Digital Transformation: Lessons Learned from the World Cup
Micro Focus
JULY 17, 2019
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Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 13, 2019
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Data governance in the age of AI: Beyond the basics
Information Management Resources
JULY 19, 2019
Ensuring the quality of data becomes increasingly important so that organizations don’t wind up making bigger mistakes.
Security Flaw Exposed Valid Airline Boarding Passes
Data Breach Today
JULY 16, 2019
Amadeus Patches Check-In Software Used by Hundreds of Airlines A vulnerability in global airline check-in software used by 500 airlines could have been exploited to download other individuals' valid boarding passes, potentially giving them access to restricted airport spaces, warns security expert David Stubley. The flaw in Amadeus travel software has now been fixed.
Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time
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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.
QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack
Krebs on Security
JULY 19, 2019
Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ says it is trying to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its network and has left customers unable to access their accounting data for the past three days. Unfortunately for iNSYNQ, the company appears to be turning a deaf ear to the increasingly anxious cries from its users for more information about the incident.
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Professional Development – 4 Missed Opportunities for Solution Providers
AIIM
JULY 16, 2019
I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of solution providers in the information management industry, specifically as applied to education and professional development. In this post I am focusing on the members of solution providers’ staff that are marketing to customers, selling to customers, acting as the voice of the customer, and implementing and supporting customers’ solutions.
Payment Fraud: Criminals Enroll Stolen Cards on Apple Pay
Data Breach Today
JULY 15, 2019
Fraud Fighters Also See Spikes in ATM Malware, Card Enrollment as a Service Fraudsters continue to get new tricks up their sleeves. Criminals are increasingly using Apple Pay, setting up mobile call centers to socially engineer victims as well as tricking consumers via fake e-commerce sites that never fulfill orders, fraud-fighting experts warn.
Party Like a Russian, Carder’s Edition
Krebs on Security
JULY 17, 2019
“It takes a certain kind of man with a certain reputation. To alleviate the cash from a whole entire nation…” KrebsOnSecurity has seen some creative yet truly bizarre ads for dodgy services in the cybercrime underground, but the following animated advertisement for a popular credit card fraud shop likely takes the cake. The name of this particular card shop won’t be mentioned here, and its various domain names featured in the video have been pixelated so as not to further
Four unexpected ways that color-coding can solve RIM challenges
TAB OnRecord
JULY 15, 2019
In the first of a four-part blog series, we’ll focus our attention on the “lowly” color-coded folder. A staple of the records management world for many years, color coding has traditionally been used for a very specific function: helping to spot misfiled folders. However, as we’ll reveal in this blog series, color coding can be used in some unexpected ways to solve many more RIM challenges… Read More.
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.
Capture? Haven't we been doing this for years?
AIIM
JULY 19, 2019
Capture? Haven’t we been doing this for years and years? Well…yes and no. Yes, organizations have been scanning paper into digital archives for a long time. And for 72% of organizations, scanning paper is still the most important part of their information capture strategy. The continued importance of simply getting rid of the paper is not just a function of laggard organizations; the struggle to get rid of paper is consistent across all levels of overall competence.
Phishing Scheme Targets Amex Cardholders
Data Breach Today
JULY 19, 2019
Researchers Say Campaign Uses Email Hyperlink Splits to Evade URL Filters Researchers have uncovered a new type of phishing campaign that is targeting American Express card users. In these incidents, attackers are sending a hyperlink as part of a phony account update to access the victim's credentials and other account details, according to researchers at the security firm Cofense.
Is ‘REvil’ the New GandCrab Ransomware?
Krebs on Security
JULY 15, 2019
The cybercriminals behind the GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering recently announced they were closing up shop and retiring after having allegedly earned more than $2 billion in extortion payments from victims. But a growing body of evidence suggests the GandCrab team have instead quietly regrouped behind a more exclusive and advanced ransomware program known variously as “ REvil ,” “ Sodin ,” and “ Sodinokibi.” “We are getting a well-deserv
The Netherlands – First GDPR fine imposed: EUR 460,000
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JULY 16, 2019
Today, the Dutch Data Protection Authority ( Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens , “ Dutch DPA “) issued its first GDPR-fine of EUR 460,000. The fine is imposed on the Dutch Haga Hospital for having an insufficient internal security of patient records. The fact that the first GDPR-fine was imposed on a hospital isn’t a complete surprise, as already in December 2018, the Dutch DPA already announced that it would focus its enforcement actions on the public and health sector.
How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?
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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.
Magecart group infected over 17,000 domains via unprotected AWS S3 Buckets
Security Affairs
JULY 13, 2019
The Magecart continues to target websites worldwide, it infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. . The Magecart gang made the headlines again, according to a new report published by RiskIQ , it has infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. . A few days ago, security experts at Sanguine Security have uncovered a new large-scale payment card skimming campaign that already hacked 962 online stores running on the Magento
Despite BlueKeep Warnings, Many Organizations Fail to Patch
Data Breach Today
JULY 19, 2019
Over 800,000 Windows Devices Remain Vulnerable, Analysts Say Weeks after Microsoft issued a patch for the BlueKeep vulnerability, which threatens devices running older versions of Windows, many organizations worldwide have yet to install patches despite alerts from the software giant, government agencies and cybersecurity companies, according to researchers at BitSight.
