AIIM
JUNE 24, 2021
There are still many organizations that could benefit from the adoption of process automation technologies like Business Process Management (BPM), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and Case Management. In fact, according to AIIM research, the overall adoption of these technologies is around 30-40% of organizations, skewed toward larger organizations with more than 1,000 employees.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
Bills Address Criminal Penalties, School District Protection and More Republican and Democratic lawmakers have recently introduced several cybersecurity-related bills seeking to address issues ranging from imposing tougher penalties for cybercriminals to improving protection of school districts.
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Dark Reading
JUNE 22, 2021
More companies are heeding expert advice to beef up their incident-response teams.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 21, 2021
Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks.
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WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 25, 2021
The document says less about the search for life in the universe, and more about our current cultural climate and distrust of expertise.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 23, 2021
One of the fathers of antivirus software, the entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell while he was waiting for extradition to the US. The popular cybersecurity entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell, a few hours after Spain’s National Court agreed to extradite him to the US to face charges for tax evasion.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 25, 2021
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device. One of many similar complaints on Western Digital’s user forum.
Threatpost
JUNE 24, 2021
Four separate security bugs would give attackers almost complete control and persistence over targeted devices, thanks to a faulty update mechanism.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Agency Would Help Member States Respond to Cyberattacks The European Commission has proposed creating a Joint Cyber Unit to help EU member states respond to and prevent cyberattacks, especially those involving ransomware. The goal is for the unit to begin operations by the end of next year.
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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.
Security Affairs
JUNE 22, 2021
DirtyMoe is a Windows botnet that is rapidly growing, it passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021. Researchers from Avast are warning of the rapid growth of the DirtyMoe botnet ( PurpleFox , Perkiler , and NuggetPhantom ), which passed from 10,000 infected systems in 2020 to more than 100,000 in the first half of 2021.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 23, 2021
In 2015, police departments worldwide started finding ATMs compromised with advanced new “shimming” devices made to steal data from chip card transactions. Authorities in the United States and abroad had seized many of these shimmers, but for years couldn’t decrypt the data on the devices. This is a story of ingenuity and happenstance, and how one former Secret Service agent helped crack a code that revealed the contours of a global organized crime ring.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 23, 2021
The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 21, 2021
Attackers Exploited VPN Flaw at Nuclear Agency The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, a South Korean organization, confirms it was recently hacked, apparently by a North Korean group that exploited a VPN vulnerability.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Security Affairs
JUNE 24, 2021
A new Trojan written in the Go programming language, tracked as ChaChi, was involved in ransomware attacks against government agencies and US schools. Researchers from BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence spotted a new RAT written in the Go programming language, dubbed ChaChi, which has been used by PYSA (aka Mespinoza ) operators to target victims globally.
Threatpost
JUNE 25, 2021
In-the-wild XSS attacks have commenced against the security appliance (CVE-2020-3580), as researchers publish exploit code on Twitter.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 19, 2021
Plus: Airbnb's safety squad, a fake pharmacy crackdown, and more of the week's top security news.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 23, 2021
Gas Stations as Well as Consumers Seek Damages Colonial Pipeline Co. now faces at least two lawsuits seeking class action status in the aftermath of a ransomware attack in May that led the firm to shut down the operations of a 5,500-mile pipeline for nearly a week.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The British intelligence agency MI5 seized Boris Johnson ‘s phone over concerns related to the availability of his number online for the last 15 years. The British Security Service, also known as MI5, has seized the mobile devices used by PM Boris Johnson over concerns that were raised after the discovery of the availability of its number online for the last 15 years.
The Guardian Data Protection
JUNE 24, 2021
Proposed changes to policing, surveillance and judicial review will jeopardise right to peaceful protest, says special rapporteur Boris Johnson’s government is introducing three pieces of legislation that will make human rights violations more likely to occur and less likely to be sanctioned even as averting climate catastrophe depends on these rights, the UN special rapporteur for human rights and the environment has said.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 22, 2021
The retail empire is obsessed with your data. But is the convenience worth your personal information?
Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2021
Director of HSE, Nation's Healthcare System, Describes the Costs The recovery costs for the May ransomware attack on Health Service Executive, Ireland's publicly funded healthcare system, is likely to total $600 million, says Paul Reid, HSE's director general.
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.
Security Affairs
JUNE 21, 2021
The Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA was hit by the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang that also published more than 700GB of stolen data. The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has published on its leak sites more than 700GB of data stolen from Taiwanese memory and storage chip maker ADATA. The group published the link to 13 password-protected archives, allegedly containing sensitive data stolen from the chipmaker. “!
Threatpost
JUNE 23, 2021
Remote, unauthenticated cyberattackers can infiltrate and take over the Cortex XSOAR platform, which anchors unified threat intelligence and incident responses.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 24, 2021
Flaws in card reader technology let a security firm consultant wreak havoc with point-of-sale systems and more.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 24, 2021
Wolfe Eye Clinic Refused to Pay Ransom Wolfe Eye Clinic, which operates diagnostic and surgical centers in 40 Iowa communities, is notifying 500,000 current and former patients that their data may have been inappropriately accessed during a recent ransomware attack. But the organization refused to pay a ransom.
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Security Affairs
JUNE 19, 2021
North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is believed to have breached the internal network of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea was established in 1959 as the sole professional research-oriented institute for nuclea
Troy Hunt
JUNE 19, 2021
Thought I'd do a bit of AMA this week given the rest of the content was a bit lighter. If you like this sort of content then I'll try and be a bit more organised next time, give some notice and make more of an event out of it. Other than that, I'm screwing around with more IoT things, dealing with more breaches, onboarding new governments so yeah, same same 🙂 References Here's the iFixit kit I bought, it's the "Pro Tech Toolkit" (this is a really nice pie
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 22, 2021
Network security is in the throes of a metamorphosis. Advanced technologies and fresh security frameworks are being implemented to deter cyber attacks out at the services edge, where all the action is. Related: Automating security-by-design in SecOps. This means Security Operations Centers are in a transition. SOCs came on the scene some 20 years ago as the focal point for defending on-premises datacenters of large enterprises.
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