Armstrong Archives

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you’ve run a business for any significant length of time, you know that as your business grows, so does your paper trail. Whether digital or physical, the volume of documents required to operate a business can be extensive and is only growing as the world does. A robust and highly-functional records and information management (RIM) system is essential to ensure both convenience and compliance, saving your business both time and money.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

OpenSSL 3.0 Vulnerabilities Not Exploited in the Wild The OpenSSL Project downgraded the urgency of a patch issued Tuesday after determining that the vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in common situations. "It appears to be there would be an almost zero quantity of servers at risk," said a Sophos cybersecurity executive.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones. The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summari

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Entities Should Identify Where OpenSSL Exists in Infrastructure, Apply Fixes Federal regulators are urging healthcare sector entities to identify all instances of OpenSSL in their infrastructures and to test and deploy a patch issued to fix certain severe vulnerabilities in the software as soon as possible.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The ransomware group LockBit 3.0 claimed to have stolen data from the French defence and technology group Thales. Thales is a global high-tech leader with more than 81,000 employees worldwide. The Group invests in digital and deep tech innovations – big data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential to the development of our societies, by placing people at the heart of decision-making.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

ConnectWise has addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting Recover and R1Soft Server Backup Manager (SBM). According to the advisory published by ConnectWise , the vulnerability is an Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to execute remote code or directly access confidential data.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Australia's Most Severe Cybercriminal Incident Has No Good Solution Should Australia's Medibank health insurer pay extortionists to prevent the release of sensitive medical documents related to millions of Australians? There's no easy answer to remedying what is the most severe cybercriminal incident in Australian history.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On October 18, 2022, the European Commission published a report , titled Information Frictions and Public Policies: Approaching the Regulation and Supervision of Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) (the “Report”). The Report discusses the need to adapt existing policy frameworks to account for the change brought about by DeFi to the underlying information structure upon which financial services are provided.

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KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Michael Kan at PCMag had the scoop: A hacker is already circulating one phishing email, warning users they'll need to submit some personal information to keep the blue verified checkmark for free.

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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.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Welcome to our October 2022 review of data breaches and cyber attacks. We identified 102 security incidents throughout the month, which is the second largest figure so far this year – trailing only August (112). By contrast, comparatively little personal data was breached, with our figures confirming that at least 9,990,855 records were compromised.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Organizations should update to the latest encryption (version 3.0.7) as soon as possible, but there's no need for Heartbleed-like panic, security experts say.

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Jamf

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Apple has been a leader in digital accessibility since day one. And with the release of Ventura and iOS 16, the innovation for people with disabilities only continues.

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The Security Ledger

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Six decades in, password use has tipped into the absurd, while two-factor authentication is showing its limits. We talk with Matt Salisbury of Honeybadger HQ, which is using AI and machine learning to re-imagine knowledge-based authentication. The post Episode 245: How AI is remaking knowledge-based authentication appeared first on The Security. Read the whole entry. » Click the icon below to listen.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

Hanzo Learning Center

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

How do you ensure that your business complies with every law, rule, and regulation that governs its operations? Are you doing everything you can to write sound policies, monitor compliance, and respond to issues? Specifically, how are you keeping your enterprise data safe?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ransomware activity report: Threat actors are selling access to hundreds of organizations, with a cumulative requested price of around $4M. Research published by threat intelligence firm KELA related to ransomware activity in Q3 reveals a stable activity in the sector of initial access sales, but experts observed a rise in the value of the offerings. “In Q3 actors offered more expensive listings since the total number of listings remained almost the same.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With the vast majority of business leaders expecting a recession in 2023, cybersecurity firms are bolstering their operations and cash flow by laying off workers.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A security flaw in the Galaxy Store app for Samsung devices could have potentially allowed remote command execution on affected phones. A now-patched vulnerability in the Galaxy Store app for Samsung devices could have potentially triggered remote command execution on affected phones. The flaw is a cross-site scripting (XSS) bug that can be triggered when handling certain deep links.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Authoritarian societies depend on people ratting each other out for activities that were recently legal—and it's already happening in the US.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

AI will help enterprises scale cybersecurity defenses to handle the growing complexity of modern networks and increased number of cyberthreats.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

On October 1, 2022, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office submitted an initial draft of the Colorado Privacy Act Rules (“CPA Rules”), which will implement and enforce the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). The CPA Rules, which are currently about 38 pages, address many recent issues in state data privacy regulation, including data profiling, data protection, automated data processing, biometric data, universal opt-out mechanisms and individual data rights.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Retailers' new holiday jingle must hit cybersecurity high points to help survive the season. Forget Dasher and Dancer — add SAST and DAST to app testing; manage third-party risks; and use MFA along with training and proper authentication to secure credentials.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

There’s a truism in the cybersecurity sector that says enterprise technology stacks are so large because the market demanded big-stack solutions. Convenience, fiscal constraints, and timing have all played a role in making the average organization’s stack so large and complex that there’s even a cottage industry in creating colorful visualizations of them.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The sophisticated and ever-evolving threat known as LodeInfo is being deployed against media, diplomatic, government, public sector, and think-tank targets.

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OpenText Information Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Effective document management is key to ensuring successful construction and capital projects. From initial design documents, to work orders, to contracts, to compliance documents, every stage in the process is determined by the quality of its documentation. OpenText™ Extended ECM for Engineering is an Engineering Document Management System which brings accuracy and control to facilitate … The post Effective engineering document management lies at the heart of successful construction and c

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ed-tech company Chegg is ordered by FTC to secure its systems after repeated breaches that exposed tens of millions of users' personal data.

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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.

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Armstrong Archives

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In an era when an increasing amount of daily business forms are either generated or stored electronically, physical records still remain important in many situations. A variety of industries still utilize physical record-keeping and storage systems , or some hybrid version that operates using a combination of physical records and their digitized copies.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Come up with a clever caption, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.

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Armstrong Archives

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you’ve run a business for any significant length of time, you know that as your business grows, so does your paper trail. Whether digital or physical, the volume of documents required to operate a business can be extensive and is only growing as the world does. A robust and highly-functional records and information management (RIM) system is essential to ensure both convenience and compliance, saving your business both time and money.

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