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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2024

Investors have sued CrowdStrike because the cybersecurity firm made false claims about its Falcon platform. Investors have sued CrowdStrike because the company made false and misleading claims on the testing of its Falcon platform. In July, a faulty update released by CrowdStrike Falcon caused Windows systems to display a BSoD screen. The incident caused widespread global disruptions, impacting critical infrastructure such as airports, hospitals, and TV stations.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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).

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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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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.

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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 some simple steps to make it sound even better.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2024

A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated. Blog moderation policy.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Ranging from 1,700 to 200,000 lumens, these are the brightest flashlights that experts say illuminate just about anything, for emergencies and more.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

The Denon PerL earbuds retain the same ultra high-quality sound as the Pro version, but are half the price, at $160 on Amazon.

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