Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2018
Physical Access Plus Default AMT Credentials Equals Takeover, F-Secure Warns An attacker who gains physical access to a corporate PC with an Intel chip could exploit the built-in Active Management Technology to backdoor the system in about 30 seconds, unless default AMT credentials have been changed, Finnish security firm F-Secure warns.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 12, 2018
Opinion: Google, Twitter, and Signal should take steps to ensure their tools aren’t restricting Iranian’s free speech.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2018
Also, Intel Confirms Stability Problems For Some CPUs Following Firmware Update In a reversal, chipmaker AMD is now warning that its chips are susceptible to the speculative execution flaws in microprocessors known as Spectre, but not to the Meltdown. Separately, Intel has confirmed that its firmware updates have led to stability problems for older Broadwell and Haswell chipsets.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 12, 2018
A quirk of video compression lets spy targets see what the drone watching them sees.
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
JANUARY 12, 2018
Mobile Apps Can Be Exploited To Tamper With Industrial Control Systems Fresh research into mobile apps designed to control ICS systems from afar has unearthed unnerving findings. More than 20 percent of mobile ICS apps have issues that could allow an attacker to influence an industrial system.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2018
Kathryn Marchesini Has the Experience. But Will She Have the Resources? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's new chief privacy officer, Kathryn Marchesini, has a wealth of experience. But will the Department of Health and Human Services give her the resources she needs to get the job done?
Dark Reading
JANUARY 12, 2018
A recent survey finds a number of attributes women seek in their careers can be found in a cybersecurity profession - the dots just need to be connected.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 12, 2018
An analysis of FBI Director Christopher Wray's comments about how encryption poses complications for law enforcement officials leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured: The former CISO of the state of Michigan sizes up cybersecurity forecasts.
The Texas Record
JANUARY 12, 2018
Over the past several years, cyber criminals have hacked into records management systems at the federal, state, and local levels. Once the criminals gain access to the system, they plant a virus, causing problems when trying to retrieve records from these systems. The virus is a malicious string of software known as ransomware because after the criminals take control of your data, they demand a monetary amount to release the records.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 12, 2018
Shortfall exists despite nearly all global technology enterprise companies having security policies to manage IoT devices.
Record Nations
JANUARY 12, 2018
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Threatpost
JANUARY 12, 2018
Researchers say an unprotected Management Engine BIOS Extension can allow an attacker the ability to configure Intel’s AMT feature for remote access by a hacker.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 12, 2018
Finance minister says country may add artificial intelligence and data security to list of nation's strategically important, regulated sectors
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The Schedule
JANUARY 12, 2018
Our eagerly anticipated series Resourceful Records Managers returns! This month we meet Brad Houston, City Records Officer and Document Services Manager for the City of Milwaukee. *If you would like to be included in this feature please contact Jessika Drmacich, jgd1(at)williams(dot)edu. What led you to choose your current career in Records Management?
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 12, 2018
On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. Following an attack on their system in 2015, the ICO found that the company had failed to take adequate steps to protect the personal data it held on its system. Between July and August 2015, the system hosting the company’s internal and external websites, which included personal data (including payment card data)
Info Source
JANUARY 12, 2018
. Irvine, CA, January 11, 2018 – Kofax ® , a leading provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile™ of business, today announced record sales achievements for Kofax Kapow™ , its leading robotic process automation (RPA) software that mimics human actions to automate a wide range of manual, repetitive tasks and drive continuous improvement.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 12, 2018
The best practices and technologies that originated in the intelligence realm can help businesses stay safer, too.
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eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 12, 2018
The U.S. government is moving ahead with broad adoption of DMARC to help improve email security, and other organizations should take note.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 12, 2018
The bill passed without an amendment which would require a warrant to analyze Americans' incidentally collected data.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 12, 2018
This year will unleash a major disruption for the analytics and information management space. It will upend decades worth of accepted practices and introduce new winners and losers.
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Information Management Resources
JANUARY 12, 2018
Regardless of the EU’s efforts, the reality is that many companies won’t meet the May deadline, whether due to lack of resources, laziness or apathy.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 12, 2018
'Everyone is running scared from disruption, and the disruption that is coming is artificial intelligence,' explained OurCrowd's CEO Jon Medved.
Threatpost
JANUARY 12, 2018
Researchers identified 60 apps on Google Play infected with AdultSwine malware that in some cases displayed graphic adult-themed ads on apps intended for children.
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Information Management Resources
JANUARY 12, 2018
When the firm starts testing its autonomous electric sedan in San Francisco ride-sharing fleets, it’ll likely be the first production-ready car on the roads without the tools to let a human drive.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 12, 2018
This seems to be a trend. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 12, 2018
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