Privacy Group: Facebook, Google Policies Break GDPR Laws
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
Nonprofit 'None of Your Business' files complaints against Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
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Playing catch-up with the General Data Protection Regulation
Information Management Resources
MAY 25, 2018
Many organizations will have to restructure how they handle data, and, if they do not have a cyber infrastructure that is sound, they will have to rebuild from the ground up including their applications.
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Goldman warns the rise of the machines leaves markets exposed
Information Management Resources
MAY 25, 2018
There’s little capital backing the most of these operations and a quick withdrawal of liquidity by HFTs could reinforce the negative perception of a macroeconomic event, adding to a vicious feedback loop.
Legacy Content Migration: Urgent Need is Largely Invisible
Weissman's World
MAY 25, 2018
Fun fact: an estimated 75% of today’s content management solutions were installed before the year 2010 – meaning that most organizations are now depending upon systems that at best are dated, and at are worst dangerously close end-of-life. This being the case, you’d think that folks would be working hard to move their legacy content […]. The post Legacy Content Migration: Urgent Need is Largely Invisible appeared first on Holly Group.
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.
GDPR a Litmus Test for Cross-Border Privacy Attitudes
Data Breach Today
MAY 25, 2018
Rather Than Honor Europeans' Data Privacy Rights, Some Organizations Exit EU To judge by the flood of GDPR-themed email hitting inboxes, Europe's privacy law has been designed to ensure that you say "yes" to companies that monetize the buying and selling of your personal details, regardless of whether you remember ever having done business with them before.
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Europe's Strong GDPR Privacy Rules Go Into Full Effect
Data Breach Today
MAY 25, 2018
It's May 25: Do You Know What Your Data Protection Polices Are? The EU's General Data Protection Regulation has gone into full effect as of May 25, 2018. After a two-year grace period following the passage of the legislation, member states' data privacy watchdogs are now enforcing the strong privacy rules, which offer worldwide protection for Europeans.
LA Times among US-based news sites blocking EU users due to GDPR
The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 25, 2018
LA Times, Chicago Tribune and others redirect to pages saying sites are currently unavailable in most European countries The general data protection regulation, which has come into effect, has prompted a number of prestigious US-based websites including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune to shut off access to internet users in the EU. Visitors to newspapers owned by Tronc Inc – formerly Tribune Publishing – which also includes the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel a
A New Look at Email Security
Data Breach Today
MAY 25, 2018
File-less malware is a huge security challenge for organizations today, and traditional email security controls aren't sufficient to meet the challenge. Burke Long of Lastline offers insight on a new way to approach email security.
Weekly podcast: the GDPR is here
IT Governance
MAY 25, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation is now in force. Don’t panic. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 25 May 2018, the day the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (the GDPR) – the first major update to European data protection law in more than 20 years – applies across Europe and around the world. Frankly, there’s more than enough material out there for you to plough through at the moment without me adding to it by reiterating the six data processing principle
How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?
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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.
GDPR Enforcement Begins: Impact on Healthcare, Banking
Data Breach Today
MAY 25, 2018
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Reports on the impact enforcement of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which began Friday, will have on the healthcare and banking sectors. Plus an assessment of GDPR compliance issues in Australia, which offer lessons to others worldwide.
Introducing ISO 27001 distance learning
IT Governance
MAY 25, 2018
IT Governance is excited to announce the launch of its ISO27001 Certified ISMS Foundation (Distance Learning) training course. If you have a busy schedule and cannot commit to a whole day’s uninterrupted training, this is the solution for you. This modular recording of our popular one-day is the ideal starting point for all prospective ISO 27001 project managers and auditors, or anyone who wishes to build a career in information security management.
Do US Banks Lack the Appetite to Become Identity Custodians?
Data Breach Today
MAY 25, 2018
Could U.S. banks emerge as identity platform providers? Ron Shevlin of Cornerstone Advisors explains in an interview why he believes that's highly unlikely.
GDPR Oddsmakers: Who, Where, When Will Enforcement Hit First?
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
The GDPR grace period ends today. Experts take their best guesses on when data protection authorities will strike - and what kind of organizations will be first to feel the sting of the EU privacy law.
7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production
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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.
Attackers Cashing In On Cryptocurrency With Increased Scams
Threatpost
MAY 25, 2018
As the popularity around cryptocurrency has continued to rise in 2018, it has also paved an easy path for cash-hungry scammers to launch “cryptocurrency giveaway scams.”.
