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Panel | The Four Steps to Build a Modern Data Protection Platform

Data Breach Today

With data distributed across multiple clouds serving an increasingly remote workforce, can existing data protection programs truly be successful? Most data protection solutions have been built on a foundation of legacy technologies and operations that only drive up complexity and costs. A best-in-class data protection program should be easy to operate, reduce costs, and ultimately drive down data loss risk.

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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations.

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GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap for wisely tightening cybersecurity in the modern workplace

The Last Watchdog

Hackers can hurt your business or organization in many ways. First and foremost, cyberattacks can lead to data breaches in which sensitive information is stolen. If a cyber-criminal uses you as a way to get at your customers, suppliers, or employees, these vital business relationships can turn sour. Related: Tapping hidden pools of security talent Sometimes hackers can encrypt your systems, holding them hostage and asking you to pay money to regain access to them.

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The Mysteries Behind ColdIntro and ColdInvite: TL;DR edition

Jamf

Learn about the discovery of a novel threat vector on iPhone that allows attackers to circumvent security mitigations by exploiting under-protected co-processors, leveraging access to further compromise the iOS kernel.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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5 Questions to Ask When Evaluating a New Cybersecurity Technology

Dark Reading

Any new cybersecurity technology should be not just a neutral addition to a security stack but a benefit to the other technologies or people managing them.

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Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

Krebs on Security

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta , which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains. The volume of phishing websites registered through Freenom dropped considerably since the registrar was sued by Meta.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on NIST 207A — guidance for adding ZTNA to cloud-native platforms

The Last Watchdog

Zero trust networking architecture (ZTNA) is a way of solving security challenges in a cloud-first world. Related: The CMMC sea change NIST SP 800-207A (SP 207A), the next installment of Zero Trust guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been released for public review. This special publication was written for security architects and infrastructure designers; it provides useful guidance when designing ZTNA for cloud-native application platforms, especially th

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Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

WIRED Threat Level

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.

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Android Fingerprint Biometrics Fall to 'BrutePrint' Attack

Data Breach Today

Dictionary Attack Plus Neural Network Fools Security Checks, Researchers Find Security researchers have demonstrated a practical attack that can be used to defeat biometric fingerprint checks and log into a target's Android - but not Apple - smartphone. Dubbed "BrutePrint," the brute force attack is inexpensive and practical to deploy at a large scale.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Russia's War in Ukraine Shows Cyberattacks Can Be War Crimes

Dark Reading

Ukraine's head of cybersecurity Victor Zhora says the world needs "efficient legal instruments to confront cyber terrorism.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Uptycs emulates Google, Akamai to protect cloud-native apps and endpoints

The Last Watchdog

The inadequacy of siloed security solutions is well-documented. Related: Taking a security-first path The good news is that next-gen security platforms designed to unify on-prem and cloud threat detection and remediation are, indeed, coalescing. At RSA Conference 2023 I visited with Elias Terman , CMO, and Sudarsan Kannan , Director of Product Management, from Uptycs , a Walthan, Mass.

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The Underground History of Turla, Russia's Most Ingenious Hacker Group

WIRED Threat Level

From USB worms to satellite-based hacking, Russia’s FSB hackers, known as Turla, have spent 25 years distinguishing themselves as “adversary number one.

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Capita Issued Erroneous Breach Details, Officials Report

Data Breach Today

Local Authority Finds Sensitive Data Was Exposed Despite Assurances to the Contrary Breach notifications from British outsourcing giant Capita mount amid signs the multibillion-pound company doesn't have a firm grip on how much data it exposed. For a company that trumpets its ability to "achieve better outcomes," Capita's inability to grasp the impact of its breaches is ironic.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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?

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Threat Actors Compromise Barracuda Email Security Appliances

Dark Reading

The company's ESG appliances were breached, but their other services remain unaffected by the compromise.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Counteracting Putin’s weaponizing of ransomware — with containment

The Last Watchdog

The ransomware plague endures — and has arisen as a potent weapon in geopolitical conflicts. Related: The Golden Age of cyber espionage Cyber extortion remains a material threat to organizations of all sizes across all industries. Ransomware purveyors have demonstrated their capability to endlessly take advantage of a vastly expanded network attack surface – one that will only continue to expand as the shift to massively interconnected digital services accelerates.

