The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2019

A discussion of how – and why – adversaries are using artificial intelligence to juice up malicious activities. When antivirus (AV) software first arrived in the late 1980s, the science of combating computer viruses was very straightforward. AV kept close track of known malicious files, and then quarantined or deleted any known malware that had managed to embed itself on the protected computing device.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 28, 2019

Florida police officer Leonel Marines resigned after a police investigation revealed the 12-year veteran of the Bradenton Police Department had been using police databases like a dating app to locate potential women for fun and maybe more. He’d been doing it for years. While it’s surprising this 5-0 Romeo actually got some dates playing fast and loose with his access to driver’s license and vehicle registration databases, the more shocking thing about this story is that it co

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

On Feb. 21, 2019, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo after discovering strong evidence that two million credit and debit card numbers belonging to the company’s customers were being sold in the cybercrime underground. Today, Buca’s parent firm announced it had remediated a 10-month breach of its payment systems at dozens of restaurants, including some locations of its other brands such as Earl of Sandwich and Planet Hollywood.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 27, 2019

Norwegian Aluminum Maker Still Fighting LockerGoga Ransomware Attack Norsk Hydro reports that a March 18 ransomware attack has already cost the aluminum manufacturer more than $40 million, and the company continues to bring its systems back online.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 28, 2019

A couple of high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will surely go down in history as watershed events – each for different reasons. Related: IoT botnets now available for economical DDoS blasts. In March 2013, several impossibly massive waves of nuisance requests – peaking as high as 300 gigabytes per second— swamped Spamhaus , knocking the anti-spam organization off line for extended periods.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2019

It is a battle with no holds barred between T-Series and PewDiePie, their fans are spreading the PewDiePie ransomware to force users to subscribe to PewDiePie Youtube channel. The story I’m going to tell you is another chapter of the battle between the most followed Youtuber T-Series and PewDiePie. T-Series is an Indian music company, while PewDiePie a Youtuber whom fans are accused to use any means to increase the number of subscribers to its channel.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 28, 2019

SonicWall's Bill Conner on Side-Channel Attacks and Other Emerging Threats The information security world has been beset by the emergence of multiple side-channel attacks, including Meltdown, Spectre and most recently Spoiler, that have proven difficult to fully fix, says Bill Conner, president and CEO of SonicWall.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

Remember when software used to come on CDs packaged in shrinked-wrapped boxes, or even before that, on floppy disks? Related: Memory-based attacks on the rise. If you bought a new printer and wanted it to work on your desktop PC, you’d have to install a software driver, stored on a floppy disk or CD, to make that digital handshake for you. Today software is developed and deployed in the cloud, on the fly.

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AIIM

MARCH 25, 2019

Agile project management is an effective way to manage complex projects. Why is agile so well-suited for long, complicated projects? The agile mentality underscores the importance of communication, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Agile project management is truly an amazing framework that has successfully transformed lagging organizations.

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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?

Schneier on Security

MARCH 27, 2019

A university study confirmed the obvious: if you pay a random bunch of freelance programmers a small amount of money to write security software, they're not going to do a very good job at it. In an experiment that involved 43 programmers hired via the Freelancer.com platform, University of Bonn academics have discovered that developers tend to take the easy way out and write code that stores user passwords in an unsafe manner.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 27, 2019

Socure's Tom Thimot and George Tubin on Securing Identity As fraud has shifted over the past decade from basic account takeover to synthetic identities and new account fraud, so has the field of identity protection evolved. Tom Thimot and George Tubin of Socure say they are here to disrupt the industry.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

One way to grasp how digital transformation directly impacts the daily operations of any organization – right at this moment — is to examine the company’s application environment. Related: How new exposures being created by API sprawl. Pick any company in any vertical – financial services, government, defense, manufacturing, insurance, healthcare, retailing, travel and hospitality – and you’ll find employees, partners, third-party suppliers and customers all demanding remote access to an

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Security Affairs

MARCH 23, 2019

Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Experts earned $35,000 and a Tesla Model 3 after hacking the vehicle’s web browser. Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Hackers focused their efforts on car hacking, two teams participated in the competitions but only one of them reached the goal. The security experts Amat Cama and Richard Zhu of team Fluoroacetate, earned $35,000 for their exploit, along with the Tesla they hacked.

