Tag: data
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From Tools to Intelligence: The Evolution of SOCaaS
In the early days of cybersecurity, security teams faced a fragmented reality”, juggling multiple tools that operated in isolation. Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions watched for threats, while Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms monitored endpoints. However, these tools often spoke different languages, creating data silos and leaving security teams scrambling to connect the…
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CISOs struggling to balance security, business objectives
Only 14% of security leaders can ‘effectively secure organisational data assets while also enabling the use of data to achieve business objectives’, according to Gartner First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619373/Gartner-CISOs-struggling-to-balance-security-business-objectives
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Randall Munroe’s XKCD ‘Atom’
Tags: datavia the comic humor & dry wit of Randall Munroe, creator of XKCD Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/randall-munroes-xkcd-atom/
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CISO success story: How LA County trains (and retrains) workers to fight phishing
Tags: ai, awareness, breach, business, chatgpt, cio, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, corporate, cybersecurity, data, dos, election, email, endpoint, government, hacker, healthcare, incident response, jobs, law, lessons-learned, malicious, marketplace, network, phishing, privacy, regulation, risk, risk-management, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, tactics, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability(The following interview has been edited for clarity and length.)At first glance, LA County’s reporting structure who reports to whom seems, well, fairly complex.We have a federated model: I report to the county CIO. Each department acts as an independent business and has its own department CIO and information security officer. Their job is to…
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Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Abuses Webflow CDN to Steal Credit Card Data
A new report from Netskope Threat Labs has revealed a sophisticated phishing campaign that abuses the Webflow content First seen on securityonline.info Jump to article: securityonline.info/sophisticated-phishing-campaign-abuses-webflow-cdn-to-steal-credit-card-data/
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Texas investigating DeepSeek for violating data privacy law
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office requested relevant documents from Google and Apple, seeking their “analysis” of DeepSeek and asking what documentation they required from the company before they made it available on their app stores. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/texas-investigating-deepseek-privacy
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USAID staff accuses DOGE of jeopardizing safety, accessing security clearance data
A new lawsuit sheds light on the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) work at USAID, with some employees alleging that DOGE workers had root access to computer systems containing security clearance data, including foreign contacts for an employee who deploys to conflict zones. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/usaid-staff-accuses-doge-improper-access
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Pennsylvania utility says MOVEit breach at vendor exposed some customer data
A Pennsylvania utility company says that basic customer data stolen from one of its vendors in 2023 was recently exposed online, but the incident did not affect its core systems. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/pennsylvania-utility-says-moveit-vendor-breach-exposed-some-data
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DOGE’s moves on government data raises security concerns
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/doges-moves-on-government-data-raises-security-concerns
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Achieving Independent Control Over Cloud Data
Why is Independent Control Over Cloud Data Necessary? Can organizations truly claim to have complete, independent control over their cloud data? Surprisingly, the answer is often ‘no’. It’s an undeniable fact that the digital transformation wave has changed the game, causing organizations to reassess their cybersecurity and data management strategies. Non-Human Identities: An Untapped Resource……
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Roundtable: Is DOGE Flouting Cybersecurity for US Data?
