Fri.Feb 02, 2018

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Cryptocurrency Miners Crash Malware 'Top 10'

Data Breach Today

Beyond Stolen CPU Cycles, Miners Pose Enterprise Security Risks The booming interest and sometimes surging values of cryptocurrencies are drawing the interest of cybercriminals on a scale never seen before - including attacks aimed at trying to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrency.

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The Devin Nunes Memo: Reading Between the Lines

WIRED Threat Level

The Devin Nunes memo that purports to show improper surveillance practices is out—and national security experts say it falls far short of the hype.

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Darknet Markets: For Cybercriminals, Paranoia Reigns

Data Breach Today

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Inside the darknet marketplaces that serve cybercrime-as-a-service buyers and sellers. Also, why the healthcare sector remains so bad at detecting data breaches and blocking ransomware.

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Five reasons why business continuity management is essential to your organisation’s cyber security

IT Governance

Business continuity management is the most comprehensive approach to organisational resilience, and involves managing risks to critical business functions to ensure continuity of service in the event of a disruptive incident. Implementing a business continuity management system (BCMS) is imperative to developing cyber resilience in today’s cyber security environment.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Disputed GOP Memo Released: So Now What?

Data Breach Today

How Can Congress Monitor Justice Department Without a Political Battle? The ongoing battle between the White House and the Justice Department and intelligence community could undermine American's confidence in the nation's top law enforcement officials.

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A Multifaceted Breach Prevention Approach

Data Breach Today

Protecting 4 million patient records from breaches takes a multifaceted approach, says Bredai "Dai" Snyder of Care Coordination Institute, who describes three of the most critical elements.

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Updates to Records Management Web Pages

National Archives Records Express

Over the coming months, we will be making minor changes to our website. We will be reorganizing our pages to to make it easier to find the resources from these pages. We have started with reorganizing and consolidating the records management guidance and regulations pages. We wanted to inform you in case any existing bookmarks need to be updated. We wanted to assure you that links to individual resources, such as NARA Bulletins or FAQs, will not change.

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Signed Malware

Schneier on Security

Stuxnet famously used legitimate digital certificates to sign its malware. A research paper from last year found that the practice is much more common than previously thought. Now, researchers have presented proof that digitally signed malware is much more common than previously believed. What's more, it predated Stuxnet, with the first known instance occurring in 2003.

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How content analytics helps manufacturers improve product safety and save lives

IBM Big Data Hub

Manufacturing problems can have a serious impact on businesses. This is especially true when these problems manifest themselves as product safety issues causing injury or even death.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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.

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CIPL Submits Comments to Article 29 WP’s Proposed Guidelines on Transparency

Hunton Privacy

On January 29, 2018, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP submitted formal comments to the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) on its Guidelines on Transparency (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines were adopted by the Working Party on November 28, 2017, for public consultation. CIPL acknowledges and appreciates the Working Party’s emphasis on user-centric transparency and the use of layered notices to achieve full disclosure, along with its

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Examining Offsite Records Storage Services

Record Nations

Without an adequate records management plan, your office can turn from an efficient and organized to a complete and utter mess before you know it. Now, take a good look around your office. Would you say your work space looks closer to Office A or Office B? You can easily guess by looking at the two […]. The post Examining Offsite Records Storage Services appeared first on Record Nations.

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CIPL Submits Comments to Article 29 WP’s Proposed Guidelines on Consent

Hunton Privacy

On January 29, 2018, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton & Williams LLP submitted formal comments to the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) on its Guidelines on Consent (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines were adopted by the Working Party on November 28, 2017, for public consultation. CIPL acknowledges and appreciates the Working Party’s elaboration on some of the consent-related requirements, such as providing information relevant to consent in layered

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FRANCE: CNIL New Security Guidelines

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

By Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Caroline Chancé. . On January 23, 2018, the French data protection authority (the CNIL) published new guidelines on the security of personal data (updating its previous security guide published in 2010 available in English ) , providing practical recommendations in the form of “Do’s and Dont’s” to help businesses implement appropriate measures to protect personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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.

