Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2023
PowerDrop Malware Simple But Sophisticated Suspected nation-state hackers are using that malware researchers say straddles between the line between off-the-shelf and advanced tactics in order to target the U.S. aerospace industry. Researchers from Adlumin in May found the malware on a defense contractor's network.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
Threat actors are lifting public images and videos from the Internet, altering them, and posting them online in a new wave of sextortion campaigns.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2023
'Preparedness Pays,' European AI and Cybersecurity Experts Say at ENISA Conference At the EU cybersecurity agency ENISA's recent conference on the cybersecurity upsides and downsides of AI chatbots, presenters urged "preparedness," recommending that cybersecurity professionals track the "warp speed" evolution of chatbots to target emerging risks as well as opportunities.
Jamf
JUNE 7, 2023
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) shows how Apple is leveraging its five major platforms to advance Apple's adoption in the enterprise. Here are the ways Apple is pushing each platform forward to continue winning in the workplace.
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
JUNE 7, 2023
Security Director Ian Keller on Enabling Responsible Disclosure Within Your Company In this post of his blog "A CISO's View," security director Ian Keller discusses the importance of having mechanisms in place to report potential personal compromise or potential compromise of another person in your company and provides simple steps for making security everyone's responsibility.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2023
Former Employee Gets 4.5 Years in Federal Prison and Is Ordered to Repay Patients A former employee of an Arizona hospital has been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution to victims after pleading guilty to criminal HIPAA violations and his participation in an identity theft scam that compromised the data of nearly 500 patients.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
By stepping in to provide aid, the federal government could help protect companies, insurers, and the economy from the impact of a widespread, catastrophic cyberattack.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2023
Center for Internet Security CISO on 'Transitional' State of Software Supply Chain With the federal government's software bill of materials regulations looming, many organizations are not ready to respond, warned CISO Sean Atkinson of the Center for Internet Security. He provided tips for ensuring transparency in the software supply chain and preparing for SBOM regulations.
KnowBe4
JUNE 7, 2023
A Chinese-speaking phishing gang has expanded its targeting from the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East, researchers at Group-IB have found. The gang, which the researchers call “PostalFurious,” impersonated a toll operator and a postal service in the Middle East.
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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?
Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2023
50 Staffers Axed as Dragos Sees Longer Sales Cycles and Smaller Initial Deployments Dragos has axed 50 workers after longer sales cycles and smaller initial deployment sizes caused the industrial cybersecurity vendor to miss its first quarter revenue target. Dragos revealed plans to reduce its staff by 9% to ensure the company can stay independent through an IPO or Series E round.
Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2023
Bitdefender researchers have discovered 60,000 different Android apps secretly installing adware in the past six months. Bitdefender announced the discovery of more than 60,000 Android apps in the past six months that were spotted installing adware on Android devices. The researchers discovered the hidden adware by using a recently announced anomaly detection technology incorporated into Bitdefender Mobile Security. “Upon analysis, the campaign is designed to aggressively push adware to
Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2023
Russian-Speaking Extortion Operation Says It Will Start Listing Victims on June 14 The Clop ransomware-as-a-service gang said it's the actor behind a spate of hacks taking advantage of a vulnerability in Progress Software's MOVEit managed file transfer application. "We download alot [ sic ] of your data as part of exceptional exploit," the gang's dark web leak site says.
Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2023
Virtualization giant VMware addressed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. Virtualization technology giant VMware released security patches to address three critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-20887, CVE-2023-20888, CVE-2023-20889, in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight) is a network monitoring tool that helps organizations build an optimized, highly
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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.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
A worm virus called "fracturizer" has been embedded in modpacks from various sites, including CurseForge and CraftBukkit.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 7, 2023
New paper: “ Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys “: Abstract: Incident Response (IR) allows victim firms to detect, contain, and recover from security incidents. It should also help the wider community avoid similar attacks in the future. In pursuit of these goals, technical practitioners are increasingly influenced by stakeholders like cyber insurers and lawyers.
Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2023
June 2023 security update for Android released by Google fixes about fifty flaws, including an Arm Mali GPU bug exploited by surveillance firms in their spyware. The June 2023 Android Security Bulletin provides details about the fix for more than fifty vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. Security updates released this month also addressed a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22706 , that affects the Arm Mali GPU.
eSecurity Planet
JUNE 7, 2023
IT security buyers are consolidating vendors at an overwhelming rate, according to a speaker at this week’s Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit. In a session on cybersecurity market trends and growth opportunities, Gartner analyst and VP Neil MacDonald said 75% of security buyers are pursuing vendor consolidation, up from just 29% in 2020. “Customers want fewer providers,” he said.
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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
JUNE 7, 2023
A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting the U.S. aerospace defense sector with a new PowerShell malware dubbed PowerDrop. Researchers from the Adlumin Threat Research discovered a new malicious PowerShell script, dubbed PowerDrop, that was employed in attacks aimed at organizations in the U.S. aerospace sector. The PowerShell-based malware uses advanced techniques to evade detection, including deception, encoding, and encryption.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2023
New testimony from defectors reveals pervasive surveillance and monitoring of limited internet connections. For millions of others, the internet simply doesn't exist.
KnowBe4
JUNE 7, 2023
My analysis of this year’s newly-released Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report begins with ransomware findings that point back to users as a big problem.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
Cybersecurity benefits from a focus on the vital few chores rather than the trivial many. Find the "right things" to encourage strategic thinking, then move the culture needle to promote that policy.
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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
JUNE 7, 2023
Clop ransomware group claims to have hacked hundreds of companies globally by exploiting MOVEit Transfer vulnerability. The Clop ransomware group may have compromised hundreds of companies worldwide by exploiting a vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer software. MOVEit Transfer is a managed file transfer that is used by enterprises to securely transfer files using SFTP, SCP, and HTTP-based uploads.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
The FTC has demanded additional data privacy protections for kids using Xbox gaming systems, extending COPPA protections.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2023
UT-Austin will join a growing movement to launch cybersecurity clinics for cities and small businesses that often fall through the cracks.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
Collaboration delivers end-to-end intelligent banking cloud platform with online fraud detection powered by next-generation behavioral biometrics.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Hunton Privacy
JUNE 7, 2023
On May 25, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) elected Anu Talus, head of the Finish data protection authority, as its new Chair, replacing Andrea Jelinek. The EDPB also elected Irene Loizidou Nikolaidou, head of the Cypriot data protection authority, as one of its Deputy Chairs, replacing Ventsislav Karadjov. The new Chair and Deputy Chair mandates a duration of five years.
Dark Reading
JUNE 7, 2023
Cisco laid out its plans for artificial intelligence (AI) and a vision for unified cloud security during Cisco Live 2023.
KnowBe4
JUNE 7, 2023
For years, KnowBe4 has been a long-time proponent of everyone using PHISHING-RESISTANT multi-factor authentication (MFA) whenever possible.
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