April, 2020

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COVID-19: Stages of Re-Entry Planning

Data Breach Today

Pandemic Expert Regina Phelps on How to Strategize for Life After Quarantine As politicians and protesters argue about the merits and timing of emerging from COVID-19 quarantine, crisis management expert Regina Phelps lays out a 10-step re-entry plan. Her word of counsel: "Caution.

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BEST PRACTICES: Mock attacks help local agencies, schools prepare for targeted cyber scams

The Last Watchdog

Cyber criminals who specialize in plundering local governments and school districts are in their heyday. Related : How ransomware became a scourge Ransomware attacks and email fraud have spiked to record levels across the U.S. in each of the past three years, and a disproportionate number of the hardest hit organizations were local public agencies. Lucy Security, a security training company based in Zug, Switzerland that works with many smaller public entities, has been in the thick of this onsl

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Fresh COVID-19 Phishing Scams Try to Spread Malware: Report

Data Breach Today

Organizations Targeted With Ransomware, Infostealer Two recently uncovered phishing campaigns used COVID-19 themes as a lure in an attempt to spread ransomware and information stealers, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 division.

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TikTok Content Could Be Vulnerable to Tampering: Researchers

Data Breach Today

Video-Sharing Service Does Not Always Use TLS/SSL Encryption TikTok, a video-sharing service, has been delivering video and other media without TLS/SSL encryption, which means it may be possible for someone to tamper with content, researchers say. That could be especially damaging in the current pandemic environment, where misinformation and confusion abounds.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Apple Rushes to Patch iOS Zero-Day Flaws

Data Breach Today

Vulnerabilities Have Likely Been Exploited for Years, Researchers Warn Apple is now preparing final patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities that a security firm says have been exploited by certain attackers to seize control of iPhone and iPad email apps, giving them access to users' messages.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. Introduction. During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. The Linux malware is the well-known “ Shellbot ”, it is a crimetool belonging to the arsenal of a threat actor tracked as the “Outlaw Hacking Group. ”.

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Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption

Schneier on Security

This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications from dozens of countries since the late 1970s thanks to a microchip, according to research by de Volkskrant on Thursday. The Netherlands could eavesdrop on confidential communication from countries such as Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

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Attackers Increasingly Using Web Shells to Create Backdoors

Data Breach Today

NSA, Australian Signals Directorate, Offer Mitigation Tips The U.S. National Security Agency and the Australian Signals Directorate offer guidance on how to mitigate the growing threat posed by attackers using web shells to create backdoors.

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A Tale of 3 Breaches: Incident Response Challenges

Data Breach Today

Recent Healthcare Incidents Spotlight Problems That May Worsen Amid COVID-19 Crisis Three recently disclosed health data security incidents - including the discovery of a large email hack that happened nearly a year ago - serve as reminders of the ongoing incident response challenges facing healthcare organizations. And these difficulties are likely to worsen during the COVID-19 crisis.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Cybercriminals Using Zoom, WebEx as Phishing Lures: Report

Data Breach Today

Campaigns Aimed at Stealing Credentials, Distributing Malware Cybercriminals are using spoofed messages and images from Zoom and Cisco WebEx as lures in new phishing campaigns that are designed to steal credentials or distribute malware, according to the security firm Proofpoint.

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New COVID19 wiper overwrites MBR making computers unusable

Security Affairs

A recently discovered strain of malware exploits the current COVID19 pandemic to render computers unusable by overwriting the MBR. SonicWall’s security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware that exploits the current COVID19 outbreak to render computers unusable by overwriting the master boot record (MBR). Unfortunately, this is one of the numerous attacks conducted by cyber criminals and nation-state actors in an attempt to take advantage of the COVID19 epidemic.

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CISA Warns Patched Pulse Secure VPNs Still Vulnerable

Data Breach Today

Hackers Using Stolen Active Directory Credentials to Access Networks CISA issued a warning to organizations running Pulse Secure VPN servers that their networks may still be vulnerable to hacking even if they applied patches for a previous flaw. Attackers are now using stolen Active Directory credentials to access networks.

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Microsoft Buys Corp.com So Bad Guys Can’t

Krebs on Security

In February, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a private citizen auctioning off the dangerous domain corp.com for the starting price of $1.7 million. Domain experts called corp.com dangerous because years of testing showed whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows PCs at major companies around the globe.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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STEPS FORWARD: How the Middle East led the U.S. to adopt smarter mobile security rules

The Last Watchdog

We’ve come to rely on our smartphones to live out our digital lives, both professionally and personally. When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. Reacting to the BYOD craze , mobile security frameworks have veered from one partially effective approach to the next over the past decade.