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3 Ways Hackers Steal Your Company's Mobile Data

Dark Reading

The most effective data exfiltration prevention strategies are those that are as rigorous in vetting traffic entering the network as they are traffic leaving it.

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Fine-tuning Firewall Rules: 10 Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Fine-tuning firewall rules is a critical and often overlooked IT security practice that can minimize network breaches while maximizing performance.

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Troy Hunt

I'm home! It's nice being home ??. This week I start by getting a couple of things off my chest, namely some pretty wacky reactions to my suggesting that we're never going to see a coders' hippocratic oath and how I feel when media outlets say "the dark web" Plus, I've got news around running workshops in Europe with Scott Helme and me finally getting a content security policy on this blog.

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Understanding your organization's data, and saving your job

Information Management Resources

The entire executive suite within major corporations must ask hard questions today about information protection, regulations, cyber insurance and more. Their jobs literally depend on it.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Adding Substance to the Style in the Age of Digital Transformation

Info Source

Digital Transformation sounds sexy. It’s about taking all your manual and paper processes and making them faster and electronic. The impetus behind this transformation is that everybody is connected today, though wi-fi, satellite networks, mobile devices, and even laptops and PCs. A lot of work has been spent on enabling the UIs on these devices to help users to have a top notch digital experience.

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New Study: Banks Stopping More Attempted Account Fraud

Rippleshot

Thanks to more sophisticated fraud detection and prevention technologies, banks are getting better at stopping fraud attempts. A new report from the American Bankers Association revealed that banks were able to stop $17 billion in fraud attempts in 2016. What that means, according to the 2017 American Bankers Association Deposit Account Fraud Survey Report, is that banks were able to prevent $9 out of $10 attempted deposit account fraud in 2016.

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Y Soft Releases GDPR Compliance Guide for Enterprise Workflow Compliance to Mitigate Possible Large Fines

Info Source

Brno, Czech Republic and Grapevine, TX -2018, February 1 – Much has been written about soon-to-be-enforced fines for data breaches under General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR as defined by the European Union (EU). But data breaches are not the only area of concern regarding GDPR. Companies also need to consider the personal identifiable information of individuals present in their enterprise systems, such as a company’s print/copy/scan infrastructure, and how to comply with individual

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Thinking Strategically About Brexit and Data Protection

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

To date, the main legacy of the Brexit referendum of 2016 appears to be a country split in half: some badly wish the UK would continue to be a member of the EU and some are equally keen on making a move. Yet, there seems to be at least one thing on which Remainers and Leavers will agree: nobody knows exactly what is going to happen. The same is true of the effect of Brexit on UK data protection.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Square 9® Softworks Announces Release of GlobalCapture® 2.1, Featuring GlobalForms® 10

Info Source

NEW HAVEN, CONN., February 2, 2018 – New Haven based Square 9 ® Softworks, Inc., announced today the release of GlobalCapture ® 2.1, as an upgrade to their award-winning suite of products for document transformation and business process automation. This release represents a significant upgrade to the company’s document transformation platform, as it introduces two new key enhancements in web forms management and business process automation.

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APIs Pose 'Mushrooming' Security Risk

Dark Reading

As APIs grow in prominence, top security concerns include bots and authentication.

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New Western Digital My Cloud Bugs Give Local Attackers Root on NAS Devices

Threatpost

Two new WD My Cloud vulnerabilities have been identified, adding to last month’s bevy of security bugs.

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Cyberattack Impersonates FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center

Dark Reading

Threat actors trick victims into sharing personal information with fake IC3 messages laced with malware.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Surging Samsung Electronics takes Intel's chipmaking crown

Information Management Resources

The firm has transformed itself from a maker of cheap televisions into a pervasive supplier of key components in smartphones and other modern computing devices and memory chips.

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Russian National Arrested for Kelihos Botnet Sent to US

Dark Reading

Peter Levashov, among the world's most notorious email spammers, has been extradited to the US.

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15 top job requirements for chief data officers

Information Management Resources

Data governance, master data management, big data and CXO credibility are among the skills that successful CDOs must bring to their roles.