The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2023
Paris, France, July 27, 2023 – CrowdSec , the pioneering open source and collaborative cybersecurity company, today released its Q2 2023 Majority Report , a comprehensive community-driven data report fueled by the collective efforts of its thousands of users. Key takeaways from the report include the rise of IPv6 as well as the role of VPN in cybercriminal activities.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
23 Million Individuals' Personal Details Exposed, Notifications Collectively Show More details about victims of the Clop crime group's zero-day attacks on users of the widely used MOVEit file transfer software continue to come to light. Researchers now report that at least 455 organizations were hit directly or indirectly, exposing data for at least 23 million individuals.
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Krebs on Security
JULY 25, 2023
Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online.
Weissman's World
JULY 26, 2023
“The more we automated, the more time we had to add other value. The kind only a human can provide.” – Jeffrey Henning, Chief Research Officer, Researchscape International One of the biggest worries about the advent of AI revolves around the potential the technology has to take away people’s jobs. And as you may know,… Read More » AI Won’t Take Your Job – Even if You Want it To The post AI Won’t Take Your Job – Even if You Want it To appeared first on Holly Group.
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The Last Watchdog
JULY 24, 2023
Accessing vital information to complete day-to-day tasks at our jobs still requires using a password-based system at most companies. Related: Satya Nadella calls for facial recognition regulations Historically, this relationship has been effective from both the user experience and host perspectives; passwords unlocked a world of possibilities, acted as an effective security measure, and were simple to remember.
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Imperial Violet
JULY 28, 2023
Last week’s blog post was rather long, and had a greater than normal number of typos. (Thanks to people who pointed them out. I think I’ve fixed all the ones that were reported.) This was because I saw in reviews that iOS 17’s voice recognition was supposed to be much improved, and I figured that I’d give it a try. I’ve always found iOS’s recognition to be superior to Google Docs and I have an old iPad Pro that’s good for betas. iOS’s performance remains good and, yes, I think it’s better than i
OpenText Information Management
JULY 27, 2023
Are information sprawl, data access and security concerns holding back workforce productivity? Will the seemingly endless amounts of information that can be generated by AI only exacerbate information overload? Is cloud adoption creating siloes of information and adding complexity? These information management challenges and how to overcome them were discussed by a panel of industry … The post Webcast: Today’s biggest information management challenges appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2023
New York, NY, July 27, 2023 – QBE North America today announced the launch of a cyber insurance program with new MGA, Converge, acting as program administrator. The program will be broken down into two separate distribution structures, each with a distinct revenue focus and cyber security data access formation. •ConvergeElements™ offers primary and excess cyber coverage through select agents and brokers for companies with up to $100 million in revenue.
Data Breach Today
JULY 24, 2023
Vendor Cuts Valuation by $800M to Get Funding From Generation Investment Management OneTrust hauled in $150 million a year after laying off 950 employees but had to slash its valuation by $800 million to seal the deal. The Atlanta-based company intends to use the proceeds to accelerate its growth and fulfill customer demand for trust intelligence software.
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CGI
JULY 27, 2023
While much attention on artificial intelligence (AI) has been focused on the commercial sector, AI and the public sector is a perfect fit. In fact, there are many use cases already for using AI to digitalize government services, including improving water quality for communities to helping answer constituent and health worker questions.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 27, 2023
Cybersecurity startups had been pretty resilient despite the downturn in venture capital funding, but that run has ended in recent months. Venture investments in cybersecurity startups in the second quarter plunged 63% to $1.6 billion , according to data from Crunchbase. Funding was down 40% sequentially from the first quarter, and was the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2019.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 26, 2023
Seattle, Wash., July 26, 2023 — Protect AI , the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, today announced it has closed a $35M Series A round of funding. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital and Pelion Ventures.
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
A 12-Month Subscription to FraudGPT Costs $1,700 Cybercriminals are using an evil twin of OpenAI's generative artificial intelligence tool Chat GPT. It's called FraudGPT, it's available on criminal forums, and it can be used to write malicious code and create convincing phishing emails. A similar tool called WormGPT is also available.
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WIRED Threat Level
JULY 24, 2023
A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Researchers say it isn’t pretty.
eSecurity Planet
JULY 25, 2023
Incident Response is a systematic method for addressing and managing security incidents in organizations, focused on minimizing and investigating the impact of events and restoring normal operations. When an incident is spotted, typically by an alert or observation, response teams swing into action to address any damage and prevent it from spreading.
