Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2018
Hint: Ashley Madison, Equifax and Uber Are Thriving Large data breaches make headlines, trigger stock price slips and often lead to executives getting fired. But security consultant Eric Pinkerton's study of breached businesses - including Ashley Madison, Equifax and Uber - finds that many organizations not only recover from breaches, but end up thriving.
Record Nations
JUNE 1, 2018
If you are going to digitize your records, the most important step in this process is deciding what to do with your records once they are scanned. Last Steps in Scanning When you transition to digital record keeping, you will want to make informed decisions about how to store these newly digitized records. Cloud Storage is a […]. The post What to Do Once You Finish Scanning appeared first on Record Nations.
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OpenText Information Management
MAY 28, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML) are the current buzzwords resonating across all businesses. They’re considered to be a game changers, potentially disruptive and are supposed to make life and business better for everybody in general. The effects of AI adoption will be magnified in the coming decade, as manufacturing, retail, transportation, finance, health … The post 7 steps to getting started with your AI journey appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
AIIM
MAY 30, 2018
If we were to believe everything we hear in the press, then all computing and data storage is moving to the cloud — and quickly! The reality, though, is more nuanced. Firstly, there is no singular cloud; instead, there are hundreds of clouds to choose from. Secondly, not everything is moving to the cloud, and even the stuff that is, is moving slowly.
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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
JUNE 1, 2018
Cybercrime: FBI Says Ransomware, Extortion Continue to Dominate Hackers have reportedly demanded a ransom from Bank of Montreal and Simplii Financial in exchange for not dumping 90,000 customers' account details on a fraud forum. The FBI says online extortion and ransomware remain the top two types of cybercrime it's seeing today.
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TAB OnRecord
MAY 30, 2018
Most organizations now generate large volumes of electronic records, but this doesn't mean that paper records collections are shrinking. Add storage and technological restraints to the mix and you are faced with a complex RM challenge. To help you successfully manage your electronic records, we've put together these 4 tips. Read More. The post Learn how to solve four common challenges in electronic records management appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.
IT Governance
MAY 29, 2018
Remember when I said last month that “with the GDPR less than a month away I imagine future lists will be even longer thanks to the introduction of mandatory data breach notifications”? Well, May’s list of incidents is very long, and the GDPR only came into effect at the end of the month. If I were a cynic I might think that some breached organisations were seeking to keep their exposure to regulatory fines to a minimum by rushing to report historic incidents before the GDPR – and its enhanced p
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2018
Property Industry Has Been Caught Off Guard, Expert Says Late last year in Australia, cybercriminals began targeting a fertile yet relatively poorly protected business sector for so-called business email compromise scams: the real estate industry. One expert says the industry, highly dependent on email, is ill-prepared for the attacks.
Elie
MAY 30, 2018
This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. , which are specially crafted inputs that have been developed with the aim of being reliably misclassified in order to evade detection.
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.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 27, 2018
Researchers are working to identify behavioral and neurological indicators that determine which lil puppers will grow into good bomb-sniffing doggos.
Dark Reading
MAY 30, 2018
The ability to learn gives security-focused AI and ML apps unrivaled speed and accuracy over their more basic, automated predecessors. But they are not a silver bullet. Yet.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 1, 2018
Company Asks Court to Compel Arbitration A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the aftermath of a data breach impacting 150 million users of Under Armour's MyFitnessPal mobile application and website. But the apparel maker has asked the court to compel arbitration of the case.
Schneier on Security
MAY 31, 2018
Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux, where information about market movements took several days to arrive from Paris by mail coach. Accordingly, traders who could get the information more quickly could make money by anticipating these movements.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 30, 2018
The island nation is considering blocking Facebook for one month in order to collect information on fake profiles, pornography, and more. But the impact could be severe.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 29, 2018
Purchasing options outside of the office are diverse and varied depending on what people want to buy, where and when they buy it, and what they need it for. While shoppers might have personal preferences, they don't limit ourselves to one retailer for all purchasing decisions. So why do that in a work environment?
Data Breach Today
MAY 30, 2018
Health Insurer Sues Organizations That Represented HIV Patients in Earlier Privacy Dispute A messy legal case involving a 2017 privacy breach that has already cost Aetna about $20 million in settlements has taken yet another twist. The health insurer has filed a lawsuit against two organizations that represented plaintiffs in an earlier privacy-related dispute, attempting to recoup some costs.
Data Matters
MAY 30, 2018
On 28 May 2018, the European Data Protection Board (the “ EDPB ”) released a statement on the revision of the ePrivacy Regulation (the “ proposed Regulation ”) and its impact on the protection of individuals in relation to the privacy and confidentiality of their communications. It is the first statement of substance by the EDPB since it was established by the EU General Data Protection Regulation on 25 May 2018.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 28, 2018
We mined roughly 13 Bitcoins and then ripped up our private key. We were stupid—but not alone.
Dark Reading
MAY 29, 2018
One gas station failed its PCI compliance test due to security holes in its automated gas tank gauge configuration, researcher says.
Data Breach Today
MAY 29, 2018
What happens if organizations that must comply with GDPR have yet to achieve compliance, despite having had two years to do so before enforcement began? Don't panic, says cybersecurity expert Brian Honan, but do be pursuing a data privacy transparency and accountability action plan.
Threatpost
JUNE 1, 2018
The exposed information includes accounts payable and invoice data, customer support emails, password-recovery mails, links to employee manuals, staffing schedules and other internal resources.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 1, 2018
After learning to code from nonprofit The Last Mile, four inmates built JOLT, a search engine to help further their studies.
The Guardian Data Protection
JUNE 1, 2018
Regardless of where we live, we all benefit from data protection laws – companies must us show how they profit off our information When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. Right now, the only way we can force these companies to take our privacy more seriously is through the market.
Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2018
Cybercrime Gang Tied to $1 Billion in Losses Has Returned, Group-IB Warns A group of cybercriminals known for their persistence and precision in executing attacks against banks' ATMs and card processing infrastructures has regrouped despite the arrest of their alleged leader.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 29, 2018
According to Thales eSecurity’s latest Data Threat Report, European Edition , almost three in four businesses have now fallen victim to some of the world’s most significant data breaches, resulting in a loss of sensitive data and diminished customer trust. It’s no surprise feelings of vulnerability are high, with just 8 per cent of businesses not feeling at risk.
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IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 30, 2018
It seems like CEOs all over the world are realizing that to be competitive, they have to embrace technologies like private cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). IBM Cloud Private for Data empowers organizations to be AI-ready with an integrated analytics platform.
The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 29, 2018
Directors could face financial penalty on top of fine directly imposed on company Business directors could be personally fined up to £500,000 if they fail to prevent nuisance calls, under a government consultation on the issue. While there has been a big recent increase in the fines issued to companies – last year one was fined £400,000 for making almost 100m automated calls in 18 months – there is concern this has not been a sufficient deterrent.
Data Breach Today
MAY 29, 2018
Faced With Ransomware Attack, Practice Decided Paying Extortionists Was Best Option A mental healthcare practice's decision to pay a ransom to have sensitive patient data unlocked illustrates the difficult choices that organizations can face when attempting to recover from a ransomware attack.
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