Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Researcher Reported Configuration Issue to Cloud Vendor After Lab Failed to Respond An unsecured database appearing to belong to a Netherlands-based medical laboratory exposed 1.3 million records on the internet, including COVID test results and other personal identifiable information, said a security researcher who discovered the trove and reported his findings to the company.
AIIM
JANUARY 23, 2024
I love information management! I love the information governance, records management, and data governance fields. Most of my family and friends think I’m crazy and I would agree with them. This work doesn’t excite everyone. I didn’t always use to be in this field though. Before entering the information management field, I spent 25 years in higher education.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Governments Accuse Aleksandr Ermakov and REvil of Being Medibank Hackers The United States, Australia and the United Kingdom sanctioned a Russian man the governments say was behind the October 2022 hacking of Medibank, Australia's largest private health insurer. The attack was a high point in a wave of data breaches buffeting the country that year.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2024
The Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the UK water utility Southern Water, a major player in the UK water industry. Southern Water is a private utility company responsible for collecting and treating wastewater in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent, and for providing public water supply to approximately half of this area.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Cybercrime Groups Hire VexTrio to Help Route Victims to Their Malicious Content As if the cybercrime ecosystem wasn't already damaging enough, security researchers have discovered a malicious traffic broker named VexTrio, which affiliates hire to route victims to their malicious content that is often disguised via fake dating site profiles, tech support or browser updates.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
British Lawmakers Call on Government to Boost Protections From AI Scams Generative artificial intelligence-enabled ransomware and nation-state hacks in the United Kingdom are "almost certainly" likely to surge after this year, the National Cyber Security Center warned. And British lawmakers called on the government to roll out measures to prevent AI scams.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds VMware vCenter Server Out-of-Bounds Write bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a VMware vCenter Server Out-of-Bounds Write bug, tracked as CVE-2023-34048 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. vCenter Server is a critical component in VMware virtualization and cloud computing software suite.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Israel-Based Cybersecurity Startup Announces Impressive Series D Fundraising Haul Silverfort, the Israel-based cybersecurity startup that claims to have built "the world's first unified identity threat protection platform," announced an impressive fundraising haul that the CEO told ISMG will be used to further invest in its identity protection platform.
Hanzo Learning Center
JANUARY 23, 2024
In the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it's crucial for enterprises to adopt technologies that integrate seamlessly into mission-critical workflows. Understanding the practicalities of this integration, especially in the legal domain, is key. To delve deeper into this topic, I had the opportunity to speak with Dave Ruel, VP of Product at Hanzo.
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.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Study Looks at Impact of AI on Tasks Requiring Visual Processing Artificial intelligence may not steal our jobs just yet, but only because humans are currently cheaper to employ. Many of the human jobs that could be replaced with AI are not "economically beneficial" to automate - at least for now - say researchers at MIT.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 23, 2024
On January 23, 2024, the UK government announced that it published a draft Code of Practice on cybersecurity governance (the “Code”). The guidelines in the Code are intended to “help directors and senior leaders shore up their defences from cyber threats.” The Code has been designed in partnership with industry directors, cyber and governance experts, and the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), with a key focus to ensure that organizations have detailed plans in place to respond to and rec
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
US Cyber Agency Director Is Latest High-Profile Target of Dangerous Swatting Attack The director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed she was the apparent target of a swatting attack in which police responded to false calls of a shooting at her Virginia residence on Dec. 30, 2023. In a statement, Easterly described the experience as "harrowing.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2024
Financial services company LoanDepot disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 million individuals. LoanDepot is a financial services company that primarily operates as a mortgage lender. It is one of the largest nonbank lenders in the United States. The company provides a range of mortgage and non-mortgage loan products and services. LoanDepot disclosed this week a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 million individuals.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2024
Hackers Spread Fake News About SEC Approving Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund It wasn't a sophisticated hack on Jan. 9 that allowed hackers to briefly take control of an official U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission social media account, the agency said Monday. The hackers simply scammed the account's mobile phone provider in a SIM swap attack.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2024
Fortra addressed a new authentication bypass vulnerability impacting GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer) product. Fortra warns customers of a new authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-0204 (CVSS score 9.8), impacting the GoAnywhere MFT (Managed File Transfer) product. Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer is a comprehensive solution for secure file transfer, data encryption, and compliance management.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 23, 2024
Really interesting research: “ Lend Me Your Ear: Passive Remote Physical Side Channels on PCs.” Abstract: We show that built-in sensors in commodity PCs, such as microphones, inadvertently capture electromagnetic side-channel leakage from ongoing computation. Moreover, this information is often conveyed by supposedly-benign channels such as audio recordings and common Voice-over-IP applications, even after lossy compression.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 23, 2024
The Australian government announced sanctions for a member of the REvil ransomware group for the Medibank hack that occurred in 2022. The Australian government announced sanctions for Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov (aka GustaveDore, aiiis_ermak, blade_runner, JimJones), a Russian national who is a member of the REvil ransomware group. The man is responsible for the cyber attacks that in 2022 hit the Australian insurance provider Medibank. “This morning I can announce that Australia has use
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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.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 23, 2024
Cybernews just reported: In what appears to be a digital tsunami, a colossal data breach has surfaced, unveiling a staggering 26 billion records – a figure that's hard to even fathom.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 23, 2024
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical.
