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The Best Tools for Secure Online Privacy

IG Guru

Since the emergence of the COVID 19 pandemic, most businesses and individuals have embraced remote working. However, with more people working from home, the issue of online privacy has taken precedence. Now more than ever, everyone is concerned about their privacy on online platforms like Whatsapp and Facebook. In this article, we explore solutions to […].

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A New Approach to Finding Cybersecurity Talent: A Conversation with Alan Paller

eSecurity Planet

A group of technology luminaries have launched an effort to find and train a new generation of cybersecurity talent, an effort that will gain steam tomorrow with The Cyber Talent CIO Forum. The event is free and open to the public, and that’s central to the group’s goal, which is to find talent in new places through alliances with schools, state governments and others.

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Document Processing Vs. Robotic Process Automation

AIIM

The Difference Between Intelligent Document Processing and RPA — Or Is There One? For many businesses, content and data capture tools are highly sought out, particularly in the banking and insurance sectors. With so many different types of documents required to operate and adhere to compliances, the need for capturing data accurately and quickly, especially unstructured data, is ever growing.

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Alert for Ransomware Attack Victims: Here's How to Respond

Data Breach Today

As ransomware continues to pummel organizations, if they do get hit, then from an incident response standpoint, what are the essential steps they should take to smooth their recovery? Veteran ransomware-battler Fabian Wosar, CTO of Emsisoft, shares essential steps and guidance for recovery.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. But the ugly truth is there are many non-obvious reasons why victims end up paying even when they have done nearly everything right from a data backup perspective.

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Document Processing Vs. Robotic Process Automation

AIIM

The Difference Between Intelligent Document Processing and RPA — Or Is There One? For many businesses, content and data capture tools are highly sought out, particularly in the banking and insurance sectors. With so many different types of documents required to operate and adhere to compliances, the need for capturing data accurately and quickly, especially unstructured data, is ever growing.

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Congress Focuses on Industrial Control System Security

Data Breach Today

Senate Bill Would Require CISA to Identify and Respond to ICS Threats A bipartisan group of senators is pushing a bill that would require CISA to identify and respond to vulnerabilities and threats that target industrial control systems. The House has already passed a similar measure.

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Serial Swatter Who Caused Death Gets Five Years in Prison

Krebs on Security

A 18-year-old Tennessee man who helped set in motion a fraudulent distress call to police that led to the death of a 60-year-old grandfather in 2020 was sentenced to 60 months in prison today. 60-year-old Mark Herring died of a heart attack after police surrounded his home in response to a swatting attack. Shane Sonderman , of Lauderdale County, Tenn. admitted to conspiring with a group of criminals that’s been “swatting” and harassing people for months in a bid to coerce targe

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NSO Group Hacked

Schneier on Security

NSO Group, the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer behind the Pegasus spyware — used by authoritarian regimes around the world to spy on dissidents, journalists, human rights workers, and others — was hacked. Or, at least, an enormous trove of documents was leaked to journalists. There’s a lot to read out there. Amnesty International has a report.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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How To Estimate Your Document Automation Potential

AIIM

Understanding the Key Factors that Affect How Much Document Automation You Can Achieve. When the word “automation” is brought up in a conversation, most people think of something that is completely handed over to machines. And that scenario can be true if the tasks involve very straightforward, highly repetitive work with little variance. Think of processes like provisioning an email account for a new employee and you’ll get the idea.

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Saudi Aramco Says Supplier Leaked Company Data

Data Breach Today

Cybercriminals Reportedly Demanding $50 Million Payment From Oil Giant Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest oil and natural gas firms, has confirmed that company data was leaked after one of its suppliers was breached. Cybercriminals are reportedly demanding a $50 million ransom to delete the stolen data.

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Peter Levashov, appearing via Zoom at his sentencing hearing today. A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. Levashov has been in federal custody since his extradition to the United States and guilty plea in 2018, and was facing up to 12 more years in prison.

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Your Work Email Address is Your Work's Email Address

Troy Hunt

When the Ashley Madison data breach occurred in 2015, it made headline news around the world. Not just infosec headlines or tech headlines, but the headlines of major consumer media the likes my mum and dad would read. What was deemed especially newsworthy was the presence of email addresses in the breach which really shouldn't have been there; let me list off some headlines to illustrate the point: Ashley Madison Hack: 10,000 Gov’t Officials’ Email Addresses on Leaked Ashley

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Holes in Linux Kernel Could Pose Problems for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Other Distros

eSecurity Planet

A pair of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel disclosed this week expose major Linux operating systems that could let a hacker either gain root privileges on a compromised host or shut down the entire OS altogether. The two flaws – CVE-2021-33909 and CVE-2021-33910, respectively – were disclosed by vulnerability management vendor Qualys in a pair of blogs that outlined the threat to Linux OSes from such companies Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora.

