Jun 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware A new Golang-based information stealer called Skuld has compromised Windows systems across Europe, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. "This new malware strain tries to steal sensitive information from its victims," Trellix researcher Ernesto Fernández Provecho said in a Tuesday analysis. "To accomplish this task, it searches for … [Read more...] about New Golang-based Skuld Malware Stealing Discord and Browser Data from Windows PCs
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The Importance of Managing Your Data Security Posture
Data security is reinventing itself. As new data security posture management solutions come to market, organizations are increasingly recognizing the opportunity to provide evidence-based security that proves how their data is being protected. But what exactly is data security posture, and how do you manage it? Data security posture management (DSPM) became mainstream … [Read more...] about The Importance of Managing Your Data Security Posture
Elastic Security 8.8: Powerful endpoint response, alert triage, and data accuracy to bring more efficiency to security
As the volume and complexity of cyber threats continue to increase, security analysts face mounting pressure to protect their organizations from attack with maximum efficiency. Elastic Security 8.8 introduces features designed to help analysts digest, prioritize, and quickly respond to security incidents. These features include the following:The improved alert triage … [Read more...] about Elastic Security 8.8: Powerful endpoint response, alert triage, and data accuracy to bring more efficiency to security
Unleash the power of Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Elastic for enhanced observability
As more organizations leverage the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform and services to drive operational efficiency and bring products to market, managing logs becomes a critical component of maintaining visibility and safeguarding multi-account AWS environments. Traditionally, logs are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and then shipped to an external … [Read more...] about Unleash the power of Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and Elastic for enhanced observability
Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data?
It's no secret that data leaks have become a major concern for both citizens and institutions across the globe. They can cause serious damage to an organization's reputation, induce considerable financial losses, and even have serious legal repercussions. From the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal to the Equifax data breach, there have been some pretty high-profile leaks … [Read more...] about Are Your APIs Leaking Sensitive Data?
How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics
With integrations, we give our users an out of the box experience to integrate with their infrastructure and services. If you are using our integrations, eventually you will automatically get all the benefits of TSDS for your metrics assuming you are on version 8.7 or newer.Currently we are working through the list of our integration packages, add the dimensions, metric type … [Read more...] about How to use Elasticsearch and Time Series Data Streams for observability metrics
How Logz.io Reduced Internal Logs Volume by 50% Using Data Optimization Hub
Cost optimization has been one of the hottest topics in observability (and beyond!) lately. Everyone is striving to be efficient, spend money wisely, and get the most out of every dollar invested. At Logz.io, we recently embarked on a very interesting and fruitful data volume optimization journey, reducing our own internal log volume by a whopping 50%. In this article, I’ll … [Read more...] about How Logz.io Reduced Internal Logs Volume by 50% Using Data Optimization Hub
ChatGPT is Back in Italy After Addressing Data Privacy Concerns
Apr 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Safety / Privacy / AI OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has officially made a return to Italy after the company met the data protection authority's demands ahead of April 30, 2023, deadline. The development was first reported by the Associated Press. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, tweeted, "we're excited ChatGPT is available in [Italy] … [Read more...] about ChatGPT is Back in Italy After Addressing Data Privacy Concerns
ChatGPT and Elasticsearch: OpenAI meets private data
In recent months, there has been a surge of excitement around ChatGPT, a groundbreaking AI model created by OpenAI. But what exactly is ChatGPT? Based on the powerful GPT architecture, ChatGPT is designed to understand and generate human-like responses to text inputs. GPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer.” The Transformer is a cutting-edge model architecture that … [Read more...] about ChatGPT and Elasticsearch: OpenAI meets private data
Vice Society Ransomware Using Stealthy PowerShell Tool for Data Exfiltration
Apr 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cyber Attack Threat actors associated with the Vice Society ransomware gang have been observed using a bespoke PowerShell-based tool to fly under the radar and automate the process of exfiltrating data from compromised networks. "Threat actors (TAs) using built-in data exfiltration methods like [living off the land binaries and … [Read more...] about Vice Society Ransomware Using Stealthy PowerShell Tool for Data Exfiltration