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$1 Billion Lawsuit Focuses on EHR Data Integrity Concerns

Data Breach Today

Suit Against eClinicalWorks Alleges Millions Potentially Harmed by Use of Software Some legal experts say a nearly $1 billion class action lawsuit filed against electronic health records vendor eClinicalWorks could be the first of many cases scrutinizing the data integrity issues of EHR vendors. Others, however, contend that those filing such lawsuits will face many hurdles.

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Intel Management Engine Flaws Leave Millions of PCs Exposed

WIRED Threat Level

Security experts have warned of Intel's Management Engine for years. A new set of confirmed vulnerabilities that impact PCs, servers, and IoT devices shows they may have been right.

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Fraudster Tied to 'The Dark Overlord' Jailed for 3 Years

Data Breach Today

UK Man Blackmailed Law Firm, Allegedly Hacked Pippa Middleton's iCloud Account A British man who was initially arrested on suspicion of hacking English socialite Pippa Middleton's iCloud account has been sentenced to serve a three-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to unrelated fraud and blackmail crimes. But he may also have ties to The Dark Overlord extortion gang.

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Stopping Robocalls Will Soon Be Easier Than Ever

WIRED Threat Level

US consumers suffer 80 million robocalls a day. But a new crackdown—along with some clever apps—could help put a lid on your biggest mobile nuisance.

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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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Strength in Numbers; A Look Inside the Mind of a Hacker

Data Breach Today

Bugcrowd pioneers and innovates crowdsourced security testing, striving for the ultimate in security assessments for the enterprise. Bugcrowd combines the power of more than 65,000 security researchers and its proprietary Crowdcontrol platform to surface critical software vulnerabilities and level the cybersecurity playing field.

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Researcher Spars With Drone Maker DJI Over Security Flaws

Data Breach Today

DJI Alleges Bug Bounty 'Hacker' Damaged Server And Threatened Company A veteran security researcher has become entangled in a conflict with Chinese drone manufacturer DJI over his security vulnerability report, which initially qualified for the manufacturer's bug bounty program. The researcher says communications broke down after he refused to sign a legal agreement.

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What is the ISO 27000 series of standards?

IT Governance

The ISO/IEC 27000 family of information security standards, also known as the ISO 27000 series, is developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to provide a globally recognised framework for best-practice information security management. These security standards help organisations keep their information assets secure, such as their financial information, employee details and intellectual property.

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Cameron F. Kerry Named Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer

Data Matters

Sidley is delighted to announce that The National Law Journal named Boston and Washington, D.C. senior counsel Cameron F. Kerry to its third annual “Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazers” special supplement. Cameron was recognized for his work in both private practice and his government service. In recognition of his time at Sidley, the supplement underscored his leadership on transnational information sharing and cooperation reflected in his report for the U.S.

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TerraLink: Building a corporate knowledge bank powered by OpenText eDOCS

OpenText Information Management

TerraLink is a leading IT systems integrator, helping organizations leverage technology to manage and secure their enterprise content. It comes as no surprise that TerraLink required an industry leading solution to capture, store, retrieve and share all types of content, while scaling with the growth of their business. Enter OpenText™ eDOCS. “I knew it was the right … The post TerraLink: Building a corporate knowledge bank powered by OpenText eDOCS appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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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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Only 25% of UK law firms are prepared for the GDPR

IT Governance

A recent report from CenturyLink has highlighted a lack of preparation among UK law firms for the upcoming EU General Data Protection (GDPR) compliance deadline. The report questioned more than 150 legal sector IT decision makers in the UK and discovered that only 25% believe they are currently compliant with the GDPR. The report also highlighted that 1 in 5 law firms questioned had experienced an attempted cyber attack in the past month , rising to 44% in the past year.

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Make the most of your Single Page Applications with TeamSite 16.3

OpenText Information Management

Do you like using Single Page Applications as part of your website design? They are pretty cool aren’t they? And more and more people are embracing them as part of enhancing the online customer experience. The idea of a web-page within a web-page is a very powerful one. Single Page Applications (SPAs) allow you to … The post Make the most of your Single Page Applications with TeamSite 16.3 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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The Hay CFP Management Method – Part 2

Andrew Hay

I’ve had a lot of positive feedback from my first post which explained how to create the Trello board to track your Call For Paper (CFP) due dates, submissions, and results. In this post, I’ll explain how to create the cards and populate them with the required data to better manage your CFP pipeline. To start your first card click the ‘Add a card…’ link in the CFP Open swim lane.

