Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Incident response triage and software vulnerability discovery are two areas where the large language model has demonstrated success, although false positives are common.
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
When a company announces layoffs, one of the last things most employees or even company owners worry about is data loss. Related: The importance of preserving trust in 2023 Valuable or sensitive information on a computer is exposed to theft or to getting compromised. This can happen due to intentional theft, human error, malware, or even physical destruction of servers.
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KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Attackers are abusing a legitimate service called “GeoTargetly” to launch localized phishing attacks, according to Jeremy Fuchs at Avanan. GeoTargetly is meant to be used by advertisers to display ads in countries’ local languages. Avanan observed a phishing campaign that’s using phishing emails to target multiple countries in South America.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Interesting : According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider , an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data. This issue seems to have come to a head recently because Amazon staffers and other tech workers throughout the industry have begun using ChatGPT as a “ coding assistant ” of sorts to help them write or improve strings of code, the report
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eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
In 2013, Adam Markowitz founded Portfolium, an edtech startup that matched college students and graduates with employers. “I remember the first time we were asked for a SOC 2 report, which quickly became the minimum bar requirement in our industry for proof of an effective security program,” he said. The process for creating the report was time-consuming, manual and costly.
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Microsoft is sending the world a whole bunch of love today, in the form of patches to plug dozens of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. This year’s special Valentine’s Day Patch Tuesday includes fixes for a whopping three different “zero-day” vulnerabilities that are already being used in active attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of data security—from Equifax to Yahoo—and the problem with Social Security numbers.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone is trying to communicate information to another person, but falsely assumes that the other person has the same level of knowledge or understanding of the topic. This can lead to the communicator overestimating the other person's understanding of the subject, and thus not providing enough detail or explanation.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
UK Toughens Anti-Cybercrime Stance by Sanctioning Accused Operators for First Time As ransomware continues to disrupt British organizations, the U.K. for the first time has sanctioned alleged cybercriminals, including accused Conti and TrickBot operators. Ransomware victims must conduct due diligence before paying any ransom, as violating sanctions carries severe penalties.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Established network security players like Check Point are responding to the shift to cloud-native applications, which have exposed more vulnerabilities in open source software supply chains.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Microsoft’s February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 75 vulnerabilities, nine of them rated critical, and three (all rated important) that are being exploited. “This is only the second Patch Tuesday of the year, and we have already tripled the number of weaponized threats that need to be fixed in this release,” Syxsense CEO and founder Ashley Leonard told eSecurity Planet. “We also have five patches that resolve vulnerabilities with a CVSS score of more than 9 (critical), which
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Cybersecurity is not just a technological challenge, but increasingly a social and behavioral one.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 11, 2023
Group Says It Has Confidential Data, Tech Docs; A10 Says Operations Not Impacted The Play ransomware group listed networking hardware manufacturer A10 Networks in its leak site, after briefly gaining access to its IT infrastructure, according to data breach notifications firm BetterCyber. The group says it has confidential data, technical documentation and more.
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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?
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
A growing group of OWASP members and board leaders are calling for the AppSec group to make big changes to stay apace with modern development.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
On February 14, 2023, in a Draft Motion for a Resolution on the adequacy of the protection afforded by the proposed EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”), the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (the “Committee”) urged the European Commission not to adopt adequacy based on the Framework, on the basis that it “fails to create actual equivalence” with the EU in the level of data protection that it provides.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Vulnerability Potentially Caused Deaths and Thousands of Thefts in the US Hyundai and Kia are rolling out a software update aimed at stopping an outbreak of car thefts caused by a trend on social media app TikTok. The "Kia Challenge" went viral in mid-2022 after users discovered how to steal certain cars using a screwdriver and a male USB Type A connector.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
78 new CVEs patched in this month's batch — nearly half of which are remotely executable and three of which attackers already are exploiting.
Jamf
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Jamf Threat Labs investigated a WebKit vulnerability that was exploited in the wild. Attackers can exploit CVE-2022-42856 to control code execution within WebKit, giving them the ability to read/write files. This blog explores what the vulnerability looked like in the code and the patches Apple applied.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
You should use phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) when you can to protect valuable data and systems. But most biometrics and MFA are not as strong as touted and much of it can easily be hacked and bypassed. It doesn’t necessarily mean you shouldn’t use it, just pick strong, more trustworthy implementations and don’t ever think they can’t be hacked.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Group Targeted American Victims and Pocketed Over 5 Million Euros Police busted nine members of a cyber fraud gang that targeted mainly Americans. Spanish police arrested eight members, and U.S. authorities arrested one. In less than a year, the ring pocketed 5 million euros in scammed funds, say the Spanish National Police.
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OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
No matter your industry or business function, whether you’re dealing with highly complex and regulated processes like clinical trials; simply need to automate manual data entry into everyday tools; or want a fast track to the cloud, seamlessly connecting content to process is essential to meet the demands of modern work. With Cloud Edition (CE) … The post Master modern work with intelligent, connected, secure and responsible experiences appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
How newly exposed security weaknesses in industrial wireless, cloud-based interfaces, and nested PLCs serve as a wake-up call for hardening the physical process control layer of the OT network.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The Russian-based hacking group Seaborgium is at it again with increased spear phishing attacks targeting US and European countries in the last year.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The Campaign Installed Malware on Internal Systems and Obtained Source Code Internet domain registrar GoDaddy says it is the victim of a yearslong hacking campaign that installed malware on internal systems and obtained source code. The hackers' "apparent goal is to infect websites and servers with malware for phishing campaigns, malware distribution," the company says.
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IT Governance
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Confidentiality, integrity and availability. These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management. It’s also referenced in the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , with Article 32 stating that organisations must “implement appropriate technical and
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
The primary victims so far have been employees of telcos in the Middle East, who were hit with custom backdoors via the cloud, in a likely precursor to a broader attack.
KnowBe4
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
A survey by Tanium has found that IT security professionals in the UK say that 64% of avoidable cyber attacks are due to human error, which usually involves falling for phishing attacks. More than half of the respondents said that loss of productivity would be their main concern following a cyber attack.
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