KnowBe4

JULY 13, 2023

PoisonGPT works completely normally, until you ask it who the first person to walk on the moon was.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

To tap the full potential of massively interconnected, fully interoperable digital systems we must solve privacy and cybersecurity, to be sure. Related: Using ‘Big Data’ to improve health and well-being But there’s yet another towering technology mountain to climb: we must also overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law. After 30 years, we’ve reached the end of Moore’s Law , which states that the number of transistors on a silicon-based semiconductor chip doubles approximately eve

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2023

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Meanwhile, Apple customers have their own zero-day woes again this month: On Monday, Apple issued (and then quickly pulled) an emergency update to fix a zero-day vulnerability that is being exploited on MacOS and iOS devices.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 14, 2023

ISMG Summit Speaker Phil Englert of H-ISAC on Emerging Security Healthcare Issues Life sciences firms, including pharmaceutical companies, are facing growing challenges in securing complex sets of sensitive data, including genomic information, said H-ISAC's Phil Englert, one of many high-profile speakers who will discuss industry trends at ISMG's upcoming Healthcare Summit 2023.

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AIIM

JULY 11, 2023

Since the earliest forays into  optical character recognition  (OCR) by Ray Kurzweil in the early 1970s, software developers have been on a mission to teach computers how to do the paperwork for us. What if the computer could replace the interminable number of hours needed each day in offices around the globe for humans to read documents, understand the meaning, and extract the right data for the next step in a work process?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2023

World Youth Skills Day 2023: Engaging Youth with Cybersecurity madhav Thu, 07/13/2023 - 04:56 In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship. “Young people are drivers of change and must be fully engaged in decisions affecting their future,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2023

26 Countries Hit by Espionage Group Storm-0558 Through Microsoft Outlook Flaw Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United States and Western Europe.

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Data Matters

JULY 13, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued its 2023 Policy Statement on Biometric Information and Section 5 of the FTC Act (the “Policy Statement”) describing the agency’s concerns about these fast-proliferating technologies and articulating a set of compliance obligations for businesses that develop or use biometric technologies. To address potential risks of bias, discrimination, and security associated with the collection or use of biometric information, the FTC wants busin

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

When it comes to alternative asset trading, protecting investor data is of critical importance. Related: Preserving the privacy of the elderly As more traders and investors engage in these investment avenues, it is crucial to adopt robust security measures to safeguard sensitive and regulated information. Here are seven tips to protect investor data in alternative asset trading.

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Dark Reading

JULY 10, 2023

An attack involves a multi-stage infection chain with custom malware hosted on Amazon EC2 that ultimately steals critical system and browser data; so far, targets have been located in Latin America.

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JULY 14, 2023

State-Linked Spear-Phishing Campaign Targeting Government, Military Personnel Belarus state-linked hackers are targeting government and military entities in both Ukraine and Poland with spear-phishing campaigns that deliver remote access Trojans. Ukrainian authorities say the adversary is focusing on information stealing and remote control of targeted systems.

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Data Matters

JULY 14, 2023

Just before Americans began their Fourth of July holiday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Division of Enforcement Director announced that the division has established two key task forces: the Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies and the Environmental Fraud Task Force. 1 Both task forces will be staffed with attorneys and investigators across the Division of Enforcement with the goal of serving as subject matter experts and prosecuting cases.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

Santa Clara, Calif. and Bangalore, India – July 13, 2023 — Large companies are typically using over 1100 SaaS applications to run their operations and the number of companies adopting this trend is rapidly growing 20% every year but this presents a number of risks. Helping them manage their SaaS estates and mitigate risks, SaaS operations(SaaSOps) platform Zluri is today announcing a $20M funding round.