Hackers Made an App That Kills to Prove a Point
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 16, 2019
Medtronic and the FDA left an insulin pump with a potentially deadly vulnerability on the market—until researchers who found the flaw showed how bad it could be.
Zoom Vulnerability
Schneier on Security
JULY 16, 2019
The Zoom conferencing app has a vulnerability that allows someone to remotely take over the computer's camera. It's a bad vulnerability, made worse by the fact that it remains even if you uninstall the Zoom app: This vulnerability allows any website to forcibly join a user to a Zoom call, with their video camera activated, without the user's permission.
7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production
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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.
Former NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years for stealing classified data
Security Affairs
JULY 19, 2019
The former NSA contractor who pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of data from the Agency, was sentenced to nine years in prison. The former National Security Agency contractor Harold Thomas Martin III , who was accused and subsequently pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of classified NSA data, was sentenced to nine years in prison. The man was arrested by the FBI in October 2016 , the US DoJ charged Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material.
Phishing Campaign Tied to Amazon Prime Day
Data Breach Today
JULY 15, 2019
Fraudsters Use Phishing Kit Called 16Shop, McAfee Reports In the run-up to Amazon Prime Day, some of the company's customers were being targeted by a phishing kit called 16Shop, according to McAfee researchers. The campaign is similar to an earlier attack that focused on Apple users.
Think FaceApp Is Scary? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 17, 2019
The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny.
Anatomy of a spear phishing attack – with example scam
IT Governance
JULY 18, 2019
With cyber crime quickly becoming a top priority for organisations, IT admins have felt the pressure to invest in network defences and ensure their systems aren’t breached. But those measures aren’t much help when criminals use phishing scams to bypass organisations’ defences and hit them where they’re most vulnerable: their employees. Fraudsters have countless tricks up their sleeve when targeting people for attacks, but perhaps the most dangerous is spear phishing.
Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options
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Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused
Security Affairs
JULY 19, 2019
Poland and Lithuania are probing the potential privacy and security risks of using a Russian-made app FaceApp. Millions of people recently downloaded the FaceApp app and are taking part in the “ #FaceApp Challenge ” to show friends how they can look like when they will be old and grey. Many security experts are warning of the risks of using the popular app, threat actors could be potentially interested in data collected by FaceApp.
Ransomware: As GandCrab Retires, Sodinokibi Rises
Data Breach Today
JULY 17, 2019
Ransom Payments to Crypto-Locking Malware Extortionists Are Surging With the GandCrab ransomware-as-service gang promising to retire - and free decryptors now aiding victims - rival Sodinokibi has already stepped into the void, security experts warn. Driven also by attackers wielding Ryuk, Dharma and Phobos, ransom payments by victims have been surging.
Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement
Schneier on Security
JULY 15, 2019
Motherboard got its hands on Palantir's Gotham user's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. The capabilities are staggering, according to the guide: If police have a name that's associated with a license plate, they can use automatic license plate reader data to find out where they've been, and when
How to make sure your cyber insurance policy pays out
IT Governance
JULY 15, 2019
Cyber insurance is big business these days. With the ever-present danger of data breaches and cyber attacks, organisations must be sure that they have the financial backing to respond appropriately. Damages incurred by information security incidents generally aren’t covered in commercial insurance policies, so a specific policy is necessary to help cover the costs of things like forensic investigation, incident response and notification procedures.
Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI
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Experts spotted a rare Linux Desktop spyware dubbed EvilGnome
Security Affairs
JULY 18, 2019
Experts at Intezer discovered a new backdoor, dubbed EvilGnome, that is targeting Linux systems for cyber espionage purpose. Intezer spotted a new piece of Linux malware dubbed EvilGnome because it disguises as a Gnome extension. The researchers attribute the spyware to the Russia-linked and Gamaredon Group. The modules used by EvilGnome are reminiscent of the Windows tools used by the Gamaredon Group, other analogies include the use of SFX, persistence with task scheduler and the deployment o
Patient Record Snooping Incident Leads to GDPR Fine
Data Breach Today
JULY 19, 2019
Hospital in The Netherlands Slapped With Fine; May Face Additional Penalties Authorities in the Netherlands recently levied a $516,000 fine under the General Data Protection Regulation against a hospital in the Hague in connection with a data breach involving "dozens" of staffers who snooped on the electronic medical records of a celebrity.
US Mayors Commit to Just Saying No to Ransomware
Dark Reading
JULY 16, 2019
The group of more than 1,400 top elected municipal officials takes the admirable, recommended stance against paying ransoms. However, can towns and cities secure their information technology infrastructure to withstand attacks?
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