A scammer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for laundering over US $4.5 million obtained by targeting businesses and the elderly with Business Email Compromise (BEC) and romance fraud scams. Malachi Mullings, a 31-year-old from Sandy Springs, Georgia, was charged with opening 20 bank accounts in the name of a sham company, The…
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Context is critical in cloud security. In a recent RSA presentation, Tenable’s Shai Morag offered ten tips for end-to-end cloud infrastructure security. At the recent RSA Conference, Shai Morag, SVP and GM of Cloud Security at Tenable, led the session titled “Cloud Security Novice to Native in 10 Steps: A CNAPP Approach,” which delved into…
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Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or platforms can reliably backup and restore data? What would losing all this data cost us, and how quickly could we get it back? All are…
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May 23, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Network Security Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. “An analysis of this threat actor’s activity reveals long-term espionage operations…
Read MorePersonal AI Assistants and Privacy Microsoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant: At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that will allow Windows 11 users to search and retrieve their past activities on their PC. To make it work, Recall records everything…
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May 23, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six of the 10 vulnerabilities – from CVE-2024-29822 through CVE-2024-29827 (CVSS scores: 9.6) – relate to SQL injection flaws that allow…
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Tenable reported the issue to the project’s maintainers on April 30, and they responded by developing a patched version of the technology, Fluent Bit 3.0.4, released May 21. Fluent Bit’s developers urged technology providers to update “immediately to keep your systems stable and secure” in a statement on their website. Vulnerabilities in cloud-based systems are…
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A massive Microsoft outage affects Bing.com, Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search and DuckDuckGo. The outage started at approximately 3 AM EDT and seems to have largely affected users in Asia and Europe. This is a developing story… Source link lol
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Digital Security As AI gets closer to the ability to cause physical harm and impact the real world, “it’s complicated” is no longer a satisfying response 22 May 2024 • , 3 min. read We have seen AI morphing from answering simple chat questions for school homework to attempting to detect weapons in the New…
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The attack didn’t target grid operations but could have Experts say the apparent financial motivation leads them to believe the attackers were not targeting grid operations. “Those bad guys were looking for compute devices that they could use to do computer internet-related types of extortion,” Thomas Tansy, CEO of DER Security, tells CSO. “From that…
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