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South African Port Operations Disrupted by Cyberattack

Data Breach Today

Transnet, Which Operates the Ports, Is Investigating Incident A massive cyberattack has disrupted container operations at a port in Cape Town, South Africa, and a port in Durban also was affected, Reuters reports.

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LPE flaw in Linux kernel allows attackers to get root privileges on most distros

Security Affairs

Experts discovered a Local Privilege Escalation, tracked as CVE-2021-33909, that could allow attackers to get root access on most Linux distros. Qualys researchers discovered a local privilege escalation (LPE) tracked as CVE-2021-33909, aka Sequoia, an unprivileged attacker can exploit the flaw to get root privileges on most Linux distros. The issue is a size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability that resides in the filesystem layer used to manage user data in all major distros released since 2

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Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

Schneier on Security

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis : The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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.

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Forrester names Collibra a leader among data governance solutions

Collibra

Collibra provides a data governance foundation that ensures trust and access of data for every use, every user, and across every source. We believe this is why Collibra was named a leader in The Forrester Wave : Data Governance Solutions. Q3 2021. Collibra received the highest score among all vendors in the policy management criterion, tied for the highest score in the stewardship management criterion, and the highest score possible in the data governance management criterion.

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Saudi Aramco Traces Data Leak to Attack on Supplier

Data Breach Today

Extortionists Demand $50 Million - Payable in Monero Cryptocurrency - From Oil Giant Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest oil and natural gas firms, has confirmed that company data was leaked after one of its suppliers was breached. Extortionists are reportedly demanding a $50 million ransom - payable in monero cryptocurrency - for a promise to delete the stolen data.

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Kaseya obtained a universal decryptor for REvil ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The software provider Kaseya announced to have obtained a universal decryptor for the REvil ransomware. Earlier this month, a massive supply chain attack conducted by the REvil ransomware gang hit the cloud-based managed service provider platform Kaseya, impacting both other MSPs using its VSA software and their customers. The VSA tool is used by MSPs to perform patch management and client monitoring for their customers.

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LastPass: Password Manager Review for 2021

eSecurity Planet

LastPass is password management software that’s been popular among business and personal users since it was initially released in 2008. When it was acquired by LogMeIn Inc. in 2015, it became part of a suite of cloud-based collaboration tools. Like other password managers, LastPass provides a secure vault for your login credentials, personal documents, and other sensitive information.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Business as Usual During a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Business as Usual During a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year. madhav. Tue, 07/20/2021 - 09:40. 2020 was a challenging year for the world. With the unprecedented need for workforces to work remotely, companies around the world were put to the ultimate test to keep the pace of business as usual, with limited disruption—many finding that balance difficult at best.

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Resiliency Is Key to Surviving a CDN Outage

Data Breach Today

Akamai Incident Highlights Risks of Relying on a Single Provider A short-lived outage at the content delivery network supplier Akamai on Thursday which briefly knocked offline many corporate websites, is another indicator that companies need resiliency built into their systems. That means they should avoid relying on just one CDN provider, security experts say.

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Threat actor claims to have stolen 1 TB of data belonging to Saudi Aramco

Security Affairs

A hacker claims to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant, Saudi Aramco. Threat actors that goes online with the moniker ZeroX claim to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant end it is offering for sale it on multiple hacking forums. The oil giant employs has over $200 billion in annual revenue, and the threat actors are offering the stolen data at an initial price of $5 million.

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Troy Hunt

This week, by popular demand, it's Charlotte! Oh - and Scott. People had been asking for Charlotte for a while, so we finally decided to do a weekly update together on how she's been transitioning from Mac to PC. Plus, she has to put up with all my IoT shenanigans so that made for some fun conversation, along with how our respective homelands are dealing with the current pandemic (less fun, but very important).

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

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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When Ransomware Comes to (Your) Town

Dark Reading

While steps for defending against a ransomware attack vary based on the size of the government entity and the resources available to each one, rooting out ransomware ultimately will come down to two things: system architecture and partnerships.

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Health Data Breach Trends: A Mid-Year Report

Data Breach Today

Ransomware Attacks, Vendor Incidents Continue to Dominate Ransomware attacks and breaches of vendors continue to account for the biggest health data breaches added to the official federal tally so far this year.

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CISA analyzed stealthy malware found on compromised Pulse Secure devices

Security Affairs

U.S. CISA released an alert today about several stealth malware samples that were found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a security alert related to the discovery of 13 malware samples on compromised Pulse Secure devices, many of which were undetected by antivirus products.