Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Fraudsters Received 20 Percent Cashback for Fraudulent Purchases A convergence of events in December in Japan led to an unprecedented spike in card-not-present fraud. New statistics from a dark web monitoring firm explains how a promotion by PayPay, a third-party payments service, slid sideways.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Bad News, Based on the 5 Biggest Breaches in the Past 5 Years What if organizations' information security practices have gotten so good that they're finally repelling cybercriminals and nation-state attackers alike? Unfortunately, the five biggest corporate breaches of the past five years - including Yahoo, Marriott and Equifax - suggest otherwise.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
In the last few days I have done some analysis on malicious documents, especially PDF. Then I thought, “Why not turn a PDF analysis into an article?” Let’s go to our case study: I received a scan request for a PDF file that was reported to support an antivirus vendor, and it replied that the file was not malicious. Because the manufacturer’s analysis was not satisfactory, the team responsible for handling the incident requested a second opinion, since in other anti-virus
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
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The 2019 RSA Conference offers an opportunity to learn about new concepts across all aspects of cybersecurity. One such area is "data gravity," which will be the topic of a session featuring Microsoft's Diana Kelley and Sian John. They discuss the concept in a joint interview.
Information Management Today brings together the best content for information management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Proposed rules released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services aim to define and discourage inappropriate blocking of the secure sharing of health information, Elise Sweeney Anthony of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT explains in an interview at the HIMSS19 conference.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
A destructive cyberattack hit the email provider VFEmail, a hacker wiped its servers in the United States, including the backup systems. An unknown attacker has launched a destructive cyber attack against the email provider VFEmail, he erased information on its server including backups, 18 years’ worth of customer emails were lost. “We have suffered catastrophic destruction at the hands of a hacker.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
In an astonishing indictment, the DoJ details how Monica Witt allegedly turned on her former counterintelligence colleagues.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
I had not heard about this case before. Zurich Insurance has refused to pay Mondelez International's claim of $100 million in damages from NotPetya. It claims it is an act of war and therefor not covered. Mondelez is suing. Those turning to cyber insurance to manage their exposure presently face significant uncertainties about its promise. First, the scope of cyber risks vastly exceeds available coverage, as cyber perils cut across most areas of commercial insurance in an unprecedented manner: d
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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.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Hacking by external actors caused most breaches, but Web intrusions and exposures compromised more records, according to Risk Based Security.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
IBM General Manager for Data and AI Rob Thomas has said organizations can't have effective AI without sound IA (Information Architecture). And one of the pillars of any IA is data management.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
At its plenary meeting on February 13, 2019, in Brussels, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) adopted an Information Note on Data Transfers under the GDPR in the Event of a No-Deal Brexit , and an Information Note on BCRs for Companies Which Have ICO as BCR Lead Supervisory Authority. The Information Note on Data Transfers reiterates the need for organizations to implement data transfer mechanisms if they wish to continue transferring personal data from the European Economic Area (“EEA”)
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
During the IBM flagship Think conference in San Francisco today, businesses looking to accelerate their transformation with the IBM AI Watson were treated to news that they’ll be able to build, deploy and run AI models and applications across any cloud, giving them the freedom to apply Watson capabilities to their data wherever it is stored.
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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.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Experts at ACROS Security’s 0patch released an unofficial patch for a recently disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache OpenOffice suite. ACROS Security’s 0patch released an unofficial patch for a path traversal flaw recently disclosed in the Apache OpenOffice suite. The security researcher Alex Inführ discovered a severe remote code execution vulnerability in LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice that could be exploited by tricking victims into opening an ODT (OpenDocument Text)
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Today at Think 2019, IBM announced a new vision for the future of AI and digital transformation. Along the way, we made a number of announcements and updates that could profoundly impact how enterprises will use analytics and AI to shape the future of their business. In all, it was definitely a big day of news for IBM partners and clients. In case you missed it, here are three major announcements for analytics pros from Think 2019.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has banned a Manchester-based businessman from forming or managing an organisation in the next four years, after he breached the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations). Keith Hancock, the director of Lad Media, “ played a central role ” in spamming thousands of people with text messages containing marketing material, many of whom had withdrawn their consent to receive such messages.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The retail industry is extremely competitive with traditional brick-and-mortar retailers under pressure from online services such as Amazon. In this environment, anything that delivers advantage has to be quickly seized. Predictive analytics offers huge benefits for retailers as it helps them turn Big Data into actionable insight to better understand and connect with their customers. … The post Top 6 predictive analytics software benefits for the Retail industry in 2019 appeared first on O
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Threatpost
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Banking trojans, led by the ever-changing Emotet, dominated the email-borne threat landscape in Q4, according to Proofpoint.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Information security is a corporate posture and must be managed at all levels: systems, software, personnel, and all the key processes.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
There are no permission dialogues for apps in certain folders for macOS Mojave, which allows a malicious app to spy on browsing histories.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League.
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OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Whether you’re a long-time OpenText™ TeamSite™ user, or you’re just learning about it, here are 10 compelling reasons why marketers love TeamSite and why it’s time to take a closer look at it for your next Content Management System (CMS) solution. 1. Experience Studio TeamSite’s user interface, Experience Studio, provides a visual, drag-and-drop approach to … The post Top 10 reasons to take a look at OpenText TeamSite appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
It’s Valentine’s Day! I hope you all have a special someone with which you can share Valentine’s Day. As you can guess from the picture for this post, I do! Regardless of that, I hope you all love what you do as much as I do. Most people know me because of the blog, and you have to love eDiscovery to write about it every day. I’ve always been a writer in my career, even when I started as a “Big 8” consultant years ago with Price Waterhouse (years before they became PwC).
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The Secure SLC Standard improves business efficiency for payment application vendors but could also stand as new security benchmark for other industries to follow.
Gimmal
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
This Valentine's Day, take some time to remember one of the most neglected types of content: documents that support ERP transactions. This content is mission-critical and frequently sensitive, but many times organizations are not able to give it the attention it craves and deserves. There are a couple avenues companies can pursue when considering an enterprise content management (ECM) strategy for content tied to SAP processes.
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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.
Adam Shostack
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
I did a podcast with Mark Miller over at DevSecOps days. It was a fun conversation, and you can have a listen at “ Anticipating Failure through Threat Modeling w/ Adam Shostack.
Everteam
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
35% of organizations believe the volume of information and data coming into their organizations will grow more than 5-fold in just the next two years; on average, organizations believe the volume of information will grow by 317%. – AIIM Industry Watch: Automating Compliance and Governance. We talk about dark data all the time. That’s because every organization has it – content and data hidden across organizational silos.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Monica Witt, former Air Force and counterintel agent, has been indicted for conspiracy activities with Iranian government, hackers.
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