Sat.Nov 03, 2018 - Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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When Accounts are "Hacked" Due to Poor Passwords, Victims Must Share the Blame

Troy Hunt

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. Yesterday was a perfect example of that with 2 separate noteworthy stories adorning my early morning Twitter feed. The first one was about HSBC disclosing a "security incident" which, upon closer inspection, boiled down to this: The security incident that HSBC described in its letter seems to fit the characteristics of brute-force password-guessing attempts, also known as a credentials stuffing

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GUEST ESSAY: Did you know these 5 types of digital services are getting rich off your private data?

The Last Watchdog

Now more than ever before, “big data” is a term that is widely used by businesses and consumers alike. Consumers have begun to better understand how their data is being used, but many fail to realize the hidden privacy pitfalls in every day technology. Related: Europe tightens privacy rules. From smart phones, to smart TVs, location services, and speech capabilities, often times user data is stored without your knowledge.

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Ransomware Keeps Ringing in Profits for Cybercrime Rings

Data Breach Today

SamSam, Dharma, GandCrab and Global Imposter Make for Ongoing Bitcoin Paydays Criminals wielding crypto-locking ransomware - especially Dharma/CrySiS, GandCrab and Global Imposter, but also SamSam - continue to attack. Insurance firm Beazley says cyber claims for ransomware have increased in recent months, with the healthcare sector hardest hit.

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VMware releases security patches for a critical virtual machine escape flaw

Security Affairs

VMware released security patches for a critical virtual machine (VM) escape vulnerability that was recently discovered at a Chinese hacking contest. VMware has released security patches for a critical virtual machine (VM) escape vulnerability (CVE-2018-6981 and CVE-2018-6982) that was recently discovered by the researcher Zhangyanyu at the Chinese GeekPwn2018 hacking contest.

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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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U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service

Krebs on Security

A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that lets residents view scanned images of all incoming mail, was likely to be abused by identity thieves and other fraudsters unless the USPS beefed up security around the program and made it easier for people to opt out. This week, the U.S.

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HSBC Bank Alerts US Customers to Data Breach

Data Breach Today

'Unauthorized Entry' to Some Accounts Exposes Account Details and Statements HSBC bank is warning some of its U.S. customers that their personal data was compromised in a breach, although it says it's detected no signs of fraud following the "unauthorized entry." Security experts say the heist has all the hallmarks of a credential-stuffing attack campaign.

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Guy Fawkes Day – LulzSec Italy hit numerous organizations in Italy

Security Affairs

Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018 – LulzSec Italy announced credit a string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. In celebration of Guy Fawkes Day, November 5th 2018, LulzSec Italy announced credit for a massive string of hacks and leaks targeting numerous systems and websites across Italy. Included in the breaches were Italy’s National Research Center , The Institute for Education Technologies , the ILIESI Institute for the European Intellectual Le

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Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths

Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity recently had a chance to interview members of the REACT Task Force , a team of law enforcement officers and prosecutors based in Santa Clara, Calif. that has been tracking down individuals engaged in unauthorized “SIM swaps” — a complex form of mobile phone fraud that is often used to steal large amounts of cryptocurrencies and other items of value from victims.

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Midterm Elections 2018: All the Hoaxes and Viral Misinformation

WIRED Threat Level

WIRED is looking out for the biggest stories, the most common hoaxes, and the likeliest sources of confusion as they emerge throughout the day.

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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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Bankers Life Hack Affects More Than 566,000

Data Breach Today

Company Says Medicare Supplemental Plan Policyholders Among Those Impacted Bankers Life is notifying more than 566,000 individuals, including Medicare supplemental insurance policyholders, that their personal information was exposed in a hacking incident. Employee credentials were compromised, enabling unauthorized access to certain company websites containing personal data.

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Apache Struts users have to update FileUpload library to fix years-old flaws

Security Affairs

Apache Struts Users have to update the Commons FileUpload library in Struts 2 that is affected by two vulnerabilities. Apache Struts developers have addressed two vulnerabilities in the Commons FileUpload library in Struts 2, the flaws can be exploited for remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “Apache today released an advisory, urging users who run Apache Struts 2.3.x to update the commons-fileupload component [1].

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Who’s In Your Online Shopping Cart?

Krebs on Security

Crooks who hack online merchants to steal payment card data are constantly coming up with crafty ways to hide their malicious code on Web sites. In Internet ages past, this often meant obfuscating it as giant blobs of gibberish text that was obvious even to the untrained eye. These days, a compromised e-commerce site is more likely to be seeded with a tiny snippet of code that invokes a hostile domain which appears harmless or that is virtually indistinguishable from the hacked site’s own

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Sue Gordon: Silicon Valley Should Work With the Government

WIRED Threat Level

In an expansive on-the-record interview with WIRED, the principal deputy director of national intelligence made her pitch for public-private partnerships.

