Threatpost

JUNE 15, 2021

SolarMarker makers are using SEO poisoning, stuffing thousands of PDFs with tens of thousands of pages full of SEO keywords & links to redirect to the malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

How AI is Transforming Data Governance? Consumers are becoming more aware of their rights, making data governance more relevant across organizations. Data governance is a set of standards, metrics, and processes that allow organizations to responsibly use consumer data.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

TorrentFreak surveyed nineteen VPN providers, asking them questions about their privacy practices: what data they keep, how they respond to court order, what country they are incorporated in, and so on. Most interesting to me is the home countries of these companies. Express VPN is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. NordVPN is incorporated in Panama.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 16, 2021

U.S Wants 16 Critical Infrastructure Entities Off-Limits to Attack At their Geneva summit meeting Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that if Russia continued to wage cyberattacks against the U.S., it would face retaliation.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 16, 2021

Authorities in Ukraine this week charged six people alleged to be part of the CLOP ransomware group , a cybercriminal gang said to have extorted more than half a billion dollars from victims. Some of CLOP’s victims this year alone include Stanford University Medical School , the University of California , and University of Maryland. A still shot from a video showing Ukrainian police seizing a Tesla, one of many high-end vehicles seized in this week’s raids on the Clop gang.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 18, 2021

There’s a never ending cycle between the measures cybersecurity providers introduce to prevent or remediate cyber threats and the tactics cyber criminals use to get around these security measures. As soon as a security company develops a way to mitigate the latest threat, attackers develop a new threat to take its place. Artificial intelligence has emerged as a critical tool cybersecurity companies leverage to stay ahead of the curve.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 14, 2021

Service Employees International Union 775 Benefits Group: PII and PHI Deleted A Seattle-based benefits administrator for unionized home healthcare and nursing home workers has reported a hacking incident affecting 140,000 individuals that involved deleting certain data.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how did a self-employed web site designer and mother of two come to work for one of the world’s most rapacious cybercriminal groups and then leave such an obvious trail of clues indicating her

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AIIM

JUNE 15, 2021

In last week's article, we talked about the changing role of M365 within organizations, how it is governed, and how it connects with other content management solutions. Given its rapid evolution and adoption – particularly with the maturation of Office 365 and Cloud versions of SharePoint, we probably should have made a few points about brand terminology.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2021

This strange malware stops you from visiting pirate websites. Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from being able to visit a large number of piracy websites. . Sophos researchers uncovered a malware campaign that aims at blocking infected users’ from visiting a large number of websites dedicated to software piracy by modifying the HOSTS file on the infected system.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 16, 2021

Database Contains Website Visitor Activity Logs, But Not Personal Information The discovery of an unsecured database containing over 1 billion records related to CVS Health website visitor activity illustrates yet again how security missteps can potentially leave sensitive data exposed, some security experts say.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. [ NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. This week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled its investigation into the matter after the Fortune 500 company agreed to pay a paltry penalty of less than $500,000.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 14, 2021

Today I'm very happy to welcome the Finnish government to Have I Been Pwned by granting their National Cyber Security Centre full and free access to query their government domains. API access to query their domains will give them greater visibility into the impact of data breaches on the Finnish government. Finland is now the 5th Nordic country and 21st national CERT to be onboarded with many more from around the globe to be announced shortly.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Researchers discovered an unprotected database belonging to CVS Health that was exposed online containing over a billion records. This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. The database was accessible to everyone without any type of authentication. “On March 21st, 2021 the WebsitePlanet research team in cooperation with Security Researcher

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 17, 2021

16 Critical Infrastructure Sectors Especially Off Limits - Or Else, President Warns U.S. President Joe Biden issued a clear warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin at their Geneva summit this week, saying that should Russia continue to launch cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, or hack software supply chains, then Moscow should expect to see retaliation.

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JUNE 15, 2021

Swedish retailer found guilty of gathering data to sift out potential trouble-makers among employees The home furnishings group Ikea has been ordered to pay €1.1m (£861,000) in fines and damages by a French court after being found guilty of spying on staff. Two former Ikea France executives were also convicted and fined over an elaborate scheme to gather information on hundreds of employees, job applicants and even customers over several years, using private detectives and police sources.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 17, 2021

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data standard that was widely used in the early 2000s. The first encryption algorithm for that standard was GEA-1, a stream cipher built on three linear-feedback shift registers and a non-linear combining function. Although the algorithm has a 64-bit key, the effective key length is only 40 bits, due to “an exceptional interaction of the deployed LFSRs and the key initialization, which is highly unlikely to occur by chance.” GEA-1 was d

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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 12, 2021

An authentication bypass flaw in the polkit auth system service used on most Linux distros can allow to get a root shell. An authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service, tracked as CVE-2021-3560 , which is used on most Linux distros can allow an unprivileged attacker to get a root shell. “A flaw was found in polkit. When a requesting process disconnects from dbus-daemon just before the call to polkit_system_bus_name_get_creds_sync starts, the process cannot get a

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 18, 2021

Guidance Spells Out Best Risk Mitigation Practices The U.S. National Security Agency has released new guidance to help federal agencies as well as business enterprises protect their unified communications channels and voice/video over IP calls from cyberthreats.

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IT Governance

JUNE 14, 2021

As organisations start to consider life after COVID-19, they’ll realise that it’s not as simple as putting everything back the way it was in the Before Times. That ship has sailed. There have simply been too many benefits to remote working for organisations to demand a return to office life on a full-time basis. Indeed, a Gartner survey found that 47% of organisations will give employees the choice of working remotely full-time once the pandemic is over, and 82% said employees can work from home

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Employee cybersecurity training has come a long way in the last few years. Back in the day, security training was largely reserved for IT security specialists and then extended to include IT personnel in general. These days, all employees need to be well educated in security best practices and good habits if the organization wishes to steer clear of ransomware and malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2021

Iran-linked Ferocious Kitten APT group used instant messaging apps and VPN software like Telegram and Psiphon to deliver Windows RAT and spy on targets’ devices. Researchers from Kaspersky reported that Iran-linked threat actors, tracked as Ferocious Kitten, used instant messaging apps and VPN software like Telegram and Psiphon to deliver Windows RAT and spy on targets.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2021

Joint Effort with US to Maintain a Black List of Hackers Among Plan proposals The U.K. says it plans to turn the country into a global leader in cybersecurity, in partnership with the U.S, to counter threats ranging from ransomware to critical infrastructure attacks, according to a report by U.K. newspaper the Telegraph.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 16, 2021

Growing list of similar actions in recent months may finally be scaring some operators into quitting, but threat is far from over, security experts say.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

No matter the breakthrough, no matter the latest fad or trend, the database remains a foundational component to IT ecosystems. Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. Though the global Database Management System (DBMS) market knows heavy hitters like Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM, several security vendors and open source databases offer vital database security

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2021

Poland ‘s government announced that it was targeted by an ‘Unprecedented’ series of cyber attacks, hackers hit against institutions and individuals. Poland’s parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyber attacks that hit its institutions and individuals. Mateusz Morawiecki had to provide details about the attacks presenting secret documents related to attacks, as anticipated by government spokesman Piotr Muller. “Lately we’ve b

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 16, 2021

PDF Documents Stuffed With SEO Keywords Lead to Malware Attacks SolarMarker malware operators are using "SEO poisoning" techniques to deploy the remote access Trojan to steal sensitive information, Microsoft reports.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 18, 2021

The more you know, the more you grow. The Edge takes a fresh look at leading security certifications that can help advance your career.

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