Wed.Apr 24, 2024

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Harnessing AI: A Step-by-Step Guide for Job Seekers

Data Breach Today

How ChatGPT Can Help You Write Your Job Application Documents Artificial intelligence offers innovative tools to refine your job application materials. This guide provides practical steps on how to use one common tool, ChatGPT, to enhance your resume and cover letter, ensuring they capture the attention of potential employers.

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Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation

Schneier on Security

Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini-abstract: In this Article I argue that most of the time, privacy consent is fictitious. Instead of futile efforts to try to turn privacy consent from fiction to fact, the better approach is to lean into the fictions.

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Tines Raises $50M to Boost Enterprise-Focused AI Technology

Data Breach Today

Company to Focus on AI Solutions, Large Enterprise Growth After Series B Extension After closing a $50 million Series B extension led by Felicis and Accel, workflow platform provider Tines sets its sights on expanding its use beyond the security operations center and deepening its engagement with large enterprises by addressing industrywide challenges around AI implementation.

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US offers a $10 million reward for information on four Iranian nationals

Security Affairs

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their role in cyberattacks against the U.S. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on four Iranian nationals for their involvement in cyberattacks against the U.S. government, defense contractors, and private companies.

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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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AI Voice Cloning Pushes 91% of Banks to Rethink Verification

Data Breach Today

BioCatch Survey Report Focuses on New AI-Based Risks and Fraud-Fighting Solutions Banks are concerned about advancements in voice-cloning technology and the threat it poses to authentication. The failure of identity-centric solutions to combat synthetic identity fraud has convinced 91% of U.S. banks to reconsider their use of voice verification for major customers.

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AI is Sexist, Racist and Homophobic

Data Breach Today

Regulation and Inclusive Training Data Can Help Reduce Bias, Experts Say Just because a machine says it, doesn't mean it's unbiased. In fact, you don't have to probe far to find underlying biases and prejudices in text composed by generative artificial intelligence. "If you look at historical text, they feature a lot of men in leadership roles," a UNESCO official said.

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ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire

WIRED Threat Level

More cities are cutting ties with ShotSpotter, the company whose microphones purport to detect gunshots. But new information shows that ShotSpotter is still sending data to local police in at least three cities, despite their contracts being canceled.

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KnowBe4 Buys Egress to Aid Awareness Training, Email Defense

Data Breach Today

KnowBe4's First Deal Since 2021 Brings AI-Based Email Protection, Training Together KnowBe4 purchased an email security provider founded by a Check Point veteran to offer AI-based email protection and training that's automatically tailored relative to risk. Acquiring Egress will help organizations prevent, protect and defend against sophisticated email cybersecurity threats.

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'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks

WIRED Threat Level

Sources suspect China is behind the targeted exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco’s security appliances.

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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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Looking Back on the Channel Partner Event and Awards 2024

IT Governance

Previously , I had the pleasure of sitting down with Sophie Sayer, our Channel Sales Director, to talk about the IT Governance partner programme and partner event on 9 April 2024. Now that the drinks have been served and awards handed out, I caught up with her again. When I asked her how the event went, she said: The Channel Partner Event and Awards 2024 in Ely was an absolute triumph!

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How to prevent prompt injection attacks

IBM Big Data Hub

Large language models (LLMs) may be the biggest technological breakthrough of the decade. They are also vulnerable to prompt injections , a significant security flaw with no apparent fix. As generative AI applications become increasingly ingrained in enterprise IT environments, organizations must find ways to combat this pernicious cyberattack. While researchers have not yet found a way to completely prevent prompt injections, there are ways of mitigating the risk.

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Microsoft’s VASA-1 AI Unleashes the Future of Deepfakes with Single Image Transformation via Microsoft

IG Guru

Check out the article here. The post Microsoft’s VASA-1 AI Unleashes the Future of Deepfakes with Single Image Transformation via Microsoft first appeared on IG GURU.

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Successful 2024 Records Management Month Colloquium!

The Schedule

With over 260 participants, and led by the fabulous and insightful Trevor Owens and Chris Prom, this year’s SAA RMS Records Management Month Colloquium was a success! Thanks so much to everyone involved. You can access Trevor’s and Chris’s slides here.

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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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Document Retention & Destruction Policy Guide

Docuware

Let’s say there were guidelines you could put in place that would protect your company from noncompliance fines, reduce storage costs and help avoid legal action and cyberthreats. Wouldn’t you want to establish them right away? It would be even better if these policies could be enforced automatically and without administrative effort. That’s where the creation of document retention policies comes in.

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RMS Section Meeting July 12th 2024, 2pm

The Schedule

Save the date for our annual section meeting in July! On July 12, 2-3:30 p.m., four presenters will share a sneak peek into their 2024 NAGARA presentation titled “Records Management Resurgence: Using Outreach, Education, and Cross-departmental Partnerships to Revive or Jumpstart a Records Program.” In this panel discussion, records management professionals from four different types of institutions will share methods they’ve used to bolster support and appreciation for the work RIM professionals

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Irrigation Records from Bureau of Indian Affairs Now Digitized

Unwritten Record

The records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Irrigation Division held by the Cartographic Branch are fully digitized and available to view and download from the National Archives Catalog. The records of the BIA Irrigation Division consist of maps showing Indian reservations and irrigation projects and plans for the construction of irrigation facilities and structures.

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Google Cloud Next recap

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Google Cloud Next.

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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.