Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 25, 2019

As a result of government mandates, the need for greater efficiency, and the desire to enable better patient care, U.S. healthcare organizations are nearly universal in the adoption of digital transformation technologies (cloud, SaaS applications, big data, IoT, digital payments, containers, and blockchain). But digital transformation also introduces the potential to put patients’ sensitive financial and healthcare data at risk by changing where and how data needs to be secured.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 25, 2019

From Ransomware to APT Attacks, AD Can Make Connecting to Systems Easy Warning: Attackers are abusing poorly secured and managed implementations of Microsoft Windows Active Directory to hack organizations and distribute ransomware. Fewer old operating systems and greater Active Directory security knowledge are helping mitigate the threat. But experts say more must be done.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2019

Much has been written about the need to further secure our elections, from ensuring the integrity of voting machines to combating fake news. But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts used by election officials at the state and local level.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 25, 2019

Police seeking legal advice about two cases that resulted in information that ‘may have been used in a prosecution’ ACT Policing has admitted it unlawfully accessed citizens’ metadata a total of 3,365 times, not 116 as previously disclosed in an explosive commonwealth ombudsman’s report on Monday. The new disclosures include a total of 240 cases that resulted in information valuable to criminal investigations and two that “may have been used in a prosecution”.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

A new wave of cyber attacks carried out by a China-linked APT group hit German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel and others. On Wednesday, German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel along with a host of others confirmed they had been targeted by a wave of cyber attacks. German media reported that the cyber attacks were launched by China-linked cyberespionage group.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for 13 days. An undisclosed streaming service was hit by a 13?day DDoS massive attack powered by a Mirai botnet composed of 402,000 IoT devices. Imperva confirmed that its systems were able to repel the attack and the service remained up and running during the DDoS attack. “Targeting the authentication component of your site, this DDoS attack was led by a coordinating 402,

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Recently revealed surveillance-ware comes from a consultant with close ties to Russia's GRU who was sanctioned by the US for election-tampering.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

South African electric utility City Power that provides energy to the city of Johannesburg, has suffered serious disruptions after a ransomware attack. A ransomware infected systems at City Power, an electricity provider in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and some residents were left without power. The energy utility informed its customers via Twitter of the ransomware attack that encrypted its network, including all its databases and applications.

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

The virus affected the network, applications, and databases at City Power, which delivers electricity to the South African financial hub.

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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.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Researchers at Lookout discovered a new mobile spyware dubbed Monokle that was developed by a Russian defense contractor. Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( STC). “Lookout has discovered a highly targeted mobile malware threat that uses a new and sophisticated set of custom Android surveillanceware tools called Monokle that has possible connection

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 25, 2019

It’s no surprise: most companies working with stream data today say they are planning to make changes to drive greater value. Advancements in machine learning (ML) and very-high-speed data persistence for real-time analytics are reshaping strategies and architectures.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). “We have discovered a new version of WatchBog—a cryptocurrency-mining botnet operational since la

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Data from an intrusion last year suggests Iron Liberty group may have a new trick up its sleeve, Secureworks says.

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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.

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TAB OnRecord

JULY 25, 2019

It’s an important time to re-examine your medical equipment storage. Amidst a need for additional patient rooms and beds are rising real estate costs (hospitals account for over $1 trillion1 in owned property), an increased need for secure storage and storage requests that are unique to the healthcare industry. We’ll take you through three things [.

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Executives and directors need quantitative measurements - such as likelihood of loss and hard-dollar financial impact - to make more informed decisions about security risks.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and is instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The authorities are also instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. In April 2018, Facebook revealed that 87 million users have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica case, much more than 50 million users initially tho

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Data protection regulations are only going to grow tighter. Make sure you're keeping the customer's best interests in mind.

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Adam Levin

JULY 25, 2019

The U.S. National Security Agency announced the formation of a new Cybersecurity Directorate earlier this week. Effective October 1, the directorate’a mission is will be the creation of a “major organization that unifies NSA’s foreign intelligence and cyber defense missions,” according to the agency’s website. It will be led by Anne Neuberger, the former NSA deputy director of operations and lead of the Russia Small Group.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Stock trading service Robinhood announced that the passwords of a number of users were stored in plaintext, the company is informing impacted ones. Stock trading service Robinhood admitted to have stored passwords of a number of users in plain text, the company is informing impacted ones via emai l. “When you set a password for your Robinhood account, we use an industry-standard process that prevents anyone at our company from reading it.

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DXC Technology

JULY 25, 2019

With technology advances over the last decade, automotive businesses can now easily obtain enhanced location-based data – from within a facility and across the globe – that helps them make better-informed critical business decisions. When used well, location-based data is a game changer. Location intelligence can enhance visibility at all levels of the business – […].

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 25, 2019

As previously reported on July 12, 2019, Facebook will pay a $5 billion penalty to the Federal Trade Commission to resolve a privacy probe into whether Facebook violated a prior FTC consent decree requiring the company to better protect user privacy. The $5 billion penalty is the largest imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy – nearly 20 times the largest privacy or data security penalty to date.

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OpenText Information Management

JULY 25, 2019

According to Accenture, the cost of cybercrime to US Financial Services companies rose 40% between 2014 and 2017, on average costing companies over $18 million per year. Add to this much tighter data protection regulations – such as those in the US and Europe – and the need for endpoint security becomes clear. In this … The post An introduction to 360 degree threat detection appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Black Hat USA speakers to discuss what it will take to 'shift knowledge left' to build up a corps of security-savvy software engineers.

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Information Management Resources

JULY 25, 2019

Organizations must implement effective intelligent data management strategies that help them being able to access the right data at the right time and recover it when it’s lost or damaged.

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Senate Intelligence Committee report released today cites weaknesses, but finds no evidence of vote-tampering.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 25, 2019

Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.

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Dark Reading

JULY 25, 2019

Google in May disclosed that several Android devices had been shipped pre-installed with the RAT.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 25, 2019

In addition to Facebook’s record-breaking Federal Trade Commission penalty and settlement order , on July 24, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against Facebook for inadequate and misleading disclosures over its privacy practices. Facebook, without admitting or denying the SEC’s allegations, has agreed to the entry of a final judgment ordering a fine of $100 million.

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