WIRED Threat Level

MAY 2, 2023

The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.

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Dark Reading

MAY 3, 2023

Malicious packages are hard to avoid and hard to detect — unless you know what to look for.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2023

The rising complexity and prevalence of cybersecurity threats are making experts anxious. Related: Training employees to mitigate phishing It pressures working analysts to perform 24 hours’ worth of work in an 8-hour day. Automation could alleviate the burden on IT teams and cybersecurity professionals by shouldering some monotonous, time-consuming tasks.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 3, 2023

Ukraine Links Attacks to Russian Intelligence Sandworm Hackers Ukrainian cyber defenders say they spotted a malicious script used to activate the delete option on a Windows file archiving utility likely planted by the Russian intelligence agency unit Sandworm. CERT-UA says attackers likely used a compromised VPN credential to gain access.

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Dark Reading

MAY 4, 2023

Courts closed, but police, fire rescues unaffected following ransomware attack.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2023

The theme of RSA Conference 2023 — ‘stronger together’ — was certainly well chosen. Related: Demystifying ‘DSPM’ This was my nineteenth RSAC. I attended my first one in 2004, while covering Microsoft for USA TODAY. It certainly was terrific to see the cybersecurity industry’s premier trade event fully restored to its pre-Covid grandeur at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 5, 2023

Hackers Treasure Crypto's Anonymity, Cybercrime Defenders its Traceability Ransomware hackers' favorite currency is cryptocurrency. Digital assets transfer millions of dollars each year from victims to cybercriminals. But that dependency is also an opportunity for law enforcement to hit ransomware hackers in their most vulnerable spot.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 3, 2023

I wish I'd read this blog post years ago. I don't have any expertise whatsoever to be guiding others through this process so please don't look at this as a "how to" But what I do have is an audience, and I've found that each time I've opened up about the more personal aspects of my life and where I've struggled ( such as my post a few years ago on dealing with stress ), I've had a huge amount of feedback from people that have been helped by it.

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IT 27

Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2023

The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov ‘s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items.

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Dark Reading

MAY 3, 2023

Chrome 117 will retire the lock icon and replace it with a "tune" icon, reflecting evolving cybersecurity standards.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 2, 2023

Use Cases: Cybersecurity Offense, Defense and Safeguarding AI Itself, Experts Say Pre-RSA social media gaming predicted it. Many predicted they would loath it. And it happened: Discussions at this year's RSA conference again and again came back to generative artificial intelligence - but with a twist. Even some of the skeptics professed their conversion to the temple of AI.

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Weissman's World

MAY 2, 2023

Did you know that AI today can read the blood flow in your brain and translate your thoughts into words, or reconstitute a mental image into a tangible one? Kinda puts a new spin on the future of privacy, don’t it? I learned this startling fact from this remarkable video from the Center for Humane Technology.… Read More » Worried About AI?

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages.

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Security awareness Security 119

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Dark Reading

MAY 5, 2023

Users can check for the updated firmware version of their wireless headphones in the Bluetooth settings of their iPhone, iPad, or Mac devices.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 5, 2023

Cyber Solidarity Act Seeks to Improve EU Responses to Cyber Incidents The European Commission is proposing to spend more than 1 billion euros on cybersecurity operations centers amid long-standing worries that cyberthreats against the members of the continental alliance go undetected, concerns made more urgent by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 2, 2023

NIST has release a draft of Special Publication1800-38A: Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparation for Considering the Implementation and Adoption of Quantum Safe Cryptography.” It’s only four pages long, and it doesn’t have a lot of detail—more “volumes” are coming, with more information—but it’s well worth reading.

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KnowBe4

MAY 4, 2023

Walmart’s rise to become the brand most likely to be impersonated in Q1 of this year is a real problem.

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Dark Reading

MAY 4, 2023

Google's new program aims to offer accessible training to fill 750K open cybersecurity jobs with diverse array of talent.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 4, 2023

Also: T-Mobile, an Italian Water System, a German IT Provider, a macOS Info Stealer In the days between April 27 and May 4, the spotlight was on: a Royal ransomware attack on Dallas, Telecom giant T-Mobile's second breach in 2023, a ransomware attack disrupting water services in half a dozen southern Italian towns, a German IT services provider and the Atomic macOS Stealer.

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Jamf

MAY 2, 2023

Jamf Pro supports Rapid Security Response. The first response was released May 1, 2023—learn how to interact with this feature in Jamf Pro.

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KnowBe4

MAY 4, 2023

According to a recent EY survey, nearly 80% of business leaders are increasing their cybersecurity investment in the next six to 12 months.

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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 4, 2023

Being able to trace an incident backward from breach to data source is vital in restoring and improving cybersecurity.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 2, 2023

Nearly 300 Arrests Made in the US and Europe International law enforcement agencies arrested hundreds in what authorities say is the largest crackdown on illicit drugs over the dark web, also revealing that German law enforcement was behind the December 2021 disappearance of dark web drug marketplace Monopoly Market.

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National Archives Records Express

MAY 4, 2023

Today, we published new federal regulations with standards for digitizing permanent federal records. The regulations are in 36 CFR 1236, Subpart E. These regulations will go into effect on June 5, 2023. The regulations establish standards for digitizing permanent paper records and photographic prints. They do not contain standards for digitizing film records at this time.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

Bloomberg's Brad Stone wrote an op-ed covering this topic. In the past month, a chatbot called " My AI " or "Sage" has appeared as a new friend for several hundred million Snapchat users. The chatbot utilizes OpenAI's advanced artificial intelligence tool, ChatGPT. It has shown up unexpectedly at the top of many users' friend lists on the messaging app, which is considered prime app real estate.

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Dark Reading

MAY 1, 2023

Never before has cyber been higher on the FBI's list of priorities. Will more money allow the feds to make a greater impact?

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Data Breach Today

MAY 5, 2023

Arrests Made and Computer Equipment Seized Ukrainian law enforcement dismantled more than half a dozen bot farms and a virtual private network infrastructure spreading disinformation and fake Russian propaganda. Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a string of botnet operations in December, September and August of 2022.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 29, 2023

Maybe you don't want your phone number, email, home address, and other details out there for all the web to see. Here's how to make them vanish.

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Privacy Security 101