Data Breach Today
MAY 10, 2019
Data of 78.8 Million Individuals Was Encrypted, Sent to China, US Alleges Two Chinese men have been indicted on charges related to the breach of health insurer Anthem, which saw the personal information of 78.8 million individuals stolen, as well as attacks against three other large U.S. companies.
Krebs on Security
MAY 10, 2019
Eight Americans and an Irishman have been charged with wire fraud this week for allegedly hijacking mobile phones through SIM-swapping, a form of fraud in which scammers bribe or trick employees at mobile phone stores into seizing control of the target’s phone number and diverting all texts and phone calls to the attacker’s mobile device.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 10, 2019
CERT Says Hidden Cobra APT Group Developed Malware The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have issued a joint warning about new malware called "Electricfish." Investigators suspect it was developed by the advanced persistent threat group Hidden Cobra, which has been linked to North Korea.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 10, 2019
The recent network breach of Wipro , a prominent outsourcing company based in India, serves as a stunning reminder that digital transformation cuts two ways. Our rising dependence on business systems that leverage cloud services and the gig economy to accomplish high-velocity innovation has led to a rise in productivity. However, the flip side is that we’ve also created fresh attack vectors at a rapid rate – exposures that are not being adequately addressed.
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.
Data Breach Today
MAY 10, 2019
Stock Price Dives After Anti-Virus Firm CEO Greg Clark's Abrupt Departure In a surprise turn of events, Symantec's CEO, Greg Clark, resigned on Thursday, the same day that the company reported that it had missed earnings estimates, sending the value of its stock plummeting in after-hours trading and into the next day.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 10, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the FBI takedown of DeepDotWeb, a dark net portal. Also featured are discussions on healthcare app security and the repercussions of poor coding security.
The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 10, 2019
Party refers itself to ICO after voters receive campaign letters not addressed to them The Scottish National party faces being fined for a breach of data protection laws after sending out tens of thousands of European election mailings to the wrong addresses. The Information Commissioner’s Office confirmed on Friday morning that the SNP have referred itself for investigation after voters across Scotland received letters addressed to strangers or neighbours.
Data Breach Today
MAY 10, 2019
ISMG and Zscaler hosted a roundtable dinner in Morristown, New Jersey on April 11 focused on security's role in digital transformation.
Schneier on Security
MAY 10, 2019
A pair of Russia-designed cryptographic algorithms -- the Kuznyechik block cipher and the Streebog hash function -- have the same flawed S-box that is almost certainly an intentional backdoor. It's just not the kind of mistake you make by accident, not in 2014.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
MAY 10, 2019
Data – whether it is client, vendor, enterprise or consumer – has become the lifeblood of global business. And nearly a year after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force, the way in which organizations store, handle and use data has emerged as a priority. With the added uncertainty of Brexit and other … The post Digitizing data to build a talented workforce appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
MAY 10, 2019
The Dark Web and Deep Web are not the same, neither is fully criminal, and more await in this guide to the Internet's mysterious corners.
Threatpost
MAY 10, 2019
Nvidia has patched three vulnerabilities in its Windows GPU display driver that could enable information disclosure, denial of service and privilege escalation.
Security Affairs
MAY 10, 2019
Security researchers at the Imaginary team discovered a Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine and responsibly reported it. Security experts at the Imaginary team discovered a Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine. The flaw tracked as CVE-2019-8285 affects Kaspersky Lab Antivirus Engine version before 04. apr. 2019 and potentially allows arbitrary code execution. “Kaspersky Anti-Virus Engine is prone to a heap-based buffer-overflow vulne
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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.
Adam Levin
MAY 10, 2019
The source code and security keys associated with a number of Samsung apps and projects have been discovered on unprotected server. Samsung’s SmartThings home automation platform was among the projects exposed in the compromise. The exposed server contained a code repository that was misconfigured and publicly available. In addition to the underlying code of several major Samsung apps was a security token that allowed unfettered access to 135 projects and applications.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 10, 2019
Predictive modeling and analytics have long been the domain of the data scientist and only the data scientist. But with modern tools, data science is becoming a team sport—business analysts and subject matter experts can join the analysis. While the players may have different skill sets and processes, in the world of predictive analytics, collaboration between them can position an entire team to win with data science.
Dark Reading
MAY 10, 2019
Research shows time to discovery and containment of breaches slowly shrinking, but attackers don't need a very big window to do a lot of damage.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 10, 2019
For years, China was rumored to be behind the health insurance company's massive data breach, but now the Justice Department is noticeably silent on the hackers' motives and affiliation.
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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.
Collibra
MAY 10, 2019
Your organization is, or was, off to a great start by understanding the importance of data and its ability to produce better insights and results than your industry competitors. So why are your Data Governance efforts falling flat? Your company’s Data Governance initiatives are driven by a technical department (e.g. IT, Analytics, etc.). Let’s face it, even though your data governance program may have started in your IT/Analytics department, in this day and age almost everyone is capable of gene
DXC Technology
MAY 10, 2019
One of the longest hype curves in technology history — without products even being deployed — is that of quantum computing. After decades of research, many feel that viable and reliable quantum products may not be to market for another ten years. For those who have heard the term but are sketchy on what quantum […].
Dark Reading
MAY 10, 2019
A number of reports show CVE-2019-0604 is under active attack, Alien Labs researchers say.
Security Affairs
MAY 10, 2019
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FCI published a new joint report on ELECTRICFISH, a malware used by North Korea. US DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a joint analysis of a traffic tunneling tool dubbed ELECTRICFISH used by North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus ). It is interesting to note that the sample analyzed in the report is not on Virus Total, as highlighted by the security exper t Dariel Huss.
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Threatpost
MAY 10, 2019
The WannaCry attack proved pivotal, changing the way organizations go about securing their environments.
Dark Reading
MAY 10, 2019
Three steps you can take, based on Department of Homeland Security priorities.
Threatpost
MAY 10, 2019
Nigerian scam groups launched even more attacks in 2018 - and used more complex types of malware to reach more victims.
Dark Reading
MAY 10, 2019
Among the 50+ new Briefings confirmed for this August event are a deep dive into the Apple T2 chip and a pile of lessons learned from the Equifax and Home Depot breaches.
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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.
Threatpost
MAY 10, 2019
From a creepy Airbnb incident to Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report, Threatpost editors break down the top privacy and security stories for the week ended May 10.
Information Management Resources
MAY 10, 2019
Analysts will explore the top industry trends at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conferences, May 13-16 in Phoenix, AZ and June 17-19 in Barcelona, Spain.
Dark Reading
MAY 10, 2019
Exec shake-up comes amid earnings drop in financial report.
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