Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Nation States and Cybercrime Gangs Keep Blurring; Tools Alone Don't Equal Actors Don't rush to blame the printing outage at newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing on anything more than an organization failing to block a malware outbreak. And even if it does prove to be a Ryuk ransomware attack, there's no proof yet that any particular nation state is behind the campaign, experts warn.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 31, 2018
‘Roma225’ campaign -The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers investigated a recent espionage malware implant weaponized to target companies in the Italian automotive sector. The malware was spread through well-written phishing email trying to impersonate a senior partner of one of the major Brazilian business law firms: “ Veirano Advogados ”. The malicious email intercepted during the CSDC operations contains a PowerPoint add-in document (“.ppa ” extension), armed with auto-open VBA macro c
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Tribune Media Suspects Ryuk Ransomware Hit Publishing and Production Systems Production of newspapers owned by Chicago-based Tribune Publishing have been disrupted after malware began infecting the company's publishing and printing systems. Tribune newspapers report that they appear to have been hit by crypto-locking Ryuk ransomware.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 31, 2018
The European Commission decided to launch its bug bounty initiative, the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project. Bug bounty programs are very important for the security of software and hardware, major tech firms launched their own programs to discover flaws before hackers. The European Commission recognized the importance of bug bounty programs and decided to launch its bug bounty initiative, the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project.
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
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Mastercard has launched a "fusion center" designed to increase its speed of response and coordination among departments in the event of a cyberattack, says CSO Ron Green, who explains the initiative.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Microsoft's Diana Kelley on How to Keep Data Untampered Altered data can be just as damaging as lost or stolen data. Diana Kelley of Microsoft outlines key steps for how enterprises can improve how they maintain data integrity.
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Martec's law states, “Technology changes exponentially; organizations change logarithmically.” Translation? Technology will accelerate faster than companies can adapt to increasing data growth and adopt new business models.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Wired has an excellent article on China's APT10 hacking group. Specifically, on how they hacked managed service providers in order to get to their customers' networks. I am reminded of the NSA's " I Hunt Sysadmins " presentation, published by the Intercept.
Attensa
DECEMBER 31, 2018
The Technology community has discussed and debated the impact of information abundance for many years. By itself, info abundance is simply a positive spin on information overload. It is the consequence of abundance on our business and professional lives (increasingly intertwined) that are interesting. Let’s get to the heart of why we care at all – creating value i.e. innovation, service to customers, leadership, risk management etc.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 31, 2018
From the Marriott and Facebook meltdowns to state-sponsored assaults, 2018 was an eventful year for cybercrime.
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Currently, all 50 states have privacy-based regulations, and every one of those states have different requirements on government notification in the event of a data breach.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Cryptocurrency wallets Trezor and Ledger are vulnerable to a number of different type attacks, researchers say.
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Unless you live in a boot at the bottom of Loon Lake, you know that everything you do online is tracked. When you load a web page, an array of scripts, cookies, and code starts chugging away behind the scenes gleaning information about who you are, where you are, how you got to the site, what you’re clicking on, and where you go next. At least now most websites disclose what they’re up to and ask for your consent – compliments of the new EU General Data Privacy Regulation.
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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
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Vulnerabilities, stolen credentials and an evolution of marketplaces mark the Dark Web in Q3.
eSecurity Planet
DECEMBER 31, 2018
We look at 10 significant security flaws disclosed within the past 30 days.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Reports have linked the attack to the Ryuk ransomware.
IG Guru
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Repost – I wrote this article on LinkedIn and it got picked up by IDM. Friday, March 18, 2016 – 10:45 By Andrew Ysasi I frequently hear chatter about using tape technology online, at conferences, and even in meetings that can be summed up in one statement, “Tape is dead. It is old technology and […]. The post 3 Reasons why tape should be included in your DR strategies appeared first on IG GURU.
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Attensa
DECEMBER 31, 2018
The Technology community has discussed and debated the impact of information abundance for many years. By itself, info abundance is simply a positive spin on information overload. It is the consequence of abundance on our business and professional lives (increasingly intertwined) that are interesting. Let’s get to the heart of why we care at all – creating value i.e. innovation, service to customers, leadership, risk management etc.
Gimmal
DECEMBER 31, 2018
2018 was a year of massive change at Gimmal. This year, we've added a bunch of new features to our next generation records management platform, including connectors for Documentum and Box. We believe intelligent, cross-repository records management will continue to grow in importance to organizations next year, as leaders begin to understand that records management departments have the potential to unlock vast amounts of value stored in otherwise neglected information.
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Stream processing is one of the core enabling technologies that is driving this new wave of real-time data across organizations of all industries.
Imperial Violet
DECEMBER 31, 2018
U2F/FIDO tokens (a.k.a. “Security Keys”) are a solid contender for doing something about the effectiveness of phishing and so I believe they're pretty important. I've written a fairly lengthy introduction to them previously and, as mentioned there, one concerning aspect of their design is that they permit attestation: when registering a key it's possible for a site to learn a cryptographically authenticated make, model, and batch.
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Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Shift in thinking due to their desire to cut data center costs, deploy new apps quickly, and access flexible and scalable resources for data storage and computing power.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Security expert SandboxEscaper published a proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a new Windows zero-day, it is the fourth she released this year. The proof-of-concept (PoC) code published by SandboxEscaper overwrites ‘ pci.sys’ with information about software and hardware problems, collected through the Windows Error Reporting (WER) event-based feedback infrastructure.
The Security Ledger
DECEMBER 31, 2018
In this week’s podcast: as 2018 winds down, we invited David Aitel, the Chief Security Technical Officer at Cyxtera Technologies, to talk about the biggest stories of the year, including the supply chain attack on Super Micro, China's continued attacks on western firms, U.S. indictments of Russian and Chinese hackers and what 2019 may have in. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Episode 124: The Twitter Accounts Pushing French Protests and Social Engineering the Software Supply Chain Po
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