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Programming, Self-Learning Crucial for Autonomous Operations

Data Breach Today

Success Hinges on Marrying Programmed Task and Information From Production Settings Rockwell's automation efforts have moved away from a purely programmed approach to one that combines programming and self-learning based on specified parameters. Rockwell trained autonomous vehicles using real-time learning and millions of images that capture optimal behavior by human drivers.

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GUEST ESSAY: The many channels law enforcement pursues to mitigate cyber threats

The Last Watchdog

Throughout 2023, we’ve witnessed numerous significant cyber incidents. One of the largest this year was the MOVEit breach, which impacted various state motor vehicle organizations and exposed driver’s license information for nearly 9.5 million individuals. Related: The Golden Age of cyber espionage We have also seen ransomware outbreaks at MGM and Caesar’s Casino , causing losses in the millions of dollars and targeted assaults on the healthcare sector, affecting over 11 millio

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US DOJ Indicts Foreign Nationals for Defrauding $48 Million

Data Breach Today

Alleged Operators of Russian Cyber Fraud Scheme Are Indicted U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment against three foreign nationals for allegedly participating in a $48 million fraud scheme. The alleged reshipping scheme operated between 2013 and 2018 while the three defendants lived in Russia.

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Beyond AI: Advice and Takeaways from AIIM Solutions Showcase & Strategy Summit

AIIM

In early October 2023, AIIM partnered with the AIIM Florida Chapter to host the AIIM Solutions Showcase & Strategy Summit in Tampa, Florida. This new event concept highlighted a local chapter and community while creating greater accessibility to AIIM's leadership and strategy. This terrific event was well attended and featured some great education.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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AHA Sues Feds Over Privacy Warning About Web Tracker Use

Data Breach Today

Hospital Groups Say HHS Exceeded Its Authority by Issuing HIPAA-Related 'Rule' The American Hospital Association, along with three other organizations, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to have the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services withdraw guidance issued last year warning that the use of online trackers by hospitals potentially violates HIPAA.

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CISA Preparing for Election Day 'Operational Disruptions'

Data Breach Today

Agency Finds No Credible Election Security Threat While Mobilizing National Support The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was setting up a variety of real-time initiatives to provide technical support and cybersecurity assistance for election offices nationwide, including an Election Day operations center and a virtual cyber situational awareness room.

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News alert: AppMap launches ‘Runtime Code Review’ — GitHub integration innovation

The Last Watchdog

Boston, Mass., Nov. 7, 2023 — AppMap today announces its innovative Runtime Code Review solution that will transform software quality and the developer experience. AppMap’s mission is to deliver actionable insights to developers where they work, and AppMap continues to deliver on the promise with its latest release for the GitHub Marketplace. Unexpected runtime defects account for a staggering 40% of performance problems and 50% of security defects.

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President Biden Signs Sweeping Artificial Intelligence Executive Order

Data Matters

On October 30, 2023, President Joe Biden issued an executive order (EO or the Order) on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance a coordinated, federal governmentwide approach toward the safe and responsible development of AI. It sets forth a wide range of federal regulatory principles and priorities, directs myriad federal agencies to promulgate standards and technical guidelines, and invokes statutory authority — the Defense Production Act — that has historically

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Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying

WIRED Threat Level

The Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 pulls from past privacy bills to overhaul how police and the feds access Americans’ data and communications.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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.

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Veeam fixed multiple flaws in Veeam ONE, including critical issues

Security Affairs

Veeam addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform, including two critical issues. Veeam addressed four vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38547, CVE-2023-38548, CVE-2023-38549, CVE-2023-41723) in the Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform. The vulnerability CVE-2023-38547 (CVSS score 9.9) can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to gain information about the SQL server connection Veeam ONE uses to access its configu

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Atlassian Bug Escalated to 10, All Unpatched Instances Vulnerable

Dark Reading

Active ransomware attacks against vulnerable Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Servers ratchets up risk to enterprises, now reflected in the bug's revised CVSS score of 10.

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Marina Bay Sands Luxury Hotel in Singapore Suffers a Data Breach

Security Affairs

The iconic integrated resort Marina Bay Sands in Singapore has disclosed a data breach that impacted 665,000 customers. The Marina Bay Sands (MBS) luxury resort in Singapore has suffered a data breach that impacted 665,000 customers. Marina Bay Sands discovered the security breach on 20 October 2023, an unauthorized third party gained access to some of our customers’ loyalty programme membership data on 19 and 20 October 2023.

