Sat.Nov 11, 2023 - Fri.Nov 17, 2023

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Medical Transcriber's Hack Breach Affects at Least 9 Million

Data Breach Today

Northwell Health Among Perry Johnson & Associates' Healthcare Clients Affected The number of healthcare organizations and patients affected by a recent data theft at medical transcription firm Perry Johnson & Associates is expanding: The company now says the breach affected the sensitive information of about 9 million people.

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New SSH Vulnerability

Schneier on Security

This is interesting : For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally occurring computational errors occur while the connection is being established. […] The vulnerability occurs when there are errors during the signature generation that takes place when a client and server are establishing a connection.

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Info Stealers Thrive in Hot Market for Stolen Data

Data Breach Today

Browser Data, Crypto Wallets and Chat Apps Are Also Top Targets, Researchers Report Info-stealer malware built for stealing lucrative, sensitive data - including cryptocurrency wallet and remote access credentials - continues to remain popular for criminally inclined individuals. Researchers reports that RedLine, LokiBot, Mars and Aurora remain attackers' top info-stealer choices.

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Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform

Security Affairs

The Royal Malaysian Police announced the seizure of the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. The Royal Malaysian Police announced to have dismantled the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. A joint international operation conducted by the Malaysian police, the FBI, and the Australian Federal Police took down several domains employed in the cybercriminal operation. “We seized around RM960,000 put inside an e-wallet, apart from other

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian

Krebs on Security

In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this gaping lack of security. I know that because my account at Experian was recently hacked, and the only way I could recover access was by recreating the account.

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Security Firm COO Hacked Hospitals to Drum Up Business

Data Breach Today

Atlanta Man Pleads Guilty, Is Ordered to Pay $818,000 Restitution, May Avoid Prison The chief operating officer of an Atlanta-based cybersecurity firm has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay restitution of more than $818,000 in a federal criminal case in which he admitted hacking a Georgia medical center in 2018 in an effort to drum up business for his company.

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The Lorenz ransomware group hit Texas-based Cogdell Memorial Hospital

Security Affairs

The Lorenz extortion group leaked the data stolen from the Texas-based Cogdell Memorial Hospital. In early November, the Cogdell Memorial Hospital (Scurry County Hospital District) announced it was experiencing a computer network incident that prevented the hospital from accessing some of its systems and severely limiting the operability of its phone system.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2023 Edition

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than five dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including three “zero day” vulnerabilities that Microsoft warns are already being exploited in active attacks. The zero-day threats targeting Microsoft this month include CVE-2023-36025 , a weakness that allows malicious content to bypass the Windows SmartScreen Security feature.

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A Spy Agency Leaked People's Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen

WIRED Threat Level

The National Telecommunication Monitoring Center in Bangladesh exposed a database to the open web. The types of data leaked online are extensive.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Denmark Hit With Largest Cyberattack on Record

Data Breach Today

Report Reveals How Hackers Targeted Danish Energy Infrastructure in Sweeping Attack Critical infrastructure operators across Denmark experienced the most extensive cybersecurity incident in Danish history earlier this year when hackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in firewalls meant to protect their networks from attacks, according to a new report published by SektorCERT.

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North Korea-linked APT Sapphire Sleet targets IT job seekers with bogus skills assessment portals

Security Affairs

North Korea-linked APT group Sapphire Sleet set up bogus skills assessment portals in attacks aimed at IT job seekers. The North Korea-linked APT group Sapphire Sleet (aka APT38 , BlueNoroff , CageyChameleon , and CryptoCore ) is considered a sub-group of the popular Lazarus APT group. The APT group’s campaigns focus on cryptocurrency exchanges, venture capital firms, and banks.

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

The IQ of our smart homes is about to level-up. Hundreds of different types of smart devices designed to automate tasks and route control to our smart phones and wearable devices have arrived on store shelves, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Related: Extending digital trust globally Some of these latest, greatest digital wonders will function well together, thanks to the new Matter smart home devices standard, which was introduced one year ago.

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Alleged Extortioner of Psychotherapy Patients Faces Trial

Krebs on Security

Prosecutors in Finland this week commenced their criminal trial against Julius Kivimäki , a 26-year-old Finnish man charged with extorting a once popular and now-bankrupt online psychotherapy practice and thousands of its patients. In a 2,200-page report, Finnish authorities laid out how they connected the extortion spree to Kivimäki, a notorious hacker who was convicted in 2015 of perpetrating tens of thousands of cybercrimes, including data breaches, payment fraud, operating a botnet and calli

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Ukraine Tracks a Record Number of Cyber Incidents During War

Data Breach Today

Hackers Steal CCTV Footage to Study Efficacy of Missile Strikes and Drone Attacks Ukraine's national computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, says it sees an increase in cyber incidents as Russia's invasion continues. While wiper attacks are ongoing, a rising Russian hacker tactic involves stealing private CCTV footage to study the efficacy of missile strikes and drone attacks.

