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Privacy and Security of Data at Universities

Schneier on Security

Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them. Universities are exploiting these data for research, learning analytics, faculty evaluation, strategic decisions, and other sensitive matters.

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Why & Where You Should You Plant Your Flag

Krebs on Security

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Schneier on Security

Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Either everyone has a copy of it, or the blockchain’s security fails. But people need to continually verify the blockchain’s history on the ledger for the system to be secure. Most Bitcoin mining happens in China.

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NYT Report: U.S. Cyber units planted destructive Malware in Russian Power Grid

Security Affairs

The New York Times, citing current and former government officials, revealed that the United States planted a potentially destructive malware in Russia’s electric power grid. ” The hacking operations aimed at warning the Russian Government about the cyber capabilities of the U.S. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019.

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31 Letters to Santa from ECM Users

AIIM

I want a new football game and football because my little brother always tries to steal mine. Information Governance resides with Records management personnel who have not moved with the times and upgraded their skills.”. “It Information governance overall is not well understood or embraced as a broad discipline. Dear Santa.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2019 – 114.6 million records leaked

IT Governance

Multiple sites affiliated with the University of Florida student government hacked (unknown). Internet hosting provider Hostinger resets users’ passwords after security breach (14 million). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). Financial information.

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Celebrating 40 years of Db2: Running the world’s mission critical workloads

IBM Big Data Hub

Codd published his famous paper “ A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.” ” His paper and research went on to inspire Donald D. watsonx.data integration At Think, IBM announced watsonx.data as a new open, hybrid and governed data store optimized for all data, analytics, and AI workloads.