight-Lipped Agency's Next Move in Wake of $7.5M Scam Could Be Telling Rumors are swirling about how the Department of Health and Human Services lost about $7.5 million in grant payments through a series of cyberattacks last year, including speculation over whether the incidents involved sophisticated AI-augmented spear-phishing or more commonplace fraud schemes.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2024
A ransomware attack against the Finnish IT services provider Tietoevry disrupted the services of some Swedish government agencies and shops. The online services of multiple Swedish government agencies, universities, and commercial activities were disrupted by an Akira ransomware attack that hit the Finnish IT services and enterprise cloud hosting Tietoevry.
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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
US and UK Water Giants Report Network Breaches and Data Leaks, But No Encryption Two major water providers in the U.S. and U.K. report that they recently fell victim to ransomware attacks. In both cases, attackers appear to have stolen employee or customer data that they're now holding to ransom. Ransomware trackers say known attacks, affecting all sectors, have been surging.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Template Injection bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server Template Injection bug, tracked as CVE-2023-22527 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
'/.;/' Strikes Again A security vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere managed file transfer software can allow unauthorized users to create a new admin user. The vulnerability is a remotely exploitable authentication bypass flaw. Hackers have targeted file transfer software over the past year, including GoAnywhere MFT.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 24, 2024
New research into poisoning AI models : The researchers first trained the AI models using supervised learning and then used additional “safety training” methods, including more supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training. After this, they checked if the AI still had hidden behaviors. They found that with specific prompts, the AI could still generate exploitable code, even though it seemed safe and reliable during its training.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2024
McKinsey Predicts up to 15% Profit Increase, Gen AI Use in All Areas of Banking Bloomberg, JPMC, European Central Bank, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, HDFC ERGO and Commonwealth Bank Australia are harnessing gen AI to enhance productivity and customer experience. Gen AI has the potential to reshape job roles, redefine customer interactions and create new business models.
CGI
JANUARY 24, 2024
Every January 28, organizations around the world celebrate Data Privacy Day (also known as Data Protection Day). Data Privacy Day commemorates the first international treaty governing data privacy, signed on January 28, 1981. Back then, legal requirements encouraging businesses to respect privacy were limited. Over the next decades, we experienced across the globe many regulatory developments and advances in how organizations safeguard data to better protect individuals.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 24, 2024
On January 24, 2024, the UK National Cyber Security Centre (“NCSC”) announced it had published a report on how AI will impact the efficacy of cyber operations and the cyber threats posed by AI over the next two years. The report concludes that AI “will almost certainly increase the volume and heighten the impact of cyber attacks over the next two years.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 24, 2024
Firewall rules are preconfigured, logical computing controls that give a firewall instructions for permitting and blocking network traffic. They help IT and security teams manage the traffic that flows to and from their private network. This includes protecting data from internet threats, but it also means restricting unauthorized traffic attempting to leave your enterprise network.
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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.
Jamf
JANUARY 24, 2024
Learn about the basics of compliance in cybersecurity and why it is a crucial component of your organization’s security posture. Also, understand how achieving a balance between security and compliance is table stakes for regulated businesses and how critical factors like key regulations, industry standards and best practices, integrated alongside advanced technologies and security tooling, work hand in glove to benefit organizations while minimizing the risk of non-compliance.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 24, 2024
As the use of Cloud SaaS platforms of generative AI solutions increases, the likelihood of more “GPT” attacks used to gather credentials, payment info and corporate data also increases.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 24, 2024
The Amazon-owned home surveillance company says it is shuttering a feature in its Neighbors app that allows police to request footage from users. But it’s not shutting out the cops entirely.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 24, 2024
A suspected North Korean state-sponsored threat actor called “ScarCruft” is launching spear phishing attacks against cybersecurity professionals, according to researchers at SentinelOne.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 24, 2024
Protecting Against the Risks and Managing the Complexities of a Quantum World with Thales and IBM Consulting madhav Thu, 01/25/2024 - 11:03 Contributors: Ollie Omotosho - Director, Strategir Partnerships, Thales Antti Ropponen, Head of Data & Application Security Services, IBM Consulting In the world of business, data security is paramount. Cryptography is the cornerstone to protecting the data, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and preventing exposure of sensitive information.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 24, 2024
If you haven’t heard of Roblox, you probably don’t have kids like me. Roblox is an online virtual world/metaverse that has been around since 2006 that allows people to play with others and is super popular with young people. We know from research done at Berkeley that gamification can be a good way to get students engaged with cybersecurity.
Data Matters
JANUARY 24, 2024
On January 17, 2024, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) entered into a consent order with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC or the Bank), resolving a matter in which ICBC’s New York branch disclosed confidential supervisory information (CSI) without authorization. The order includes a civil monetary penalty of $30 million.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 24, 2024
The online space continues to grow rapidly, opening more opportunities for cyberattacks to occur within a computer system, network, or web application. To mitigate and prepare for such risks, penetration testing is a necessary step in finding security vulnerabilities that an attacker might use. What is penetration testing? A penetration test , or “pen test,” is a security test that is run to mock a cyberattack in action.
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OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 24, 2024
As cyberthreats continue to evolve, it is crucial for higher education institutions and universities to be vigilant. Enforcing security strategies prudently designed to safeguard digital assets and the integrity of their academic research provides better cyber resilience. The education sector has become a prime target for attackers due to the vast amount of sensitive data, … The post Strengthening Higher Education Institutions against evolving cyberthreats appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
IG Guru
JANUARY 24, 2024
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IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 24, 2024
With the seismic shift wrought by generative AI, the pressure is on IT to modernize and optimize to meet the demand. Cloud service platforms abound promising greater elasticity and savings. There are times, though, when organizations prefer to keep certain applications and data in their own data center—security and compliance requirements or control of sensitive data for example.
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