Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
National Police Probe Botnet Campaign That Infected 3,000 Machines The French government has launched an investigation into a suspected Chinese espionage campaign that infected thousands of networks in France. The botnet campaign pushed out the PlugX remote access Trojan that has infected 3,000 machines in France since 2020.
Data Matters
JULY 26, 2024
The protection of minors online continues to be a focus for EU regulators. Following the publication last year by the European Parliament of its guidelines on online age verification methods for children, the European Commission has recently announced it will be holding a dedicated stakeholder workshop in September 2024 to discuss guidelines for age verification and protecting minors.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
UEFI Developer Leaked a Secure Boot Asymmetric Key Hundreds of laptop and server models from mainstream manufacturers are at risk of hacking that bypasses protections meant to ensure only trusted software can load during computer bootup, warn researchers from California supply chain startup Binarly.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2024
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released BIND security updates that fixed several remotely exploitable DoS bugs in the DNS software suite. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released security updates for BIND that address DoS vulnerabilities that could be remotely exploited. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to disrupt DNS services.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
Meanwhile, Wait Continues for Change Healthcare's Breach Report in Massive Attack U.S. hospital chain Ascension has filed a placeholder breach report to federal regulators saying its May 8 ransomware attack affected at least 500 individuals. Meanwhile, the waiting game continues for Change Healthcare's official data breach report and individual notifications.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
New Analysis Reveals Growing Crisis for the National Vulnerability Database A growing backlog at the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Vulnerability Database could surge to above 30,000 unanalyzed security flaws by the end of the year if the agency fails to significantly ramp up its processing rates, according to a new analysis released Friday.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2024
Google addressed a Chrome’s Password Manager bug that caused user credentials to disappear temporarily for more than 18 hours. Google has addressed a bug in Chrome’s Password Manager that caused user credentials to disappear temporarily. An 18-hour outage impacted Google Chrome’s Password Manager on Wednesday, impacting users who rely on the tool to store and autofill their passwords.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
Anthony Hope of NAB on the Latest Approaches to Handling AML and Financial Crimes Banks need to make changes to fraud programs to tackle mule accounts in the age of AI. Organizations need to move away from having one control to handle all suspicious accounts, said Anthony Hope, group head of AML, counter-terrorist financing, and fraud risk at NAB.
KnowBe4
JULY 26, 2024
As expected, threat actors are taking advantage of the global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last Friday, SC Media reports.
Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
250,000 of the 8.5 Million Affected Windows Hosts Still Need to Be Recovered CrowdStrike said nearly all of the Windows hosts disrupted by its faulty July 19 update are now fixed. The company said the flaw involved a relatively new threat detection feature that uses configuration data that "maps to specific behaviors for the sensor to observe, detect or prevent.
KnowBe4
JULY 26, 2024
An expository look at one phishing scam intent on stealing credit card details shows how scammers are leveraging trusted aspects of ecommerce to make.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2024
The Recovery Progress, Impact on Commercial and Public Sectors, and Lessons Learned In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the massive CrowdStrike IT outage that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems and severely affected the healthcare, finance and transportation sectors. Here's what you need to know one week later about the recovery, impact and lessons learned.
KnowBe4
JULY 26, 2024
Check out the 26 new pieces of training content added in July, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.
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WIRED Threat Level
JULY 26, 2024
The European Commission is allocating €7.3 billion for defense research over the next seven years. From drones and tanks of the future to battleships and space intelligence, here's what it funds.
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 26, 2024
Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules Elon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app. The UK and Irish data watchdogs said they have contacted X over the apparent attempt to gain user consent for data harvesting without them knowing about it.
Collibra
JULY 26, 2024
Today’s problem: Ensuring high-quality data governance In the current data and AI-driven environment, the main emphasis is on ensuring high-quality, well-documented and reliable data. This task is challenging due to data being frequently dispersed across multiple systems, resulting in data silos containing inconsistent and unreliable data, as well as issues with data quality and duplication.
KnowBe4
JULY 26, 2024
Declared “dead” by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2023, this threat group now has massive cybercrime infrastructure in use and is impersonating some.
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Data Protection Report
JULY 26, 2024
On 16 July 2024, the Malaysian Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives of the Malaysian Parliament) passed the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024 (the PDP Bill ). The PDP Bill, which had been under review by the Malaysian Government for some years, introduces significant changes to Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the Malaysian PDPA ), aimed at aligning the Malaysian approach more closely with international data protection regimes.
Collaboration 2.0
JULY 26, 2024
Google's next big product launch takes place on August 13. Here's everything you can expect from the event.
CGI
JULY 26, 2024
We have real opportunities that can unite us toward a common goal of making AI a positive force for people's lives and work. AI is here to stay, and it is up to us to intentionally envision and shape a positive future. Let us start by understanding AI, asking the right questions, having a human-centric vision for using the technology, and collaborating with an ecosystem of players.
Collaboration 2.0
JULY 26, 2024
The Asus Vivobook S 15 has a brilliant OLED screen and weighs barely over three pounds, making it a fantastic choice for digital nomads who want an ultraportable, premium laptop.
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OpenText Information Management
JULY 26, 2024
Navigating the world of data security can sometimes feel overwhelming, however, understanding the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard it is crucial for anyone involved in choosing, deploying and managing a Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) ecosystem. Recently, I have had the privilege to engage deeply into PCI compliance requirements with our customers so let me share some insights with you to help ensure that your Contact Center is secure and 100% compliant.
Collaboration 2.0
JULY 26, 2024
Linux Mint's latest release continues its tradition of excellence. It's easy to learn and use, faster than Windows, and runs on a thrift-store PC. What more can you ask for?
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 26, 2024
KnowBe4 detailed the incident in a recent blog post as a warning for other potential targets.
Collaboration 2.0
JULY 26, 2024
Sony's PlayStation 5 is a powerful gaming console, but you need your TV to keep up. We tested TVs from Sony, Samsung, and more for the top refresh rates, audio, and picture quality.
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Cybersecurity Detection and Response tools are showing promise in helping reduce an attacker’s dwell time in your network. With reduced dwell time before detection, defenders have time to respond in containing the threat before significant damage can be done to your systems and confidential data. But cutting through the acronym soup and marketing hype can be a daunting task.
National Archives Records Express
JULY 26, 2024
As part of our ongoing Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI) work, we have completed an annual review to update the Electronic Records Management (ERM) Federal Integrated Business Framework as required by the Business Standards Council where we serve as the standards lead for electronic records management. We consulted with our interagency Requirements Working Group to identify changes for the Framework.
Collaboration 2.0
JULY 26, 2024
From taking notes and Zoom calls to completing a graphic design project, we went hands-on with the top iPads for college students heading back to campus this fall.
Krebs on Security
JULY 26, 2024
Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google’s “Sign in with Google” feature. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who said they received a notice that their email address had been used to create a potentially malicious Workspace account that Google
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