Wed.Nov 29, 2023

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ChatGPT Turns One - and the Future of Generative AI

Data Breach Today

Gartner's Avivah Litan on Impact of OpenAI Drama and State of Gen AI Nov. 30 marks the one-year public birthday of ChatGPT. Gartner's Avivah Litan shared insights on the current state and future of generative AI, as well as the potential market after-effects of the pre-Thanksgiving drama involving OpenAI, its board and fired/reinstated CEO Sam Altman.

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Public AI: Bad. Internal AI: Good. With Information Governance: Great!

Weissman's World

We’ve talked a lot about the perils of using generative AI, which while improving is still prone to making stuff up and exposes our data to privacy problems if used as engine fodder. But I don’t know that I’ve properly distinguished between the “bad” public technologies and the possible “good” of those installed internally –… Read More » Public AI: Bad.

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Demystifying Vulnerability Management: Cutting Through the Noise

Data Breach Today

Vulnerability Management is a well-known cybersecurity essential. However the lines have blurred over the years regarding which vital practices fall under the VM classification.

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News alert: Kiteworks forecast lays out risk predictions, strategies for sensitive content in 2024

The Last Watchdog

San Mateo, Calif., November 29, 2023 – Kiteworks , which delivers data privacy and compliance for sensitive content communications through its Private Content Network (PCN), released today its Sensitive Content Communications 2024 Forecast Report. The report outlines 12 predictions and strategies to help IT, security, risk management, and compliance leaders tackle data privacy and cyber-risk challenges for the coming year.

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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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Attackers Actively Target Critical ownCloud Vulnerability

Data Breach Today

Content Collaboration Platform Sent Updates and Alert Directly to Users Last Month Security researchers say attackers are actively attempting to exploit a critical vulnerability in unpatched ownCloud implementations, which they can use to steal credentials and other secret information. Last month, ownCloud said it had sent all users a security alert and updates to fix the flaws.

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Okta Says Hacker Stole Every Customer Support User's Details

Data Breach Today

Beware Phishing and Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Passwords, Vendor Warns Identity and authentication giant Okta said the attacker behind its September data breach stole usernames and contact details for all users of its primary customer support system, and warned customers to beware potential follow-on phishing and social engineering attacks.

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Thousands of secrets lurk in app images on Docker Hub

Security Affairs

Thousands of secrets have been left exposed on Docker Hub, a platform where web developers collaborate on their code for web applications. While some are harmless API keys, others could lead to unauthorized access, data breaches, or identity theft, the latest Cybernews research reveals. The Docker Hub store has at least 5,493 container images that contain secrets and could be considered as exposing sensitive information.

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US House Members Eye Potential Regulations in Healthcare AI

Data Breach Today

Industry Experts Share Concerns Over Misuse, Privacy and Security With Committee As Congress weighs potential legislative and regulatory guardrails for the use of AI in healthcare, issues such as human oversight, privacy and security risk need close attention, said healthcare industry experts who testified during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.

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Okta reveals additional attackers’ activities in October 2023 Breach

Security Affairs

Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta revealed additional threat actor activity linked to the October 2023 breach. Okta provided additional details about the October 2023 breach and revealed additional threat actor malicious activities. In October, the Cloud identity and access management solutions provider said that threat actors broke into its support case management system and stole authentication data, including cookies and session tokens, that can be abused in future

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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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US Sanctions, Seizes Sinbad Cryptomixer

Data Breach Today

Sinbad Was the 'Preferred Mixing Service' of North Korean Hackers The U.S. federal government Wednesday added cryptocurrency mixer Sinbad.io to a growing blacklist of virtual asset platforms under sanctions that prevent Americans from doing business with them. The FBI seized the Sinbad website in an international operation.

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Breaking Laptop Fingerprint Sensors

Schneier on Security

They’re not that good : Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware, they were able to fool the Goodix fingerprint sensor in a Dell Inspiron 15, the Synaptic sensor in a Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and the ELAN sensor in one of Microsoft’s own Surface Pro Type Covers.

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Experts Urge Congress to Establish Clear SBOM Guidance

Data Breach Today

Federal Agencies Lack Comprehensive Guidelines For Developing SBOMs, Experts Say Procurement experts testified to the House subcommittee on cybersecurity, information technology and government innovation Wednesday that government requirements leave too many unanswered questions and ambiguities for federal agencies when it comes to implementing SBOMs.

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No One Knows How Online Pharmacy Company was Hit with a Data Breach Impacting 2.3 Million Customers

KnowBe4

This is a cautionary tale of both how your data can legally end up in the hands of an organization you never intended and how victims can be largely left in the dark post-breach.