Cybersecurity experts weigh in on the red flags flying around the new Department of Government Efficiency’s handling of the mountains of US data it now has access to, potentially without basic information security protections in place. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/doge-flouting-cybersecurity-us-data
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2 charged over alleged New IRA terrorism activity linked to cops’ spilled data
Officer says mistakenly published police details were shared ‘a considerable amount of times’ First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/two_charged_psni_data/
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UK accused of political ‘foreign cyber attack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-US Five Eyes intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619170/UK-accused-of-political-foreign-cyberattack-on-US-after-serving-secret-snooping-order-on-Apple
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Apache Fineract SQL Injection Vulnerability Allows Malicious Data Injection
The Apache Software Foundation has disclosed a critical SQL injection vulnerability in its widely utilized financial platform, Apache Fineract. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-32838, affects multiple API endpoints and poses a significant risk to applications built on this platform. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to inject malicious SQL data, potentially compromising sensitive information and the overall…
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What is anomaly detection? Behavior-based analysis for cyber threats
a priori the bad thing that you’re looking for,” Bruce Potter, CEO and founder of Turngate, tells CSO. “It’ll just show up because it doesn’t look like anything else or doesn’t look like it’s supposed to. People have been tilting at that windmill for a long time, since the 1980s, trying to figure out what…
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Inconsistent security strategies fuel third-party threats
47% of organizations have experienced a data breach or cyberattack over the past 12 months that involved a third-party accessing their network, according to Imprivata and the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/14/third-party-data-breach-risks/
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The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel
A Florida data broker told a US senator it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany from a Lithuanian firm, which denies involvement”, revealing the opaque nature of online ad surveillance. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/rtb-location-data-us-military/
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Daniel Stori’s Turnoff.US: ‘git submodules adoption flows’
Tags: datavia the inimitable Daniel Stori at Turnoff.US! Permalink First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/02/daniel-storis-turnoff-us-git-submodules-adoption-flows/
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Senate Confirms Trump Pick RFK Jr. to Lead HHS
Expert: ‘Predictions are Cloudy’ on How Kennedy Will Handle Cyber, Privacy Issues. The U.S. Senate confirmed controversial nominee Robert F. Kennedy to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. But despite many hours of recent scrutiny by lawmaker not much – if anything – is publicly known about Kennedy’s stance on health data…
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UK accused of political ‘foreign cyberattack’ on US after serving secret snooping order on Apple
US administration asked to kick UK out of 65-year-old UK-USA “Five Eyes” intelligence sharing agreement after secret order to access encrypted data of Apple users First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619170/UK-accused-of-political-foreign-cyberattack-on-US-after-serving-secret-snooping-order-on-Apple
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Top cryptography experts join calls for UK to drop plans to snoop on Apple’s encrypted data
Some of the world’s leading computer science experts have signed an open letter calling for the Home secretary, Yvette Coooper to drop a controversial secret order to require Apple to provide access to people’s encrypted data First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366619260/Top-cryptography-experts-join-calls-for-UK-to-drop-plans-to-snoop-on-Apples-encrypted-data
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DOGE hasn’t accessed legally protected tax data, administration says in privacy suit response
Acting Education Secretary Denise Carter claimed the DOGE team needs access to large datasets, including sensitive personal data that may be covered by the federal Privacy Act, to do its job. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/doge-tax-education-privacy-lawsuit
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Energy Regulations Are Rising: Stay Ahead with Modern DCIM
As data centers continue to serve as the backbone of the digital economy, they face an escalating challenge: the tightening grip of global energy consumption regulations. Governments and regulatory bodies worldwide are implementing stricter policies to curb carbon footprints, optimize energy use, and enforce sustainability commitments. In this evolving landscape, modern Data Center Infrastructure Management…
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Doxbin Data Breach: Hackers Leak 136K User Records and Blacklist File
Doxbin Data Breach: Hackers leak 136,000+ user records, emails, and a ‘blacklist’ file, exposing those who paid to… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/doxbin-data-breach-hackers-leak-user-records-blacklist-file/
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Larry Ellison wants to put all America’s data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study
From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/
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Technical Analysis of Xloader Versions 6 and 7 – Part 2
Tags: cloud, communications, control, data, encryption, malware, network, reverse-engineering, threat, updateThis is Part 2 of our two-part technical analysis on Xloader versions 6 and 7. For details on how Xloader conceals its critical code and data, go to Part 1.IntroductionIn Part 2 of this blog series, we examine how Xloader obfuscates the command-and-control (C2) code and data to complicate analysis. We will also delve into…
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Hacker leaks account data of 12 million Zacks Investment users
Zacks Investment Research (Zacks) last year reportedly suffered another data breach that exposed sensitive information related to roughly 12 million accounts. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-leaks-account-data-of-12-million-zacks-investment-users/