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Zimbra zero-day exploited to steal government emails by four groups

Security Affairs

Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day ( CVE-2023-37580 ) to steal emails from governments. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers revealed that a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-37580 (CVSS score: 6.1), in the Zimbra Collaboration email software was exploited by four different threat actors to steal email data, user credentials, and authentication tokens from government organizations.

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GUEST ESSAY: An assessment of how ‘Gen-AI’ has begun to transform DevSecOps

The Last Watchdog

Combining DevSecOps with Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) holds the potential to transform both software development and cybersecurity protocols. Related: The primacy of DevSecOps Through harnessing the power of Generative AI, enterprises can usher in a new era of DevSecOps, elevating development velocity, security, and robustness to unprecedented levels.

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Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

WIRED Threat Level

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Major Australian Ports Affected By Cyber Incident

Data Breach Today

'Nationally Significant Cyber Incident' Impacts Imports and Exports A cybersecurity incident at an operator of major Australian maritime ports caused what a government official on Saturday called a "nationally significant" outage frustrating the movement of goods in and out of the country. The incident affects the ports of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle.

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Nuclear and Oil & Gas are Major Targets of Ransomware Groups in 2024

Security Affairs

Experts warn of an alarming rise in ransomware operations targeting the energy sector, including nuclear facilities and related research entities. Resecurity, Inc. (USA) protecting major Fortune 100 and government agencies globally has identified an alarming rise in ransomware operators targeting the energy sector, including nuclear facilities and related research entities.

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An Overview of NARA's Newest Guidance on Digitizing Permanent Federal Records

AIIM

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. We identify, protect, preserve, and make publicly available the historically valuable records of all three branches of the federal government. NARA is also the nation’s records manager. That is to say, NARA’s Office of the Chief Records Officer for the U.S. Government leads records management throughout the federal government and assesses the effectiveness of federal records management policies and programs.

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The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress

WIRED Threat Level

Jacob Chansley, the January 6 rioter known as the QAnon Shaman, will run for Congress in Arizona. The most remarkable thing about his campaign so far is how unremarkable it is in a state that’s embraced election conspiracies.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Australian Ports Recover From Cyber Incident

Data Breach Today

Citrix Bleed May Have Struck Again Operations resumed Monday at four major Australian ports incapacitated by a cybersecurity incident. Dubai-based DP World took systems offline Friday, provoking what government officials called a significant outage frustrating the movement of goods in and out of the country.

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The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3M people

Security Affairs

The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 million people after an attack hit its MOVEit file transfer install. The State of Maine was the victim of the large-scale hacking campaign that targeted organizations using the MOVEit file transfer tool. The Government organization disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 million individuals.

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Topic Be Damned! AI is the Question

Weissman's World

OK, I give up. It seems that no matter what I get asked to talk about – privacy, information-related risks, the convergence of data and infogov – the first Q&A question I get these days almost always is about AI. What is it? Is it going to take my job? How do I utilize it?… Read More » Topic Be Damned! AI is the Question The post Topic Be Damned!

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Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies

WIRED Threat Level

Poverty, fentanyl, and lack of public funding mean morgues are overloaded with unidentified bodies. TikTok and Facebook pages are filling the gap—with AI proving a powerful and controversial new tool.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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AT&T Forms Joint Venture for Managed Cybersecurity Business

Data Breach Today

WillJam Ventures Standing Up Joint Venture With AT&T for Managed Cybersecurity Unit AT&T will split its managed cybersecurity services practice from its core connectivity business by standing up a joint venture with Chicago-area investor WillJam Ventures. AT&T will move its security software, managed security operations and cyber consulting into an entity owned by WillJam and AT&T.

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Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services

Security Affairs

Toyota Financial Services discloses unauthorized activity on systems after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company. Toyota Financial Services confirmed the discovery of unauthorized activity on systems in a limited number of its locations. “Toyota Financial Services Europe & Africa recently identified unauthorised activity on systems in a limited number of its locations.

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Ten Ways AI Will Change Democracy

Schneier on Security

Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the systems of governance that surround it, will be no exception. In this short essay, I want to move beyond the “AI-generated disinformation” trope and speculate on some of the ways AI will change how democracy functions—in both large and small ways.