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How Apple and Google Are Enabling Covid-19 Bluetooth Contact-Tracing

WIRED Threat Level

The tech giants have teamed up to use a Bluetooth-based framework to keep track of the spread of infections without compromising location privacy.

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How to Bring Business Process Management to Your Business

AIIM

Businesses looking for ongoing growth and scalability try to achieve these goals through different approaches that can provide “that extra advantage.” One such approach is business process management , which aims to find and make ongoing improvements in the operations of a business. This is currently a popular tactic in the business world, featuring various applications, techniques, and tools which make it a complex field of business development.

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Hackers exploit SQL injection zero-day issue in Sophos firewall

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity firm Sophos releases an emergency patch to address an SQL injection flaw in its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released an emergency patch to address an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability affecting its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Sophos was informed of the attacks exploiting the zero-day issue by one of its customers on April 22.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Genetic Testing Lab Hack Affects 233,000

Data Breach Today

Second Largest Health Data Breach So Far This Year A California-based genetic testing laboratory has reported an email hacking incident that may have exposed medical information on nearly 233,000 individuals. It's the second-largest health data breach posted to the federal health data breach tally so far in 2020.

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When in Doubt: Hang Up, Look Up, & Call Back

Krebs on Security

Many security-conscious people probably think they’d never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may be in for a rude awakening. Here’s how one security and tech-savvy reader got taken for more than $10,000 in an elaborate, weeks-long ruse.

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NEW TECH: Semperis introduces tools to improve security resiliency of Windows Active Directory

The Last Watchdog

Ransomware continues to endure as a highly lucrative criminal enterprise. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S. organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. That’s the precise figure recently disclosed by the FBI — the true damage is almost certainly a lot steeper, given only a portion of cyber crimes ever get reported to law enforcement.

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How to Cover Your Tracks Every Time You Go Online

WIRED Threat Level

Online tracking can often feel downright invasive. From using VPNs to clearing browser histories, we've got your back.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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How Do I Tame My Information Chaos? 3 Ways to Address it Head-On

AIIM

Before we get into how to tame your Information Chaos, let’s take a step back and look at WHY so many of us are experiencing it. These days, business information can come from anywhere, anytime, and in any form. Match this up with a growing volume and variety of the information we’re creating, and you can see how it can quickly get out of hand and become unmanageable without some strategies in place.

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Hackers targeted ICS/SCADA systems at water facilities, Israeli government warns

Security Affairs

The Israeli authorities are alerting organizations in the water industry following a series of cyberattacks that hit water facilities in the country. The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks that targeted the water facilities. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate announced to have received reports of cyber attacks aimed at supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems at wastewater treatment plants, pumping stati

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Ransomware: Average Business Payout Surges to $111,605

Data Breach Today

Ryuk and Sodinokibi Largely Responsible for One-Third Increase in Average Payments The average ransom paid by victims to ransomware attackers, when they paid, reached $111,605 in the first quarter of this year, up by one-third from the previous quarter, reports ransomware incident response firm Coveware, which sees the Sodinokibi, Ryuk and Phobos malware families continuing to dominate.

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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

Krebs on Security

You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. But you probably didn’t know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account — data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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SHARED INTEL: How attacks on web, mobile apps are being fueled by rising API vulnerabilities

The Last Watchdog

Application programming interface. API. It’s the glue holding digital transformation together. Related: A primer on ‘credential stuffing’ APIs are the conduits for moving data to-and-fro in our digitally transformed world. APIs are literally everywhere in the digital landscape, and more are being created every minute. APIs connect the coding that enables the creation and implementation of new applications.

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The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started

WIRED Threat Level

A class action lawsuit. Rampant zoombombing. And as of today, two new zero-day vulnerabilities.

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267 Million Facebook identities available for 500 euros on the dark web

Security Affairs

Over 267 million Facebook profiles are offered for sale on dark web sites and hacker forums, the dump is offered for £500 ($623) and doesn’t include passwords. Hackers are offering for sale over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums, the archive doesn’t include passwords. Early March, the security expert Bob Diachenko uncovered an Elasticsearch cluster containing more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers, and names.

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