Data Breach Today
MARCH 2, 2018
Breach Costs Hit $114 Million, But Data Broker Still Sees Revenues Rise Equifax has identified 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and snippets of their driver's license numbers were stolen, adding to one of the worst breaches in history, which resulted in personal data for nearly every U.S. adult being exposed.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 2, 2018
By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls' true audience appear artificially low.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 2, 2018
The new generation of deception technology can play an important role in helping healthcare organizations detect malware, including ransomware, but it requires careful implementation to get the most value, says Mitch Parker, CISO at Indiana University Health System.
Dark Reading
MARCH 2, 2018
Phishing emails disguised as tax-related alerts aim to trick users into handing attackers their usernames and passwords.
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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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 2, 2018
To prepare for compliance with the EU's GDPR, which will be enforced beginning in May, organizations must adopt a "privacy by design" approach, says Subhajit Deb, CISO at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, an India headquartered pharmaceutical company that does business in 11 countries.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 2, 2018
No Evidence of Breach, Says Certificate Vendor in Midst of Private Key Debacle Digital certificate vendor Trustico is facing a new crisis after a researcher tweeted about an apparent root-level access flaw in the company's website. The alert comes after Trustico's CEO admitted that his company was archiving private keys for digital certificates.
IT Governance
MARCH 2, 2018
Achieving certification to ISO 27001 demonstrates to existing and potential customers that your organisation has defined and put in place best-practice information security processes. ISO 27001 is the only auditable international standard that defines the requirements of an information security management system (ISMS). Implementing an ISO 27001-certified ISMS can help your organisation avoid the penalties and losses associated with data breaches, and comply with legal and regulatory requirement
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 2, 2018
Digital marketing is proven to be the most effective channel for today’s marketers – and it can deliver far more bang for your buck. This is excellent news for large organizations but also a potential headache. With so many websites, digital formats and social media channels, how do you maximize your content to deliver the highly … The post Top 7 CMS software benefits for digital marketing in 2018 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
IT Governance
MARCH 2, 2018
Many organisations are focused on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but this May sees another EU legislation coming into effect: the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive). In the UK, the NIS Directive applies to operators of essential services (OES) and digital service providers (DSPs) involved in: Drinking water supply and distribution; Energy; Digital infrastructure; The health sector; and.
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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.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 2, 2018
Since you don't have enough to worry about, here's a paper postulating that space aliens could send us malware capable of destroying humanity. Abstract : A complex message from space may require the use of computers to display, analyze and understand. Such a message cannot be decontaminated with certainty, and technical risks remain which can pose an existential threat.
IT Governance
MARCH 2, 2018
If you work in IT, you will probably have come across ITIL ® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library ® ), but you might not necessarily know what it entails. ITIL is a set of detailed practices describing different aspects of IT service management (ITSM). The framework was developed by the UK government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency during the 1980s, and initially consisted of more than 30 books.
Dark Reading
MARCH 2, 2018
Key focus areas include supply chain risks, identity management, and cybersecurity risk assessment and measurement.
IT Governance
MARCH 2, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Act (DPA) from 25 May 2018. Compliance will be mandatory for any organisation that processes EU residents’ personal data. The Regulation’s main objective is to strengthen data protection for individuals. It stresses that misusing healthcare data can have serious long-term repercussions for data subjects.
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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.
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
MARCH 2, 2018
Since February 2017, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics has been reviewing Canada’s […].
Archive Document Data Storage
MARCH 2, 2018
If the idea of embarking upon a scanning project to convert your hardcopy files to electronic documents gives you a headache, a ‘scan on demand’ service combined with secure offsite storage is the perfect alternative. In this blog, we explain the benefits of a pay-as-you-go approach to scanning. Save time and money. Storing your files onsite takes up valuable (and expensive) office space, and paying an employee to remove staples and scan documents is time-consuming.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 2, 2018
Massive, massive week! I'm not trying to make these videos longer (and the next two while I'm overseas will definitely be shorter), but yeah, this week was a biggie. Pwned Passwords dominated throughout, interrupted only by a few thousand new data breaches going into HIBP. But the big one - at least to me in terms of the significance - is the UK and Aussie governments now using HIBP to monitor their gov domains.
Threatpost
MARCH 2, 2018
This week's DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts.
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Role Model Software
MARCH 2, 2018
RoleModel Software developers Jeremy Walton and Ben Einwechter coding together with a “two sets of eyes” pair programming approach How pair programming can increase software quality Defining software quality is kind of like defining beauty?—?“it depends.” Most people involved with developing software agree that “high-quality” means creating a system that does what it’s supposed to do without any strange side effects, and provides an experience that users rave about.
Threatpost
MARCH 2, 2018
Equifax said that an additional 2.4 million Americans have been impacted by a 2017 data breach, bringing the total of those implicated to around 148 million people.
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
MARCH 2, 2018
Since February 2017, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics has been reviewing Canada’s federal privacy statute – Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) – including public meetings and submissions from stakeholders. A year later, the Committee issued its report outlining its recommendations that would see a significant overhaul of PIPEDA.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 2, 2018
On February 27, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced an agreement with PayPal, Inc., to settle charges that its Venmo peer-to-peer payment service misled consumers regarding privacy and the extent to which consumers’ financial accounts were secured. This is the second significant FTC settlement in the past three months that addressed these issues, following the FTC’s action against TaxSlayer, Inc. and signals a renewed focus by the FTC on violations of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act’
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Rippleshot
MARCH 2, 2018
When a data breach occurs, the full impact of the incident usually takes a few months to realize the potential impact. This has certainly been the case for the Equifax breach that was first discovered last summer. This week, the credit reporting agency announced that another 2.4 millions Americans were discovered to have been impacted by last year’s breach.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
MARCH 2, 2018
Nothing challenges the effectiveness of data protection law like technological innovation. You think you have cracked a technology neutral framework and then along comes the next evolutionary step in the chain to rock the boat. It happened with the cloud. It happened with social media, with mobile, with online behavioural targeting and with the Internet of Things.
Dark Reading
MARCH 2, 2018
Special counsel is compiling a case against the hackers who breached the DNC and John Podesta's email account, NBC News reports.
eSecurity Planet
MARCH 2, 2018
The new vector was recently used to launch a record-breaking 1.35 Tbps attack on GitHub.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 2, 2018
Software security shouldn't be an afterthought. That's why the secure software development life cycle deserves a fresh look.
Archives Blogs
MARCH 2, 2018
The National Archives and Records Administration has been able to accomplish some incredible digitization and outreach work over the years due in part to contributions and support by anonymous donors and the National Archives Foundation. Two examples of this are the World War I Wartime Films project, and the Ratified Indian Treaties vault digitization project.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 2, 2018
Tableau, Olik and Microsoft are among the leading vendors in the data analytics and BI space according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.
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