Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2024
Pyongyang Threat Actor Is After Money and Information A North Korean hacking group wants to make money for the cash-starved Pyongyang regime and conduct bread-and-butter cyberespionage, say Microsoft researchers in a profile of a group they track as "Moonstone Sleet." North Korea has a well-established history of hacking for profit.
Krebs on Security
MAY 28, 2024
The U.S. Department of the Treasury today unveiled sanctions against three Chinese nationals for allegedly operating 911 S5 , an online anonymity service that for many years was the easiest and cheapest way to route one’s Web traffic through malware-infected computers around the globe. KrebsOnSecurity identified one of the three men in a July 2022 investigation into 911 S5, which was massively hacked and then closed ten days later.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2024
Need to Prevent Use of AI to Create False or Misleading Info, Researchers Say Artificial intelligence has a limited impact on the outcome of specific elections, says the U.K.'s Alan Turing Institute, but evidence suggests its application in campaign settings creates second-order risks such as polarization and damaging trust in online sources.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 28, 2024
Spread spectrum technology helped prevent the jamming of WWII radio-controlled torpedoes and subsequently became a cornerstone of modern-day telecom infrastructure. For its next act, could spread spectrum undergird digital resiliency? I had an evocative discussion about this at RSAC 2024 with Dispersive CEO Rajiv Plimplaskar. For a full drill down, please give the accompanying podcast a listen.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2024
Committee Comes After Key Personnel Resign and Criticize the Company Over Safety OpenAI on Tuesday set up a committee to make "critical" safety and security decisions for all of its projects, as the technology giant begins to train its next artificial intelligence model. The committee's formation comes after OpenAI disbanded its "superalignment" security team.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2024
Treasury Department Says Botnet Users Committed Fraud, Made Bomb Threats The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned Chinese national Yunhe Wang for his role in directing the 911 S5 botnet, which uses hacked residential computers as proxies and is often used to commit fraud. The government also sanctioned a co-conspirator and a real estate business associate.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 28, 2024
Cary, NC, May 28, 2024, CyberNewsWire — If there is a single theme circulating among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) right now, it is the question of how to get stakeholders on board with more robust cybersecurity training protocols. There are key points debated about why you should provide cybersecurity training to your IT professionals, like the alarming increase in cyberattacks (an increase of 72% over the all-time high in 2021, according to the Identity Theft Research Cente
Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2024
StepStone Group Leads Series B Round for Enhanced Privacy Solutions for Businesses Transcend raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by StepStone Group to enhance privacy controls in business systems. This investment will support the company's efforts to capture market share, expand R&D and better serve a broader range of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers.
Security Affairs
MAY 28, 2024
Researchers released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for remote code execution flaw CVE-2024-23108 in Fortinet SIEM solution. Security researchers at Horizon3’s Attack Team released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a remote code execution issue, tracked as CVE-2024-23108 , in Fortinet’s SIEM solution. The PoC exploit allows executing commands as root on Internet-facing FortiSIEM appliances.
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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
MAY 28, 2024
Medical Staff Says Resorting to Manual, Paper Charting Is Posing Risks to Patients A local union representing medical professionals at an Ascension hospital in Michigan is demanding the organization take actions to protect patient safety in the wake of a cyberattack that took out electronic health records, forcing clinicians to use manual processes and paper charts.
Schneier on Security
MAY 28, 2024
Quantum computers are probably coming, though we don’t know when—and when they arrive, they will, most likely, be able to break our standard public-key cryptography algorithms. In anticipation of this possibility, cryptographers have been working on quantum-resistant public-key algorithms. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been hosting a competition since 2017, and there already are several proposed standards.
Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2024
Criminal and Nation-State Focus on Network Edge Devices Continues, Researchers Warn Attackers have been escalating their attempts to compromise poorly secured virtual private networks - including appliances set for password-only authentication - to gain remote, initial access to enterprise networks, Check Point Software Technologies warns.
Security Affairs
MAY 28, 2024
Threat actors are exploiting a WordPress plugin to insert malicious PHP code in e-commerce sites and steal credit card data. Sucuri researchers observed threat actors using a PHP snippet WordPress plugin to install malicious code in WooCommerce e-stores and harvest credit card details. In the campaign spotted by the experts, attackers use a very obscure WordPress plugin called Dessky Snippets , which has only a few hundred active installations at the time of writing.
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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.
