Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 15, 2019
I was really looking forward to participating in RSA 2019 and it was a great event. There was tremendous energy and buzz in our booth and on the show floor. The lively interactions in our booth validated that the Vormetric product line is still highly relevant and solves many of today’s challenges as customers move controls closer to the data, and also migrate their data to the cloud.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 13, 2019
This will be short, ranty and to the point: these warnings are getting ridiculous: I know, tell you something you don't know! The whole ugly issue reared its head again on the weekend courtesy of the story in this tweet: I’m not sure if this makes it better or worse. “Cookie walls don't comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA”: [link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 8, 2019.
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 12, 2019
Data & Society just published a report entitled " Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance ": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction and flagging tools that aim to predict characteristics or behaviors of employees or that are designed to identify or deter perceived rule-breaking or fraud.
Security Affairs
MARCH 11, 2019
The security researcher Barak Tawilyhas discovered a severe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-9580, in the popular, open source event-driven platform StackStorm. According to the expert, the flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to trick developers into executing arbitrary commands on targeted services. StackStorm has been used to automate workflows in many industries, it allows developers to configure actions, workflows, and scheduled tasks, to perform some operations on large-scale ser
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2019
Crypto-Locking Extortion Targets Internet-Exposed D-Link Devices Criminals wielding a new strain of ransomware called Cr1ptT0r are targeting network-attached storage users. The campaign was first discovered in February after owners of D-Link network storage enclosures reported that their devices were being crypto-locked.
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WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 9, 2019
*Truth in a Post Truth World* takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists.
Security Affairs
MARCH 12, 2019
Expert found an open database in China containing the personal information of more than 1.8 million women, including a strange “BreedReady” status. Another data leak made the headlines, this time a database containing a creepy set of details collected on more than 1.8 million women in China was left unprotected online. The huge trove of data included personal info (i.e. name, age, and date of birth, phone numbers, addresses) along with a “BreedReady” status.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 11, 2019
Cyber-Espionage Campaign Appears Separate to Recent Credential-Stuffing Breach Citrix Systems is investigating a suspected hack attack, resulting in the theft of business documents, after being tipped off by the FBI. The breach alert follows Citrix recently disclosing that in late 2018, hackers breached some of its customers' accounts via credential-stuffing attacks.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 13, 2019
Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. [ NASDAQ: SZMK ] says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an individual who’s been known to sell access to hacked online accounts kicked off an auction for “the admin panel of a big American ad platform.” “You can add new users to the
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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
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 15, 2019
Welcome to the world of fake accounts, phantom funds, and money mules.
Security Affairs
MARCH 9, 2019
Security experts at Pen Test Partners discovered several vulnerabilities in two smart car alarm systems put three million vehicles globally at risk of hack. The flaws could be exploited by attackers to disable the alarm, as well as track and unlock the vehicles using it, or to start and stop the engine even when the car was moving. The experts also demonstrated that it is possible to snoop on drivers’ conversations through a microphone that is built into one of the car alarm systems, ̶
Data Breach Today
MARCH 11, 2019
Experts Question How 'Big Data Email Verification Platform' Amassed Information Verifications.io, a self-described "big data email verification platform," has suffered a massive breach. Security researcher Bob Diachenko said he discovered the site was exposing 763 million records.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 12, 2019
Microsoft on Tuesday pushed out software updates to fix more than five dozen security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer , Edge , Office and Sharepoint. If you (ab)use Microsoft products, it’s time once again to start thinking about getting your patches on. Malware or bad guys can remotely exploit roughly one-quarter of the flaws fixed in today’s patch batch without any help from users.
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The Last Watchdog
MARCH 13, 2019
There are certain things we as consumers have come to do intuitively: brushing our teeth in the morning; looking both ways before crossing a city street; buckling up when we get into a car. Related: What needs to happen to enable driverless transportation — safely. In the not too distant future, each one of us will need to give pause, on a daily basis, to duly consider how we purchase and use Internet of Things devices and services.
Security Affairs
MARCH 13, 2019
One of the zero-day flaws ( CVE-2019-0797 ) patched this week by Microsoft has been exploited in targeted attacks by several threats groups, including FruityArmor and SandCat APT groups. This week, Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2019 that address 64 flaws, including two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in targeted attacks.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 13, 2019
Analysis of Pre-GDPR Breach Reports in UK Reveals Attack Trends If you had to guess what day of the week a hacker will hit your organization, the answer might seem obvious: Hackers prefer to strike on Saturday. And a review by Redscan of cybersecurity incidents reported to Britain's privacy regulator before GDPR took effect confirms it.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 12, 2019
Approaching a full week, Venezuela's national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch.
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The Last Watchdog
MARCH 12, 2019
When news broke about the crash of a Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737, the first question that popped into my head was whether an older 737 model, still using the flawed rudder actuator, might have been involved. Related: Historical context of the rudder flaws on older model 737s. Of course it was actually the newest iteration of the 737, the Max 8. I’m no longer covering aviation.
Security Affairs
MARCH 15, 2019
Experts from Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the actively exploited Windows zero-day flaw CVE-2019-0808 recently patched by Microsoft. Researchers at the security firm Qihoo 360 disclosed technical details of the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2019-0808 that was recently patched by Microsoft. The vulnerability was reported to Microsoft by researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group that observed it had been exploited alongside CVE-2019-5786, a Chrome vulnerability patched early March.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features a discussion of the role of "prosilience" in IoT security, plus the problem of overnotification under GDPR and the notion of "Spartacus as a Service.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 12, 2019
Mozilla has made public an encrypted file-sharing service with a self-destruct twist.
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The Last Watchdog
MARCH 14, 2019
When Target fired both its CEO and CIO in 2014, it was a wake-up call for senior management. The firings came as a result of a massive data breach which routed through an HVAC contractor’s compromised account. C-suite execs across the land suddenly realized something similar could happen to them. So they began inundating their third-party suppliers with “bespoke assessments” – customized cyber risk audits that were time consuming and redundant.
Security Affairs
MARCH 10, 2019
V enezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez blamed US cyberattack for Venezuela’s blackout. Last week, Venezuela had suffered a major blackout and Nicolas Maduro immediately blamed on opposition “sabotage” of a hydroelectric dam. The power outage hit 22 of 23 states of the country and also the capital Caracas went in the dark.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 12, 2019
Cybercrime Gang Wielding Ryuk Eyed as Culprit Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, along with the FBI are investigating a ransomware attack that crippled IT systems over a two-week period and reportedly led local officials to pay a bitcoin ransom worth $400,000 to restore systems and infrastructure.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 13, 2019
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp spent several hours offline in many parts of the world today. Just don't call it a DDoS attack.
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AIIM
MARCH 11, 2019
Recently AIIM released an industry watch report titled, The State of Information Management, Getting Ahead of the Digital Information Curve. In it, AIIM makes the case that every organization is on — or should be on — a Digital Transformation journey. At the heart of this transformation journey is the need to understand, anticipate and redefine internal and external customer experiences.
Security Affairs
MARCH 15, 2019
Demonstration in front of the National CERT of Philippines for failing to act on cyber attacks targeting regime critical media and civil society organizations. On March 12, the World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, media and civil society organizations in Philippines held a demonstration in front of NCERT (National Computer Emergency Response Team) to protest against the negligence of the NCERT to support the investigation of the three months’ long Distributed Denial of Service attacks against reg
Data Breach Today
MARCH 13, 2019
Researchers Say Latest Version Evades Detection A variant of the long-running Ursnif banking Trojan is able to better evade security protection and has the ability to steal not only financial information but also email user accounts, the content of inboxes and digital wallets, researchers report.
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