Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2021

The current era, where all data is digital, the threats of fraud, breach and data sprawl are more of a reality than ever. In these times, organizations not only take a hit because of the breached data and cyber threats, but also are heavily fined under global privacy regulations. These privacy regulations are in place to encourage security operations within organizations to protect their data from malicious intent.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 2, 2021

Pen-testing today's threat deception technology is not for the faint-hearted. Do modern deception tools truly frustrate adversaries, and are they ready for the enterprise SOC?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2021

At first glance, the report this week from cybersecurity software vendor McAfee showing that the incidence of ransomware dropped by half in the first quarter seems like good news to a world that continues to feel the repercussions of the seemingly ubiquitous malware. However, the 50 percent decline in ransomware during the first three months of 2021 has less to do with cybercriminals finding other modes of stealing data and more because of an evolution away from mass multi-target ransomware atta

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 5, 2021

Dr. Claudia Natanson Describes Vision of U.K.’s New Self-Regulatory Body U.K. Cyber Security Council is a new self-regulatory body for the profession. It is tasked by the U.K. Government to execute their vision for the U.K. to be one of the safest places to work and do business online, says the chair of the Council’s Board of Trustees, Dr. Claudia Natanson.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 21, 2021

Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybercriminals use various techniques for conducting cyberattacks. One such popular way to infiltrate a system is Pharming. It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. Related: Credential stuffing explained. The term Pharming is a combination of two words Phishing and Farming. It is a type of social engineering cyberattack in which the website’s traffic is manipulated to steal confidential credentials from the users.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2021

A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, the leak reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M users. A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, a database containing data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M users, is available for sale on forums on the dark web. The exposed records include email addresses full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation records, LinkedIn username and profile URL, personal and professional experi

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

“If you think any of these systems are going to work as expected in wartime, you’re fooling yourself.” That was Bruce’s response at a conference hosted by U.S. Transportation Command in 2017, after learning that their computerized logistical systems were mostly unclassified and on the internet. That may be necessary to keep in touch with civilian companies like FedEx in peacetime or when fighting terrorists or insurgents.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 16, 2021

U.S Wants 16 Critical Infrastructure Entities Off-Limits to Attack At their Geneva summit meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Russia continued to wage cyberattacks against the U.S., it would face retaliation.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device. One of many similar complaints on Western Digital’s user forum.

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AIIM

JUNE 17, 2021

The notion of Artificial Intelligence has pervaded both the business world and popular culture. And, while Hollywood often portrays AI in a future world of smart robots with super-human characteristics, the truth is that AI technologies are already at work fueling important changes in the way business is conducted every day. Artificial Intelligence provides the potential to reengineer and improve core business processes that drive the success of any enterprise organization.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

Data leaks and data theft are part and parcel of digital commerce, even more so in the era of agile software development. Related: GraphQL APIs stir new exposures. Many of the high-profile breaches making headlines today are the by-product of hackers pounding away at Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) until they find a crease that gets them into the pathways of the data flowing between an individual user and myriad cloud-based resources.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2021

One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The popular cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell, a few hours after Spain’s National Court agreed to extradite him to the US to face charges for tax evasion.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 18, 2021

There’s a never ending cycle between the measures cybersecurity providers introduce to prevent or remediate cyber threats and the tactics cyber criminals use to get around these security measures. As soon as a security company develops a way to mitigate the latest threat, attackers develop a new threat to take its place. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a critical tool cybersecurity companies leverage to stay ahead of the curve.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 26, 2021

New JSSLoader Variant is Being Spread by TA543 Group A cybercrime group tracked as TA543 by security firm Proofpoint is deploying a new variant of a malware loader to target victims as part of a phishing campaign, the company reports.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 23, 2021

In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldn’t decrypt the data on the devices. This is a story of ingenuity and happenstance, and how one former Secret Service agent helped crack a code that revealed the contours of a global organized crime ring.

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AIIM

JUNE 24, 2021

There are still many organizations that could benefit from the adoption of process automation technologies like Business Process Management (BPM), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Case Management. In fact, according to AIIM research, the overall adoption of these technologies is around 30-40% of organizations, skewed toward larger organizations with more than 1,000 employees.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. Related: The importance of basic research. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2021

DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Researchers from Avast are warning of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet ( PurpleFox , Perkiler , and NuggetPhantom ), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 11, 2021

For three years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Australian Federal Police owned and operated a commercial encrypted phone app, called AN0M, that was used by organized crime around the world. Of course, the police were able to read everything — I don’t even know if this qualifies as a backdoor. This week, the world’s police organizations announced 800 arrests based on text messages sent over the app.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 14, 2021

Service Employees International Union 775 Benefits Group: PII and PHI Deleted A Seattle-based benefits administrator for unionized home healthcare and nursing home workers has reported a hacking incident affecting 140,000 individuals that involved deleting certain data.

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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.

Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group , a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School , the University of California , and University of Maryland. A still shot from a video showing Ukrainian police seizing a Tesla, one of many high-end vehicles seized in this week’s raids on the Clop gang.

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AIIM

JUNE 15, 2021

In last week's article, we talked about the changing role of M365 within organizations, how it is governed, and how it connects with other content management solutions. Given its rapid evolution and adoption – particularly with the maturation of Office 365 and Cloud versions of SharePoint, we probably should have made a few points about brand terminology.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

The Solarwinds hack has brought vendor supply chain attacks — and the lack of readiness from enterprises to tackle such attacks — to the forefront. Related: Equipping Security Operations Centers (SOCs) for the long haul. Enterprises have long operated in an implicit trust model with their partners. This simply means that they trust, but don’t often verify, that their partners are reputable and stay compliant over time.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

This strange malware stops you from visiting pirate websites. Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from being able to visit a large number of piracy websites. . Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from visiting a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS file on the infected system.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 9, 2021

I've had a couple of cases to date where email addresses compromised by malware then discovered in the course of investigations have been provided to Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). Firstly by the Estonian Central Criminal Police a few years ago , then by the FBI and global counterparts this April and now, in the third such case, by NordLocker. (Full disclosure: I'm a strategic advisor for NordVPN who shares the same parent company.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 10, 2021

New Stand-Alone Firm Is Tasked With Combatting Digital Commerce Fraud RSA Security LLC has spun off its fraud and risk intelligence business into a stand-alone company named Outseer. The new company will be led by Reed Taussig as CEO, and it will serve a worldwide customer and partner community.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 8, 2021

Microsoft today released another round of security updates for Windows operating systems and supported software, including fixes for six zero-day bugs that malicious hackers already are exploiting in active attacks. June’s Patch Tuesday addresses just 49 security holes — about half the normal number of vulnerabilities lately. But what this month lacks in volume it makes up for in urgency: Microsoft warns that bad guys are leveraging a half-dozen of those weaknesses to break into comp

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