Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2018
Smartphones Allegedly Helped Criminals Move Drugs While Evading Law Enforcement The FBI has arrested the CEO of the Canadian smartphone service Phantom Secure on charges that he and four other suspects ran an encrypted telecommunications service used by more than 20,000 customers to facilitate illegal activities, including international shipments of cocaine and other drugs.
IT Governance
MARCH 16, 2018
Phishing has been used as a way for criminal hackers to gain sensitive information since the mid-1990s. It uses deceptive emails and websites to trick victims into clicking malicious links, downloading attachments or sending sensitive information. Phishing emails can impersonate well-known brands or even people you know, such as colleagues. The goal is to trick the recipient into believing that the message is important and convince them to click a malicious link/attachment or provide sensitive d
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 16, 2018
Credit Bureau Acted 'Unconscionably' With Vulnerable People, ACCC alleges Equifax has a new problem in Australia, a country that was left unscathed by the credit bureau's devastating data breach. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleges the credit bureau deceived vulnerable consumers by misrepresenting its products and charging for services that should have been free.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 16, 2018
The Colombian-American hacker became famous in the early 2000s for breaking into the systems at organizations like *The New York Times*, and later for his role in Chelsea Manning's arrest.
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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
MARCH 16, 2018
Privacy attorney Kirk Nahra offers an analysis of the New York state attorney general proposing updates to the state's data security laws and issuing a substantial financial penalty in a HIPAA violations case.
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WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 16, 2018
YouTube and other tech giants have repeatedly turned to Wikipedia to help solve some of their biggest problems—often without giving back.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 16, 2018
Human beings tend to filter out events they deem unimportant. They can only process so much at any given time. Computer systems, however, must be able to handle a massive number of events in real time or near-real time to help support a wide range of applications.
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2018
Cybercrime funds make up 8-10% of all illegal profits laundered and amount to $80-200 billion each year.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 16, 2018
Despite warnings and flagged accounts, Zello left accounts with ISIS flag avatars and jihadist descriptions live on its service.
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.
IT Governance
MARCH 16, 2018
This week, we discuss the ICO’s new GDPR campaign for micro businesses, a potential data breach at Gwent Police, a US$250,000 reward from Binance and Windows Defender stops a massive malware campaign. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 March 2018. Here are this week’s stories. With just over two months until the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect, the Information Commissioner’s Office this week launched an awareness campaign aimed at busi
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2018
As security evolve as a corporate priority, so do the roles and responsibilities of the executive team. These seven titles are already feeling the impact.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2018
Intel is introducing hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when they were announced in early 2018.
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2018
AI automates repetitive tasks and alleviates mundane functions that often haunt decision makers. But it's still not a sure substitute for security best practices.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2018
Matt Tait gives a list of examples throughout history where politically motivated groups have used disinformation and hacking as part of a campaign to shape public opinion.
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2018
Executives of Phantom Secure have been indicted on federal RICO charges for encrypting communications among criminals.
Threatpost
MARCH 16, 2018
Microsoft is looking to target new speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities - similar to Spectre and Meltdown - with a new bug bounty program.
RFID Global Solution, Inc.
MARCH 16, 2018
Today’s Data Centers are facing many challenges. As facilities grow, the ability to manage inventory, asset utilization and power consumption becomes increasingly difficult. Frequent reconfigurations and consolidations create a loss of inventory visibility. Co-located assets may require utilizing multiple management systems and procedures. Sarbanes-Oxley accounting procedures mandate that a verifiable record of all assets be … How RFID Can Help You Manage Your Data Center Read More ».
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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 Protection Report
MARCH 16, 2018
On March 16, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its decision on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) omnibus order of 2015, relating to challenges to four of the FCC’s determinations relating to cell phones. The appellate court upheld the FCC’s determinations that consumers can revoke consent to receive marketing calls by “any reasonable means” that clearly expresses the desire to receive no further messages from the caller, and an exception for c
Rippleshot
MARCH 16, 2018
It’s been a busy week in the world of financial institution regulation as headlines about Dodd-Frank, the Equifax breach, credit freezes and data security stole the spotlight. While these four topics have been at the forefront of the news cycle for many months, each of them found their way into the top news items. Here’s a breakdown of what’s been happening in Washington, and how it may impact the world of financial services.
The Schedule
MARCH 16, 2018
After a few months’ hiatus, the Records Management Section Hangout Series is back! On Thursday, March 29 at 12:00 CDT, join members of the RMS steering committee in a discussion on ““What RMs Want: Records Managers On What They Wish Archivists Knew About Them (And Vice-Versa)”. Experienced records managers Dennis Larsen (retired, formerly Records Manager for the University of Wisconsin-Colleges and Extension) and Connie Schumacher (Content and Records Manager, Argonne National Laboratories) wil
Archive Document Data Storage
MARCH 16, 2018
In this day and age, it’s important to stay up to date with the laws and requirements affecting your industry. With the National Health Service (NHS) planning to go paperless this year, we wanted to take some time to answer your questions about medical records scanning. Q: What is a Medical Record? A: A medical record is documentation of patient health care information.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2018
The business-friendly browser now includes new admin controls, EMM partnerships, and additions to help manage Active Directory.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 16, 2018
51 percent of participants in fifth annual Ponemon survey say their breach response plans aren’t adequate.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 16, 2018
This is a good article on the complicated story of hacker Marcus Hutchins.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 16, 2018
Organizations such as Mount Sinai Health System are finding that AI is already achieving results for providers in various supportive ways that enable staff efficiencies.
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Archives Blogs
MARCH 16, 2018
We recently added a small new set of materials to the digital collection for theSt. John’s Episcopal Church Records. Two items detail the history of the Church further. The other three are journals kept by the Reverend Doctor W.H. Carter. They document his travels and ministry in New York, Florida, and places in-between from 1855-1907. Dr. Carter was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at Yale University.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 16, 2018
Between 1995 and 2005, immigrants started more than half of the new businesses in Silicon Valley. As of 2011, more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or their children.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 16, 2018
A new species of pygmy squid was discovered in Western Australia. It's pretty cute. 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.
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