The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 24, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is woven into the fabric of today’s business world. However, business model integration of AI is in its infancy and smaller companies often lack the resources to leverage AI. Related: Deploying human security sensors. Even so, AI is useful across a wide spectrum of industries. There already are many human work models augmented by AI.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 24, 2022
Recent "BadUSB" attacks serve as a reminder of the big damage that small devices can cause.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 24, 2022
Experts warn Emotet malware campaign using “unconventional” IP address formats in an attempt to evade detection. Threat actors behind a recent Emotet malware campaign have been observed using using “unconventional” IP address formats to evade detection. Trend Micro researchers reported that threat actors are using hexadecimal and octal representations of the IP address. “We observed Emotet spam campaigns using hexadecimal and octal representations of IP addresses, l
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 28, 2022
In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “ BlackCat “), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain written in the Rust programming language. In this post, we’ll explore some of the clues left behind by a developer who was reputedly hired to code the ransomware variant.
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The Last Watchdog
JANUARY 27, 2022
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity hit record highs in 2021, and isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. Related: Stolen data used to target mobile services. Many attribute this steady growth to the increase in work-from-home models and adoption of cloud services since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such consolidation across markets is good news for customers and vendors alike in terms of market growth and maximizing security investments.
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Troy Hunt
JANUARY 23, 2022
I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud" I built Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I never could have achieved before. I wrote many blog posts about doing big things for small dollars and did talks all over the world about the great success I'd had with these approaches.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 25, 2022
What’s worse than finding out that identity thieves took out a 546 percent interest payday loan in your name? How about a 900 percent interest loan? Or how about not learning of the fraudulent loan until it gets handed off to collection agents? One reader’s nightmare experience spotlights what can happen when ID thieves and hackers start targeting online payday lenders.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 26, 2022
An easily exploited flaw in a program found in every major Linux distribution is the latest serious security issue that has arisen in the open-source space in recent weeks. Researchers at cybersecurity vendor Qualys this week disclosed the memory corruption vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, which if exploited by a bad actor can enable an unprivileged user to gain full root privileges on a system, giving the unprivileged user administrative rights.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2022
OpenSubtitles has suffered a data breach, the maintainers confirmed that the incident impacted 7 Million subscribers. OpenSubtitles is a popular subtitles websites, it suffered a data breach that affected 6,783,158 subscribers. Exposed data include email and IP addresses, usernames, the country of the user and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.
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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?
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 28, 2022
A German activist is trying to track down a secret government intelligence agency. One of her research techniques is to mail Apple AirTags to see where they actually end up: Wittmann says that everyone she spoke to denied being part of this intelligence agency. But what she describes as a “good indicator,” would be if she could prove that the postal address for this “federal authority” actually leads to the intelligence service’s apparent offices. “To understa
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 28, 2022
On January 21, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission published two new resources for complying with the Health Breach Notification Rule (the “Rule”). In September 2021, the FTC issued a Policy Statement clarifying that the Rule applies to makers of health apps, connected devices and similar products. As we previously blogged , the Rule requires vendors of personal health records (“PHR”), PHR-related entities and service providers to these entities, to notify consumers and the FTC (and, in some case
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 28, 2022
Microsoft in November fended off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in its Azure cloud that officials said was the largest ever recorded, the latest in a wave of record attacks that washed over the IT industry in the second half of 2021. The enterprise software and cloud giant said in a blog post this week that during the last six months of the year, there was a 40 percent increase in the number of DDoS attacks worldwide over the first half of 2021, with an average of 1,955 at
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 27, 2022
“The cure to information overload is more information.” Enrich your information and content with metadata from an OpenText taxonomy. What is taxonomy? A taxonomy is a set of concepts organized into a hierarchical structure covering a topical domain. You could think of it as a structured vocabulary. For example, in biology, a commonly used taxonomy … The post The wielding force of a taxonomy appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 24, 2022
Crowdstrike is reporting that malware targeting Linux has increased considerably in 2021: Malware targeting Linux systems increased by 35% in 2021 compared to 2020. XorDDoS, Mirai and Mozi malware families accounted for over 22% of Linux-targeted threats observed by CrowdStrike in 2021. Ten times more Mozi malware samples were observed in 2021 compared to 2020.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 24, 2022
On January 7, 2022, U.S. Representatives Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, wrote to all of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) Safe Harbor programs to request information about each program to ensure “participants in the program are fulfilling their legal obligations to provide ‘substantially the same or greater protections for children’ as those detailed in the COPPA Rule” and “to solicit feedback” regard
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 27, 2022
It seems like a week doesn’t go by without a new vulnerability demonstrating the fragility of the software interdependencies that make up the software supply chain. A large part of software development leverages the benefits of open-source platforms and third-party vendors to deliver results on time. A wide range of people and organizations maintain those code bases.