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YouTube's Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law

WIRED Threat Level

A complaint filed with the EU’s independent data regulator accuses YouTube of failing to get explicit user permission for its ad blocker detection system, potentially violating the ePrivacy Directive.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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Iranian Agonizing Serpens APT is targeting Israeli entities with destructive cyber attacks

Security Affairs

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group has been targeting Israeli organizations with destructive cyber attacks since January. Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group (aka Agrius , BlackShadow , Pink Sandstorm , DEV-0022 ) has been targeting Israeli organizations in higher education and tech sectors with destructive cyber attacks since January 2023. Palo Alto Networks’ s Unit 42 researchers reported that threat actors first attempt to steal sensitive data (i.e. personally identifiable informat

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What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance

WIRED Threat Level

When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.

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IBM and Microsoft work together to bring Maximo Application Suite onto Azure

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM and Microsoft believe in providing you with the power of choice so you can leverage the industry-leading asset management capabilities of Maximo Application Suite (MAS) deployed and operating on Azure. MAS is available from IBM or through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. When you choose to invest in MAS, you’re not just purchasing a license; you’re embracing an opportunity to tailor your asset management journey precisely to your unique needs and aspirations.

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New State of Phishing Report 2023: An Alarming Surge in Phishing Threats

KnowBe4

The fight against cyber threats remains a top priority for all organizations, including phishing attacks. SlashNext just released its much-anticipated annual " State of Phishing Report for 2023." This report sheds light on the alarming surge in phishing threats across email, web, and mobile channels.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Unlock the power of generative AI with intelligent automation

IBM Big Data Hub

For business leaders exploring ways to apply generative AI within their companies, it can be difficult to discern where to start, what will scale easily and what will deliver the greatest ROI. But the answer may be much simpler than it seems: automation. When AI is integrated into automation technology it’s referred to as “intelligent automation,” and it’s a high-impact way for businesses to put generative AI to work.

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Spaf on the Morris Worm

Schneier on Security

Gene Spafford wrote an essay reflecting on the Morris Worm of 1988—35 years ago. His lessons from then are still applicable today.

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New York Department of Financial Services Strengthens Cybersecurity Regulation

KnowBe4

The NYDFS’ 23 NYCRR Part 500 has been updated to reflect the current preventative and responsive measures necessary for Financial Services org to be ready for cyber attacks.

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CVSS 4.0 Offers Significantly More Patching Context

Dark Reading

The latest vulnerability severity scoring system addresses gaps in the previous version; here's how to get the most out of it.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Get Ready: International Fraud Awareness Week

KnowBe4

November 12-18, 2023 is International Fraud Awareness Week and I know what you are thinking: “Didn’t we just have an entire month dedicated to cyber fraud and cybersecurity in general?” And you would be right that October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month was a great way to train your workforce to be the last line of defense against external fraudsters.

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Securing Remote Workers Through Zero Trust

Dark Reading

Dark Reading’s special report look at how enterprises turning to zero trust to harden the security of their remote workforce. Challenges are steep.

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Putting data storage at the forefront of cloud security

IBM Big Data Hub

We live in an era of unprecedented technology breakthroughs and opportunities. Recent advances in areas like AI and quantum computing offer transformative potential for businesses, but may also bring new risks and security challenges. IBM is working to address these challenges and evolving threats by helping organizations support highly secure, resilient and durable storage through technology like Cloud Object Storage.

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Marina Bay Sands Becomes Latest Hospitality Cyber Victim

Dark Reading

Unknown attackers have accessed PII for hundreds of thousands of loyalty customers at the high-end Singapore establishment.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Targeted Social Engineering on the Rise With Lowering Phishing-as-a-Service Costs

KnowBe4

Targeted individuals were the most common victims of social engineering attacks in the second half of 2022 and the first half of 2023, according to researchers at AtlasVPN.

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North Korea's BlueNoroff APT Debuts 'Dumbed Down' macOS Malware

Dark Reading

Kim Jong-Un's hackers are scraping the bottom of the barrel, using script kiddie-grade malware to steal devalued digital assets.

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Navigating the future: Insights from customer engagement sessions at OpenText World

OpenText Information Management

In the fast-evolving landscape of information management, staying ahead of the curve is not just a goal, but a necessity. Last month we had the privilege of hosting OpenText World 2023 in Las Vegas, where we discussed our expanded mission around AI and information management. We showcased the innovations available to our customers right now, … The post Navigating the future: Insights from customer engagement sessions at OpenText World appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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