KnowBe4
MAY 28, 2024
The China-aligned threat actor “Sharp Dragon” is launching spear phishing attacks against government entities in African and Caribbean countries, according to researchers at Check Point.
Security Affairs
MAY 28, 2024
Dutch bank ABN Amro discloses data breach following a ransomware attack hit the third-party services provider AddComm. Dutch bank ABN Amro disclosed a data breach after third-party services provider AddComm suffered a ransomware attack. AddComm distributes documents and tokens physically and digitally to clients and employees. The ransomware attack occurred last week and unauthorized parties may have obtained access to data of a limited number of ABN AMRO clients.
Data Matters
MAY 28, 2024
On May 23, 2024, the UK finally passed its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA), introducing a new “pro-competition” regime for digital markets and marking the biggest reform to UK competition and consumer laws in a decade. The DMCCA is the latest piece of legislation aiming to tackle the power of Big Tech, as regulators around the world debate new ways to oversee competition in the digital sector.
KnowBe4
MAY 28, 2024
We are big fans of the U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), whose informal slogan of “An organization so committed to security that it’s in our name twice” is a source of pride.
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WIRED Threat Level
MAY 28, 2024
Police are using subtle psychological operations against ransomware gangs to sow distrust in their ranks—and trick them into emerging from the shadows.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 28, 2024
Virtually every organization recognizes the power of data to enhance customer and employee experiences and drive better business decisions. Yet, as data becomes more valuable, it’s also becoming harder to protect. Companies continue to create more attack surfaces with hybrid models, scattering critical data across cloud, third-party and on-premises locations, while threat actors constantly devise new and creative ways to exploit vulnerabilities.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 28, 2024
Cloud security issues refer to the threats, risks, and challenges in the cloud environment. Threats are active attacks that target system weaknesses. Risks include potential damage from cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Challenges are gaps and barriers to attaining good security. To combat these cloud security issues, develop a robust cloud security strategy that addresses all three to provide comprehensive protection.
Jamf
MAY 28, 2024
Sure, Apple devices have the lowest ROI of any other hardware available. But what if you could lower it even further with modern device management practices?
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IG Guru
MAY 28, 2024
Check out the post here. The post User Outcry as Slack Scrapes Customer Data for AI Model Training via Security Week first appeared on IG GURU.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 28, 2024
Security service edge (SSE) is a security technology that secures access to assets outside of the corporate network. SSE works by extending security to cover the dispersed threat landscape where websites, cloud assets, and many employees operate outside of the traditional firewall protection. To fully explain SSE, I’ll cover its key features, benefits, challenges, use cases, vendors, and trends as well as contrast SSE against alternative solutions.
OpenText Information Management
MAY 28, 2024
Today’s businesses are challenged to transition their services and offerings into a digital, frictionless customer experience with real-time insights, quick response times, and self-service experiences. Low code platforms like Microsoft Power Platform (which include Power Pages for self-service portals, Power Automate for process data alignment) and business operation applications like Microsoft Dynamics 365 for operational efficiencies are key components for seamless customer experiences and ke
John Battelle's Searchblog
MAY 28, 2024
The Times’s piece decries all the ads on TV. But is this a surprise?! The advertising world is uncomplicated at its core, and utterly bewildering when seen from the outside. The easy bit stems from a simple axiom: Wherever you can find the attention of potential customers, you pay to get your message in front of them. That’s the essence of advertising: paying for attention.
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.
KnowBe4
MAY 28, 2024
If you want to sell cloud-based software to the U.S. Government, you need to be FedRAMP authorized.
CILIP
MAY 28, 2024
Libraries Change Lives – Join the campaign in the build up to the general election This summer, a change of government will take place, and potentially hundreds of new MPs will join the House of Commons for the first time. In the build-up to the general election, we will be launching the Libraries Change Lives social media and press campaign to engage politicians and decision-makers so that they truly understand the impact and value that library and information professionals add to their communi
Adapture
MAY 28, 2024
Adapture Recognized on CRN 2024 Solution Provider 500 List for the Ninth Consecutive Year ATLANTA, May 28, 2024 — CRN ® , a brand of The Channel Company , has today announced that Adapture has been ranked 286 on its prestigious 2024 Solution Provider 500 list. This is the ninth consecutive year Adapture has been recognized. CRN’s annual Solution Provider 500 recognizes North America’s largest solution providers by revenue and serves as a prominent benchmark of many of the channel’s most successf
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