Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Former NSA Director and Others Stress Collaboration Among the top issues being discussed at the RSA 2020 conference this week is the need for more cybersecurity collaboration between government agencies and the private sector. Here are some interview highlights.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Good security programs start with a mindset that it's not about the tools, it's what you do with them. Here's how to get out of a reactive fire-drill mode with vulnerability management.
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IT Governance
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Technological defences and staff training are two of the most frequently touted measures for preventing data breaches, but their effectiveness is dependent on the way organisations implement them. That means creating a detailed cyber security policy. What is a cyber security policy? A cyber security policy outlines an organisation’s cyber security defence strategy.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
The infamous Joker malware has found a way to bypass the security checks to be published in the official Play Store, new clicker was found by experts. The fight to the Joker malware (aka Bread) begun in September 2019 when security experts at Google removed from the official Play Store 24 apps because they were infected with a new spyware tracked as “ the Joker. ”.
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WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility’s defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Data includes Names, Addresses, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers An Israeli marketing company left the authentication credentials for a database online, exposing more than 140 GB worth of names, email addresses and phone numbers. The exposure was found by a U.S.-based security specialist who became frustrated after receiving unwanted marketing messages over SMS.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
Google announced to have removed nearly 600 Android apps in the official Play Store that were violating two ad-related policies. Google removed from the official Play Store nearly 600 Android apps that were violating two ad-related policies, it also banned the same apps from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. “As part of our ongoing efforts — along with help from newly developed technologies — today we’re announcing nearly 600 apps have been removed from the Google Play Store and banned f
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Affected devices include iPhones, iPads, Macs, Amazon Echos and Kindles, Android devices, and various Wi-Fi routers.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
On Monday, networking hardware maker Zyxel released security updates to plug a critical security hole in its network attached storage (NAS) devices that is being actively exploited by crooks who specialize in deploying ransomware. Today, Zyxel acknowledged the same flaw is present in many of its firewall products. This week’s story on the Zyxel patch was prompted by the discovery that exploit code for attacking the flaw was being sold in the cybercrime underground for $20,000.
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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
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Cybersecurity Agency Ranks Election Security and Ransomware as Biggest Threats The 2016 U.S. presidential election served as a wake-up call for lawmakers and the public about the threat that cyber attackers can pose to the country's democracy, CISA Director Christopher Krebs told the 2020 RSA Conference. Election security and ransomware remain his agency's two biggest concerns.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Let me share with you the result of a one-night long analysis of major black marketplaces searching for anything related to the coronavirus epidemic. Recently I have received many questions from journalists and colleagues about the activity in the dark web related to the coronavirus epidemic, here you are what I have found digging in the major black marketplaces.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Gmail users get 300 billion attachments each week. To separate legitimate documents from harmful ones, Google turned to AI—and it’s working.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Patch comes amid active exploitation by ransomware gangs. Networking hardware vendor Zyxel today released an update to fix a critical flaw in many of its network attached storage (NAS) devices that can be used to remotely commandeer them. The patch comes 12 days after KrebsOnSecurity alerted the company that precise instructions for exploiting the vulnerability were being sold for $20,000 in the cybercrime underground.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Chertoff Wants to Boost Huawei's Competitors; Huawei's Purdy Calls for More Transparency In interviews at RSA 2020, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Andy Purdy, CSO for Huawei USA, offer different points of view on 5G security.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
ISS , the multinational Denmark-based facility services company, was hit with a malware that shuts down shared IT services worldwide. ISS , the Danish multinational services company announced it was hit with malware, in response to the incident the firm disabled access to shared IT services worldwide. ISS services include cleaning services, support services, property services, catering services, security services and facility management services.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Lazarus Group hackers have long plagued the internet—using at least one tool they picked up just by looking around online.
Weissman's World
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
If I heard it once, I heard it a dozen times since announcing my move to Valora Technologies the other week: “So, you’re going to work for a software company!” To which my response has been, “Kind of, but not really.” Now, it’s true that Valora has developed some (pretty amazing) software, but from where […]. The post Why I Didn’t Join a Software Company appeared first on Holly Group.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
McAfee and Microsoft Analysts Review 'Ransomware as a Service' Trends Targeted ransomware attacks against enterprises and government agencies are likely to surge in the coming months as "ransomware as a service" continues to evolve into a lucrative model for cybercriminals, security experts interviewed at RSA 2020 warn.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Ghostcat flaw affects all versions of Apache Tomcat and could be exploited by hackers to read configuration files or install backdoors on vulnerable servers. All versions of Apache Tomcat are affected by a vulnerability dubbed Ghostcat that could be exploited by attackers to read configuration files or install backdoors on vulnerable servers. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1938 , affects the Tomcat AJP protocol and was discovered by the Chinese cybersecurity firm Chaitin Tech.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 22, 2020
An MGM Resorts breach, natural gas ransomware, and more of the week's top security news.
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Along with Richard Stiennon , I belong to a small circle of journalists and tech industry analysts who’ve been paying close attention to cybersecurity since Bill Gates curtailed commercial work on Windows to rivet Microsoft’s attention on defending its software code. Related: The role of PKI is securing digital transformation That was in 2002. Back then, email spam was a nuisance evolving into a potent attack vector, and the top malware innovators were script kiddies seeking bragging rights.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
CISOs Need to Share Their Success Stories While the cybersecurity industry has increasingly focused on the roles artificial intelligence and machine learning can play in thwarting attacks, the humans behind the algorithms remain both points of strength and weakness, says RSA President Rohit Ghai, who keynoted the RSA 2020 conference on Tuesday.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that was employed targeted attacks against organizations in Southeast Asia. Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets. . The malware was employed in targeted attacks against organizations in Southeast Asia. “Cisco Talos has recently discovered a new campaign distributing a malicious re
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Dangerzone takes potentially malicious files and safely sanitizes them for you.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Google presented its system of using deep-learning techniques to identify malicious email attachments: At the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google's security and anti-abuse research lead Elie Bursztein will present findings on how the new deep-learning scanner for documents is faring against the 300 billion attachments it has to process each week.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
McAfee's John Fokker Charts the Increasingly Advanced Cybercrime Service Economy Ransomware-wielding attackers - aided by a service economy that gives them access to more advanced attack tools - are increasingly targeting organizations rather than individuals to shake them down for bigger ransom payoffs, says McAfee's John Fokker.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Google revealed that the enhancements to its scanning system implemented in Gmail are boosting its detection capabilities. Google announced that the new scanning capabilities implemented in Gmail have increased the detection rate of malicious documents. The IT giant proudly announced that combining its existing machine learning models with other protections it was able to detect and block more than 99.9% of threats that attempt to target Gmail users.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
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