Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Fifty attorneys general announced earlier this month that Google is the target of an antitrust probe. Any business owner who has happened to find themselves stuck in the company’s orbit–that would be any company with a digital presence–won’t hesitate to tell you such a move is long overdue. Case in point: I just did a Google search for Basecamp, an online project management tool.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Security, Privacy, Data Protection and Liability Questions Remain Unanswered Artificial intelligence technologies that provide surveillance capabilities can have upsides as well as downsides. Unfortunately, as developers and governments rush to experiment, security, privacy, data protection and liability questions remain unanswered.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Public key infrastructure (PKI) requires key distribution and has been long criticised for its usability issues [13,14,15]. In an experiment [15] conducted for analysing the usability of Mailvelop, a modern PGP tool rated 4.4 out of 5 stars on Chrome web store, 9 out of 10 pairs of participants failed to complete the assigned task of exchanging encrypted emails, i.e. 90% failure rate.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Kate Tickner, Reltio. Nicola Askham is the leading data governance training provider in the UK with over 16 years of experience and research in the field. She delivers training and consulting to major organisations to help them implement full data governance frameworks. Nicola’s powerful methodology breaks down the data governance initiative into logical steps to implement a framework that suits each unique client.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

'Unusual Activity' By Third-Party Service Provider to Blame Food delivery startup DoorDash says 4.9 million customer, contractor and merchant records were breached after "unusual activity" by a third-party service provider. Even aside from the usual identification data, experts say certain, specific data - such as food allergies - could pose risks in the wrong hands.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums that identify and blacklist IP addresses and web page URLs that are obviously being used maliciously; and hundreds more independent white hat hackers are doing much the same.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In this digital era, organizations are looking for ways to streamline their business processes. Companies are adopting different management solutions driven by AI-based software or apps to automate it. There are so many solutions to choose from, but the process gets quite tricky when the boundaries between the solutions are not defined properly. For instance, businesses are looking for cost-effective methods to capture, organize, share, and document digital data.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Any iPhone device from 2011 to 2017 could soon be jailbroken, thanks to an underlying flaw that there's no way to patch.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Attackers Sending Emails Promising Copy of 'Permanent Record' A week after the Emotet botnet crept back to life, the attackers behind it are already trying a new way to ensnare victims - using Edward Snowden's newly released memoir as a phishing lure, according to the security firm Malwarebytes.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Threat actors are opportunistic, well-funded, highly-motivated and endlessly clever. Therefore cybersecurity innovations must take hold both deeper inside and at the leading edges of modern business networks. Related: Lessons learned from Capitol One breach Most of the promising new technologies I’ve had the chance to preview this year validate this notion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

In the last hours, some western media reported destructive cyber attacks against infrastructures in the Iranian oil sector, but Iran denied it. Last week drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. Western Governments and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the attacks.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Opinion: Red Flag laws help prevent suicides and mass shootings, and buy time for people in crisis to get help.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Companies Need to Be Aware of Risks A misconfiguration in a Google Calendar function that allows Google to index calendars raises serious privacy concerns because it could lead to inadvertent, broad public exposure of calendars that contain sensitive information, including corporate details, a researcher reports.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

How can it be that marquee enterprises like Capital One, Marriott, Facebook, Yahoo, HBO, Equifax, Uber and countless others continue to lose sensitive information in massive data breaches? Related: Breakdown of Capital One breach The simple answer is that any organization that sustains a massive data breach clearly did not do quite enough to protect the data itself.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A security expert has released a new jailbreak, dubbed Checkm8, that impacts all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets , it works on iPhone models from 4S to 8 and X. The security expert Axi0mX has released a new jailbreak, dubbed Checkm8 , that works on all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets. The jailbreak works with all Apple products released between 2011 and 2017, including iPhone models from 4S to 8 and X.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

'Tortoiseshell' discovered hosting a phony military-hiring website that drops a Trojan backdoor on visitors.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Remote Access Trojan Is Capable of Cyberespionage and Financial Fraud A newly discovered remote access Trojan called Dtrack has been targeting banks in India for well over a year, Kaspersky researchers say. The malware, which can steal data from ATMs and doubles as a cyberespionage tool, appears to be linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Is mobile technology on a course to become more secure than traditional computing? Seven or eight years ago, that was a far-fetched notion. Today, the answer to that question is, “Yes, it must, and soon.” Related: Securing the Internet of Things I’ve been writing about organizations struggling to solve the productivity vs. security dilemma that’s part and parcel of the BYOD craze for some time now.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Security experts at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group aimed at political targets. Security researchers at ESET have uncovered a new campaign carried out by Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group (i.e. APT28 , Sednit , Sofacy , Zebrocy , and Strontium ) aimed at political targets. In the recent attacks, the hackers used a new set of malicious payloads, including a backdoor written in a new language.

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erwin

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The benefits of Data Vault automation from the more abstract – like improving data integrity – to the tangible – such as clearly identifiable savings in cost and time. So Seriously … You Should Automate Your Data Vault. By Danny Sandwell. Data Vault is a methodology for architecting and managing data warehouses in complex data environments where new data types and structures are constantly introduced.

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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.

Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Andrei Tyurin Stole Details of 83 Million Customers During Cybercrime Campaign Russian national Andrei Tyurin pleaded guilty to perpetrating massive hack attacks against leading U.S. financial services firms and others from 2012 to mid-2015. Victims included JPMorgan Chase, from which he stole details of 83 million customer accounts.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The new wave of attacks comes after a previous Click2Gov hack compromised 300,000 payment cards.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Kaspersky experts spotted a new piece of ATM malware, dubbed ATMDtrack, that was developed and used by North Korea-linked hackers. Kaspersky researchers discovered a new piece of ATM malware, tracked as ATMDtrack, that was developed and used by North Korea-linked hackers. Threat actors deployed the malware on ATM systems to steal payment card details of the back customers.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

It’s easy to overlook email as ‘old school,’ but the fact is that we still use email extensively, especially in business. Radicati released updated figures early in 2019 that shows the total number of active email users has jumped to 3.9 billion. More than that, American workers will receive an average of 126 emails a day. And while most folks think of email mostly as transactional messaging, the marketing power of email is still going strong.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

TridentUSA Allegedly Exposed Data on More than 1 Million Patients Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., is demanding answers from TridentUSA Health Services about its data security practices following the recent discovery that it exposed more than 1 million patient files on the internet due to an unsecured server.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gilette, Wyoming is facing service disruptions after a ransomware attack hit its computer systems on Friday. On Friday, the Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gilette, Wyoming, suffered a ransomware attack that is still causing service disruptions. “Campbell County Health has been the victim of a ransomware attack.

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