Data Breach Today
JANUARY 9, 2019
Analysts: GDPR Case in Portugal Offers Lessons for U.S. Healthcare Entities An EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement action against a hospital in Portugal demonstrates complying with GDPR may be even tougher than complying with HIPAA. Regulatory experts analyze the implications of the case.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 9, 2019
Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly four dozen security issues with its Windows operating systems and related software. All things considered, this first Patch Tuesday of 2019 is fairly mild, bereft as it is of any new Adobe Flash updates or zero-day exploits. But there are a few spicy bits to keep in mind. Read on for the gory details.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 9, 2019
Anger at Politicians and Public Figures Allegedly Motivated 20-Year-Old Suspect German police arrested a 20-year-old student - living at home with his parents - who they say confessed to leaking contact details and sensitive information for an estimated 1,000 German celebrities, journalists and politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.
AIIM
JANUARY 9, 2019
Data Privacy Day takes place annually on January 28th in recognition of the January 28, 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally binding international treaty concerning privacy and data protection. This day, led officially by The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) , is an international effort to “create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust”.
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 9, 2019
London Docklands Plays Host to 17th Annual Information Security Conference The recent Black Hat Europe conference in London touched on topics ranging from combating "deep fake" videos and information security career challenges to hands-on lock-picking tutorials and the dearth of research proposals centered on deception technology.
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AIIM
JANUARY 9, 2019
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
The number of flaws found in WordPress and its associated plugins have tripled since 2017, while Internet of Things vulnerabilities dropped significantly, according to data collected by Imperva.
Adam Levin
JANUARY 9, 2019
The ongoing shutdown of the U.S. Government has impacted federal cybersecurity according to several reports. The roughly 800,000 federal workers currently on furlough include: 45% of staff from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , which is tasked with defending critical infrastructure from cyber and physical threats. 80% of the National Protection and Programs Directorate , which oversees the Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis and the
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 9, 2019
The growth of Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) has been phenomenal. The first CIAM systems only started to appear around 2014, but today almost 50% of organizations say they have implemented the technology. As I noted in my previous blog, although CIAM is still relatively new it is rapidly becoming a ‘must have’ for any … The post What makes a great CIAM platform?
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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.
Jamf
JANUARY 9, 2019
Discover what Apple Business Manager is and why you should strongly consider using it to help make your everyday Apple device management tasks easier, faster and more simplified.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 9, 2019
Microsoft has released the January 2019 Patch Tuesday updates that address 51 vulnerabilities in Windows OSs and other products. Microsoft has released Microsoft January 2019 Patch Tuesday that solve 51 vulnerabilities in Windows operating system and in the following solutions: Adobe Flash Player Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps ChakraCore.NET Framework ASP.NET Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Visual Studio.
IT Governance
JANUARY 9, 2019
A new version of ITIL ® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library ® ) is being released in the first quarter of 2019. ITIL 4 will build upon its existing framework and address the criticisms of its current iteration. How does ITIL work? ITIL has five volumes , each focusing on a different aspect of ITSM (IT service management): Service strategy: helps organisations understand their customers and how to develop and deliver IT services to meet their needs.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 9, 2019
Google released its security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of vulnerabilities in the popular mobile OS. Google released the first batch of security patches for Android in 2019 that addressed tens of flaws, the most severe of them is the CVE-2018-9583 issue. The CVE-2018-9583 flaw is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the System, it was included in the 2019-01-01 security patch level.
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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.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
Container and microservices technologies, including the orchestrator Kubernetes, create an extraordinary opportunity to build infrastructure and applications that are secure by design.
IT Governance
JANUARY 9, 2019
The new year can be a transformative time, as we turn our back on the holiday period and resolve that January will be the start of a ‘new year, new me’. You might be in the gruelling second week of that healthy diet or Dry January right now, with the novelty of your resolutions wearing thin and realisation that simply saying that it’s a new you doesn’t necessarily make it true.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
The home goods company confirmed users' data may have been compromised during multiple time frames over a two-year period.
Threatpost
JANUARY 9, 2019
Should we pump the brakes on the roll out of biometric security to first consider whether we are creating new vulnerabilities?
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
Don't assume your employees know how to spot business email compromises - they need some strong training and guidance on how to respond in the event of an attack.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 9, 2019
Machine learning, data-centricity, self-service BI and distributed ledger technology will be among the top technology trends driving innovation and digital transformation this year.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 9, 2019
The EU is offering "bug bounties on Free Software projects that the EU institutions rely on.". Slashdot thread.
Threatpost
JANUARY 9, 2019
As the hype at CES demonstrates, 5G is the newest and shiniest tech bauble out there: but security concerns loom.
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Synergis Software
JANUARY 9, 2019
[Editor’s note: Guest blogger Randall Newton continues his occasional series of articles on trends in engineering with this report from the recent FORMNEXT 3D printing conference in Germany.]. Automobile manufacturer Audi is using its A4 Limousine, a low-production model, as a proving ground for process innovation research. One large steel frame section of the A4 has always been difficult to manufacture, so the research team decided to try 3D printing.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
But this new development unlikely to do much to clear government suspicions about security vendor's ties to Russian intelligence, analyst says.
Threatpost
JANUARY 9, 2019
Once downloaded, the fake apps hide themselves on the victim’s device and continue to show a full-screen ad every 15 minutes.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
Nearly half of all companies know that they're deploying containers with security flaws, according to a new survey.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 9, 2019
Tens of state attorneys general announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group over a 2013 data breach. Tens of attorneys general announced this week a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group LLC over a data breach suffered by the company in 2013 and disclosed earlier 2014. 43 states and the District of Columbia were involved in the settlement.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 9, 2019
Ask the tough questions before you invest in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. The security of your enterprise depends on it.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 9, 2019
On October 22, 2018, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP co-hosted a workshop in Brussels on “Can GDPR Work for Health Scientific Research?” (the “Workshop”) with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (“EFPIA”) and the Future of Privacy Forum (“FPF”) to address the challenges raised by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in conducting scientific health research.
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