Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2023
An attack involves a multi-stage infection chain with custom malware hosted on Amazon EC2 that ultimately steals critical system and browser data; so far, targets have been located in Latin America.
Krebs on Security
JULY 3, 2023
If you’ve ever owned a domain name, the chances are good that at some point you’ve received a snail mail letter which appears to be a bill for a domain or website-related services. In reality, these misleading missives try to trick people into paying for useless services they never ordered, don’t need, and probably will never receive.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 31, 2023
Plan Includes Boosting Cyber Professional Skills, Plus Cyber Literacy for All Jobs The Biden administration on Monday released a national strategy addressing cyber workforce shortages and calling long-standing vacancies a national security imperative. The White House says the U.S. needs more cyber professionals and should augment cyber literacy in jobs throughout the economy.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2023
Paris, France, July 27, 2023 – CrowdSec , the pioneering open source and collaborative cybersecurity company, today released its Q2 2023 Majority Report , a comprehensive community-driven data report fueled by the collective efforts of its thousands of users. Key takeaways from the report include the rise of IPv6 as well as the role of VPN in cybercriminal activities.
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
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 6, 2023
(AP Photo/Richard Drew) Apparently the open web has finally died. This the very same week Meta launches Threads , which, if its first day is any indication, seems to be thriving (10 million sign ups in its first few hours, likely 50 million by the time this publishes…). But before Threads’ apparent success, most writers covering tech had decided that the era of free, open-to-the-public, at scale services like Twitter, Reddit, and even Facebook/Insta is over.
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Dark Reading
JULY 5, 2023
The "TeamsPhisher" cyberattack tool gives pentesters — and adversaries — a way to deliver malicious files directly to a Teams user from an external account, or tenant.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JULY 12, 2023
World Youth Skills Day 2023: Engaging Youth with Cybersecurity madhav Thu, 07/13/2023 - 04:56 In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship. “Young people are drivers of change and must be fully engaged in decisions affecting their future,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
Data Breach Today
JULY 6, 2023
Hacktivist-Led DDoS Attacks Also on the Rise, ENISA Says Ransomware continues to be the biggest threat to the European healthcare sector, but the region also is experiencing an uptick in distributed denial-of-service attacks tied to hacktivist groups, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity warned.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 10, 2023
To tap the full potential of massively interconnected, fully interoperable digital systems we must solve privacy and cybersecurity, to be sure. Related: Using ‘Big Data’ to improve health and well-being But there’s yet another towering technology mountain to climb: we must also overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law. After 30 years, we’ve reached the end of Moore’s Law , which states that the number of transistors on a silicon-based semiconductor chip doubles approximately eve
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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?
Hunton Privacy
JULY 3, 2023
On July 3, 2023, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo issued a statement confirming that the U.S. has fulfilled its commitments for implementing the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”). In the statement, it was confirmed that the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, have been designated as “qualifying states” for purposes of implementing the redress mechanism established under Executive Order 14086, such designation to be become effective upon the adoption of an adequacy decis
KnowBe4
JULY 6, 2023
Email-based social engineering attacks have risen by 464% this year compared to the first half of 2022, according to a report by Acronis. Business email compromise (BEC) attacks have also increased significantly.
Dark Reading
JULY 6, 2023
Attackers are leveraging well-executed brand impersonation in a Google ads malvertising effort that collects both credit card and bank details from victims.
Schneier on Security
JULY 7, 2023
For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of the black gold beneath their feet. This is Alaska’s Permanent Fund, funded by the state’s oil revenues and paid to every Alaskan each year. We’re now in a different sort of resource rush, with companies peddling bits instead of oil: generative AI.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JULY 7, 2023
Progress Software Reveals 1 New 'Critical' and 2 'High-Severity' Bugs For the third time since the discovery of the MOVEit Transfer application zero-day vulnerability, Progress Software has revealed a new critical SQL injection vulnerability that allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 24, 2023
Accessing vital information to complete day-to-day tasks at our jobs still requires using a password-based system at most companies. Related: Satya Nadella calls for facial recognition regulations Historically, this relationship has been effective from both the user experience and host perspectives; passwords unlocked a world of possibilities, acted as an effective security measure, and were simple to remember.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 5, 2023
On June 28, 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) published an updated proposed Second Amendment (“Amendment”) to its Cybersecurity Regulation, 23 NYCRR Part 500. On November 9, 2022, NYDFS published a first draft of the proposed Amendment and received comments from stakeholders over a 60-day period. The updated proposed Amendment will be subject to an additional 45-day comment period.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 27, 2023
Are information sprawl, data access and security concerns holding back workforce productivity? Will the seemingly endless amounts of information that can be generated by AI only exacerbate information overload? Is cloud adoption creating siloes of information and adding complexity? These information management challenges and how to overcome them were discussed by a panel of industry … The post Webcast: Today’s biggest information management challenges appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Dark Reading
JULY 11, 2023
Fixes for more than 100 vulnerabilities affect numerous products, including Windows, Office,Net, and Azure Active Directory, among others.
CGI
JULY 27, 2023
While much attention on artificial intelligence (AI) has been focused on the commercial sector, AI and the public sector is a perfect fit. In fact, there are many use cases already for using AI to digitalize government services, including improving water quality for communities to helping answer constituent and health worker questions.
Data Breach Today
JULY 4, 2023
Cloud Adoption in Financial Services has Soared - as Has Security Risk Financial services organizations face unique cloud security challenges, due to special regulatory, data security and privacy considerations that don't necessarily apply to other industries. Security and payments experts with overlapping skillsets unpack the challenges and how to deal with them.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 24, 2023
A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty.
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.
Hunton Privacy
JULY 6, 2023
On June 19, 2023, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) recommended that organizations start using privacy enhancing technologies (“PETs”) to share personal information safely, securely and anonymously. The ICO also has issued new guidance on PETs which is aimed at those using large data sets in finance, healthcare, money laundering and cybercrime.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 24, 2023
Helping our customers build for the future through smarter modernization New product updates are now available within Application Modernization & Connectivity (AMC) – OpenText’s marketing leading solution for COBOL and mainframe application development, deployment, and modernization as well as mainframe host access and security. Latest OpenText of Cloud Editions includes updates to its COBOL, Mainframe … The post What’s new in Application Modernization & Connectivity appeared fi
Dark Reading
JULY 6, 2023
In another MOVEit attack, oil and gas giant Shell saw the release of the private information of its employees.
John Battelle's Searchblog
JULY 20, 2023
The buildings are the same, but the information landscape has changed, dramatically. Today I’m going to write about the college course booklet, an artifact of another time. I hope along the way we might learn something about digital technology, information design, and why we keep getting in our own way when it comes to applying the lessons of the past to the possibilities of the future.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Data Breach Today
JULY 7, 2023
Latest Hacking, Vendor Incident Trends Emerging From the Federal Tally Hacking incidents, including those involving ransomware attacks or vendors, that affect tens of millions of individuals, continue to account for the majority of health data breaches reported to federal regulators so far this year. What are the other emerging breach trends?
Data Protection Report
JULY 21, 2023
On July 20, 2023 HHS and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a joint letter to approximately 130 companies regarding their online data collection processes. The letter follows the much discussed December 1, 2022, Bulletin that expanded the kinds of websites and applications governed by HIPAA (you can read about our analysis of the bulletin here ).
Hunton Privacy
JULY 10, 2023
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission formally adopted a new adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “Adequacy Decision”). The adoption of this Adequacy Decision follows years of intense negotiations between the EU and the U.S., after the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the Schrems II case.
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