Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Cybercrime Gang Wields Phishing Emails and Proficiency for VMware Environments Beware ransomware and data extortion shakedowns that trace to a cybercrime gang called Daixin Team, which is especially targeting the healthcare sector, as well as wielding phishing emails and a proficiency with VMware server environments, warns a new U.S. government cybersecurity advisory.
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance. As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to.
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Dark Reading
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Burnout has led one-third of cybersecurity staffers to consider changing jobs over the next two years, potentially further deepening the talent shortage, research shows.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Imagine if the world went dark and there were no internet. Even for a day. For a week. Consider the massive fallout for organizations everywhere. Digitalization has morphed from a useful function to a bedrock of society. It is at the center of all future growth. But as our technology advances beyond human limits, carrying … The post The Anticipant Organization appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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KnowBe4
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Britain's data watchdog has fined major construction group Interserve with a £4.4m fine. This was due to a cyber attack stole personal and financial details for over 113,000 employees and the company failed to stop the attack.
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AIIM
OCTOBER 24, 2022
The Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM), the world’s leading association dedicated to the information management industry and its practice, announced today that it has appointed Tori Miller Liu as its next Chief Executive Officer, effective December 1, 2022. She replaces Peggy Winton who, earlier this year, announced her decision to step down after serving in this position for seven years.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 26, 2022
More People Affected by Breaches Than Total US Population The federal tally of health data breaches reached a new milestone this week: Since its inception in September 2009, more than 5,000 major incidents have been posted to the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA breach "wall of shame.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 28, 2022
What's next for the social network is anyone's guess—but here's what to watch as you wade through the privacy and security morass.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Google Thursday released an emergency patch for Chrome 107 to address the actively exploited zero-day vulnerability CVE-2022-3723. Google released an emergency update for the Chrome 107 to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-3723. The CVE-2022-3723 flaw is a type confusion issue that resides in the Chrome V8 Javascript engine.
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The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Humans are rather easily duped. And this is the fundamental reason phishing persists as a predominant cybercriminal activity. Related: How MSSPs help secure business networks. Tricking someone into clicking to a faked landing page and typing in their personal information has become an ingrained pitfall of digital commerce. The deleterious impact on large enterprises and small businesses alike has been – and continues to be — profound.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Poland Senate Alleges Russian Connection to DDoS Attack Parliament IT systems in two East European capitals were disrupted Thursday. The Poland Senate said a distributed denial-of-service attack partially originated from inside Russia. In Slovakia, a Parliament speaker postponed voting after telling lawmakers that vote-counting systems were not working.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 25, 2022
AlphaBay was the largest online drug bazaar in history, run by a technological mastermind who seemed untouchable—until his tech was turned against him.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Apple released updates to backport the recently released security patches for CVE-2022-42827 zero-day to older iPhones and iPads. Apple has released new security updates to backport security patches released this week to address actively exploited CVE-2022-42827 in older iPhones and iPads, addressing an actively exploited zero-day bug. Early this week, Apple addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year.
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KnowBe4
OCTOBER 26, 2022
KnowBe4's latest quarterly report on top-clicked phishing email subjects is here. We analyze 'in the wild' attacks reported via our Phish Alert Button , top subjects globally clicked on in phishing tests , and top attack vector types.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 28, 2022
Medical Records and Credit Card Details of Patients Compromised One of Australia's largest private testing laboratories announced a data breach affecting 223,000 Australians. Ransomware-as-a-service group Quantum took credit for the incident, posting an 86-gigabyte file in June. "There is no evidence of misuse of any of the information," says Medlab Pathology.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Your anti-malware software may not work if you upgraded to the new operating system. But Apple says a fix is on the way.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The OpenSSL Project announced an upcoming update to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. The OpenSSL Project announced that it is going to release updates to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. Experts pointed out that it is the first critical vulnerability patched in toolkit since September 2016. “The OpenSSL project team would like to announce the forthcoming release of OpenSSL version 3.0.7.
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eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 28, 2022
GitHub proofs of concept (PoCs) for known vulnerabilities could themselves contain malware as often as 10% of the time, security researchers have found. Researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science have alerted security professionals about risks associated with GitHub and other platforms like pastebin that host public PoCs of exploits for known vulnerabilities.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Interserve Ran Obsolete Servers and Didn't Verify Malware Deletion The U.K. Information Commissioner levied a nearly $5 million fine against Interserve Group Limited for its lack of security protections in the run-up to a 2020 ransomware attack. The firm kept employee data on servers running obsolete versions of Windows and used outdated antivirus software.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 23, 2022
A former congressman who helped the House select committee investigate the Capitol attack says the US is losing sight of the big picture.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 27, 2022
The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online. Original post at [link]. Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Attackers could use the details for a supply-chain attack.
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OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Information is at the core of being human, the universe and evolution itself. Information creation is accelerating, and its use is transformative in nature. Machines generate more information than humans today. Machines share their knowledge instantly and understand the nuances of language. One day, machines will directly enhance the human mind, and allow each human … The post The Future of Human Intelligence: A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 28, 2022
About 4M Australians Affected by Extortion Demand Made Against the Health Insurer Fallout from the hack of Australian health insurer Medibank continues to worsen as the company twice this week acknowledged a wider set of affected individuals. Hackers had access to the personal data of 4 million individuals and significant amounts of health claims data.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The suspected Chinese influence operation had limited success. But it signals a growing threat from a new disinformation adversary.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 24, 2022
The Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns of Cuba Ransomware attacks against critical networks in the country. The Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) warns of potential Cuba Ransomware attacks against local critical infrastructure. On October 21, 2022, the Ukraine CERT-UA uncovered a phishing campaign impersonating the Press Service of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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eSecurity Planet
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The OpenSSL project this week announced plans to release version 3.0.7 on November 1 to patch a critical security flaw affecting versions 3.0 and later. Co-founder Mark J. Cox noted it’s only the second critical patch “since we started rating flaws back in 2014.” OpenSSL identifies critical issues as those affecting common configurations and likely to be exploitable, with examples including “significant disclosure of the contents of server memory (potentially revealing us
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Immediate Updating Recommended as Any App in iOS and iPad Exploitable Apple has issued a slew of security updates amidst reports that its iOS devices are being actively exploited via a zero-day vulnerability in the kernel. While Apple hasn't attributed the exploits to any specific group, experts say surveillance malware developers are a likely culprit.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 24, 2022
For months, an anonymous caller has terrorized communities around the US by reporting false shooting threats. We know how they did it. The question is, why?
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