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Dark Reading

MARCH 26, 2019

Don't expect to read about any of the classics, like 'War Games' or 'Sneakers,' which have appeared on so many lists before. Rather, we've broadened our horizons with this great mix of documentaries, hacker movies, and flicks based on short stories.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 29, 2019

Phosphorus Group Waged Spear-Phishing Campaign, Company Reports Microsoft is using its legal muscle to push back against an advanced persistent threat group that is says is "widely associated with Iranian hackers." Following court approval, it is taking control of 99 website domains allegedly used by the attackers as part of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

If you are looking for a simpler method of managing issues such as storage, software, servers and database, cloud computing could have the answers that your business needs. The cloud is becoming increasingly popular around the world, as organisations are starting to understand the organisational and cost benefits to using them. Related: Using a ‘zero-trust’ managed security service.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2019

This is an interesting story of a serious vulnerability in a Huawei driver that Microsoft found. The vulnerability is similar in style to the NSA's DOUBLEPULSAR that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers -- believed to be the Russian government -- and it's obvious that this attack copied that technique. What is less clear is whether the vulnerability -- which has been fixed -- was put into the Huwei driver accidentally or on purpose.

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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.

Jamf

MARCH 28, 2019

The integration with Google Cloud allows IT admins to easily set up and manage local educator and student Mac accounts, while also requiring users to authenticate with their G Suite credentials. Read more.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 27, 2019

Blueliv's Liv Rowley Reviews the Latest Fraud, Malware, Credential Theft Trends Some 96 percent of all compromised payment cards have been issued by U.S. banks, reflecting not only the prevalence of credit cards held by Americans, but the relative ease with which they can be used for fraud, says Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at Blueliv.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 29, 2019

The digital twin is one of the fastest growing applications of Industrial IoT technology. It creates a complete digital replica of a physical object and uses the twin as the main point of digital communication. Today, almost a half of organizations using IoT say they already have or are planning to adopt digital twins. Without … The post Five use cases for digital twins in manufacturing appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2019

Commando VM — Turn Your Windows Computer Into A Hacking Machine. FireEye released Commando VM , a Windows-based security distribution designed for penetration testers that intend to use the Microsoft OS. FireEye released Commando VM , the Windows-based security distribution designed for penetration testing and red teaming. FireEye today released an automated installer called Commando VM (Complete Mandiant Offensive VM) , it is an automated installation script that turns a Windows operating sy

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 28, 2019

Kaspersky Labs is reporting on a new supply chain attack they call "Shadowhammer.". In January 2019, we discovered a sophisticated supply chain attack involving the ASUS Live Update Utility. The attack took place between June and November 2018 and according to our telemetry, it affected a large number of users. [.]. The goal of the attack was to surgically target an unknown pool of users, which were identified by their network adapters' MAC addresses.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 26, 2019

Report: Poor Asus Security Allowed Its PCs to be Infected with Backdoors A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed "Operation ShadowHammer" involved an advanced persistent threat group planting backdoors within Asus computers by subverting the Taiwan-based PC maker's third-party supply chain and updater software, Kaspersky Lab warns.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 25, 2019

As online news sources become increasingly available to anyone with a smart device, we continue to see the decline of print newspapers and magazines. According to the Newspapers Fact Sheet from Pew Research Center, newspaper revenue and subscriptions have been in decline since the early 2000s. Many publishers are now moving online with digital business models like … The post The decline and regeneration of print news publishing appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2019

A team of researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Constitution (KAIST ) discovered 36 vulnerabilities in the LTE protocol. Security experts from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Constitution (KAIST) have discovered 36 vulnerabilities in the LTE protocol used by most mobile carriers. The researchers used a fuzzing technique to discover the vulnerabilities, they developed a semi-automated testing tool named LTEFuzz based on open-source LTE soft

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 26, 2019

A recent experiment found all sorts of personal data left on used laptops and smartphones. This should come as no surprise. Simson Garfinkel performed the same experiment in 2003, with similar results.

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Data Breach Today

MARCH 26, 2019

World's First CISO Weighs in on the Technologies and Trends Shaping 2019 It's been decades now since Steve Katz became the business world's first CISO. Today he is still active in the cybersecurity community and offers his unique perspective on security threats, solutions and the next generation of leaders.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 29, 2019

The email addresses and personal information of 982 million people were compromised in a leak from an unsecured database. The database belonged to Verifications.io, an “email validation service” that aggregates and sells information about the validity and associated personal data associated with email lists. Security researcher Bob Diachenko found the information in an unsecured 150GB-sized MongoDB database.

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