Android Malware Comes Baked into Some New Tablets, Phones
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
Ad-loading malware is being built into the firmware and operating system of some new tablets and phones from three major manufacturers.
Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements
Schneier on Security
MAY 25, 2018
Interesting research: " The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and mouse dynamics ," by Merulin Monaro, Luciano Gamberini, and Guiseppe Sartori. Abstract: The detection of faked identities is a major problem in security. Current memory-detection techniques cannot be used as they require prior knowledge of the respondent's true identity.
Snohomish County Public Utility District leverages OpenText to power content generation and management
OpenText Information Management
MAY 25, 2018
How do you successfully achieve a true enterprise-wide information governance strategy? For SnoPUD, the answer was to leverage key solutions from the OpenText™ Suite for SAP® and roll out a unique user adoption program to drive change management across the enterprise. With more than 345,000 electricity customers and 20,000 water customers, Snohomish County Public Utility … The post Snohomish County Public Utility District leverages OpenText to power content generation and management appear
Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI
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“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.
Tell us how GDPR has affected your organisation
The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 25, 2018
How has becoming compliant played out in your workplace? What short and long term effects will the process have on the business? The last minute frenzy to retain customers while still complying with new regulation won’t have escaped your inbox. Related: Businesses resort to desperate emailing as GDPR deadline looms Continue reading.
Wicked Mirai Brings New Exploits to IoT Botnets
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
The latest variant of the venerable Mirai botnet malware combines approaches and brings new exploits to the world of IoT security challenges.
Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018)
Schneier on Security
MAY 25, 2018
I'm at Carnegie Mellon University, at the eleventh Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and myself. The 50 or so people in the room include psychologists, economists, computer security researchers, sociologists, political scientists, neuroscientists, designers, lawyers, philosophers, anthropologists, business school professors, and
Bridging the Cybersecurity Talent Gap
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
There's no one surefire way of fixing the problem, which endangers everyone's security. There are, however, several options we should try.
How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra
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Weekly Update 88
Troy Hunt
MAY 25, 2018
Well it's all quietened down here with Scott gone so it's back to business as usual, which means, well, it's not very quiet at all! I've been in Sydney this week talking at one of our big banks and as I say in this week's update, getting out there amongst companies dealing with their unique cyber challenges is always interesting: #cyber pic.twitter.com/CIMDhPfKIP — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 23, 2018.
10 Free DevOps-Friendly Security Tools Developers Will Love
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
Start building an affordable DevSecOps automation toolchain with these free application security tools.
Uxpected Impacts of Europe’s GDPR on US Companies Both Over and Under Stated
Info Source
MAY 25, 2018
Robert Cattanach is a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney. He has previously worked as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice and was also special counsel to the Secretary of the Navy. Today he practices in the areas of regulatory litigation, including cybersecurity and data breaches, privacy and telecommunications, civil and criminal enforcement proceedings and international Regulatory Compliance.
HHS Publishes Advance Notices of Proposed Rulemaking on Accounting of Disclosures and Civil Monetary Penalties
Hunton Privacy
MAY 25, 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently published two advance notices of proposed rulemaking that address the accounting of disclosures and the potential distribution of civil monetary penalties to affected individuals. The first notice of proposed rulemaking would solicit the public’s views on modifying the HIPAA Privacy Rule as necessary to implement the accounting of disclosures provisions of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Ac
Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options
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GDPR Is In Effect: The French Bill Has Been Adopted…But Referred to the French Constitutional Council
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
MAY 25, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force on 25 May 2018. In light of the urgency to adapt Law no. 78-17 dated 6 January 1978 to the new European Union law, the French Government has initiated an accelerated procedure. This procedure led to the adoption in final reading by the French National Assembly of the bill on personal data protection on 14 May 2018.
Security Lags in Enterprise Cloud Migration
Dark Reading
MAY 25, 2018
Cloud security is falling farther behind as companies migrate more and more of their workloads to public cloud infrastructures.
Alexa Eavesdropping Flub Re-Sparks Voice Assistant Privacy Debate
Threatpost
MAY 25, 2018
After an Alexa speaker recorded and shared a private conversation, the tech community is casting a wary eye on voice assistant privacy issues.
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