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Download PDF September 4, 2024 Social engineering is a highly effective fraud technique that is difficult to withstand. A skilled attacker knows how to find the right approach to intimidate or persuade a victim to perform an action. But what if an attack requires little communication effort, and a computer stops being a digital assistant…
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August 30, 2024 – The Federal Trade Commission will require security camera firm Verkada to develop and implement a comprehensive information security program to settle allegations the company failed to use appropriate information security practices, which allowed a hacker to access customers’ security cameras.
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The federal government is suing the Georgia Institute of Technology and an affiliated research organization over allegations that they “knowingly failed” to meet cybersecurity requirements for Pentagon contracts.
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MalBot August 22, 2024, 10:55pm 1 Article Link: Secure Web Gateways Have Failed Us & Using AI to Prevent the Next CrowdStrike Outage – Vivek Ramachandran, Vivek Bhandari – ESW #373 | SC Media
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A seven-person military jury in Sierra Leone found 24 soldiers guilty Friday of mutiny, murder and other charges in a 2023 failed coup attempt. After the decision by the jury, the judge handed the 24 soldiers lengthy sentences ranging from 50 to 120 years in prison.
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The European Commission announced on Tuesday it intends to begin infringement proceedings against member states failing to meet current waste management targets by sending them letters of formal notice letters.
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Earlier this summer, leaders at the ed tech company AllHere, contracted by Los Angeles schools to build a heavily hyped $6 million AI chatbot, offered assurances to one of its investors.
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Two important arms of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive law enforcement training curricula, potentially putting more than 37,000 DHS and other federal law enforcement officers’ names, social security numbers, dates of births, genders, ranks, titles, and biometric information at risk to being compromised and…
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OpenAI, headquartered in San Francisco, confirmed the breach to employees as well as the board of directors in April 2023 in an all-hands call but opted not to make it public. The company reasoned that no customer or partner data was compromised, and they believed the hacker was an individual, not a state-sponsored actor, the…
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Over 70% of water systems surveyed since last September failed to meet certain security standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency, exposing them to cyberattacks that can cripple wastewater and water sanitation systems around the country, the EPA said Monday.
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It’s not every day that one gets a front-row seat to witness the justice system’s workings in a high-profile case. I was fortunate enough to be at the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco earlier today for the sentencing of the man who on October 28, 2023, broke into…
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A new report by Coro sheds light on the challenges that cybersecurity professionals are facing in regard to their workload. The report surveyed 500 cybersecurity decision-makers in the United States, all of whom worked for companies with 200 to 2000 employees. The survey focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), finding that many lacked the…
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In the television show Arrow, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns to Star City after being trapped on an island only to find it overrun with crime and corruption. Oliver Queen dons a green hood, grabs a bow and arrow and takes on the criminal elements of Star City as the Green Arrow. When Green Arrow…
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LastPass revealed this week that threat actors targeted one of its employees in a voice phishing attack, using deepfake audio to impersonate Karim Toubba, the company’s Chief Executive Officer.
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Breach Notification , Security Operations , Standards, Regulations & Compliance
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YouTube failed to detect manipulation and disinformation in dozens of fake political advertisements uploaded by researchers to test the platform’s moderation of election-related content in India.
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Do I need to panic? No. As an assurance piece, orgs can check they aren’t using the latest unstable releases of Debian and Fedora — but they very likely aren’t.