Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Investors Say Cybersecurity Company Made False and Misleading Statements About Tech CrowdStrike faces a putative class action lawsuit over the widespread global IT outage in late July that caused major disruptions at airports and hospitals after the company pushed through a faulty update to its Falcon platform, causing its stock prices to plummet.
The Last Watchdog
AUGUST 2, 2024
Philadelphia, PA, Aug. 1, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Security Risk Advisors (SRA) announces the launch of VECTR Enterprise Edition , a premium version of its widely-used VECTR platform for purple teams and adversary management program reporting and benchmarking. VECTR Enterprise is designed to support organizations that want to mature and communicate the success of their purple team exercises with benchmarking and executive reporting features.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
How close are you to achieving Zero Trust? If you’re a CISO or other security leader, recent and forthcoming government mandates mean you urgently need an answer to this question.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 2, 2024
CISA warned that an Avtech camera vulnerability, which is still unpatched, is being actively exploited in the wild. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory to warn of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS base score of 8.8), in Avtech camera that has been exploited in the wild. An attacker can exploit this flaw to inject and execute commands as the owner of the running process. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could a
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin Discusses the Role of Labeling in Effective Segmentation Illumio's Andrew Rubin explains how AI enhances zero trust security by improving labeling accuracy, which is essential for effective segmentation. Rubin discusses AI's potential to streamline security processes and covers key partnerships with firms such as Microsoft, Netscope and Wiz.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
OpenAI Has Previously Been Criticized for Prioritizing Profits Over Safety OpenAI is "excited" to provide early access to its next foundational model to a U.S. federal body that assesses the safety of the technology, founder Sam Altman said on Thursday. OpenAI earlier essentially disbanded a "superalignment" security team set up to prevent AI systems from going rogue.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 2, 2024
Social Security numbers, death certificates, voter applications, and other personal data were accessible on the open internet, highlighting the ongoing challenges in election security.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Customer Reimbursement Guidelines Are Convincing Banks to Scrutinize Transactions Despite making some progress in tackling APP scams, smaller payment firms still struggle with high fraud rates compared to large banks, as highlighted in a report by the U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator. Customer reimbursement guidelines have prompted banks to scrutinize suspicious payments.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2024
Here’s a disaster that didn’t happen : Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog recently discovered a GitHub Personal Access Token in a public Docker container hosted on Docker Hub, which granted elevated access to the GitHub repositories of the Python language, Python Package Index (PyPI), and the Python Software Foundation (PSF). JFrog discussed what could have happened : The implications of someone finding this leaked token could be extremely severe.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Malware Enables Overlay Attacks and Remote Access to Compromised Devices A newly discovered remote access Trojan is attacking Android users primarily to initiate money transfers on infected devices, but it has an additional capability: It can wipe the infected device once it's done. BingoMod masquerades as a mobile security tool.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 2, 2024
Analysis of current phishing attacks by security researchers have uncovered an increase in the use of trusted shortlink services, concealing a links.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
HHS OCR: The Firm Took More Than a Year to Provide a Patient With Requested Records Federal regulators smacked an ambulance firm with a $115,200 civil monetary penalty for failing to provide a patient with her requested health records for more than a year. The penalty is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' 49th HIPAA "right of access" enforcement action.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 2, 2024
Included among the U.S. prisoners being sent back to Russia in the swap are two prominent convicted hackers, both of whom were serving lengthy sentences, and a KGB assassin.
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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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Attorney Jonathan Armstrong Discusses the AI Act's Impact on Global Organizations This week, the European Union's AI Act has gone into force, marking a significant step in AI development. Starting Aug. 1, 2024, it will enforce strict rules on high-risk AI systems and prohibit harmful practices, to ensure transparency and protect fundamental rights.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 2, 2024
Researchers at Barracuda have found that smaller companies tend to receive a higher rate of phishing attacks spread across the organization, according to a report looking at the phishing attack surfaces of companies of different sizes.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Also: Check Point's New CEO; How the US Election Will Affect Federal Cyber Policy In the latest weekly update, Information Security Media Group editors discussed insights from IBM's data breach report, significant leadership changes at Check Point, and the potential impact of the upcoming U.S. election on federal cybersecurity policy.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 2, 2024
Are you sick of Windows fouling up? Do you want to try something different? Then, it's time to try the best Linux desktop, Linux Mint 22.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
Regulatory Requirements Will Become Enforceable in Phases The world's first-ever binding regulation on artificial intelligence came into force on Thursday. The law's requirements are set to be enforced in a phased manner. The ban on high-risk AI systems is set to be actionable first, six months after the enforcement date.
KnowBe4
AUGUST 2, 2024
New analysis of Q2 2024 cyberattacks shows a material growth in the number of attacks experienced weekly by organizations globally with specific.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2024
US Agrees to Release Them in Exchange for Wrongfully Detained Americans, Others The United States and its allies agreed to release eight Russian nationals held in prisons around the world for cybercrimes and other criminal activity in exchange for 16 people in the largest post-Cold War prisoner swap between Washington and the Kremlin.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 2, 2024
By leveraging AI's predictive and analytical capabilities, companies can make more informed decisions that benefit not only their bottom line but also society and the environment.
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CGI
AUGUST 2, 2024
As a global expert for the communications and media industry at CGI, I am fascinated with the pivotal transformation facing traditional telecom companies (telcos) as they evolve into technology companies (techcos).
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 2, 2024
If you already have a soundbar, you've taken the first step to converting your home into a theater-like venue for cinematic sound. Here are a few steps to take things up a notch.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 2, 2024
Today, 24 prisoners were released in an international swap between Russia and Western countries, including convicted Russian cybercriminals. In the recent international prisoner swap two notorious Russian cybercriminals, Roman Seleznev (40) and Vladislav Klyushin (42), are among those released. Today the United States, the Russian Federation, and Germany did a prisoner swap.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 2, 2024
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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.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2024
A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated. Blog moderation policy.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 2, 2024
The Linux terminal isn't something every user has to deal with. But when you do, you'll want a terminal that either makes the job a bit easier or is awesome enough to make you not mind using it. Here are five options.
Collaboration 2.0
AUGUST 2, 2024
You can pick up an Apple Watch Series 9 for just $329 at Walmart, but is it worth the upgrade? We break down the features of the Apple Watch 9 and the Watch Series 8 to help you decide which is the best fit.
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