Data Breach Today
JANUARY 14, 2020
Security Experts Recommend Holdouts Review Their IT Strategy and Cloud Options Microsoft has ceased offering free security updates for its Windows 7 operating system, as well as Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. But with one-third of all PCs continuing to run Windows 7, experts are urging organizations to immediately move to a more modern operating system.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 14, 2020
Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security Agency. This month also marks the end of mainstream support for Windows 7 , a still broadly-used operating system that will no longer be supplied with security updates.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 14, 2020
Peekaboo Moments Hasn't Responded to Warning That It's Exposing Personal Content A baby photo and video-sharing app called Peekaboo Moments is exposing sensitive logs through an exposed Elasticsearch database, a researcher has found. The data includes baby photos and videos, birthdates, location data and device information.
Weissman's World
JANUARY 14, 2020
In the physical world, paper clips are an important source of context, as their use suggests that the pieces of paper they clip together are somehow related. But what is their digital equivalent? And what does this mean in terms of identifying how many documents those pieces of paper represent, the relative importance of the […]. The post Speaking of: The Paper Clip’s Digital Equivalent appeared first on Holly Group.
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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
JANUARY 14, 2020
Microsoft Provides Patch for Cryptographic Flaw in Windows 10 The NSA took the unusual step Tuesday of announcing what it calls a "severe" vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows 10 operating systems ahead of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security update. The flaw could allow attackers to execute man-in-the-middle attacks or decrypt confidential data within applications.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 14, 2020
William Barr Labels Pensacola Attack as an Act of Terrorism U.S. Attorney General William Barr is ratcheting up the pressure on Apple to unlock two iPhones belonging to a Saudi national who carried out a deadly shooting in December. The attorney general is labeling the shooting as an act of terrorism and says Apple is hampering a counterterrorism investigation.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 14, 2020
The security risks inherent in Chinese-made 5G networking equipment are easy to understand. Because the companies that make the equipment are subservient to the Chinese government, they could be forced to include backdoors in the hardware or software to give Beijing remote access. Eavesdropping is also a risk, although efforts to listen in would almost certainly be detectable.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 14, 2020
In light of recent ransomware and other cyberattacks against vendors serving numerous healthcare organizations, it's critical to develop and deploy comprehensive vendor risk management programs, says John Farley of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a provider of cyber insurance.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 14, 2020
The Kremlin likely hacked the oil giant. Its next play: selectively release—and even forge—documents. Did the US learn enough from 2016 to ignore them?
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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.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 14, 2020
Today’s innovations and technologies provide tremendous opportunities for enterprises. Along with innovation and technology proliferation, new challenges that will shape business during 2020. The importance of data and the power of being an insights-driven enterprise are increasing the amount of damage that data breaches can cause. The adoption of emerging technologies like 5G will fuel the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) that’s often built with only a few security controls and therefo
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 14, 2020
In a shift toward transparency, the National Security Agency announced a bug that could have left over 900 million PCs vulnerable to attack.
Information Governance Perspectives
JANUARY 14, 2020
Design your career for tomorrow with wisdom from leaders whose shoulders you stand on today. It gives me great pleasure to shout from the digital mountaintop that along with my co-author, Abby Moscatel, Esq., we’ve signed a book deal with John Hunt Publishing to release our book, Tomorrow’s Jobs Today: Wisdom and Career Advice from Continue reading.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 14, 2020
It’s the beginning of a new year — and a new decade — and, for many, it’s time for the annual tradition of setting new year’s resolutions. Today, let’s spend a few moments talking about a professional objective that’s on the minds of many OpenText™ Documentum ™ customers — your organization’s information management strategy and, … The post Four New Year’s resolutions for Documentum customers appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2020
The National Security Agency is publicly acknowledged for its finding and reporting of CVE-2020-0601, marking the start of what it says is a new approach to security.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 14, 2020
It took decades, but the galaxy finally has a tactical and operational genius. .