Record Nations
JANUARY 23, 2024
Businesses of all sizes create and manage extensive amounts of electronic data. Unexpected events, ranging from natural disasters to cyberattacks, can cripple operations and jeopardize sensitive data. To safeguard your business against such threats, it is crucial to develop a well-thought-out IT disaster recovery plan. In this blog, we will guide you through the key.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 23, 2024
We, at OpenText, are leading the charge in innovative digital transformation, equipping our customers with essential tools to tackle today’s most complex business challenges. The next generation of innovation will be driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and built on information management. We’ve already taken flight with groundbreaking AI capabilities unveiled in Cloud Editions (CE) 23.4, … The post Reimagine work with Cloud Editions 24.1 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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“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.
KnowBe4
JANUARY 23, 2024
'Swatting' Becomes the Latest Extortion Tactic in Ransomware Attacks
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 23, 2024
Scalable cloud BI service now available In a recent release, we announced that you would soon be able to scale high-volume BI at lightning speed thanks to a new cloud BI service coming soon. Well, that time has come. With release 24.1, OpenText Magellan BI and Reporting – Public Cloud is now available as a … The post High-volume, scalable, cloud BI service now available on OpenText Public Cloud appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Information Matters
JANUARY 23, 2024
Artificial intelligence is rapidly progressing from a promising technology to an integral part of business, changing how humans and machines interact. With recent advances in AI like chatbots powered by Read more The post AI set to transform business – but risks must be addressed appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 23, 2024
If mainframe and COBOL are at the heart of your operations, breaking the bounds of mainframe architecture to scale and innovate at speed can seem daunting. Fortunately, you can accelerate your digital transformation journey while staying agile in today’s fast-paced multi-cloud world. Starting Wednesday, January 24, 2024, OpenText’s Application Modernization experts will launch the first … The post OpenText Introduces New ‘COBOL Webinar Wednesdays’ Series appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Information Matters
JANUARY 23, 2024
A recent BCG survey of over 1,400 C-suite executives worldwide reveals that while 89% rank AI and generative AI (GenAI) as a top-three priority for 2024, most companies have yet Read more The post Harnessing the Potential of AI to Drive Business Growth appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 23, 2024
Cloud (SaaS) and off-cloud SMAX customers can elevate user experiences and cut support costs with OpenText™ IT Operations Aviator. Generative AI Generative AI is a trending topic in ITOps. As Harvard Business Review put it, “AI won’t replace humans—but humans with AI will replace humans without AI.” This quote caught my eye because it succinctly … The post OpenText expands delivery for private generative AI appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Information Matters
JANUARY 23, 2024
A quarterly survey of over 2,800 AI leaders by Deloitte reveals persistent excitement about generative AI’s potential paired with uncertainty on managing emerging challenges. Key insights include: High expectations for Read more The post Tracking the Pulse of Generative AI Adoption: Excitement and Opportunity Tempered by Uncertainty appeared first on Information Matters - Where AI Meets Knowledge Management.
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