The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Achieving “ digital trust ” is not going terribly well globally. Related: How decentralized IoT boosts decarbonization Yet, more so than ever, infusing trustworthiness into modern-day digital services has become mission critical for most businesses. Now comes survey findings that could perhaps help to move things in the right direction. According to DigiCert’s 2024 State of Digital Trust Survey results, released today , companies proactively pursuing digital trust are seeing boosts in revenue, i

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

3 Suspects Charged With Using Sugar Ransomware, Phishing Attacks Against Russians Russian authorities have reportedly arrested three accused members of the SugarLocker ransomware-as-a-service operation. Their alleged crime? Targeting Russians, although one suspect has also been tied to a massive hack of Australian health insurer Medibank and subsequent data leak.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

China-linked APT group Mustang Panda targeted various Asian countries with a variant of the PlugX (aka Korplug) backdoor dubbed DOPLUGS. Trend Micro researchers uncovered a cyberespionage campaign, carried out by China-linked APT group Mustang Panda , targeting Asian countries, including Taiwan, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Mustang Panda has been active since at least 2012, it targeted American and European entities such as government organizations, think tanks, NGOs , and even Catholic organiza

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

13,000 Users Received Incorrect Thumbnails; 1,504 Tapped on Them, Risking Privacy A glitch in Wyze home security cameras permitted thousands of users to catch glimpses inside strangers' homes as its cloud system came back online after an hourslong outage. Around 13,000 Wyze users received thumbnails from cameras that were not their own, and around 1,504 users tapped on them.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

VMware urges customers to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) after the disclosure of a critical flaw CVE-2024-22245. VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) after the discovery of an arbitrary authentication relay flaw CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6). A threat actor could trick a domain user with EAP installed in its web browser into requesting and relaying service tickets for arbitrary Active Directory Service Principal

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks madhav Thu, 02/22/2024 - 04:55 Application programming interfaces (APIs) power nearly every aspect of modern applications and have become the backbone of today’s economy. Every time you send a mobile payment, search for airline flight prices, or book a restaurant reservation - you are using an API.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Acquisition Will Allow Delinea to Detect Overprivileged Access, Company Says California privileged access management vendor Delinea announced it will acquire identity governance and administration vendor Fastpath. "We believe privilege, not just identity, is the true security perimeter," said Delinea Chief Product Officer Phil Calvin.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

U.S. government offers rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of LockBit ransomware gang members and affiliates. The U.S. Department of State is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the identification or location of members of the Lockbit ransomware gang and their affiliates. “The Department of State is announcing reward offers totaling up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest and/or convic

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US Coast Guard Will Publish Proposed Rule Establishing Cybersecurity Minimums U.S. President Joe Biden is set Wednesday to sign an executive order aimed at bolstering cybersecurity in maritime ports, including a directive for the Coast Guard to develop minimum cybersecurity standards for the marine transportation system.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new malware campaign targets Redis servers to deploy the mining crypto miner Migo on compromised Linux hosts. Caro Security researchers have observed a new malware campaign targeting Redis servers with a crypto miner dubbed Migo. The campaign stands out for the use of several novel system weakening techniques against the data store itself. Migo is a Golang ELF binary with compile-time obfuscation, it is also able to maintain persistence on Linux hosts.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

US Coast Guard Will Publish Proposed Rule Establishing Cybersecurity Minimums U.S. President Joe Biden is set Wednesday to sign an executive order aimed at bolstering cybersecurity in maritime ports, including a directive for the Coast Guard to develop minimum cybersecurity standards for the marine transportation system.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

First-person account of someone who fell for a scam, that started as a fake Amazon service rep and ended with a fake CIA agent, and lost $50,000 cash. And this is not a naive or stupid person. The details are fascinating. And if you think it couldn’t happen to you, think again. Given the right set of circumstances, it can. It happened to Cory Doctorow.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Customer Accounts Were Secured by MFA, But Contractor's Credentials Exposed Data Australian telecom company Tangerine is blaming the compromise of a third-party contractor's credentials for exposing personal information of 232,000 customers, which had been stored in a legacy database. The breach exposed customers' names, birthdates, mobile numbers, addresses and account numbers.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Researchers at VIPRE Security observed a 276% increase in malware delivered by phishing between Q1 and Q4 of 2023.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Join us for an informative webinar with Bitsight speakers Vanessa Jankowski, SVP of Third Party Risk Management, and Greg Keshian, SVP of Security Performance

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

QR-code attacks leveraging QR-codes are kicking into high gear and becoming a common method used in phishing attacks, according to new data from Abnormal Security.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A firewall audit is a procedure for reviewing and reconfiguring firewalls as needed so they still suit your organization’s security goals. Over time, business network needs, traffic patterns, and application access change. Auditing your firewall is one of the most important steps to ensuring it’s still equipped to protect the perimeter of your business’ network.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I get my news from a very wide variety of sources. One is the venerable SpyTalk news that lives in Substack. They just reported something pretty astounding. Here are the first few paragraphs and at the end is the link to substack with the rest.

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Collibra

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Migrating to the cloud but worried your organization — or your data — isn’t up to the challenge? An enterprise data intelligence solution can accelerate and simplify your migration journey. More importantly, it lays a foundation for data governance and data quality that can fuel your organization with the trusted data that drives decision-making. To achieve data cloud migration success, we recommend a 4-step process that we explore in our helpful ebook: Four steps to successfully power your da

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I recently read an article about a bright, sophisticated woman who fell victim to an unbelievable scam. By unbelievable, I mean most people reading or hearing about it could not believe it was successful.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The KnowBe4 Learner App enables your users to complete their security awareness and compliance training conveniently from their smartphones and tablets.

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The Security Ledger

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Paul speaks with Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), about the risks facing large language model machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence and LLMs can insulate themselves from those risks. The post Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A circuit-level gateway (CLG) is a firewall feature that acts as a proxy and filters packets based on session information. CLGs are important because they provide specialized security filtering and prevent the discovery of IP addresses and open ports on CLG-protected devices. The best use cases stem from how CLGs work, their pros, cons, and how they function differently than other potential solutions.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

On February 16, 2024, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published its first piece of guidance on content moderation. The ICO defines content moderation in the guidance as the analysis of user-generated content to assess whether it meets certain standards, and any action a service takes as a result of this analysis. This process includes the processing of personal data and, according to the ICO in its statement , “can cause harm if incorrect decisions are made,” for example co

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

OpenText™ InfoArchive provides highly accessible, scalable, economical, and compliant archiving of structured and unstructured information. Whether actively archiving business information to reduce system loads or decommissioning applications to stand down outdated systems, InfoArchive is the flexible and cost-efficient way to reduce IT costs and accelerate the move to a modernized, cloud-based architecture.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

On February 12, 2024, a federal court in the Southern District of Ohio issued an order granting a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, prohibiting the Ohio Attorney General from implementing and enforcing the Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, Ohio Rev. Code § 1349.09(B)(1) (the “Act”). The Act was signed into law in July 2023, and was set to take effect on January 15, 2024.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For a category that has been around for over 30 years, digital asset management (DAM) is surprisingly dynamic. However, it remains challenging to manage the increasing volume and complexity of rich media that organizations and individuals create and consume. Whether it is new formats, like 3D models, new channels, like social short-form video, or new … The post What’s new in OpenText Media Management appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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