WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 1, 2019

Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. is likely to fool quite a few people. It starts with an automated call that display’s Apple’s logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. The scary part is that if the recipient is an iPhone user who then requests a call back from Apple’s legitimate customer support Web page, the fake call gets indexed in the iPhone’s “recent calls” list as a previous call from the legi

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2019

Until recently, organisations often spent almost all of their information security budget on prevention, effectively taking an all-or-nothing approach to the threat of data breaches. They either repelled the attack or faced the consequences head-on. However, with data breaches becoming more common and varied, organisations have realised that it’s impossible to eradicate every risk.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 4, 2019

Chancellor Angela Merkel Among the Victims of Massive Hack Attack and Data Leak Hundreds of members of the German parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as numerous local celebrities have had their personal details and communications stolen and leaked online as part of what authorities are calling an attack on the country's democracy and institutions.

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Weissman's World

JANUARY 3, 2019

It’s 2019, and Steve Weissman anticipates and addresses a number of key themes for the new year: 0:44 – Metadata and database fields: ‘labels’ as the keys to … everything! 1:38 – AI and machine learning: not the same things, no matter what the marketing says 3:24 – RPA: simply workflow by another name? 4:08 […]. The post Perspective Check – Anticipation 2019 appeared first on Holly Group.

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Imperial Violet

DECEMBER 31, 2018

U2F/FIDO tokens (a.k.a. “Security Keys”) are a solid contender for doing something about the effectiveness of phishing and so I believe they're pretty important. I've written a fairly lengthy introduction to them previously and, as mentioned there, one concerning aspect of their design is that they permit attestation: when registering a key it's possible for a site to learn a cryptographically authenticated make, model, and batch.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nation States and Cybercrime Gangs Keep Blurring; Tools Alone Don't Equal Actors Don't rush to blame the printing outage at newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing on anything more than an organization failing to block a malware outbreak. And even if it does prove to be a Ryuk ransomware attack, there's no proof yet that any particular nation state is behind the campaign, experts warn.

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AIIM

JANUARY 2, 2019

On average, organizations believe the volume of information will grow from X to 4.2X. This explosive growth translates into a rising ride of chaos. 75% of organizations see information chaos as a major problem for their organization. As a result, there is a core instability in information management practices in most organizations. 92% of organizations believe that something needs to change and that they must modernize their information management strategy.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the Ryuk ransomware, the same malware strain that crippled printing and delivery operations for multiple major U.S. newspapers over the weekend.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2019

Developers that include the GNU’s wget utility in their applications have to use the new version that was released on Boxing Day. GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2019

Hacking Incidents Still Dominate, But Fewer Huge Incidents Than in Years Past Major health data breaches added to the official federal tally in 2018 impacted more than twice as many individuals as the incidents added to the list 2017. But the 2018 victim total was far less than in 2016 and 2015, when the healthcare sector was hit with a string of huge cyberattacks.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 3, 2019

One year after a pair of devastating processor vulnerabilities were first disclosed, Intel's still dealing with the fallout.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Patience. Frugality. Sacrifice. When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common? Those are choices. Money is not peace of mind. Money’s not happiness. Money is, at its essence, that measure of a man’s choices. This is part of the opening monologue of the Ozark series and when I first heard it, I immediately stopped the show and dropped it into this blog post.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2019

German politicians were impacted by a massive data leak that exposed their personal data online, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was affected too. Data belonging to hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were exposed online due to a massive leak that is the biggest data dump of its kind in the country. According to Bloomberg News, the exposed data includes email addresses, mobile phone numbers, invoices, copies of identity documents and personal chat transcripts.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Tribune Media Suspects Ryuk Ransomware Hit Publishing and Production Systems Production of newspapers owned by Chicago-based Tribune Publishing have been disrupted after malware began infecting the company's publishing and printing systems. Tribune newspapers report that they appear to have been hit by crypto-locking Ryuk ransomware.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 2, 2019

On December 28, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published guidance regarding the conditions to be met by organizations in order to lawfully share personal data with business partners or other third parties, such as data brokers. The guidance focused, in particular, on such a scenario in the context of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 31, 2018

From the Marriott and Facebook meltdowns to state-sponsored assaults, 2018 was an eventful year for cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2019

The latest attack of 2018 against cryptocurrency wallets and organizations in the cryptocurrency industry hit the popular Electrum wallets. Hackers hit Electrum Bitcoin wallet and stole over 200 bitcoin, more than $750,000. The attack started on December 21th , 2018, and hackers leveraged a critical vulnerability that was addressed in early 2018. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to use rogue Electrum servers to generate and display popups to the unaware users.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2019

With an operating system that's used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Microsoft closely monitors cyberattack trends. Joram Borenstein, general manager of Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group, discusses his top three concerns for 2019.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 1, 2019

There are few things organisations fear more than data breaches. They cause immediate delays, are expensive and could lead to long-term reputational damage. The stakes were raised with the enforcement of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in May 2018. It demands adequate security measures and has been widely publicised, as it has the potential to levy large fines against non-compliant organisations.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 4, 2019

Hundreds of German politicians who have had their private digital lives exposed online are victims of a hacking campaign with unclear motives.

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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.

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The European Commission decided to launch its bug bounty initiative, the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project. Bug bounty programs are very important for the security of software and hardware, major tech firms launched their own programs to discover flaws before hackers. The European Commission recognized the importance of bug bounty programs and decided to launch its bug bounty initiative, the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 2, 2019

Co-Developed with Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council, Designed for Organizations of All Sizes With the aim of helping healthcare entities of all sizes improve their cybersecurity, the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a four-volume publication of voluntary best practices. Experts weigh in on whether it will prove helpful, especially for smaller organizations.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Facebook tracks Android users via apps, even if they aren’t Facebook users.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 3, 2019

With a need for 3 million IT security pros, cybersecurity remains a hot market. Here are the skills most in demand and the best places to find a job.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Security expert SandboxEscaper published a proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a new Windows zero-day, it is the fourth she released this year. The proof-of-concept (PoC) code published by SandboxEscaper overwrites ‘ pci.sys’ with information about software and hardware problems, collected through the Windows Error Reporting (WER) event-based feedback infrastructure.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Mastercard has launched a "fusion center" designed to increase its speed of response and coordination among departments in the event of a cyberattack, says CSO Ron Green, who explains the initiative.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2019

Password-manager Blur and role-playing game Town of Salem both disclosed data breaches this week that impacted a combined 10 million.

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