Weissman's World

JANUARY 15, 2018

Today, on Perpective Check: The truth and consequences of your boss flipping through the pages of a magazine and saying, “I just read about [new shiny infogov object] that EVERYBODY’S using. How come we’re not??” [link]. The post Management by Magazine (InfoGov Edition) appeared first on Holly Group.

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Information governance Government 240

Data Breach Today

JANUARY 15, 2018

Why the Next Botnet May Be Built From an Army of Web Browsers The browser is the window to the web. But what's going in the background during that browsing is opaque to most users. A new experiment shows how the computing power of tens of thousands of computers could be unknowingly harnessed to crack passwords, harvest cryptocurrencies or conduct DDoS attacks.

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Passwords 188

OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 15, 2018

Last Sunday, my husband and I went to visit our daughter. As we drove, my cell informed me that we were 30 minutes from our destination. How did it know? I hadn’t told it where we were going – there wasn’t an appointment on my calendar. The cell had worked out this was a trip … The post Putting AI-enhanced analytics at the heart of retail customer experience appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 15, 2018

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Sends Notification Letters A health data breach reported to federal regulators as a "hacking/IT incident" impacting nearly 280,000 Medicaid patients in Oklahoma has experts wondering exactly what happened.

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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.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 15, 2018

No More Ransom is a central repository of keys and applications for ransomware, so people can recover their data without paying. It's not complete, of course, but is pretty good against older strains of ransomware. The site is a joint effort by Europol, the Dutch police, Kaspersky, and McAfee.

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Archives Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2018

In the spirit of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, join us this week, January 15-19, 2018 for the Citizen Archivist Week of Service. Our goal is to tag or transcribe 2,018 pages in the National Archives Catalog during this week-long challenge. Can you help us meet this goal? Get started by visiting the Citizen Archivist Dashboard today through January 19.

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Archive Document Data Storage

JANUARY 15, 2018

Employees will inevitably need to carry their laptops on public transport at some point, particularly employees who must travel frequently and need to be continually communicating with their offices. Indeed, laptops are a commuter’s best friend – they have the same capacity and software as many desktops, so employees can take their workplace with them wherever they go.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 15, 2018

With the Microsoft Ireland case being argued before SCOTUS on February 27 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect in May (click here to register for our next webcast on that topic), it’s a big year for data privacy. In keeping with that theme, The Sedona Conference® (TSC) has published the final version of a primer to help with this growing issue.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 15, 2018

Cyberattack last June aimed to disrupt Ukraine's financial system.

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Military 45

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 15, 2018

Vendor’s technology searches for indicators as first notice of loss information comes in, giving users access to a business intelligence dashboard.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 15, 2018

DNC Hackers Target Lawmakers With Decoy Sites; Some Senators Demand Action The cyber espionage group that executed a campaign against the Democratic Party has been gearing up to attack the U.S. Senate, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro warns. Separately, a Senate report demands that the White House do more to prevent the 2018 and 2020 U.S. elections from being disrupted.

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 15, 2018

Employee's computer was taken from a car, it had some security protection in place, but hard drive was not encrypted.

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