Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Legal Action Stems From Misconfigured Database at UW Medicine A lawsuit seeking class action status filed against UW Medicine in the wake of a data leak incident has been amended to reflect that at least one HIV patient allegedly had their data exposed. Why are data breaches tied to IT misconfiguration a growing problem?
The Last Watchdog
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Along with Richard Stiennon , I belong to a small circle of journalists and tech industry analysts who’ve been paying close attention to cybersecurity since Bill Gates curtailed commercial work on Windows to rivet Microsoft’s attention on defending its software code. Related: The role of PKI is securing digital transformation That was in 2002. Back then, email spam was a nuisance evolving into a potent attack vector, and the top malware innovators were script kiddies seeking bragging rights.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
State Alleges Data About Young Students Is Illegally Collected New Mexico is suing Google, alleging the company violates a federal child privacy law by collecting the personal data of students younger than age 13 without their parents' consent. Google rejects the lawsuit's claims, saying they are "factually incorrect.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The FBI recommends using longer passwords composed of multiple words into a long string of at least 15 characters instead of short passwords including special characters. Recent guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) highlights that the password length is much more important than password complexity. The recommendations are part of the Protected Voices initiative launched by the FBI to help 2020 political campaigns and American voters protect against online forei
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Agari Says 'Exaggerated Lion' Has Targeted Businesses Throughout US A business email compromise group targeting U.S. businesses is using G-Suite for their scams and collecting money through physical checks instead of wire transfers, according to the security firm Agari.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Facebook and Twitter Among the Technology Giants Being Probed A newly released report offers a glimpse into how European Union authorities are applying the General Data Protection Regulation to some of the biggest U.S. technology firms, including social media giants Facebook and Twitter.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Server-side request forgery is a dangerous attack method that is also becoming an issue for the cloud. Here are some of the basics to help keep your Web server from turning against you.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Implementing the concept of "privacy design" requires a series of critical steps, says Heikki Tolvanen, chief legal engineer at PrivacyAnt, a Finland-based privacy consulting firm, who offers insights on mistakes to avoid.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Security experts discuss the threats putting mobile devices at risk and how businesses can better defend against them.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Micro Focus
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Information technology has been an integral component of the modern enterprise for decades now. That dependency is only bound to grow. With such digital transformation comes soaring demand for new applications. Software development services will continue to be an integral component of the business amidst a rising pressure to innovate and deliver. As a result, View Article.
Rocket Software
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
SHARE is the oldest computer user group in the world, and the organization plays a critical role in driving innovation in the IBM Z community. Rocket Software has been a long-time member of SHARE, and we are committed to supporting its goals and ideals. That’s why we are excited to announce that Principal Solutions Advisor Ezriel Gross has received the SHARE Best of the Best Session award for his presentation Intro to IPCS for CICS People.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Slickwraps is an online store that offers for sale skins mobile devices, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed online via an exploit.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The Times of London is reporting that Russian agents are in Ireland probing transatlantic communications cables. Ireland is the landing point for undersea cables which carry internet traffic between America, Britain and Europe. The cables enable millions of people to communicate and allow financial transactions to take place seamlessly. Garda and military sources believe the agents were sent by the GRU, the military intelligence branch of the Russian armed forces which was blamed for the nerve a
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Raccoon Malware is a recently discovered infostealer that can extract sensitive data from about 60 applications on a targeted system. Racoon malware , Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. The malware is cheap compared to similar threats, it is able to steal sensitive data from about 60 applications, including (browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, email and FTP clients).
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
2020 marks the launch of the Thales Data Threat Report-Global Edition for the seventh consecutive year. This year the report focuses on the post digital transformation era. In previous years, we have discussed the efforts of businesses to digitally transform their processes to maintain or gain a competitive advantage and many of these transformative technologies involves moving to the cloud.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
FireEye’s report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. According to the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report , FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware families. The most worrisome figure is related to the number of previously unseen malware families which is greater than 500 (41%). “In 2019, we observed over 500 new malware families, 58% of which were discovered through M
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Organizations lament a lack of qualified job candidates as they continue to struggle to hire and retain security teams, the new ISACA State of Cybersecurity 2020 report shows.
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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Since end-December 2019 lampion malware has been noted as the most prominent malware targeting Portuguese organizations. Several devices have been infected when the victims open the zip file downloaded from the URL embedded in the malicious email that lures the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax (ATA) , Energias de Portugal (EDP) , and more recently the DPD firm – an international parcel delivery service.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Companies of all sizes are being hit by mobile attacks and feeling the effects for extended periods of time, according to the 2020 Verizon Mobile Security Index.
Data Protection Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Quebec’s minister of justice announced her intention to introduce a bill aimed at modernizing the privacy regime provided by the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector. Although few details have yet to be publicly disclosed, the changes proposed by the new legislation seem to focus on the following five themes: (i) tighter rules governing the consent of persons concerned, (ii) the possibility for these individuals to withdraw their consent and the company’s o
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
On January 31, 2020, the Department of Defense released its latest version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (“CMMC”) for defense contractors. Under the CMMC plan, DOD contractors will be required to obtain a cybersecurity rating from Level 1 through Level 5. Self-certification will not be permitted. Given the significant investment of industry resources the CMMC may require, the DOD eased some concerns by announcing that it would roll out the CMMC program out in stages.
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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Nearly 60% of IT and security pros say deployment of business services in the cloud has rushed past their ability to secure them.
Adam Levin
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an advisory following a ransomware attack on a natural gas compression facility. In the warning, CISA announced that a “cyber threat actor used a Spearphising Link to obtain initial access to the organization’s information technology (IT) network before pivoting to its OT network.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Trusting the cloud involves a change in mindset. You must be ready to use runtime encryption in the cloud.
CILIP
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Discover the books on the 2020 Quick Reads list. The Reading Agency's Quick Reads are ready to tackle life's big problems. One in six adults in the UK find reading difficult. Research shows that when we inspire people to read for pleasure they benefit from far greater opportunities in everyday life, education and employment. ? The Reading Agency is a national charity that tackles life?
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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.
The Security Ledger
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Small and medium-sized businesses find themselves in the cross hairs of sophisticated hacking groups. Improved identity and access management (IAM) tools are critical to keeping hackers at bay. But what do SMBs want? A LastPass survey of IT leaders has some valuable clues. The post As Cyber Attacks Mount, Small Businesses seek Authentication. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Opinion: AI and Machine Learning will power both Cyber Offense and Defense in 2020 Passwordless?
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
On February 19, 2020, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) launched a consultation on its draft AI auditing framework guidance for organizations (“Guidance”). The Guidance is open for consultation until April 1, 2020 and responses can be submitted via the ICO’s online survey. This is the first piece of guidance published by the ICO that has a broad focus on the management of several different risks arising from AI systems, as well as governance and accountability measures.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
CISOs report increases in alert fatigue and the number of records breached, as well as the struggle to secure mobile devices in a new Cisco study.
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