IT Governance
JANUARY 24, 2022
Data privacy is a concept that governs our everyday lives. We’re asked to hand over our personal data for seemingly everything that we do – from browsing the web to high-street shopping. Although many of us are broadly aware of the risks involved when sharing our personal data, it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It’s why, for the past fifteen years, 28 January has marked Data Privacy Day – an international event raises awareness about online privacy and educates people on the ways t
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
JANUARY 27, 2022
Puerto Rico’s Senate announced that is was it by a cyberattack that shut down its internet provider, phone system and official online page. The Senate of Puerto Rico announced this week that it was hit by a major cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page. Local and federal authorities are investigating the attack.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 26, 2022
On November 14, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released for public comment its draft Regulations on Network Data Security Management (the “Draft Regulations”). The Draft Regulations are intended to implement portions of three existing laws – the Cybersecurity Law (“CSL”), the Data Security Law (“DSL”) and the Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) (together, the “Three Laws”) – by providing guidance on certain provisions and establishing specific requirements for impl
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 27, 2022
A lot has changed in the two years since we last examined the identity and access management (IAM) market. Some vendors have disappeared. New ones have emerged. The once-great security giant Symantec is now a division of Broadcom. Idaptive, too, is gone, acquired by Cyberark. The big trends, though, remain the incorporation of behavior analytics and zero trust.
IT Governance
JANUARY 26, 2022
Since the early days of the pandemic, experts warned that cyber criminals would thrive on new vulnerabilities and unfamiliar working conditions. However, few would have expected just how severe the threat would be. A Software Advice report has found that 62% of UK-based SMEs experienced an increase in cyber threats in the last two years. Cyber attackers were most likely to target organisations with phishing emails, with 57% of incidents involving scam messages.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 22, 2022
The Dutch National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) warns organizations of risks associated with cyberattacks exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. The Dutch National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) warns organizations to remain vigilant on possible attacks exploiting the Log4J vulnerability. According to the Dutch agency, threat actors the NCSC will continue to attempt to exploit the Log4Shell flaw in future attacks. “Partly due to the rapid actions of many organizations, the extent of active abuse
Data Matters
JANUARY 27, 2022
It seems there will be a packed agenda for EU and UK data protection this coming year. We set out below the 5 hot topics to watch in 2022 including expected legislative reforms, the most interesting cases to follow, and areas which are expected to continue to receive regulatory attention. Increased Enforcement Action: Last year marked a year of record breaking GDPR fines – including the largest fine to date of €746 million ($888 million).
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 28, 2022
Video conferencing vendor Zoom has seen its fortunes soar amid the remote work boom of the last two years, and other cloud collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex have seen demand skyrocket too. The sharp increase in demand put a focus on security shortcomings in Zoom’s architecture – “Zoombombing” became a thing – that the company was quick to address.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 28, 2022
Apple's updates this week included fixes for two zero-day flaws, several code execution bugs, and vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to bypass its core security protections.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2022
The FBI warns that cybercriminals are using malicious QR codes to steal their credentials and financial info. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a public service announcement (PSA) to warn that cybercriminals are using QR codes to steal their credentials and financial info. QR codes are widely adopted by businesses to facilitate payment.
Threatpost
JANUARY 28, 2022
The group once again dangled fake job opportunities at engineers in a spear-phishing campaign that used Windows Update as a living-off-the-land technique and GitHub as a C2.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 26, 2022
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide secure access to business files for remote workers , making them a crucial part of an enterprise’s technology stack. But they need the right protocols to run properly. A VPN protocol creates the tunnels that your traffic travels through when you use a VPN to keep your communications private. WireGuard and OpenVPN are two popular open-source VPN protocols that businesses and users can choose from when they sign up for a VPN service.
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