Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Convicted Former Uber CSO Shares Lessons Learned From Government's Case Against Him Cybersecurity professionals must choose their own destiny, former CSO Joe Sullivan said at this week's Black Hat Europe in London. CISOs will either remain down in the weeds, technically speaking, or learn to become true senior executives and be treated as such by the board.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Also: Judge Accepts Changpeng Zhao Guilty Plea; November's 'Damaging' Hack Numbers This week, a Bitzlato co-founder pleaded guilty to money laundering charges, a federal judge accepted ex-Binance chief's guilty plea, thieves stole $363M in crypto this November, KyberSwap looks to compensate hack victims, Platypus hackers walked free, and Velodrome and Aerodrome were hacked again.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Japanese carmaker Nissan announced it has suffered a cyberattack impacting the internal systems at Nissan Oceania. Nissan Oceania, the regional division of the multinational carmaker, announced it had suffered a cyber attack and launched an investigation into the incident. Nissan already notified the Australian Cyber Security Centre and the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Risk of Insider Threats Is Growing, But So Are Methods to Detect Them Whether because they're malicious, oblivious to company rules or outsmarted by hackers, insiders pose a mounting degree of risk to companies. Hunting for outside hackers offers lessons in preventing insider incidents, said Thomas Etheridge, CrowdStrike chief global professional services officer.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Incident That Affected 35,000 Urgent Care Clinic Patients Results in $480K Fine Weeks after the Department of Health and Human Services announced its first HIPAA enforcement action in a ransomware breach, federal regulators have reached another milestone: a $480,000 settlement in a HIPAA case centered for the first time ever on a phishing attack.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy on them—either for their own reasons or in response to government demands. Sen. Wyden is trying to get to the bottom of this : In a statement, Apple said that Wyden’s letter gave them the opening they needed to share more details with the public about how governments monitored push notifications. “In this case, the fed

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Former Bridgewater CTO Igor Tsyganskiy Named CISO in Wake of Chinese Email Hack Microsoft has demoted its CISO after 14 years on the job, reassigned its deputy CISO and named Igor Tsyganskiy - a former CTO at Bridgewater Associates who just joined Microsoft four months ago as chief strategy officer - as its new chief information security officer.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A previously undetected Linux RAT dubbed Krasue has been observed targeting telecom companies in Thailand. Group-IB researchers discovered a previously undetected Linux remote access trojan called Krasue has been employed in attacks aimed at telecom companies in Thailand. The Krasue Remote Access Trojan (RAT) has remained undetected since at least 2021 when it was registered on Virustotal.

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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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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Program Addresses Secondary Use of Patient Data by Third Parties for AI Initiatives The Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals' "responsible use" of health data. The effort aims to help address growing privacy concerns over the secondary use of patient data by third parties for artificial intelligence initiatives and other activities.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 7, 2023

10 years later. 🤯 Seriously, how did this thing turn into this?! It was the humblest of beginning with absolutely no expectations of anything, and now it's, well, massive! I'm a bit lost for words if I'm honest, I hope the chat with Charlotte adds some candour to this week's update, she's seen this thing grow since before its first birthday, through the hardest times and the best times and now lives and breathes HIBP day in day out with me.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Report: 2.6 Billion Personal Records Exposed in the Last 2 Years The number of data breaches in the U.S. has hit an all-time high, amid mounting attacks against third-party vendors and aggressive ransomware attacks, says a report from Apple and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher. Breaches have more than tripled between 2013 and 2022.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 7, 2023

You would be hard-pressed to find an author and organization (KnowBe4) that has pushed the use of phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) harder.

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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.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Both Governments Sanction 2 'Star Blizzard' Hackers; US Indicts Them The U.K. government accused Russia's domestic intelligence agency of running a yearslong campaign to interfere in British politics. U.S. federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal indictment against two FSB agents, accursing them of phishing campaigns against national security government employees.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Trilogue Talks to Resume on Friday European lawmakers and officials failed to hammer out a compromise regulation on artificial intelligence after two days of talks that stretched over 22 hours and were intended to culminate in a Thursday settlement. The European Union has been at work on the Artificial Intelligence Act since 2021.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over one hundred representatives from across the globe convened in the UK on 1-2 November 2023 at the Global AI Safety Summit. The focus of the Summit was to discuss how best to manage the risks posed by the most recent advances in AI. However, it was the “Bletchley Declaration” –announced at the start of the Summit—which truly emphasized the significance governments are attributing to these issues.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Organizations have always used some degree of technology to provide an excellent customer experience , but the future of customer service will demand even more advancements to meet customers’ growing expectations. There is no question that customer service is about to take a massive leap forward, thanks to emerging trends like artificial intelligence (AI).

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Check out the article here (subscription required). The post Generative AI generates tricky choices for managers via The Economist first appeared on IG GURU.

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eDiscovery Law

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, we celebrate World e-Discovery Day, an annual industry-wide event for lawyers and legal professionals to highlight the critical role e-discovery plays in our legal system. Our e-Discovery Analysis & Technology Group is continuing a series of Q&A videos to mark the occasion.

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National Archives Records Express

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Signpost in the yard of the Domeier Grocery Store, on South Minnesota Street in New Ulm, Minnesota National Archives Identifier: 558138 We are pleased to announce the release of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Non-Compliant Permanent Digitized Records. This FAQ supports the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) regulation concerning digitization standards for permanent records ( 36 CFR 1236 Subpart E ).

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Collibra

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Before Senior Account Executive Lucy Whitty started winning new customers alongside her Collibra team, she won a silver medal in Sailing for Australia at the 2012 Olympics in London. She says the lessons she learned while navigating to the highest level of her sport and representing Australia on the world stage continue to help her succeed today. Though her goal may have shifted from crossing finish lines to closing deals, her path to success has the same requirements: perseverance, resilience,

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CILIP

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Uncensored Library in Minecraft: Promoting Free Press Zakariya Gayle, Academic Support Librarian at UAL High Holborn made the switch from retail management to libraries, starting as a Casual Assistant in the public sector. This blog post was written after he attended Libraries Rewired. The Cilip Libraries Rewired Conference 2023 brought together me, Lisa Chadwick, Michale Michael Darko, and librarians and information professionals from all over.

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Jamf

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Explore how Device Management Solutions significantly benefit deskless workers in the transportation sector, enhancing productivity and streamlining operations

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Info Source

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Por el equipo ARCH, traducido por Rosario Rogel-Salazar ¿Qué es la investigación computacional crítica y cómo afianzarla en la comunidad académica? Estas fueron las preguntas guiaron la conversación en el panel titulado “Investigación Digital y la Web”, en el marco del Foro de la Federación de Bibliotecas Digitales de este año (DLF por sus siglas en inglés).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The modern pace of data creation is staggering. The average organization produces data constantly—perhaps even continuously—and soon it’s investing in servers to provide ample storage for that information. In time, and probably sooner than expected, the organization accrues more data and outgrows that server, so it invests in multiple servers.

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