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Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto

WIRED Threat Level

And it's happening in plain sight.

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Open-Source Infostealer RAT Hidden in Malicious NPM Packages

Data Breach Today

TurkoRat Capable of Credential Harvesting, Possesses Features Like Wallet Grabber Researchers have identified two legitimate-looking malicious npm packages that concealed an open-source infostealer for two months before being detected and removed. Developers downloaded the TurkoRat malware about 1,200 times from open-source repositories.

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Cyber Warfare Lessons From the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Dark Reading

Techniques used in cyber warfare can be sold to anyone — irrespective of borders, authorities, or affiliations. We need to develop strategies to respond at scale.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: The need to stop mobile apps from exposing API keys, user credentials in runtime

The Last Watchdog

As digital transformation accelerates, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become integral to software development – especially when it comes to adding cool new functionalities to our go-to mobile apps. Related: Collateral damage of T-Mobile hack Yet, APIs have also exponentially increased the attack vectors available to malicious hackers – and the software community has not focused on slowing the widening of this security gap.

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Financial Fraud Phishing Attacks Increase 72% In One Year; Financial Industry Takes the Brunt

KnowBe4

With attackers knowing financial fraud-based phishing attacks are best suited for the one industry where the money is, this massive spike in attacks should both surprise you and not surprise you at all.

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iSpoof Admin Gets Up to 13 Years in 115M Euro Vishing Fraud

Data Breach Today

Tejay Fletcher Made It Easy for Scammers to Impersonate Phone Numbers The mastermind behind a criminal website that sold tools for scammers who defrauded victims globally of more than 115 million euros received a 13-year, four-month prison sentence in the United Kingdom just months after law enforcement seized the site.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

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.

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Tesla Whistleblower Leaks 100GB of Data, Revealing Safety Complaints

Dark Reading

Informants have released data that includes thousands of safety complaints the company has received about its self-driving capability, as well as sensitive information regarding current and past employees.

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On the Poisoning of LLMs

Schneier on Security

Interesting essay on the poisoning of LLMs—ChatGPT in particular: Given that we’ve known about model poisoning for years, and given the strong incentives the black-hat SEO crowd has to manipulate results, it’s entirely possible that bad actors have been poisoning ChatGPT for months. We don’t know because OpenAI doesn’t talk about their processes, how they validate the prompts they use for training, how they vet their training data set, or how they fine-tune ChatGPT.

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Digitizing Records: Getting Started

National Archives Records Express

Digital Imaging Lab [technologies] at Archives 2–[photographed for] Prologue use. National Archives Identifier: 184340999 We continue our series of posts to support the publication of 36 CFR section 1236 subpart E – Digitizing Permanent Records , which provides the requirements for digitizing permanent records. Records management is a crucial part of any agency operation, and the rise of digital technology has led many agencies to digitize their records for improved efficiency and ac

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State-Aligned Actors Targeting SMBs Globally

Data Breach Today

Vulnerable Small to Midsized Organizations Are Now Favored Victims of APT Actors State-aligned hackers are increasingly targeting small and medium-sized businesses worldwide, as SMBs are more likely to be under-protected against cybersecurity threats such as phishing campaigns, according to a new report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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PyPI Shuts Down Over the Weekend, Says Incident Was Overblown

Dark Reading

The climate of concern around open source security and supply chain attacks may have caused a small story to become a big one.

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[New & Improved] QR Code Phishing with Snail Mail Postcards

KnowBe4

One of KnowBe4's long-term employees just send me a picture this morning of a postcard that sure looks like it's phishing, the good old-fashioned way: snail mail ! Here is the picture and you tell me what all the red flags are!

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A Threat to Passkeys? BrutePrint Attack Bypasses Fingerprint Authentication

eSecurity Planet

Security researchers recently published a paper detailing an attack they say can be used to bypass smartphone fingerprint authentication. Yiling He of China’s Zhejiang University and Yu Chen of Tencent Security’s Xuanwu Lab are calling the attack BrutePrint , which they say can be used to hijack fingerprint images. An attack like BrutePrint could present a significant threat to passkeys , an increasingly popular way to replace passwords with authentication methods like fingerprint au