Data Breach Today
MARCH 9, 2018
Measure Comes After Pressure On Lawmakers Following Equifax's Breach A banking reform bill before the U.S. Senate would ban credit agencies' practice of charging for a credit freeze, one of the crucial steps experts say can help preempt identity theft. Lawmakers have been under intense pressure to create laws that better protect consumers following Equifax's data breach.
Imperial Violet
MARCH 9, 2018
I'll generally ignore the internet froth in a given week as much as possible, but when Her Majesty's Government starts repeating misunderstandings about TLS 1.3 it is necessary to write something, if only to have a pointer ready for when people start citing it as evidence. The first misunderstanding in the piece is the claim that it's possible for man-in-the-middle proxies to selectively proxy TLS 1.2 connections, but not TLS 1.3 connections because the latter encrypts certificates.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 9, 2018
Attack Campaign Exploits Flash Flaw, Likely Extends to Other Countries, McAfee Warns A zero-day flaw in Adobe Flash, recently patched, has been targeted by a group of attackers that may have ties to North Korea as part of an apparent attempt to hack into Turkish banks, security firm McAfee warns. It notes that there are signs that financial institutions in other countries are also being targeted.
IT Governance
MARCH 9, 2018
With the risk of a cyber attack now being classed as the top threat to organisations , it’s vital to have the right cyber security measures in place to protect your organisation from an attack. It’s not just an organisation’s reputation that can be damaged by a data breach – the financial costs can often have a more severe effect. Lloyd’s of London has estimated the global cost of a serious cyber attack to be more than $120 billion (£92 billion).
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
MARCH 9, 2018
Insights From Interviews With CISOs, Regulators What's on the minds of healthcare CISOs these days when it comes to cybersecurity challenges and initiatives? Here's a rundown of insights from the big HIMSS18 conference.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 9, 2018
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: America's top general says the U.S. response to Russian election interference isn't as well coordinated as it needs to be, and Pennsylvania sues Uber for failing to notify data breach victims in a timely manner.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 9, 2018
A sophisticated hacking campaign used routers as a stepping stone to plant spyware deep in target machines across the Middle East and Africa.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 9, 2018
There are now less than three months left until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. Although it seems like we’ve been talking about this new legislation for a long time, companies in every sector have been slow to react, with almost a third of small UK manufacturers not even beginning GDPR preparations. … The post GDPR in manufacturing: Where to start, threats and opportunities appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Gimmal
MARCH 9, 2018
Working with a broad range of industries throughout the years on their information governance and records management initiatives, one thing that constantly baffles the mind: Organizations still place the keystone responsibility to make their initiative successful in the hands of the user.
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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.
Elie
MARCH 9, 2018
This talk provides a retrospective on how during 2017 Check Point and Google jointly hunted down Gooligan – one of the largest Android botnets at the time. Beside its scale what makes Gooligan a worthwhile case-study is its heavy reliance on stolen oauth tokens to attack Google Play’s API, an approach previously unheard of in malware. This talk starts by providing an in-depth analysis of how Gooligan’s kill-chain works from infection and exploitation to system-wide compromise.
Threatpost
MARCH 9, 2018
A vulnerability recently found in several robots on the market can enable hackers to cause them to stop working, curse at customers, or even perform violent movements as part of ransomware attacks.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 9, 2018
Responding to the lack of diversity at the RSA Conference, a group of security experts have announced a competing one-day conference: OUR Security Advocates, or OURSA. It's in San Francisco, and it's during RSA, so you can attend both.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 9, 2018
I'm in Seattle! This has been a mega week at the Microsoft MVP and Regional Director summits and as I say in the video, I'm actually a little run down now that it's all done. But I've had a wonderful week of meeting a heap of people and seeing some very cool stuff from Microsoft, especially around Azure which remains one of my favourite tech things.
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Threatpost
MARCH 9, 2018
Hanwha is patching 13 vulnerabilities in its SmartCam security camera that allows attackers to take control of the device, use it to gain further network access or just brick it.
Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Recorded Future says move designed to hide fact that CNNVD routinely delays publication of high-risk flaws so government can assess them for offensive use.
Threatpost
MARCH 9, 2018
A new analysis of the Russian-speaking Sofacy APT gang shows a continual march toward Far East targets and overlapping of activities with other groups such as Lamberts, Turla and Danti.
Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Universities are beginning to add cyber ranges to the facilities for teaching cyber security to students and professionals.
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Rippleshot
MARCH 9, 2018
It’s no surprise that debit card fraud is on the rise, but what’s noteworthy is the rate at which this figure is increasing. New data from FICO indicates the number of debit cards compromised in 2017 increased 10 percent from 2016. This figure refers to debit cards used at U.S. ATMs and merchant card readers. Compromises of ATMs and merchant devices rose 8 percent in the same time period.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 9, 2018
The company provides its TensorFlow application programming interfaces, or APIs, to a pilot project to help automatically identify objects in unclassified data.
Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Here are four important areas to tackle in order to master DevSecOps: code, privacy, predictability, and people.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 9, 2018
From small, family-run businesses to big banks and insurance companies, jobs refining data and converting it into valuable insights now exist in almost every organization around the globe.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Improved anti-malware detection prevented spread of cryptomining software this week, says Microsoft.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 9, 2018
If your organization uses cloud technology for anything that involves outside users, there’s a high probability that the GDPR will affect it. Here are five key tips to ensuring it is in compliance.
Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Universities are beginning to add cyber ranges to the facilities for teaching cyber security to students and professionals.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 9, 2018
The department already has difficulty moving information, particularly to the battlefield, and using multiple clouds would 'exponentially increase the complexity,' a spokesperson said.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Advanced hacking group appears to be native English speakers targeting Africa, Middle East.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 9, 2018
The deal is likely to be held up even beyond a rescheduled shareholder vote next month as government regulators undertake an extended review of the proposed transaction’s risks.
Dark Reading
MARCH 9, 2018
Phil Bredesen's campaign for US senate sees a hacker's hand in email messages
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