Security Affairs
JANUARY 14, 2020
Tech giant Cisco has recently addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Webex and IOS XE Software products. Cisco Systems has released security fixes for two high-severity vulnerabilities in its products, including a remote code execution flaw in the Webex video conferencing platform. The Webex flaw resides in the web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Video Mesh, a feature that enables on-premises infrastructure for video conferencing. “A vulnerability in the web-ba
IT Governance
JANUARY 14, 2020
While most of us spent New Year’s Eve celebrating, the IT department at Travelex was grappling with a ransomware virus that was spreading through its systems. Almost two weeks on, the currency exchange service is finally starting to restore its internal systems , having been forced to take its website offline and suspend many of its operations. Employees have been forced to work with pen and paper, severely delaying the few processes that could still be performed, while several UK banks that wor
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2020
It's the end of support this week for Windows 7 and Server 2008. But what if you truly can't migrate off software, even after security updates stop coming?
Security Affairs
JANUARY 14, 2020
Adobe released its January 2020 Patch Tuesday updates that address several flaws in Illustrator and Experience Manager products. Adobe releases its first 2020 patch Tuesday software updates that address several vulnerabilities in Illustrator and Experience Manager products. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Experience Manager ( APSB20-01 ) and Adobe Illustrator ( APSB20-03 ).
Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2020
A letter to 25 companies says Consumer Reports will change ratings to reflect stronger security and privacy standards.
Zapproved
JANUARY 14, 2020
The fourth annual Corporate Ediscovery Hero Awards, which celebrates innovators and achievers in ediscovery practice, will host renowned journalist and author Lesley Stahl as featured guest. The post Welcoming Lesley Stahl as the 2020 Hero Awards Guest Speaker appeared first on Zapproved.
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CGI
JANUARY 14, 2020
Solving data challenges to accelerate the energy transition. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 01/14/2020 - 02:21. The energy transition is a technological, cultural and organizational sea change—and data is the means by which utilities can solve the foundational challenges of the transition. The traditional one-way energy flow from generation to transmission to distribution to customer has provided clear roles for network owners and operators.
The Security Ledger
JANUARY 14, 2020
Efforts to wall off sensitive corporate and government data from foreign adversaries have a gaping hole: IT asset disposition (ITAD), where vendors - many owned by Chinese firms - process discarded hardware and data with little oversight. The post IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) is the Slow Motion Data Breach Nobody notices appeared first on The. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Resolve to fix your Online Security Mess in 2020.
CILIP
JANUARY 14, 2020
Overdrive founder and CEO, Steve Potash makes the case for Public Libraries. Steve Potash, Lord John Bird, Bobby Seagull, Johanna Brinton Abela and Erica Lazzaro at the launch of Public Libraries: The Case for Support. Overdrive founder and CEO, Steve Potash, makes the case for Public Libraries. We are thankful for the leadership and initiative of Lord John Bird and the Big Issue, Nick Poole from CILIP, and all the supporting agencies that produced the findings in Public Libraries: The Case for
Collibra
JANUARY 14, 2020
Data privacy isn’t about compliance — it’s about customers. Although much of the ink spilled around data privacy focuses on obeying regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), it’s a mistake to think about data privacy as a compliance exercise. To take this approach is to miss an opportunity. 75% of organizations consider the safeguarding of customers’ data privacy to be a competitive differentiator, according to a survey
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
CILIP
JANUARY 14, 2020
Community hubs keep libraries in the heart of local users. Community hubs keep libraries in the heart of local users. It is no secret that public libraries have been hit hard by austerity. Local Authorities across the country are having to deal with huge reductions in their spending power as central government puts the brakes on public spending. Library Authorities have had to find their own way through, making difficult decisions that affect staff and customers.
Threatpost
JANUARY 14, 2020
January Patch Tuesday tackles 50 bugs, with eight rated critical, all as it pushes out its last regular Windows 7 patches.
eDiscovery Daily
JANUARY 14, 2020
It’s that time again! I’m here to cover the results of the Winter 2020 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, published (as always) on Rob Robinson’s terrific Complex Discovery site. So, how confident are individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem in the business of eDiscovery? Let’s see. As always, Rob provides a complete breakdown of the latest survey results, which you can check out here.
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