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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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Stopping Cloud Workload Attacks

Data Breach Today

In this episode of "Cybersecurity Insights," Eyal Fisher discussed Sweet Security's Cloud Runtime Security Suite, which helps CISOS and security teams defend against all stages of a cyberattack by gathering data, generating insights, baselining the normal environment and looking for deviations.

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OpenAI’s Custom Chatbots Are Leaking Their Secrets

WIRED Threat Level

Released earlier this month, OpenAI’s GPTs let anyone create custom chatbots. But some of the data they’re built on is easily exposed.

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BlueVoyant Raises $140M, Buys Resilience Firm Conquest Cyber

Data Breach Today

Deal Will Expand BlueVoyant's Footprint in US Government, Defense Industrial Base BlueVoyant purchased a risk management vendor led by an Army veteran to expand its SaaS footprint with U.S. government and defense industrial organizations. Buying Conquest Cyber will allow BlueVoyant to provide cyber risk maturity and compliance assessments to both federal and commercial customers.

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NHS England faces lawsuit over patient privacy fears linked to new data platform

The Guardian Data Protection

Four groups claim no legal basis exists for setting up the Federated Data Platform which facilitates information sharing The NHS has been accused of “breaking the law” by creating a massive data platform that will share information about patients. Four organisations are bringing a lawsuit against NHS England claiming that there is no legal basis for its setting up of the Federated Data Platform (FDP).

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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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[Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing

KnowBe4

Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.

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Real-time artificial intelligence and event processing  

IBM Big Data Hub

By leveraging AI for real-time event processing, businesses can connect the dots between disparate events to detect and respond to new trends, threats and opportunities. In 2023, the IBM® Institute for Business Value (IBV) surveyed 2,500 global executives and found that best-in-class companies are reaping a 13% ROI from their AI projects—more than twice the average ROI of 5.9%.

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Partnership to Campaign: Green Libraries is growing

CILIP

Partnership to Campaign: Green Libraries is growing Global leaders, thinkers, and activists from industry and politics will gather this weekend in Dubai for the first day of COP28 to rethink, reboot, and refocus the climate agenda. Meanwhile libraries across the UK and beyond have been working hard to bring climate action and awareness to their communities as part of the Green Libraries Partnership.

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Synthetic data generation: Building trust by ensuring privacy and quality

IBM Big Data Hub

With the emergence of new advances and applications in machine learning models and artificial intelligence, including generative AI, generative adversarial networks, computer vision and transformers, many businesses are seeking to address their most pressing real-world data challenges using both types of synthetic data: structured and unstructured. Structured synthetic data types are quantitative and includes tabular data, such as numbers or values, while unstructured synthetic data types are qu

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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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QR Code Phishing Campaigns on the Rise

KnowBe4

There’s been a “precipitous rise” in QR code phishing (quishing) campaigns in 2023, according to Matthew Tyson at CSO.

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How blockchain enables trust in water trading

IBM Big Data Hub

Australia pioneered water rights trading in the early 1900s, becoming a world leader in water sharing between valleys. The initiative extended throughout the states of Australia across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). However, findings from the water market’s inquiry of the MDB, completed by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), highlighted a great many challenges of the system.

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Okta Breach Impacted All Customer Support Users—Not 1 Percent

WIRED Threat Level

Okta upped its original estimate of customer support users affected by a recent breach from 1 percent to 100 percent, citing a “discrepancy.

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Sensors, signals and synergy: Enhancing Downer’s data exploration with IBM

IBM Big Data Hub

In the realm of urban transportation, precision is pivotal. Downer, a leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand, considers itself a guardian of the elaborate transportation matrix, and it continually seeks to enhance its operational efficiency. With over 200 trains and a multitude of sensors, Downer has accumulated a vast amount of data.

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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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Navigating the landscape of digital accessibility

OpenText Information Management

Over the past decade, the notion of a customer has changed significantly. How individuals engage with businesses, their evolving expectations, their demand for quicker responses, and recent global events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have compelled organizations to re-evaluate how they serve their customers. Whether an organization offers financial services, healthcare, or operates in the … The post Navigating the landscape of digital accessibility appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Australian privacy watchdog refuses to investigate employer that allegedly accessed worker’s personal emails

The Guardian Data Protection

Legal expert says court ruling in case where information accessed on work laptop at Mecrus confirms ‘Australians still don’t have a right to privacy’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Australian information commissioner refused to investigate an employer that allegedly accessed an employee’s personal emails, on the grounds the information was accessed on the employee’s work laptop.

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New Futurum Report: How Mainframe Modernization Begins with Application Modernization

OpenText Information Management

Download report and watch discussion exploring smarter mainframe modernization. The post New Futurum Report: How Mainframe Modernization Begins with Application Modernization appeared first on OpenText Blogs.