Krebs on Security
MAY 22, 2019
Some of the most convincing email phishing and malware attacks come disguised as nastygrams from a law firm. Such scams typically notify the recipient that he/she is being sued, and instruct them to review the attached file and respond within a few days — or else. Here’s a look at a recent spam campaign that peppered more than 100,000 business email addresses with fake legal threats harboring malware.
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2019
Passwords Remained Encrypted for Enterprise Users Google is notifying administrators and users of its business-oriented G Suite product that the company had been storing unhashed passwords for years because of a flaw in the platform. The company believes no customer data was leaked and that all passwords remained encrypted.
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The Last Watchdog
MAY 22, 2019
Social media consumers are getting wise to the joke that when the product is free, they’re the ones being sold. But despite the growing threat of consumer exploitation, Washington still shrinks from confronting our social media giants. Why? Because the social giants have convinced the chattering class that America simply can’t do without them. Confront the industry, we’re told, and you might accidentally kill it ?
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2019
Did Company Also Bungle Notification for Some Victims Impacted? A misconfigured IT setting has landed a Puerto Rico-based clearinghouse and cloud software services vendor at the top of federal regulators' list of largest health data breaches so far this year. Why do these types of mistakes keep happening?
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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.
AIIM
MAY 22, 2019
Good news - we’ve updated Certified Information Professional (CIP) exam! For the last six months, a group of very experienced subject matter experts has been revising the CIP exam, program, and training. With any change comes questions, so I thought I would take some time to answer some of the ones I’m sure you’re asking. Why did you update the CIP?
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Schneier on Security
MAY 22, 2019
This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer sensors found in smartphones to construct a globally unique fingerprint.
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2019
Proactive Malware Intelligence & Increasing ROI of SIEM & SOAR Deployments With today's challenges from an increasingly hostile threat landscape, combined with a lack of people, expertise, and budget, organizations are driving toward optimizing their SIEM and SOAR solutions in order to get the highest return their investment. Of the greatest areas of unmet need with SIEM and SOAR solutions, obtaining the right file-level intelligence with actionable rich context, and building effective levels of
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2019
The zero trust model might be the answer to a world in which perimeters are made to be breached. Is it right for your organization?
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2019
C-level executives are 12 times more likely to be the target of social incidents and nine times more likely to be the target of social breaches. This is among the key findings of the latest Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report. Author John Grim shares insight.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
MAY 22, 2019
IBM Cloud Pak for Data System is an integrated end-to-end platform that is cloud native by design, architected as microservices and containerized workloads. It offers instant pre-assembled provisioning and has capabilities to collect, organize and analyze data. It takes the IBM Cloud Pak for Data experience further by providing a modular approach to compute, network and storage on standard hardware, leveraging a building block approach under unified management.
Data Breach Today
MAY 22, 2019
With today's challenges from an increasingly hostile threat landscape, combined with a lack of people, expertise, and budget, organizations are driving toward optimizing their SIEM and SOAR solutions in order to get the highest return their investment. Of the greatest areas of unmet need with SIEM and SOAR solutions, obtaining the right file-level intelligence with actionable rich context, and building effective levels of automation are both needed to increase detection and response effectivenes
IT Governance
MAY 22, 2019
This week marks one year since the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) took effect, and although we’ve seen organisations take huge strides in their commitment to information security, many are still struggling to implement the necessary measures. Small businesses have faced this biggest challenge, partly because they lack the resources to overhaul their processes and invest in compliance solutions.
Schneier on Security
MAY 22, 2019
Yesterday, I visited the NSA. It was Cyber Command's birthday, but that's not why I was there. I visited as part of the Berklett Cybersecurity Project, run out of the Berkman Klein Center and funded by the Hewlett Foundation. (BERKman hewLETT -- get it? We have a web page , but it's badly out of date.). It was a full day of meetings, all unclassified but under the Chatham House Rule.
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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.
Threatpost
MAY 22, 2019
Google said it had stored G Suite enterprise users' passwords in plain text since 2005 marking a giant security faux pas.
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2019
While IoT devices continue to multiply, the latest studies show a dangerous lack of visibility into those connected to enterprise networks.
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2019
Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According to the tech giant, the incident was caused by a bug in the password recovery mechanism and only business users were affected. “However, we recently notified a subse
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2019
Every day, keeping anything secure requires being smart about trust. The rules of trust will keep you and your data safer.
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CGI
MAY 22, 2019
Exploring the DevOps model through gamification. pooja.cs@cgi.com. Wed, 05/22/2019 - 17:30. Does it seem like your operating methods should be made more efficient? Maybe the DevOps model can help. With agile methods going mainstream?along with technological enablers like cloud, virtualization, containerization, integrated toolchains and service automation taking hold?
Everteam
MAY 22, 2019
In the age of Big Data , capturing , organizing and analyzing all your data is nearly impossible if you are counting on traditional methods. Without having a solution to structure and benefit from this data, you’ll find yourself with mountains of data that you can’t tell what to do with but also are afraid of getting rid of. The size of Data might be an issue but the biggest challenge is the multiple data streams coming from online sources and social media, bringing rich media assets such as ima
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 22, 2019
Facial recognition technology has proliferated unchecked in the US so far. Congress finally seems ready to do something about it.
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2019
For the second time in a few days, experts at Emsisoft released a free decrypter , this time to help victims of the GetCrypt ransomware. Security experts at Emsisoft released a new decrypted in a few days, it could be used for free by victims of the GetCrypt ransomware to decrypt their files encrypted by the malware. The GetCrypt ransomware is served through the RIG exploit kit , it leveragesSalsa20 and RSA-4096 to encrypt the victims’ files. “ GetCrypt is a ransomware spread by th
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 22, 2019
As false predictions of digital transformation fade into the past, we are hurtling into a new era of business. In a global and unprecedented shift, digital transformation is driving a wave of benefits as part of this new digital-first business environment – from greater efficiencies to building better customer experiences and relationships. For Europe, the story is no different.
The Texas Record
MAY 22, 2019
SLRM is excited to announce the relaunch of our Introduction to Records Management Course for local governments! You may remember a previous iteration of the IRM course available on our training page. Based on feedback from users, we’ve updated it to better reflect our in-person trainings. For the uninitiated, the IRM course is a self-paced multi-subject class that covers the fundamentals of records management.
Jamf
MAY 22, 2019
In the conclusion of our three-part blog series, we highlight how the Sewanhaka Central High School District has taken on testing and given students a better avenue to showcase their learnings.
Dark Reading
MAY 22, 2019
A new analysis highlights the prevalence of malware signed by certificate authorities and the problems with trust-based security.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 22, 2019
South Wales force defends use of technology after office worker claims rights breach Facial recognition cameras prevent crime, protect the public and do not breach the privacy of innocent people whose images are captured, a police force has argued. Ed Bridges, an office worker from Cardiff, claims South Wales police violated his privacy and data protection rights by using facial recognition technology on him.
Threatpost
MAY 22, 2019
The "bestiary" houses six historical threats that combined resulted in at least $95B in damages worldwide.
DXC Technology
MAY 22, 2019
by Mutaz Shegewi Digital transformation in healthcare can no longer be ignored when seeking to improve outcomes. The convergence of “3rd Platform” technologies (big data and analytics, cloud, mobility and social) with innovation accelerators, such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things, continues to impact the industry landscape daily and bring new opportunities and […].
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