Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
'In Fraud We Trust' Was International 'Infraud Organization' Slogan The U.S. Department of Justice, in one of its biggest-ever cybercrime disruptions, shuttered the Infraud Organization, an online forum prosecutors tied to $530 million in losses. Thirteen suspects - in Australia, France, Italy, Kosovo, Serbia, the U.K. and the U.S. - have been arrested.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns. But they rightly have concerns. As the report notes: The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. respondents.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
CISO Says Characterizing Payoff as Bug Bounty Was Wrong Uber CISO John Flynn tells a U.S. Senate subcommittee that the company should have told the public sooner about its 2016 data breach. He says the company's attempt to position its $100,000 payoff to hackers as a bug bounty was not appropriate.
TAB OnRecord
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
When Colorado approved the retail sale of marijuana in 2013, the City & County of Denver was hit with a massive influx of applications from hopeful retailers. The licensing department was soon swamped with a backlog of unprocessed applications. In a two-part blog post we show how they dealt with the backlog and redesigned their [.] Read More. The post City & County of Denver: How to redesign a document-intensive business process – Part 1 appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | T
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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 8, 2018
Are More Healthcare Sector Entities at Risk? Do healthcare entities face a growing risk of being hit with cryptocurrency mining attacks, which have become more common in other sectors? A Tennessee hospital may be the first victim in the sector, and some security experts predict many more such incidents.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Malware Incident Took Months to Investigate A malware incident at Partners HealthCare that was detected last spring but was only recently determined to have exposed patient data illustrates that confirming a data breach through a forensics investigation can be difficult and time-consuming.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
This week, we discuss breaches at Grammarly and Octoly, and the arrest of leading members of the Infraud cyber crime group. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 9 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories. Last Friday, Tavis Ormandy of Google’s Project Zero discovered what he called a “high severity bug” affecting the users of the popular spelling and grammar checker Grammarly.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Rachael Stockton of LastPass says that 81 percent of breaches are caused by weak or reused passwords. So, is it time to take a hard look at password management and consider adding some technology to the practice?
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
In my previous blog I identified mobility as one of the key tech trends for government in 2018. The concept of a mobile first government IT strategy has been around for some years now but government agencies have been slow to adopt. Now, with the explosive growth of smartphones, the public sector must place much greater emphasis … The post Is mobile first government the way forward in 2018?
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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.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The ease with which giant databases can be queried and cross-referenced makes privacy vanish on the internet Privacy is necessary for human society to function. The problem is not that the information exists but that it reaches the wrong people. Information on the internet could bring great benefits to society, and to individuals, when huge datasets can be refined to yield information otherwise unavailable.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The OpenText team is proud to announce its arrival to the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) for its OpenText™ Qfiniti solution. According to the report, WEM solutions expand on the already mature workforce optimization (WFO) market by also accommodating technologies that help drive employee engagement within the customer engagement center.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
What is ransomware? Ransomware is one of the fastest-growing forms of cyber attack. According to Bitdefender , there are roughly 2.8 million known unique samples of ransomware, and this number is growing. Ransomware attacks are becoming more sophisticated and cyber attackers are demanding higher payments from their victims. How does ransomware infect your system?
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Capture technologies took a huge step forward in 2017. What will 2018 hold? Let’s start by reviewing 2017- a year that looking like the year that capture technologies fully emerged from the mailroom and transitioned into solutions that could address real-time customer requirements – providing both more accurate data for organizations and better experiences for … The post 2017 capture technologies review and predictions for 2018 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018 from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has revealed that only 38% of businesses and 44% of charities have heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is a worrisome finding, as it is only a matter of months until the new Regulation is enforced. The full report will not be released until April 2018, but the statistics already released provide a comprehensive overview.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
On February 7, 2018, representatives of European Data Protection Authorities (“DPAs”) met in Brussels to appoint the new leader of the current Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (the “Working Party”). Andrea Jelinek, head of the Austrian DPA, was elected to the post and will replace Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, leader of the French DPA, who has represented the Working Party over the past four years.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
A water utility in Europe has been infected by cryptocurrency mining software. This is a relatively new attack : hackers compromise computers and force them to mine cryptocurrency for them. This is the first time I've seen it infect SCADA systems, though. It seems that this mining software is benign, and doesn't affect the performance of the hacked computer.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Researchers have identified a new ransomware strain that went undetected by built-in malware protection used by cloud heavyweights Microsoft and Google as recently as January.
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Info Source
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Boston, MA – February 7, 2018 — ELO Digital Office USA , enabling businesses to improve collaboration and streamline information management in a digital economy, announced today that ATLAS has joined the growing ELO partner network in North America. ATLAS , headquartered in Delafield (WI), consolidates its customers disparate data sources to simplify their digital transformation and deliver world-class business intelligence.
Rippleshot
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The roller coaster price fluctuations of bitcoin has kept the cryptocurrency prevalent in the headlines for months. This week, bitcoin made it to the list of credit card fraud concerns, with — as you can probably guess — stolen identities being the root of the problem. A LA Times article explored the chief concerns around cryptocurrency scams and why banks are getting increasingly skeptical about bitcoin transactions.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
However noble the intention, obtaining unauthorized access to devices and making them unusable is illegal and undermines the work of ethical researchers.
Info Source
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
New York, New York and Paris, France, February 2, 2018 – A2iA (@A2iA), an award-winning developer of artificial intelligence and machine-learning based software for the worldwide data capture, document processing, and payment systems markets, today announced new versions of its a2ia Mobility and a2ia mCapture software toolkits. a2ia Mobility V7.0, a configurable SDK, features offline and client-side image analysis, A2iA’s patented automatic capture feature – Auto-Locate , and data extracti
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Far too often, organizations approach automation as a solution looking for a problem rather than the other way around.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Territoriality will continue to be one of the most vexing problems for data regulation in 2018. One aspect of this debate relates to whether a U.S. judge can compel the disclosure of personal data located in Europe without using international treaty mechanisms. This issue is currently being considered by the United States Supreme Court in the case United States v.
Data Protection Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
February 15, 2018, is quickly approaching and any entity subject to New York’s cybersecurity regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) must file its first annual certification of compliance with the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) by that date. New York imposes cybersecurity requirements on all entities (covered entities) subject to the jurisdiction of the DFS, which include not only banks and insurers, but also any persons regulated by the DFS, including the newest DFS licensees, tho
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Decatur County General Hospital is notifying 24,000 patients of cryptocurrency mining software on its EMR system.
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eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Editor’s Note: Jim Gill’s writing about eDiscovery and Data Management has been twice recognized with JD Supra Reader’s Choice Awards and he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Before working in eDiscovery, Jim taught college writing at a number of institutions and his creative work has been published in numerous national literary journals, as well as being nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
The vulnerability also exposed login credentials for a massive national insurance claims database, Upguard says.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
UDPoS is disguised to appear like a LogMeIn service pack, Forcepoint says.
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