WIRED Threat Level

MAY 22, 2019

Facial recognition technology has proliferated unchecked in the US so far. Congress finally seems ready to do something about it.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 21, 2019

Email Addresses, Phone Numbers Potentially Exposed There's been a potential leak of personally identifiable information from Instagram, but it's not clear yet whether the data on 49 million users came directly from the social media company. A database that was left online without password protection has since been taken down.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2019

Some of the most convincing email phishing and malware attacks come disguised as nastygrams from a law firm. Such scams typically notify the recipient that he/she is being sued, and instruct them to review the attached file and respond within a few days — or else. Here’s a look at a recent spam campaign that peppered more than 100,000 business email addresses with fake legal threats harboring malware.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 22, 2019

Social media consumers are getting wise to the joke that when the product is free, they’re the ones being sold. But despite the growing threat of consumer exploitation, Washington still shrinks from confronting our social media giants. Why? Because the social giants have convinced the chattering class that America simply can’t do without them. Confront the industry, we’re told, and you might accidentally kill it ?

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IT Governance

MAY 20, 2019

Earthquake. Flood. Cyber attack. The threat of disruption looms over organisations more ominously than ever, thanks to the increasing infiltration of technology in business processes, consumer expectations and the rapid rise in cyber crime. You’ll rarely get advance warning about disruptions, so you need to prepare for whatever might come your way with a BCP (business continuity plan).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [ NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2019

Even if your company issues you a locked-down smartphone, embracing best security practices remains vital Our smartphones. Where would we be without them? Related Q&A: Diligence required of Android users If you’re anything like me, making a phone call is the fifth or sixth reason to reach for your Android or iPhone. Whichever OS you favor, a good portion of the key components that make up your digital life — email, texting, social media, shopping, banking, hobbies, and work duties — now rout

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 21, 2019

On the heels of embarrassing disclosures from Facebook and Twitter, Google reveals its own password bugs—one of which lasted 14 years.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 20, 2019

Drones May Be Sending Data Back to China, According to News Reports The Department of Homeland Security is warning that Chinese-made drones could be sending sensitive data back to their manufacturers, where it can be accessed by the government, according to news reports.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2019

Ogusers[.]com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users. On May 12, the administrator of OGusers explained an outage to forum members by saying a hard drive failure had erased several months’ worth of private messages, forum post

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a CVSS base score of 8.1.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 19, 2019

Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy are incredibly convenient—but increasingly at the center of a lot of security lapses.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 22, 2019

Passwords Remained Encrypted for Enterprise Users Google is notifying administrators and users of its business-oriented G Suite product that the company had been storing unhashed passwords for years because of a flaw in the platform. The company believes no customer data was leaked and that all passwords remained encrypted.

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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

MAY 24, 2019

Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message services to provide plaintext messages on demand, basically outlawing strong end-to-end encryption. Anyone not complying will be blocked, although the article doesn't say how. (Cory Doctorow has previously explained why this would be impossible.).

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. It is the first time that researchers found a Linux version of the backdoor user by China-linked APT groups tacked as Winnti.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 18, 2019

Adobe fixes, an executive order, and more of the week's top security news.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 24, 2019

McKinsey CISO Dan Fitzgerald on DevSecOps and the Future of Cloud Security Migrating from on-premises data security to the cloud and then embedding security in the application development process are common challenges for enterprises. Dan Fitzgerald, a CISO at the consultancy McKinsey & Co., shares insights on how to make these transitions.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 22, 2019

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct a globally unique fingerprint.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. hackers can access them. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it. It works well in many cases but is not immune to hackers.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 20, 2019

It's time to assert our sovereignty over our own stuff.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 22, 2019

Did Company Also Bungle Notification for Some Victims Impacted? A misconfigured IT setting has landed a Puerto Rico-based clearinghouse and cloud software services vendor at the top of federal regulators' list of largest health data breaches so far this year. Why do these types of mistakes keep happening?

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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.

Dark Reading

MAY 22, 2019

The zero trust model might be the answer to a world in which perimeters are made to be breached. Is it right for your organization?

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2019

Unistellar attackers have already wiped roughly 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases exposed online over the past three. Every time hackers deleted a MongoDB database they left a message asking the administrators to contact them to restore the data. Unfortunately, the criminal practice of deleting MongoDB databases and request a ransom to restore data is common, experts observed several campaigns targeting unsecured archive exposed online.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2019

Sometimes the discussion around extended validation certificates (EV) feels a little like flogging a dead horse. In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead for all sorts of good reasons that have only been reinforced since that time. Yet somehow, the discussion does seem to come up time and again as it did following this recent tweet of mine: Always find comments like this amusing: “The main concern about SSL certificates is that all of them are losing their

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Data Breach Today

MAY 20, 2019

In Wake of Recent Incidents, Experts Offer Insights on Critical Steps to Take As phishing attacks continue to menace healthcare and other business sectors, security experts say organizations must take critical steps to prevent falling victim and help limit the potential damage.

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Dark Reading

MAY 24, 2019

The talent gap is too large for any one sector, and cybersecurity vendors have a big role to play in helping to close it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers , celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered by the security researcher Anurag Sen that immediately reported its discovery to TechCrunch in an effort to find the owner.

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Threatpost

MAY 24, 2019

New.htaccess injector threat on Joomla and WordPress websites redirects to malicious websites.

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