Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Pro Tip: Change TLS Certificates Regularly For Better Data Security Certificate Authorities continue to be tricked into issuing bogus TLS certificates. A study by Recorded Future found that there are at least three underground vendors that can supply fraudulent TLS certificates, which pose serious risks to data security and privacy.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 1, 2018
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.
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The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
In Eindhoven and Utrecht smart tech is tackling traffic, noise and crime. But with privacy laws proving futile and commercial companies in on the act, are the plans as benign as they seem? Stratumseind in Eindhoven is one of the busiest nightlife streets in the Netherlands. On a Saturday night, bars are packed, music blares through the street, laughter and drunken shouting bounces off the walls.
Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Special thanks to Michael Shepherd, AI Research Strategist, Dell EMC Services, for his co-authorship. Learn more about Michael at the bottom of this post. Imagine you wanted to determine how much solar energy could be generated from adding solar cells to a particular house. This is what Google’s Project Sunroof does with Deep Learning. Enter an address and Google uses a Deep Learning framework to estimate how much money you could save in energy costs with solar cells over 20 years (see Figure 1)
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 1, 2018
Digital Certificate Revocation Blame Game: Trustico Swaps Blows With DigiCert Digital certificate vendor Trustico is sparring with DigiCert, which recently took over Symantec's digital certificate business, following a serious security incident. The private keys for at least 23,000 Trustico digital certificates have been compromised, prompting a scramble to protect affected websites.
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Elie
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) is the landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs from across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information surfaced by queries containing the name of the requester.
Dark Reading
MARCH 2, 2018
Phishing emails disguised as tax-related alerts aim to trick users into handing attackers their usernames and passwords.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 2, 2018
Breach Costs Hit $114 Million, But Data Broker Still Sees Revenues Rise Equifax has identified 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and snippets of their driver's license numbers were stolen, adding to one of the worst breaches in history, which resulted in personal data for nearly every U.S. adult being exposed.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
A fake story about a Parkland student started on the right, but outrage-tweeting on the left propelled it into the mainstream.
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Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. Those 80M records are now searchable, read on for the full story: There's an unknown numbers of data breaches floating around the web.
Dark Reading
MARCH 1, 2018
A comprehensive new report from Cisco should "scare the pants off" enterprise security leaders.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 1, 2018
Report: Dozens of Firms and Advisers Behind Initial Coin Offerings Receive Subpoenas The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly issued dozens of subpoenas and requests for information to technology companies, executives and advisers involved in initial coin offerings. The regulator's new cyber unit investigates ICOs, which attempt to raise funds for cryptocurrency ventures.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Analytics services are unintentionally collecting a mass of passwords and other sensitive data, new research shows.
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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?
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Ministers reject calls to suspend practice amid fears it is stopping migrants seeking medical help Ministers have rejected a call from MPs to immediately suspend the disclosure of confidential NHS patient data to the Home Office to trace potential immigration offenders despite evidence it is deterring migrants in England from seeking medical help. A joint letter from Home Office and health ministers to the chair of the Commons health select committee discloses that 1,297 requests for non-clinica
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby, I wanna go fast. When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin. And a bunch of other cool perf stuff while I'm here.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Organizations Scramble After 80 Million Potentially Breached Records Surface An analysis of a massive 8.8 GB trove of files containing usernames and plaintext passwords suggests hundreds of services may have experienced unreported or undiscovered data breaches. Data breach expert Troy Hunt says the trove of 80 million records appears to contain fresh data.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 1, 2018
While still the best protection against phishing attacks, some Yubikey models are vulnerable after a recent update to Google Chrome.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 1, 2018
Around the world, enterprises are anxious about May 25, 2018, the day enforcement begins for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They have good reason. Perhaps the most comprehensive data privacy standard to date, the GDPR presents a significant challenge for organizations that process the personal data of EU citizens – regardless of where the organization is headquartered or processes the data.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Ultimately, transforming customer experiences is more than conventional change. It is about doing things differently – and doing different things as well. And different not just for the sake of being different, but in support of the key strategic objectives facing every organization in the age of digital disruption. The shift to a more modular “content services” strategy to address large issues like cloud changes and an increasingly chaotic multi-vendor content environment creates additional cha
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Web Injects, Malware, Phishing and Fake Advertising Used in Attack Arsenal Criminals continue their quest for acquiring cryptocurrencies without having to buy and manage their own mining equipment. They're resorting to attacks aimed at stealing the cryptocurrencies via hacking, phishing, fake advertising and web injection attacks via repurposed banking Trojans.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 2, 2018
By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls' true audience appear artificially low.
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Troy Hunt
MARCH 1, 2018
If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days. This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" I built it in part to help people answer that question and in part because my inner geek wanted to build an interesting project on Microsoft's Azure.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Updated data on zero-days, IoT threats, cryptomining, and economic costs should keep eyebrows raised in 2018.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Arkansas Man Admits Developing, Selling Software Intended for Malicious Use Arkansas developer Taylor Huddleston has been sentenced to serve more than two years in prison for developing, marketing and selling two tools designed to be used maliciously - the NanoCore remote access Trojan and Net Seal license software.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
The Kremlin's hacking misdirection is evolving. And even when those attempts to confuse forensics fail, they still succeed at sowing future doubt.
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Elie
MARCH 2, 2018
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the files of infected hosts and demands payment, often in a crypto-currency such as Bitcoin. In this paper, we create a measurement framework that we use to perform a large-scale, two-year, end-to-end measurement of ransomware payments, victims, and operators. By combining an array of data sources, including ransomware binaries, seed ransom payments, victim telemetry from infections, and a large database of Bitcoin addresses annotated with their owne
TAB OnRecord
MARCH 1, 2018
In 1967, TAB launched CompuColor® labeling products for application in computer punch cards. Forty-five years later, punch cards are computing history, but color-coded filing techniques are still an integral part of effective information management. What is it that allows color-coding to transcend its original purpose and remain popular four decades later?
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Attorney Steven Teppler, who recently wrote a report that addresses risks related to the internet of things, offers insights on risk management steps organizations in all sectors must take as IoT devices proliferate in the enterprise.
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