Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Major Cybercrime Gangs Shift From Hacking Banks to Bitcoins Bitcoin's massive rise in value and hype continues to draw the attention of hackers, scammers and organized crime. Flaws in bitcoin mining firmware and hacks of wallet software show that the infrastructure associated with cryptocurrency is not always well-secured.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Interesting research : The trick in accurately tracking a person with this method is finding out what kind of activity they're performing. Whether they're walking, driving a car, or riding in a train or airplane, it's pretty easy to figure out when you know what you're looking for. The sensors can determine how fast a person is traveling and what kind of movements they make.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Nearly $10 Million Stolen from 20 Institutions in Past 1½ Years A group of Russian-speaking hackers over the past year-and-a-half has stolen nearly $10 million from banks, mostly in the United States, Britain and Russia, the Moscow-based, according to cybersecurity firm Group-IB.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 15, 2017
MobileCoin aims to make cryptocurrency transactions quick and easy for everyone, while still preserving privacy and decentralization.
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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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The latest ISMG Security Report focuses on the significant changes found in the latest version of the U.S. government's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, commonly known as the NIST cybersecurity framework. NIST seeks comments from stakeholders on the draft of version 1.1 of the framework by Jan. 19.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The latest ISMG Security Report leads with a report on a malware attack on an industrial safety system that experts contend could threaten public safety. Also, legislation giving DHS's cybersecurity unit a meaningful name progresses through Congress.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The cybercrime group blamed for attacks on the SWIFT financial network launches a spearphishing campaign to steal employee credentials at a London cryptocurrency company.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Experts Offer Insights on Precautions to Take U.S. healthcare entities need to keep security top of mind if they use offshore services to handle protected health information, security experts say, pointing to specific steps to take.
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Recently, the EU’s Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted guidelines (the “Guidance”) on the meaning of consent under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). In this Guidance, the Working Party has confirmed that consent should be a reversible decision where a degree of control must remain with the data subject. The Guidance provides further detail on what is necessary to ensure that consent satisfies the requirements of the GDPR: Freely given.
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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
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Cybercrime Money-Transfer Schemes Increasingly Involve Cryptocurrency Cybercriminals continue to rely on individuals who undertake the risky operation of moving illicit proceeds from one location to another. But these "money mules" face a multitude of risks, including imprisonment, police warn.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The pace at which information security evolves means organizations must work smarter, not harder. Here's how to stay ahead of the threats.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Organizations should take an "inside-out" approach to mitigating the insider threat, says Brandon Swafford of Forcepoint, who explains the components of that approach in an in-depth interview.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Samsung is the latest to join a small group of smartphone makers to cast their net wide on catching vulnerabilities in their devices.
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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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Takeaway: 'Bug Bounty' Plus NDA Still Looks Like Hush Money The hacker to whom Uber paid $100,000 to destroy data and keep quiet about its big, bad breach is a 20-year-old man living in Florida, Reuters reports. But numerous questions remain about the 2016 breach, including whether the payment was a bug bounty, extortion payoff or hush money.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Malware intended for a “high-impact” attack against safety systems likely would of caused physical damage to a targeted company located in the Middle East.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
National Protection and Programs Directorate Title Fails to Describe Its Purpose What does the title National Protection and Programs Directorate mean to you? It's not so clear, unless you are familiar with the Department of Homeland Security's organizational chart. To clarify its mission, the House has voted to rename - and revamp - the DHS agency.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The records were first exposed in an unsecured MongoDB database, continuing a cyber-extortion trend.
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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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Endpoint Continues To Be a Thorn in People's Sides Most of the criminal activity targeting today's enterprises originates at the endpoint, and the majority of modern breaches use known threats or vulnerabilities for which a patch already exists. For this reason, endpoint visibility must be complete and continuous.
Record Nations
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Offsite document storage is a service that has some serious advantages over storing physical files at your office that many businesses are utilizing. Even so, not many people actually know what an offsite storage facility is. What Happens Inside an Offsite Storage Facility? When you work with an offsite storage facility to store your documents […].
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
With just a few months left until the EU's General Data Protection Regulation will be enforced, too many so-called "experts" are spreading fear and falsehoods about the regulation, says Brian Honan, a Dublin-based cybersecurity consultant, who clarifies misperceptions in an in-depth interview.
Rippleshot
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Here at Rippleshot we’re all about the power of data. More specifically, the power of data to help issuers make more strategic decisions when it comes to analyzing risk from compromised cards, managing the spread of fraud and implementing more effective reissuance strategies. In the final weeks of the holiday spending rush, issuers will be working diligently to analyze consumers spending behavior, track fraud patterns, determine where there are gaps in their fraud management, and decide how it a
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Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 15, 2017
I actually got a lot of writing done this week! Plus travelled to Sydney and then Melbourne to speak at a couple of events so that's a pretty good week IMHO. What's especially good is that there's no more flights or hotel rooms in 2017 for me! As for this week, there's a bunch of stuff around a new Pluralsight course, my dismay with Face ID and a bit of taking a UK bank to task.
Hunton Privacy
DECEMBER 15, 2017
On December 12, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a workshop on informational injury in Washington, D.C. where industry experts, policymakers, researchers and legal professionals considered how to best characterize and measure potential injuries and resulting harms to consumers when information about them is misused or inappropriately protected.
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 15, 2017
This methodology can create a more dynamic and collaborative process throughout the organization – connecting executives, managers and data stewards alike.
eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The malware was designed specifically to target Triconex SIS controllers.
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Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 15, 2017
'Good data and smart analytics help us extract maximum value from our investments,' explains Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Seattle-based Gates Foundation.
Archives Blogs
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Personnel of USS LEXINGTON celebrate Christmas with make-shift decorations and a firefighting, helmeted Santa Claus., National Archives Identifier 520912. Someone in the Office of War Information (OWI) News Bureau was certainly having a jolly old time on Christmas Eve 1942, when they wrote this memorandum concerning rumors flying around (by way of a reindeer-led sled) about a “man in whiskers who … will come down many chimneys bringing gifts to hundreds of American homes.”.
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Senior management is increasingly focusing on cybersecurity issues and recognizing them as a core business risk, rather than the responsibility of the IT department alone.
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