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Key Findings from the 2017 Thales Encryption Trends Study: Australia

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Security: moving up the executive stack. The last few years will be remembered for frequent, large and damaging data breaches. They’ve impacted big business and small, private and public organisations, in Australia and around the world. When it comes to data security, hackers don’t discriminate. This has made senior executives everywhere sit up and take notice, with companies concerned about being compromised and becoming tomorrow’s news headline.

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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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DDoS Attack Attempts Doubled in 6 Months

Dark Reading

Organizations face an average of eight attempts a day, up from an average of four per day at the beginning of this year.

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Vulnerability in Amazon Key

Schneier on Security

Amazon Key is an IoT door lock that can enable one-time access codes for delivery people. To further secure that system, Amazon sells Cloud Cam, a camera that watches the door to ensure that delivery people don't abuse their one-time access privilege. Cloud Cam has been hacked : But now security researchers have demonstrated that with a simple program run from any computer in Wi-Fi range, that camera can be not only disabled but frozen.

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ABC7 Interview: Rippleshot's Holiday Card Fraud Tips

Rippleshot

The holiday shopping season is underway, which means an uptick in consumer spending. What this also means is an increase in card fraud. Whenever shoppers are spending more, fraudsters are quick to follow — which includes taking part in the holiday shopping season themselves. Banks and credit unions are less likely to stop authorization on purchases in order to avoid creating extra friction at checkout, and fraudsters have caught onto this habit.

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New Guide for Political Campaign Cybersecurity Debuts

Dark Reading

The Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook created by bipartisan Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) group provides political campaigns with tips for securing data, accounts.

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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.

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The First Threatpost Alumni Podcast

Threatpost

With Mike Mimoso leaving Threatpost, it was high time to get many of the people responsible for the site's success throughout the years together for a podcast. Founding editors Ryan Naraine and Dennis Fisher along with Mike, Chris Brook, Brian Donohue and Christen Gentile are aboard for a memorable all-smiles podcast. .

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Researcher Finds Hole in Windows ASLR Security Defense

Dark Reading

A security expert found a way to work around Microsoft's Address Space Randomization Layer, which protects the OS from memory-based attacks.

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US-CERT Warns of ASLR Implementation Flaw In Windows

Threatpost

US-CERT is warning of a vulnerability in Microsoft’s implementation of Address Space Layout Randomization that affects Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

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Predictions 2018: AI is tough stuff and many organizations will fail at it

Information Management Resources

Unless firms plan, deploy and govern it correctly, new artificial intelligence tech will provide meager benefits at best or result in unexpected and undesired outcomes.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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CENTCOM Says Massive Data Cache Found on Leaky Server is Benign

Threatpost

Pentagon contractor left 1.8 billion mostly benign publicly accessible social-media posts scraped from the internet on a publicly accessible Amazon storage bucket.

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Resolving the conflict between data security and IT operations

Information Management Resources

Both parties have good intentions, wanting to do what’s best for the organization, yet conflicting priorities and viewpoints make them frequently go head to head.

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3 Ways to Retain Security Operations Staff

Dark Reading

Finding skilled security analysts is hard enough. Once you do, you'll need to fight to keep them working for you. These tips can help.

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Uplevel Systems Launches Secure SMB Suite

eSecurity Planet

Aimed at small businesses and the MSPs that serve them, Uplevel's solution includes a firewall, IPS, secure DNS, VPN and other protections.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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North Korea's Lazarus Group Evolves Tactics, Goes Mobile

Dark Reading

The group believed to be behind the Sony breach and attacks on the SWIFT network pivots from targeted to mass attacks.

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What I’m Thankful for in Thanksgiving 2017: eDiscovery Thanks

eDiscovery Daily

Three years ago , I wrote about what I’m thankful for this holiday season from an eDiscovery standpoint. I’m even more thankful and blessed now, so I thought I would do it again. H a p p y T h a n k s g i v i n g ! Our Great Team: It’s been a great year so far at CloudNine and I get a chance to work with all of the departments, from our terrific Client Services team that provides the hands on services that our clients need to meet their deadlines to our wonderful Support team that enables our

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When is a data quality issue not a data quality issue? Part II

Information Management Resources

There is truly never a situation where it isn't one. It may not have been identified, but it can still impact the integrity of your information.

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