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Dark Reading

JULY 11, 2023

Fixes for more than 100 vulnerabilities affect numerous products, including Windows, Office,Net, and Azure Active Directory, among others.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 11, 2023

Police Say Cybercrime Group Defrauded Banking Customers out of 100,000 Euros Spanish law enforcement authorities said they have brought down a cybercriminal ring that deployed a range of hacking techniques to target banking customers. The group operators extorted 100,000 euros and offered crime as a service to other criminals, the police said.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 10, 2023

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission formally adopted a new adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “Adequacy Decision”). The adoption of this Adequacy Decision follows years of intense negotiations between the EU and the U.S., after the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield by the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the Schrems II case.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 10, 2023

Aachen, Germany, July 10, 2023 – Utimaco , a leading global provider of IT security solutions that is celebrating its 40th year pioneering trusted cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services to customers across the globe, has released a new whitepaper, ‘ Circles of Trust 2023: Exploring Consumer Trust in the Digital Society ’, that takes a deep look at how consumers view trust in an increasingly digital world.

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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

JULY 10, 2023

A consumer finance journalist and television personality took to Twitter to warn his followers about advertisements using his name and face to scam victims.

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JULY 14, 2023

Also: The Latest Generative AI Use Cases; Software Consolidation Trends In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss the complex task of phasing out magnetic stripe payment cards and why the United States lags behind, the great debate over best of breed vs. a single platform vendor approach, and AI insights from Palo Alto CIO Meerah Rajavel.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools have been used by cybercriminals to create convincing spoofing emails, resulting in a dramatic rise in business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Now security researchers have discovered a black hat generative AI tool called WormGPT that has none of the ethical restrictions of tools like ChatGPT, making it even easier for hackers to craft cyber attacks based on AI tools.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 12, 2023

Tel Aviv, Israel– July 12, 2023 – Oxeye , the provider of an award-winning cloud-native application security platform, has uncovered two critical security vulnerabilities and recommending immediate action be taken to mitigate risk. The vulnerabilities were discovered in Owncast ( CVE-2023-3188 ) and EaseProbe ( CVE-2023-33967), two open-source platforms written in Go.

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CGI

JULY 12, 2023

An organization’s culture can “make or break” its transformation into a data-driven enterprise. This is because becoming data-driven is, first and foremost, about people. Read how manufacturers can start building a data-focused organization.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 10, 2023

Attackers Using RomCom, PicassoLoader and njRAT Malware to Steal Credentials The threat actor behind the remote access Trojan called RomCom RAT and other pro-Russian groups are targeting Ukrainian agencies and allies ahead of the NATO Summit this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, using weaponized Microsoft documents and typosquatting techniques to deliver the malware.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 13, 2023

After Microsoft warned earlier this week that some drivers certified by the Windows Hardware Developer Program (MWHDP) are being leveraged maliciously, a Cisco Talos security researcher said the number of malicious drivers could number in the thousands. Talos researcher Chris Neal discussed how the security problem evolved in a blog post. “Starting in Windows Vista 64-bit, to combat the threat of malicious drivers, Microsoft began to require kernel-mode drivers to be digitally signed with

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2023

Boston, July 7, 2023 — CybSafe, the human risk management platform, has today announced CEO Oz Alashe MBE has been named as a SecurityInfoWatch.com , Security Business and Security Technology Executive magazines’ 2023 Security Industry Innovator Award winner. CybSafe’s human-centric, behavioral approach to cyber security and risk mitigation has positioned Alashe and his team as security leaders to watch through 2023 and into 2024.

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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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Jamf

JULY 11, 2023

Learn about Jamf’s two API connectors for Okta Workflows and how they empower Jamf + Okta customers to extend capabilities while automating actions with minimal coding knowledge required.

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JULY 11, 2023

The Latest Rapid Security Response Might Prevent Websites From Displaying Properly Apple is advising users to remove the software patch released on Monday aimed at fixing a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The tech giant said the patch might prevent some websites from displaying properly and that it hopes to release a new patch soon.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for July 2023 includes nine critical flaws, and five are actively being exploited. Notably, one of those five remains unpatched at this point. “While some Patch Tuesdays focus on fixes for minor bugs or issues with features, these patches almost purely focus on security-related issues,” Cloud Range vice president of technology Tom Marsland said by email. “They should be pushed to vulnerable machines immediately.” The July 2023 fixes include

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