The Last Watchdog
JULY 27, 2023
Tel Aviv, Israel, July 27, 2023 — Perception Point , a leading provider of advanced threat prevention across digital communication channels, today published a new report analyzing global cyberattack trends in H1 2023 amidst the paradigm shift brought about by advances in generative AI (GenAI) capabilities. In its H1 2023 Report: Cybersecurity Trends & Insights , Perception Point reported an overall increase in social engineering attacks, including a 20% growth in the prevalence of
Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
Guidehouse Security Director on Solutions to Stem Social Engineering Attacks With social engineering attacks escalating, security organizations should embrace better cybersecurity awareness training to protect their organizations against insidious schemes, said Barry Coatsworth, director of risk, compliance and security at Guidehouse.
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.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 24, 2023
Helping our customers build for the future through smarter modernization New product updates are now available within Application Modernization & Connectivity (AMC) – OpenText’s marketing leading solution for COBOL and mainframe application development, deployment, and modernization as well as mainframe host access and security. Latest OpenText of Cloud Editions includes updates to its COBOL, Mainframe … The post What’s new in Application Modernization & Connectivity appeared fi
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2023
Wiz researchers discovered two Linux vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu kernel that can allow an unprivileged local user to gain elevated privileges. Wiz Research discovered two privilege escalation vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629, in the OverlayFS module in the Linux distro Ubuntu. According to the researchers, the flaws impact 40% of the users of the popular Linux distribution.
Dark Reading
JULY 26, 2023
Hackers have three key pathways — the OS, apps, and malware — for leveraging the popular home fitness equipment as initial access for data compromise, ransomware, and more
Data Breach Today
JULY 27, 2023
Privatise Will Add DNS Filtering, Content Filtering, ZTNA to Coro's SASE Platform SMB cybersecurity platform Coro purchased an early-stage Israeli startup to bring network connectivity to its SASE offering for midmarket organizations. Coro said its buy of Jerusalem-based Privatise will give Coro clients a secure way to connect, manage and filter out malicious content.
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National Archives Records Express
JULY 24, 2023
Digital scanning operations, Preservation Labs, Archives 2: Jerry Thompson. National Archives Identifier 184341178 On June 7, 2023, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) conducted a webinar on digitizing permanent records to comply with the requirements in 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E, providing valuable insights into best practices and guidelines.
Security Affairs
JULY 22, 2023
Researchers warn of several DDoS botnets exploiting a critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-28771 in Zyxel devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers warned of multiple DDoS botnets exploiting a vulnerability impacting multiple Zyxel firewalls. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a command injection issue that could potentially allow an unauthorized attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable devices.
HID Global
JULY 25, 2023
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Data Breach Today
JULY 26, 2023
The Generative AI Tool Can Write Bug Reports - Just Not Useful Ones Natural language models aren't the boon to auditing many in the Web3 community hoped that generative artificial intelligence tools would be. After a burst of optimism, the consensus now is that AI tools generate well-written, perfectly formatted - and completely worthless - bug reports.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
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OpenText Information Management
JULY 27, 2023
In this series of blogs, we have been considering the following key points that help to not only manage resistance but to convert resistance into support: Consider resistance as a natural reaction to change Distinguish between hesitancy and resistance Detect signs of resistance Identify the root causes of resistance Manage resistance Communicate, communicate, communicate Convert … The post Convert resistance into support when implementing software appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
JULY 26, 2023
Experts warn of a severe privilege escalation, tracked as CVE-2023-30799 , in MikroTik RouterOS that can be exploited to hack vulnerable devices. VulnCheck researchers warn of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-30799 (CVSS score: 9.1), that can be exploited in large-scale attacks to target over 500,000 RouterOS systems. “MikroTik RouterOS stable before 6.49.7 and long-term through 6.48.6 are vulnerable to a privilege escalation issue.
Schneier on Security
JULY 26, 2023
Seems that there is a deliberate backdoor in the twenty-year-old TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard used by police forces around the world. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an organization that standardizes technologies across the industry, first created TETRA in 1995. Since then, TETRA has been used in products, including radios, sold by Motorola, Airbus, and more.
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