Data Privacy - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/category/blogs/data-privacy/ The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png Data Privacy - Security Boulevard https://securityboulevard.com/category/blogs/data-privacy/ 32 32 133346385 QNAP’s Buggy Security Fix Causes Chaos https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/qnap-bad-patch-richixbw/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:54:57 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2037597 Three tiny people cleaning the inside of a hard drive

RAID FAIL: NAS Maker does a CrowdStrike—cleanup on /dev/dsk/c1t2d3s4 please

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Here’s Yet Another D-Link RCE That Won’t be Fixed https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/d-link-router-critical-rce-sol-richixbw/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:33:40 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2037237 A D-Link DSR-250N, which is now EOL

D-Licious: Stubborn network device maker digs in heels and tells you to buy new gear.

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Black Friday Scammers are Hard at Work: Security Experts https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/black-friday-scammers-are-hard-at-work-security-experts/ Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:00:12 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2037038 PCI DSS, third-party, businessmman with a credit card and computer

Scammers are using everything from fraudulent deals and fake ads to spoofed websites and brand impersonation to target online shoppers who are gearing up for Black Friday as the holiday buying season gets underway, according to cybersecurity firms.

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EPA IG Office: ‘High-Risk’ Security Flaws in Hundreds of Water Systems https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/epa-ig-office-high-risk-security-flaws-in-hundreds-of-water-systems/ Tue, 19 Nov 2024 21:15:39 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2036973 water system cyberthreats EPA OIG

The watchdog for the EPA found that, of 1,062 U.S. drinking water systems it assessed, 97 had "critical" or "high-risk" security flaws and another 211 had less dangerous vulnerabilities, risking threats from stolen data to disrupted service.

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Palo Alto Networks Issues AI Red Alert https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/palo-alto-networks-issues-ai-red-alert/ Fri, 15 Nov 2024 02:37:51 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2036217 Palo Alto Networks SSH Management for Stronger Security

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With great promise comes potential peril. And while artificial intelligence (AI) is looked upon as a panacea for enterprises, it also poses an existential security threat. “We stand at the intersection of human ingenuity and technological innovation, where the game of cybersecurity has evolved into a high-stakes match,” Nir Zuk, founder..

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These 20 D-Link Devices Have Critical RCE Bug — but NO Patch NEVER https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/d-link-nas-wont-fix-richixbw/ Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:22:08 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2036204 xkcd.com/327 — “Exploits of a Mom”

‘Bobby’ flaw flagged WONTFIX: Company doesn’t make storage devices now; has zero interest in fixing this catastrophic vulnerability.

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Schneider Electric Confirms Ransom Hack — Hellcat Demands French Bread as ‘Joke’ https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/schneider-electric-hellcat-richixbw/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:29:24 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2035664 Baguettes

That’s a lot of pain: $125,000 ransom seems small—but why do the scrotes want it paid in baguettes?

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Man Accused of Snowflake Customer Data Breaches Arrested https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/canadian-man-accused-of-snowflake-data-breach-arrested/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 22:19:04 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2035429 Snowflake data breach hacker arrested

A Canadian resident, Alexander “Connor” Moucka, was arrested by Canadian law enforcement at the request of the United States for allegedly stealing sensitive data of myriad corporations like AT&T and Santander Bank that were stored in Snowflake's cloud systems and exposed during a breach.

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Google Uses Its Big Sleep AI Agent to Find SQLite Security Flaw https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/google-uses-its-big-sleep-ai-agent-to-find-sqlite-security-flaw/ Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:33:49 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2035249 Google Big Sleep AI LLM security vulnerability

Google researchers behind the vendor's Big Sleep project used the LLM-based AI agent to detect a security flaw in SQLite, illustrating the value the emerging technology can have in discovering vulnerabilities that techniques like fuzzing can't.

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FIDO: Consumers are Adopting Passkeys for Authentication https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/fido-consumers-are-adopting-passkeys-for-authentication/ Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:24:01 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2035011 passkeys passwordless adoption

The FIDO Alliance found in a survey that as consumers become more familiar with passkeys, they are adopting the technology as a more secure alternative to passwords to authenticate their identities online.

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