OpenText Information Management

MAY 18, 2018

This time last year, when I managed customer support and consulting for an ECM reseller, there was a high level of tension within our school board clients. Close to the end of the school year, records managers start digging through the various physical and digital records stores in preparation for next year. During this time … The post ‘Tis the season of purge and replace for records managers appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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IT Governance

MAY 18, 2018

With cyber attacks one of the top threats to organisations , it’s crucial to have the right measures in place to protect yourself from an attack. However, cyber threats are also becoming more sophisticated and persistent, and protection isn’t always enough. Organisations should have a plan in place to respond to an attack, enabling them to contain it and ultimately control the costs and exposure.

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Information Management Resources

MAY 18, 2018

Just like product vendors, consultants find it harder and harder to compete just on people and prices, so now they compete on products, too.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 18, 2018

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Years of massive data breaches have fueled an increase in synthetic identity fraud, in which fraudsters combine real and bogus details to create more effective fake identities. Plus, has "The Dark Overlord" hacking group finally met its match?

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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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AIIM

MAY 18, 2018

In a recent AIIM Industry Watch survey -- State of Intelligent Information Management: Getting Ahead of the Digital Transformation Curve -- I asked this question -- “ Agree or Disagree : Digitizing and standardizing business inputs is one of the key bottlenecks for Digital Transformation.” The results are clear: Information chaos needs to be tackled at its origins.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 18, 2018

Health service joins UK firms in rushing to comply with new data protection rules The National Health Service is texting patients to warn they could lose alerts about hospital and doctor appointments, joining the deluge of more than 1bn “GDPR” messages currently hitting personal inboxes to meet an EU deadline this week. GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation , has been described as the biggest overhaul of online privacy since the birth of the internet, and comes into force on

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Data Breach Today

MAY 18, 2018

After Securus Technologies Gets Hacked, LocationSmart Fixes Data-Exposing Flaw Following reports about U.S. companies that enable government and other users to access real-time tracking information for all major U.S. wireless carriers' subscribers, provider Securus Technologies has reportedly been hacked, while LocationSmart has fixed a data-exposing flaw.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 18, 2018

Dominic Cummings says move would prove campaign did not use data gathered improperly by Cambridge Analytica The chief strategist of Vote Leave has called on Facebook to publish all the data it holds on his Brexit campaign group, challenging the social network to adopt a policy of radical transparency on the impact of targeted online adverts during the EU referendum.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations today have access to countless sources of threat intelligence. And yet many still struggle to operationalize this intel effectively. Russ Spitler of AlienVault discusses how to improve detection and response with dynamic security incidents.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 18, 2018

On May 2, 2018, the Belgian Privacy Commission (the “Belgian DPA”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2017 (the “Annual Report”), highlighting its main accomplishments for the past year. In 2017, the Belgian DPA focused on the following topics: EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The Belgian DPA issued a number of documents to help companies and organizations with their GDPR compliance efforts, including a Recommendation on internal register of processing activities and a temp

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Schneier on Security

MAY 18, 2018

Someone changed the address of UPS corporate headquarters to his own apartment in Chicago. The company discovered it three months later. The problem, of course, is that in the US there isn't any authentication of change-of-address submissions: According to the Postal Service, nearly 37 million change-of-address requests ­ known as PS Form 3575 ­ were submitted in 2017.

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The Texas Record

MAY 18, 2018

Tune in monthly for a curated collection of articles we found interesting on a broad range of topics; some which are directly related to records management and others which might share common themes. No, we didn’t write these articles —hence the name of this series, “Off the Record”— but fortunately, we didn’t need to in order to share the knowledge with our subscribers.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2018

Three reasons why the phone channel is uniquely vulnerable to spoofing and what call centers are doing about it.

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Threatpost

MAY 18, 2018

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely as possible.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2018

The dataset contains 200 million rows of information stolen from websites across industries, likely via opportunistic access.

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Threatpost

MAY 18, 2018

A recently discovered malware steals cache data and messaging sessions from the desktop version of encrypted messaging service Telegram.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2018

It can take months for an organization to know they've been hacked. A new DARPA-funded project seeks to reduce that time to hours.

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Info Source

MAY 18, 2018

MILPITAS, Calif., – May 17, 2018 – ABBYY ® , a global provider of content intelligence services, today announced the launch of ABBYY FineReader Engine 12, a next-generation software development kit (SDK) that allows businesses to integrate text recognition, PDF conversion, and data capture functionalities into software applications running in the cloud, on premises or virtual machines.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2018

Using DDoS for hire services and possessing firearms as a felon combine to land a New Mexico 15 years in federal prison.

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MAY 18, 2018

ROCHESTER, N.Y, May 16 – Alaris, a Kodak Alaris business, announced today that CRN ® , a brand of The Channel Company , has named Maia Mosillo, Alaris Senior Digital Marketing Manager, to its prestigious 2018 Women of the Channel list. The executives who comprise this annual list span the IT channel, representing vendors, distributors, solution providers and other organizations that figure prominently in the channel ecosystem.

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Dark Reading

MAY 18, 2018

Two men have been charged for their involvement in a plot to commit computer hacking as members of the Syrian Electronic Army.

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Threatpost

MAY 18, 2018

Researchers created a proof-of-concept attack that allows remote attackers to access protected APIs to extract credentials.

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Information Management Resources

MAY 18, 2018

When the effort does not work, it is likely due to pushing solutions at a scale that stretches engineering capabilities or moving too fast to integrate new technologies into a current system.

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Threatpost

MAY 18, 2018

The U.S. Senate gave the nod to restoring the 2015 Open Internet Order, putting net neutrality on the fast track to a House vote.

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Information Management Resources

MAY 18, 2018

The company said in a May 2 statement on its website that it lost 'virtually all' customers and suppliers as a result of reports that it improperly obtained information from tens of millions of Facebook Inc. users.

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Threatpost

MAY 18, 2018

Threatpost editors Tom Spring, Tara Seals and Lindsey O'Donnell discuss the week’s information security news.

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Information Management Resources

MAY 18, 2018

When corporations are able to successfully execute a program, they are better able to handle future challenges as data volumes and formats continue to expand.

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Threatpost

MAY 18, 2018

The Sun Team APT, likely linked to North Korea, uses Google Play and Facebook as attack vectors.

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