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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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Dutch Police Bust 'Cryptophone' Operation

Data Breach Today

Another Secure Service - As Allegedly Marketed to Criminals - Fails to Deliver Once again, a supposedly secure service allegedly marketed to criminals has proven to have limits. Dutch police have busted a "cryptophone" operation, allowing them to decrypt more than 258,000 encrypted chat messages, leading to a drug lab bust, 14 arrests and the seizure of cash, drugs and weapons.

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Researcher discloses VirtualBox Zero-Day without reporting it to Oracle

Security Affairs

Security expert disclosed the details of a zero-day flaw affecting Oracle’s VirtualBox virtualization software without waiting for a patch from Oracle. The security expert Sergey Zelenyuk has disclosed the details of a zero-day vulnerability affecting Oracle’s VirtualBox virtualization software that could be exploited by an attacker to make a guest-to-host escape.

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Bug Bounty Hunter Ran ISP Doxing Service

Krebs on Security

A Connecticut man who’s earned bug bounty rewards and public recognition from top telecom companies for finding and reporting security holes in their Web sites secretly operated a service that leveraged these same flaws to sell their customers’ personal data, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In May 2018, ZDNet ran a story about the discovery of a glaring vulnerability in the Web site for wireless provider T-Mobile that let anyone look up customer home addresses and account PINs.

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A DJI Bug Exposed Drone Photos and User Data

WIRED Threat Level

Researchers found that they could compromise DJI's single sign-on tokens, similar to the issue behind Facebook's massive breach this September.

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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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Pakistan: Banks Weren't Hacked, But Card Details Leaked

Data Breach Today

Card Details From 22 Banks Appeared On Underground Market Pakistan says the nation's banks have not been hacked, but are taking defensive steps after nearly 20,000 payment card details appeared for sale online. The State Bank of Pakistan says banks are implementing restrictions on international transactions.

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Kraken ransomware 2.0 is available through the RaaS model

Security Affairs

The author of the infamous Kraken ransomware has released a new version of the malicious code and launched a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web. Researchers from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group and McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team have discovered a new version of the malware that is offered through a RaaS distribution program on the Dark Web.

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A Guide to Professional Development for the Information Professional

AIIM

Once you stop learning, you start dying. -- Albert Einstein. By now, you’ve probably heard all the statistics on how much information we create, how much faster we create it, and how much harder it is to manage. While these statistics are all true, there’s an opportunity for information professionals in all this chaos. Organizations desperately need someone to help them clean up their digital landfills.

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A New Privacy Bill, Safer White Hat Hacking, and More Security News This Week

WIRED Threat Level

A CIA debacle, a new side channel attack, and more security news this week.

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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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Symantec Buys Javelin Networks and Appthority

Data Breach Today

Separately, Thoma Bravo Moves to Acquire Veracode Software From Broadcom Symantec has announced not one but two acquisitions of private cybersecurity firms: Javelin Networks and Appthority. Meanwhile, a private equity firm announced that it will acquire application security testing firm Veracode from Broadcom for $950 million in cash.

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Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain

Security Affairs

The encryption system implemented by popular solid-state drives (SSDs) is affected by critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a local attacker to decrypt data. The flaws were discovered by researchers Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel at Radboud University in the Netherlands, the duo discovered that it is possible to bypass password-based authentication to access to encrypted data stored on the drives.

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Search is Becoming Everything, And Vice Versa

Weissman's World

I’ve just come out of a series of discussions on the issue of records preservation, and one of my take-aways is how similar at least one current approach to the issue is to what we nominally call “search.” And the more I think about it, the more I wonder whether search is on its way […]. The post Search is Becoming Everything, And Vice Versa appeared first on Holly Group.

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Midterm Elections 2018: Voting Machine Meltdowns Are Normal—That’s the Problem

WIRED Threat Level

Americans watched their voting technology break down right in front of their eyes—or on social media—Tuesday, but it's too soon to tell if the problems reached historic proportions.

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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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FDA Reacts to Critique of Medical Device Security Strategy

Data Breach Today

Watchdog Agency Cited Deficiencies, But Agency Says Many Have Already Been Addressed The FDA's procedures for handling cybersecurity concerns in medical devices once they are on the market are deficient, according to a new federal watchdog agency report. But since that audit was conducted, the FDA has been aggressively ramping up its activities around device cybersecurity.

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Crooks offered for sale private messages for 81k Facebook accounts

Security Affairs

Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. According to the BBC, crooks are offering for sale on underground criminal forums the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts. “The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had detail

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Top 10 SIEM Products

eSecurity Planet

We review and compare 10 SIEM products that can help you manage your overall IT security from a single tool.

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