Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Hackers Demand Info on Victim's Cyber Insurance Policy to Negotiate Ransom Demand The newly relaunched HardBit 2.0 ransomware group is now demanding victims disclose details of their cyber insurance coverage before negotiating a ransom demand. The group, which has been active since 2022, has demanded that one victim pay $10 million in ransom, according to researchers at Varonis.
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Well-placed malware can cause crippling losses – especially for small and mid-sized businesses. Related: Threat detection for SMBs improves Not only do cyberattacks cost SMBs money, but the damage to a brand’s reputation can also hurt growth and trigger the loss of current customers. One report showed ransomware attacks increased by 80 percent in 2022, with manufacturing being one of the most targeted industries.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Hackers will take anything newsworthy and turn it against you, including the world's most advanced AI-enabled chatbot.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
US, India and East Asia Were Top Targets in 2022, Microsoft Report Says In a new report, tech giant Microsoft says distributed denial-of-service attacks became shorter in duration but more potent in 2022. The United States, India and East Asia were the top regions affected by DDoS attacks, and IoT devices continued to be the preferred mode of attack.
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Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The Aspen Institute has published a good analysis of the successes, failures, and absences of cyberattacks as part of the current war in Ukraine: “ The Cyber Defense Assistance Imperative Lessons from Ukraine.” Its conclusion: Cyber defense assistance in Ukraine is working. The Ukrainian government and Ukrainian critical infrastructure organizations have better defended themselves and achieved higher levels of resiliency due to the efforts of CDAC and many others.
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Weissman's World
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Oddly enough, the term “table stakes” applies to information governance (IG) as well as gambling because you’ll usually have but one chance to convince the other people at the table that IG makes good business sense and can’t readily add to your argument. Here’s 171 seconds more about this! The post The IG Business Case is Like Playing with Table Stakes appeared first on Holly Group.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Police Say Gang Extorted Millions From Victims Not Just by Stealing, But Lying Too Cybercrime experts have long urged victims to never pay a ransom in return for any promise an attacker makes to delete stolen data. That's because, as a recent case highlights, whatever extortionists might promise, stolen personal data is lucrative, and it often gets sold six ways from Sunday.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Over the past few months Jamf Threat Labs has been following a family of malware that resurfaced and has been operating undetected, despite an earlier iteration being a known quantity to the security community. In this article, we’ll examine this malware and the glimpse it offers into the ongoing arms race between malware authors and security researchers as well as highlight the need for enhanced security on Apple devices to ensure their safe and effective use in production environments.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
This is really interesting research from a few months ago: Abstract: Given the computational cost and technical expertise required to train machine learning models, users may delegate the task of learning to a service provider. Delegation of learning has clear benefits, and at the same time raises serious concerns of trust. This work studies possible abuses of power by untrusted learners.We show how a malicious learner can plant an undetectable backdoor into a classifier.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
With the right kind of exploit, there's hardly any function, app, or bit of data an attacker couldn't access on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Incidents at Video Game Maker, Airline, Fruit Processor, SW and Broadcast Companies In this week's roundup of cybersecurity incidents happening around the world, ISMG looks at incidents affecting the maker of the video game Call of Duty, Scandinavian Airlines, renowned fruit and vegetable giant Dole, Australian software maker Atlassian, and Russian broadcast company VGTRK.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Some common questions we get are “Should I click on an unwanted email’s ’Unsubscribe’ link? Will that lead to more or less unwanted email?
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 19, 2023
I found myself going down a previously unexplored rabbit hole recently, or more specifically, what I thought was "a" rabbit hole but in actual fact was an ever-expanding series of them that led me to what I refer to in the title of this post as "6 rabbits deep" It's a tale of firewalls, APIs and sifting through layers and layers of different services to sniff out the root cause of something that seemed very benign, but actually turned out to be highly impactful.
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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?
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
At the inaugural CloudNativeSecurityCon, DevSecOps practitioners discussed how to shore up the software supply chain.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Decision Sparks Concerns That Twitter Accounts Will Be Less Secure Twitter says it will turn off SMS second-factor authentication for all but paying customers starting March 20 in a decision provoking concerns that many customers will be less secure than before. Twitter says 2.6% of active Twitter accounts have activated second-factor authentication.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Here’s a story about a hacker who reprogrammed a device called “Flipper Zero” to mimic Opticom transmitters—to turn traffic lights in his path green. As mentioned earlier, the Flipper Zero has a built-in sub-GHz radio that lets the device receive data (or transmit it, with the right firmware in approved regions) on the same wireless frequencies as keyfobs and other devices.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
On February 24, 2023, following public consultation, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published the following three sets of adopted guidelines: Guidelines on the Interplay between the application of Article 3 and the provisions on international transfers as per Chapter V GDPR (05/2021) ( final version ); Guidelines on certification as a tool for transfers (07/2022) ( final version ); and Guidelines on deceptive design patterns in social media platform interfaces (03/2022) ( final versio
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KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Coinbase describes a targeted social engineering attack that led to the theft of some employee data. The attacker first sent smishing messages to several Coinbase employees, urging them to click a link and log in to their Coinbase work account. One employee fell for the attack, and the threat actor then attempted to use the victim’s account to gain access to Coinbase’s internal systems.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
OpenAI on Bing Carries Code and Traffic Risks But Will Also Simplify Code Analysis Embedding OpenAI technology in Microsoft Bing will help both hackers and cyber defenders. The AI tool could make it easier for hackers to drive traffic to malicious sites, avoid search engine blocking and distribute malware, but it could also help security teams with code analysis and threat intel.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Employees of the EU Commission are no longer allowed to use the TikTok app thanks to concerns over data security.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
How do your top reasons stack up? Nine strategic reasons to put modernization at the top of your list: Reason #1 – Improve total experience Customer experience and employee experience are inextricably linked – there is no one without the other. Modernizing legacy technology helps improve total experience, boosting employee and customer satisfaction, loyalty and … The post Top 9 reasons to modernize appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
We received great feedback from many of you after sharing data about completion percentages last month so much that we thought, “What other things can we share from our vast amount of training data?
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Proposed Class Actions Against Regal Medical Group Allege Negligence, Other Claims Five proposed class action lawsuits have been filed so far in the wake of a California medical group's Feb. 1 report of a ransomware attack last December affecting more than 3.3 million individuals. The incident is the largest health data breach reported to federal regulators so far this year.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The cloud-native application protection platform market is expanding as security teams look to protect their applications and the software supply chain.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
Red, blue and purple teams simulate cyberattacks and incident responses to test an organization’s cybersecurity readiness. Blue teams defend an organization from attacks and simulate incident response teams by following company policies and using existing resources Red teams simulate or actually conduct pentesting and threat hunting attacks to test the effectiveness of an organization’s security — sometimes including physical security, social engineering, and other non-IT-related methods P
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KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
With nearly 280 million phishing emails detected by just one vendor , and the increase in the number of unique emails, organizations have a lot to be worried about in 2023.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Analysts Praised AT&T Cybersecurity for Bringing Threat Intel and MSS Together AT&T wants to unload its cyber assets just five years after doubling down on security through its $600 million purchase of threat intelligence vendor AlienVault. The Dallas-based carrier has been working with British banking firm Barclays to solicit bids for its cybersecurity business, Reuters said.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advises US and European nations to prepare for possible website attacks marking the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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