Data Breach Today
APRIL 3, 2019
Third-Party Apps Left Facebook Users' Data Accessible in the Cloud Two third-party Facebook application developers exposed users' personal information by leaving the data exposed without a password in unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 buckets, researchers from UpGuard say. One data set contained 540 million unsecured records, the report found.
Weissman's World
APRIL 3, 2019
Being an information consultant/analyst is a lot like being a parent in that I get to watch companies come into the world, struggle to gain acceptance, and learn to be a force unto themselves (or not). I’m not sure Alfresco yet represents a capital-F force, but after spending two intensive days with their executives, customers, […]. The post 4 Signs Alfresco Is All Growed Up appeared first on Holly Group.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 3, 2019
Nkeng Amin Will Serve Substantial Prison Term A 31-year-old Maryland man will serve time in prison for his leadership role in a business email compromise scheme that netted him and five others $4.2 million from 13 victims over a two-year period.
The Last Watchdog
APRIL 3, 2019
Companies are embracing hybrid cloud deployments like never before, mixing and matching on-premises IT systems with off-premises cloud services. Related: Machine identities present wide open attack vector. To accomplish this, they must grant and manage access privileges to human identities: remote employees, third-party suppliers and far-flung customers.
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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
APRIL 3, 2019
Inspect General Cites Numerous Errors in How FBI Makes Notifications The FBI is largely failing to notify cybercrime victims of their rights in a timely manner following a "cyber intrusion," a new report from the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general finds. At times, small errors, such as typographical mistakes, can cause long delays in the notification process.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 3, 2019
NETSCOUT Arbor's JP Blaho on Understanding Orchestrated Attacks How can an enterprise without a traditional perimeter understand and defend against orchestrated attacks designed to evade detection? JP Blaho of NETSCOUT Arbor offers insights on how to gain visibility.
Dark Reading
APRIL 3, 2019
In a time of disruption in the security and tech worlds, cybersecurity professionals can't afford to become complacent - even in the face of a skills shortage.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 3, 2019
Recommendations Made in Response to Request by Sen. Mark Warner Several industry groups have offered suggestions - ranging from better cyber information sharing to new regulatory "safe harbors" for entities complying with best practices - in response to Sen. Mark Warner's recent request seeking ideas for improving healthcare sector cybersecurity.
Security Affairs
APRIL 3, 2019
The huge trove of Facebook user data was amassed and stored online on unprotected cloud servers by third-party Facebook app developers. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users. We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity … this is absurd.
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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
APRIL 3, 2019
Trusteer's Avner Gideoni on Creating the Perfect Defensive Blend How do machine learning, threat intelligence and advanced analytics blend together to form agile and accurate fraud prevention? Avner Gideoni of IBM Security's Trusteer division explains the concept of "laser-cut fraud prevention.
IT Governance
APRIL 3, 2019
Toyota has disclosed a data breach that may have affected up to 3.1 million customers. It’s the second time the car manufacturer has been breached in the last five weeks. In a statement released on 29 March 2019, the organisation confirmed that several of its Asian subsidiaries were targeted by criminal hackers. It said that it is taking the situation seriously and will implement security measures at dealers and the entire Toyota group.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 3, 2019
Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more to follow.
Micro Focus
APRIL 3, 2019
Ohhh Vienna The world of Enterprise B2B Marketing is always go, go, go and, like planning a vacation, event planning and execution is so intense, we spend months planning, there is the high of the event itself and then it’s over and we are onto thinking about the next one. As I type, our teams. View Article.
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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.
Security Affairs
APRIL 3, 2019
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced to have suffered a security breach, “an unknown outside entity” had access to data of up to 1.3 million people. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) suffered a security breach, on Tuesday it revealed that “an unknown outside entity” had gained unauthorized access to a database that stored the details of 1.3 million individuals.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 3, 2019
OpenText™ recently attended the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Orlando where their annual Analytics and BI bake-off remains popular. This year, there were actually two bake-offs: one for business intelligence, and one for data science and machine learning. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Gartner’s “bake-off,” it’s a high-stakes competition between analytics … The post OpenText Insights from Gartner Analytics and BI Bake-Off appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 3, 2019
A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers.
Jamf
APRIL 3, 2019
To help you make the most beneficial and economical decision ahead of the imminent Windows 7 end of life (EOL), we put together a free e-book that lays out the facts of each option. Read now.
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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.
Data Matters
APRIL 3, 2019
On 29 March 2019, the Belgian House of Representatives appointed a new Data Protection Commissioner and four directors to the executive committee of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (‘ DPA ’). These are the first appointments to be made to the DPA since it replaced the previous Belgian Privacy Commission in anticipation of the EU GDPR. This is therefore the first time that executive roles have been officially filled in the context of the regulator’s expanded competence – including the DPA’s
Threatpost
APRIL 3, 2019
Researchers say that two publicly exposed dataset are leaking Facebook data- from user names to plaintext passwords.
Security Affairs
APRIL 3, 2019
The OceanLotus APT group, also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , leverages a steganography-based loader to deliver backdoors on compromised systems. Security researchers at Cylance discovered that the OceanLotus APT (also known as APT32 or Cobalt Kitty , group is using a loader leveraging steganography to deliver a version of Denes backdoor and an updated version of Remy backdoor.
Dark Reading
APRIL 3, 2019
Despite the growing sophistication of threats and increase compliance requirements, a high percentage of organizations are continuing to compromise their security.
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Threatpost
APRIL 3, 2019
Maximizing your security investment starts with hiring the right talent, harvesting data, spotting trends in logs and more.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 3, 2019
The growing adoption of advanced and disruptive technologies, along with greater focus on data value and insights, is putting the spotlight on successful data governance strategies.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 3, 2019
We’re thrilled to announce that OpenText™ has been recognized by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) with two Gold Quill awards: Special and Experiential Events for the 2018 OpenText Women in Technology Summit and Corporate Social Responsibility for the 2017 Light The Night campaign. For more than 40 years, the IABC Gold Quill Awards … The post OpenText wins two IABC Gold Quill Awards appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
APRIL 3, 2019
Software developers and their managers must change their perception of secure coding from being an optional feature to being a requirement that is factored into design from the beginning.
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ForAllSecure
APRIL 3, 2019
Software security is a global challenge that is slated to grow worse. The application attack surface is growing by 111 billion new lines of software code every year, with newly reported zero-day exploits rising from one-per-week in 2015 to one-per-day by 2021, according to the Application Security Report from Cybersecurity Ventures. Mobile alone has one new application released every 13 seconds.
Dark Reading
APRIL 3, 2019
Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and birth dates may have been pilfered in the attack.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 3, 2019
I’ve reached out to hear what other women in the tech, software and data science fields have to say about the importance of Equal Pay Day and what companies can do to close the wage gap.
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