Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
'Information Warfare Against the United States' Alleged A U.S. grand jury has taken the extraordinary step of indicting 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for allegedly interfering with the U.S. political system, including the 2016 presidential election, in what the Justice Department portrays as "information warfare against the United States.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
This article was first published in Legaltech News. “Cooperation should not result in one party exerting extensive control over another’s discovery process or the application of a heightened discovery standard.” – Anna Mercado Clark, partner at Phillips Lytle LLP Civil litigation doesn’t have to be uncivil, or so the idea goes. In the spirit of … The post Transparency in eDiscovery?
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Cyber intelligence expert Tom Kellermann discusses the significance and impact of the announcement that 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities were indicted Friday for allegedly meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Allow me to introduce you to Wendy McLain, Manager of Enterprise Content & Records Management at Valero. Valero is a publicly traded international oil and gas company, with revenue in the billions of dollars. Wendy will be presenting at The AIIM Conference 2018. Her session is called "How We Learned to Love Event Based Retention: A Valero Energy Case Study in Records Management.
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 16, 2018
Encrypted ID 'Hubs' Will Safely Store Personal Data After a year of brainstorming on blockchain technology, Microsoft says it will add support in its Authenticator app for a decentralized identity system that's designed to put users in control of their personal information.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: U.S. intelligence chiefs warn Congress that Russia's information operations continue, while Europol says criminals love cryptocurrencies, both for stealing via scams as well as to launder "dirty money.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Robert Mueller's office has come out with a 37-page indictment that details the extraordinary lengths Russian agents went to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
When faced with a ransomware attacks, why do some healthcare entities choose to pay extortionists a ransom to decrypt data? Security expert Ron Pelletier offers insights.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
A new Justice Department indictment alleges Russia's disinformation operations created bank and social media accounts using the stolen identities of real US citizens.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
When you wake up, the last thing you want to ask yourself is, “What did my data do last night?” CDOs who find themselves asking that question can put a stop to it on March 19. IBM is bringing experts and leaders across data governance and integration to the annual Think conference.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Each year, the BCI in association with BSI produces the Horizon Scan Report , which presents findings on short- and long-term business threats. Cyber attacks and data breaches have been the top two threats for the past three years. This year’s report reveals that cyber threats continue to be the top concern for business continuity and resilience professionals. 53% of respondents were “extremely concerned” about the risk of a cyber attack, and 42% were concerned about the risk of a data breach.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Former Formula One boss says references to ‘private party’ breach Data Protection Act Max Mosley is threatening to sue Britain’s three largest newspaper groups, claiming they are in breach of the Data Protection Act because they continue to refer to an infamous sadomasochistic orgy involving the former Formula One boss a decade ago. The 77-year-old claims that data protection and privacy laws require the press to stop disseminating information about him that is not in the public interest, but me
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 February 2018 – and thanks to Camden for reading last week’s one while I was away.
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Threatpost
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Apple said it is working on a fix for the latest text bomb bug that crashes a number of iOS and Mac apps that display specific Telugu language characters. .
Archive Document Data Storage
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
As a business owner, you generate confidential waste daily. One of the most important things you can do is dispose of it securely. But it’s not always easy knowing what to destroy versus what to recycle. Here’s a list of the which items you should destroy regularly: Documents with Financial Information. Identity thieves know organisations generate confidential waste.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
These intelligent botnet clusters swarm compromised devices to identify and assault different attack vectors all at once.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
The National Academies has just published " Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers." It looks really good, although I have not read it yet. Not much news or analysis yet. Please post any links you find in the comments, and I will summarize them here.
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Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
I had plans this week. Monday was going to be full of coding work around Pwned Passwords V2 (and a few other HIBP things) then Texthelp went and got themselves pwned and there went my day writing about the ramifications of that. This is a genuinely important issue and the whole concept of the JavaScript supply chain needs much better thought. We've got the technology, it's just that most people don't know it exists!
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
The new 'Charter of Trust' aims to make security a key element of the digital economy, critical infrastructure.
CGI
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Today’s financial consumer: Open for business (part 2 of 2). harini.kottees…. Fri, 02/16/2018 - 02:11. As mentioned in my previous blog , consumers across the globe are increasingly interested in FinTech-fueled innovative services, but also much more open to going to other providers beyond their current primary banks, if necessary, to get them. As a reminder, the insights discussed here are driven by CGI’s 2017 Global Financial Consumer Survey , which surveyed 2,250 bank consumers in nine coun
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Russian nationals reportedly used stolen American identities and infrastructure to influence the 2016 election outcome.
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Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
On February 13, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that it entered into a resolution agreement with the receiver appointed to liquidate the assets of Filefax, Inc. (“Filefax”) in order to settle potential violations of HIPAA. Filefax offered medical record storage, maintenance and delivery services for covered entities, and had gone out of business during the course of OCR’s investigation. .
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Thousands of documents from US and international citizens were exposed on an Amazon S3 bucket configured for public access.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
The technology, which has the potential to dramatically alter the business computing landscape, is likely to receive a lot of attention in 2018.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Two more men involved in the massive payment card theft from multiple major US corporations that began in 2007 now sent to federal prison.
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Archives Blogs
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
We are saddened to hear of Dr. Nancy Marcus’ passing this last Monday. Dr. Marcus served at FSU in several roles for 30 years. During her tenure, she served as the director of the Marine Laboratory, chair of the Department of Oceanography, and as Dean of the Graduate School from 2005 until her retirement in 2017. Dr. Marcus was named a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor in 2001, the highest honor that FSU faculty can award one of their own.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
Security leaders must take a pragmatic and risk-based approach to combating this entirely new class of vulnerabilities. Gartner offers these 6 steps to reduce risk.
Archives Blogs
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
This week, I’d like to draw your attention to a fascinating collection that was recently digitized and made available in Amherst College Digital Collections: the Amherst College Early History Manuscripts and Pamphlets Collection. A map of South College from the first year of the college’s existence, 1821/22, showing the students living in each room.
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