Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
How John McAfee's Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet and Company Fell Short Hubris has a new name: Bitfi. The cryptocurrency wallet-building company, backed by technology eccentric John McAfee, earned this year's not-so-coveted Pwnies Award for "Lamest Vendor Response" for how it mishandled security researchers' vulnerability disclosures. Bitfi has promised to do better.
IT Governance
AUGUST 9, 2018
You often see people use the terms ‘ cyber security ’ and ‘ information security ’ interchangeably. That’s because, in their most basic forms, they refer to the same thing: the integrity and confidentiality of information. But there’s a crucial difference, which can be explained simply. Information security. Information is at the heart of any organisation, whether it’s business records, personal data or intellectual property.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
Messages Can Be Manipulated, But Fixes Would Pose Privacy Risks, WhatsApp Says Check Point says it has found three ways to falsify messages in WhatsApp, which it claims could be employed by scammers and used to spread fake news. WhatsApp acknowledges the findings, but it will not engineer patches.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 9, 2018
As any financial services executive knows, improving business results with precise, timely decisions is much harder than it looks.
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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
AUGUST 9, 2018
Open Source Electronic Medical Records System Used Worldwide Nearly two dozen security weaknesses in OpenEMR - open source electronic medical record and practice management software - left patient data vulnerable to cyberattacks before most were patched, according to the London-based security research firm Project Insecurity.
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Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
Forty-eight percent of customers drop the products and services of organizations that have had a publicly-disclosed data breach. This is but one of the findings of the new 2018 Global State of Online Digital Trust study commissioned by CA Technologies. CA's David Duncan analyzes the results.
TAB OnRecord
AUGUST 9, 2018
Our most popular resources this month cover: Paperlite offices, smart storage, and mergers and acquisitions. Creating the paperlite office: What you need to know This comprehensive resource is a must for any records manager looking to reduce the amount of paper in their organization. It covers: using records management best practices managing your existing [.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
CrowdStrike's Mike Sentonas Shares Insights From Latest Research Even though many organizations believe that supply chain cyber risk is a serious problem, very few organizations are vetting their suppliers, says CrowdStrike's Michael Sentonas.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 9, 2018
Researchers at the Black Hat security conference will demonstrate a new pacemaker-hacking technique that can add or withhold shocks at will.
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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
Microsoft's Jonathan Trull on Cloud Security Securing the public cloud is not as challenging as it used to be, but too many organizations are still taking the wrong approach, says Microsoft's Jonathan Trull. Understanding the shared responsibility model for security is critical, he says.
Cyber Info Veritas
AUGUST 9, 2018
Would you like to know how to protect yourself from the ever-present threat of cybercrime perpetrated by black hat hackers? Yes, there are bad and good hackers. Their main aim is to exploit your “mistakes and vulnerabilities” to blackmail you into sending them money or they’ll leak your private data. If your data and online privacy are important to you, and it should be whether you use the internet for social media, shopping, making money online, or learning, read this article with keen interest
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
Abdallah Zabian of DXC Technologies on Taking a Holistic Approach Security silos persist because stakeholders within the enterprise security ecosystem are focused on their own key performance indicators, says Abdallah Zabian of DXC Technology, who suggests a more holistic approach is needed.
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 9, 2018
Researchers found a way to compromise a Mac the first time it connects to Wi-Fi, potentially putting scores of enterprise customers at risk.
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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.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 9, 2018
Experts Offer Insights on Addressing the Challenges Although there's widespread agreement that addressing security early in the software development cycle is an essential component to any breach prevention strategy, implementing DevSecOps can prove challenging.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 9, 2018
Researcher Ruben Santamarta shared the details of his successful hack of an in-flight airplane Wi-Fi network - and other findings - at Black Hat USA today.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 9, 2018
Thales both giveth and taketh Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK). There is no longer denying that encryption is a hot topic. Encryption is everywhere. We hear about it when the FBI can’t hack an iPhone, when countries want back doors to compromise it, and, now, every major cloud provider offers at least baseline encryption as part of their service. These newbies to the land of enterprise encryption quickly learn from their prospects that offering encryption alone doesn’t earn them trust to house their d
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 9, 2018
Online voting has major security flaws, and experts are concerned that Voatz, the platform West Virginia will use this midterm election, doesn't solve them.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
AUGUST 9, 2018
In a previous blog, we looked at how Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is transitioning to become content services. It’s a change driven as much by a new way of thinking about information management as it is about new technologies. While ECM focused on the preservation and protection of content, content services build on that and … The post What is Content Services?
Dark Reading
AUGUST 9, 2018
Problem lies in WhatsApp's validation of message parameters and cannot be currently mitigated, Check Point researchers say.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 9, 2018
Security researchers at IBM Research developed a “highly targeted and evasive” AI-powered malware dubbed DeepLocker and will present today. What about Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied in malware development? Threat actors can use AI-powered malware to create powerful malicious codes that can evade sophisticated defenses. Security researchers at IBM Research developed a “highly targeted and evasive” attack tool powered by AI,” dubbed DeepLocker that is able to co
eSecurity Planet
AUGUST 9, 2018
In a Black Hat USA session, Christine Gadsby, Director of BlackBerry's global Product Security Operations Team, explained how organization can improve the product release process to reduce vulnerabilities.
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 9, 2018
A security issue exists in Kaspersky VPN <=v1.4.0.216 which leaks your DNS Address even after you’re connected to any virtual server. (Tested on Android 8.1.0). What is a DNS leaks ? In this context, with the term “DNS leak” we indicate an unencrypted DNS query sent by your system OUTSIDE the established VPN tunnel. Kaspersky VPN is one of the most trusted VPN which comes with 1,000,000+ tier downloads in the official Google Play Store, however, it was observed that when i
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 9, 2018
Really interesting article : A trained eye (or even a not-so-trained one) can discern when something phishy is going on with a domain or subdomain name. There are search tools, such as Censys.io , that allow humans to specifically search through the massive pile of certificate log entries for sites that spoof certain brands or functions common to identity-processing sites.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 9, 2018
WhatsApp has been found vulnerable to multiple security flaws that could allow malicious users to spread fake news through group chats. WhatsApp, the most popular messaging application in the world, has been found vulnerable to multiple security flaws that could allow malicious users to intercept and modify the content of messages sent in both private as well as group conversations.
National Archives Records Express
AUGUST 9, 2018
On Monday, August 6, we co-hosted an Industry Day with the General Services Administration (GSA) to begin the next phase of the Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). . FERMI Industry Day on August 6, 2018. McGowan Theater, National Archives (National Archives photo by Jeff Reed). The Industry Day provided vendors with information about NARA’s Use Cases for Electronic Messages.
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Security Affairs
AUGUST 9, 2018
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) announced the presence of a serious flaw in the BIND DNS software that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-5740 was discovered by Tony Finch of the University of Cambridge. The flaw has been assigned a CVSS score of 7.5, the expert pointed out that the flaw only affects servers that have on a feature called “deny-answer-aliases” enabled.
Jamf
AUGUST 9, 2018
What are the five most common education technology mistakes schools make? We explain and show you how to avoid a similar fate.
Threatpost
AUGUST 9, 2018
Project Zero researcher highlights stubborn iOS bugs as an example of why Apple and the rest of the industry needs to take a fresh approach to securing systems.
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