Dark Reading

JULY 20, 2018

Like any technology, AI and machine learning have limitations. Three are detection, power, and people.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 20, 2018

PIR Bank Robbed by Russia's MoneyTaker Gang, Investigators Say Hackers stole at least $920,000 from Russia's PIR Bank after they successfully compromised an outdated, unsupported Cisco router at a bank branch office and used it to tunnel into the bank's local network, reports incident response firm Group-IB.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 18, 2018

'We Refuse to be Complicit,' Silicon Valley Employees Tell Bosses Silicon Valley employees are increasingly calling on executives to restrict the use of facial recognition technology, mobilized in part by the U.S. government's previous policy of separating children from parents at the border. Experts say facial recognition regulations are needed - and quickly.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 17, 2018

You may not have heard of Safe Browsing, but it's made the web more secure for over a decade. Here's its story, from the people who built it.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 19, 2018

Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of its Web site may have jeopardized sensitive consumer information -- including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and Social Security numbers -- from tax forms submitted by the company's thousands of clients on behalf of employees. Cloud-based human resources company ComplyRight said this week that a security breach of its Web site may have jeopardized sensitive consumer information -- including

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Data Breach Today

JULY 16, 2018

'CEO Fraud' Remains Alive, Well and Underreported Known losses due to business email compromise have exceeded $12.5 billion worldwide, the FBI's Internet Complaint Center reports, adding that fraudsters are increasingly targeting the U.S. real estate sector with such scams.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 14, 2018

Drone plans for sale, a Silk Road arrest, and more security news this week.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2018

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called “ LuminosityLink ,” a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide. The LuminosityLink Remote Access Tool (RAT) was sold for $40 to thousands of customers, who used the tool to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers worldwide.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 18, 2018

Recently, Apple introduced restricted mode to protect iPhones from attacks by companies like Cellebrite and Greyshift , which allow attackers to recover information from a phone without the password or fingerprint. Elcomsoft just announced that it can easily bypass it. There is an important lesson in this: security is hard. Apple Computer has one of the best security teams on the planet.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 16, 2018

Exposed Data Includes Victims' Birth Date, Gender, Country Code and IP Address Timehop, the social media app that resurfaces older social media posts for entertainment, says its ongoing investigation has revealed that an attacker may have compromised more personal information than it previously suspected over the course of a breach that lasted at least seven months.

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Threatpost

JULY 18, 2018

July's critical patch update addresses 334 security vulnerabilities (including 61 rated critical) covering a vast swathe of the Oracle enterprise portfolio.

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AIIM

JULY 20, 2018

I am pleased to announce that we have introduced another exam option for CIP candidates. To recap, there are now three ways you can take the CIP exam: At any Kryterion exam center world-wide. At an AIIM-taught CIP prep course. Online proctored via Kryterion. Online proctoring has been available for years, but has sometimes suffered from confusion with online certificate programs and the perception that "it's just an online exam.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 20, 2018

The company ProtectWise just published a long report linking a bunch of Chinese cyber-operations over the past few years. The always interesting gruqq has some interesting commentary on the group and its tactics. Lots of detailed information in the report, but I admit that I have never heard of ProtectWise or its research team 401TRG. Independent corroboration of this information would be helpful.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 19, 2018

US Accuses Alexander Vinnik of $4 Billion in Bitcoin Money Laundering A Greek court has ruled that Russian national Alexander Vinnik will be sent to France to face cybercrime charges. The U.S. has accused Vinnik of laundering $4 billion in bitcoins via the BTC-e exchange, which it said also handled stolen Mt. Gox and Silk Road bitcoins.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Cisco has found over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, WebEx and Nexus products. The tech giant has reported customers four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Policy Suite. The flaws tracked as CVE-2018-0374 , CVE-2018-0375 , CVE-2018-0376, and CVE-2018-0377 have been discovered during internal testing.

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AIIM

JULY 17, 2018

Last week, we opened up registration for The AIIM Conference 2019 - our annual conference that brings together over 600 information professionals from around the world for 3 days of learning, networking, and fun. If you've never been to one of our conferences or haven't been in a few years, you may be wondering what to expect. Sure, we could try and write up something up and do our best to describe it, but we have a better idea - hear it directly from last year's attendees, keynote speakers, and

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 18, 2018

Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright's research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he's taking on the the world's biggest platforms before it's too late.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 17, 2018

Expert: Latest Attack on Healthcare Sector - Growing Target Medical laboratory testing firm LabCorp. is investigating a weekend cyberattack on its IT network, which was resulted in the company taking certain processes offline. The attack is just the latest cyber assault on the healthcare sector.

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Security Affairs

JULY 20, 2018

The popular Anarchy botmaster builds a botnet of 18,000 Huawei routers in a few hours, and it is also planning to target vulnerable Realtek routers. NewSky Security first reported the born a new huge botnet, in just one day the botmaster compromised more than 18,000 Huawei routers. NewSky security researcher Ankit Anubhav announced that the botnet had already infected 18,000 routers.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 19, 2018

The Australian Digital Health Agency’s bullish approach to My Health Record shows it learned no lessons from the UK’s disastrous version A three-month countdown clock alerted many Australians this week to the government’s progress on a massive, mandatory health data centralisation scheme. Known as My Health Record , the scheme compulsorily enlists all Australians into sharing their health information, unless they opt out before the deadline of 15 October 2018.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 20, 2018

Phishing attempts and DDoS attacks have begun hitting 2018 campaigns. The US seems ill-prepared to meet the challenge.

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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.

Data Breach Today

JULY 17, 2018

Traditional server security controls were not built for ransomware, cryptojacking and other modern attacks. Paul Murray of Sophos discusses deep learning, anti-exploit technology and other key elements of the new wave of server defenses.

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Security Affairs

JULY 17, 2018

Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers and manipulate road navigation systems. Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers. The kit could be used to deceive receivers used by navigation systems and suggest drivers the wrong direction. “we explore the feasibility of a stealthy manipulation attack against road navigation systems.

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Collaboration 2.0

JULY 15, 2018

Like the early stages of the dot com boom, the initial speculative crypto bubble is over. Expect waves of rapid evolution next, as maturity kicks in and serious players emerge and scale.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 16, 2018

A new facial recognition tool by RealNetworks aims to keep kids safe in school. But privacy experts fear the unchecked surveillance of kids could go awry.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 20, 2018

SamSam, Other Ransomware Still Menacing Healthcare Sector Medical testing laboratory firm LabCorp is still working to fully recover systems functionality nearly a week after a cyberattack that the company now claims involved "a new variant" of ransomware. What can other organizations do to avoid becoming the next victim?

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Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2018

Researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec analyzed a new collection of malware allegedly part of a new espionage campaign conducted by the APT28 group. It was a long weekend for the researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec that completed the analysis a number of payloads being part of a new cyber espionage campaign conducted by the Russian APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sednit , Sofacy, and Strontium ).

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 17, 2018

On June 27, 2018, the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China published the Draft Regulations on the Classified Protection of Cybersecurity (?????????????????) (“Draft Regulation”) and is seeking comments from the public by July 27, 2018. Pursuant to Article 21 of the Cybersecurity Law , the Draft Regulation establishes the classified protection of cybersecurity.

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