Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 17, 2018
6.8 Million Users' Private Photos Exposed, Triggering GDPR Investigation Ireland's privacy watchdog is probing data breaches at Facebook that exposed users' private data. In the latest breach to be disclosed, Facebook has warned that for a 12-day period in September, up to 6.8 million users' private photos may have been revealed to 1,500 apps built by 876 developers.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Frustrated by Twitter's silence on abuse against women, Amnesty International crowdsourced its own data and found that the platform was especially toxic for black women.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Digital transformation (DX) continues to drive growth across financial services firms, creating new opportunities to increase revenue and foster innovation. Cloud - whether public, private or a hybrid approach - is foundational to achieving DX objectives, as is secure, resilient and scalable network connectivity. Customers demand a seamless experience across all digital channels.
AIIM
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a systematic approach to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information related to business processes. So if it is related to business processes, especially to core business processes, it must be considered key for any organization. Many companies have the willingness to bring into their network of systems an Enterprise Content Management Solution, but then they fail to maintain the system properly once implemented.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Analyst Contends Nation-States Are Waging Cyberwar and Our Defenses Are Lacking In the aftermath of the Marriott breach, it's fair to characterize Gartner's Avivah Litan as mad as hell and not wanting the U.S. to take it anymore. Going into 2019, Litan has policy and technology recommendations for national cyber defense.
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WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A new report for the Senate exposes how the IRA used every major social media platform to target Americans before and after the 2016 election.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A second sample of the Shamoon wiper was uploaded to Virus total on December 13, from the Netherlands, experts analyzed it. Last week security experts at Chronicle announced the discovery of a new variant of the infamous Shamoon malware , the sample was uploaded to Virus Total from Italy at around the time Italian oil services company Saipem announced to have suffered a cyber attack.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A Senate report finds that Russia's Internet Research Agency was far more active, and more successful, on Instagram in 2017 than on Facebook or Twitter.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 17, 2018
I’m pleased to announce that OpenText has acquired Liaison Technologies, a recognized leader in cloud-based information integration and data management solutions. As part of the OpenText Cloud Platform, this acquisition will extend the OpenText Business Network with a next-generation integration platform for connecting applications, data and devices.
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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.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Good news for the victims of the dreaded HiddenTear Ransomware , the popular cybersecurity expert Michael Gillespie has devised a tool dubbed HT Brute Forcer that could allow decrypting files for free. In 2015, the Turkish security researchers Utku Sen published the HiddenTear ransomware, the first open source ransomware, for educational purposes.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A new variant of the Shamoon malware has destroyed signifigant amounts of data at a UAE "heavy engineering company" and the Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem. Shamoon is the Iranian malware that was targeted against the Saudi Arabian oil company, Saudi Aramco, in 2012 and 2016. We have no idea if this new variant is also Iranian in origin, or if it is someone else entirely using the old Iranian code base.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 17, 2018
The head of Germany’s BSI admitted that since now there is no proof espionage activity conducted through Huawei technology. US first, and many other countries after, have decided to ban network equipment manufactured by the Chinese telecom giant Huawei. In November 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies, including Germany, to exclude Huawei from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Organisations have had to radically rethink their approach to data protection now that the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is in effect. But did you know that data controllers can be in violation of the GDPR even if they don’t violate any its data protection rules? This is because the Regulation requires organisations to demonstrate their compliance.
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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.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Companies need to take a centralized approach to protecting confidential data and assets. Here are 12 ways to get a handle on the problem.
Adam Shostack
DECEMBER 17, 2018
SANS has announced a new boardgame, “ Pivots and Payloads ,” that “takes you through pen test methodology, tactics, and tools with many possible setbacks that defenders can utilize to hinder forward progress for a pen tester or attacker. The game helps you learn while you play. It’s also a great way to showcase to others what pen testers do and how they do it.” If you register for their webinar, which is on Wednesday the 19th, they’ll send you some posters ver
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A new report documents how the Internet Research Agency had a much more sustained, deliberate focus on black Americans.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2018
The largest companies in the world have an average of 500 servers and devices accessible from the Internet - and many leave thousands of systems open to attack.
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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
DECEMBER 17, 2018
One of IT Governance’s governance and risk management consultants, Andrew Pattison, was interviewed by GBC News last week about the most common types of cyber threats after delivering IT Governance’s three-day training course on “Effective Protection against Cyber crime”. The course was held in Gibraltar and hosted by Rock Learning. . Commenting on the current cyber security landscape, Andrew said: “The biggest challenge when it comes to cyber security and data protection is that organisations
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2018
The flaw let developers access images that users may not have shared publicly, including those they started to upload but didn't post.
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A bug on Facebook gave app developers unauthorized access to the photos of as many as 6.8 million users. The bug, which affected Facebook’s photo API, was active from September 13 through September 25, when it was discovered by Facebook and fixed. September 25 was coincidentally the same day the company announced a massive security breach that affected 30 million users.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Automatic vulnerability finding tools detect more than 50 CVEs in Adobe Reader and Adobe Pro during a 50-day experiment.
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Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 17, 2018
There are common requirements that span several of the new privacy laws and data protection regulations. By embracing them, you will be better prepared to help your organization become compliant.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Program seeks to raise employee cyber awareness at small and midsize businesses and give their owners the tools to make a difference.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Widespread, unpatched vulnerabilities are just one set of problems uncovered by a Department of Defense audit.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 17, 2018
As with previous attacks, organizations in the Middle East appear to be main targets, Symantec says.
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Threatpost
DECEMBER 17, 2018
The campaign targets politicians involved in economic and military sanctions against Iran, along with various journalists and human rights activists.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
DECEMBER 17, 2018
On 10 December 2018, the European lawmakers reached a political agreement on the European Cybersecurity Act. The intention of this new EU Regulation is to better protect the European Union against cyber-attacks, including a strengthening of the powers of the European Agency for Network and Information Security (“ENISA”). The Regulation still needs to be formally approved by the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, likely in March 2019 or soon thereafter.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 17, 2018
The hackers behind the attack said they have targeted hundreds of thousands of printers in the latest attack dubbed #PrinterHack2.
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