Dark Reading

JULY 19, 2018

Malicious activity by trusted users can be very hard to catch, so look for these red flags.

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IT Governance

JULY 19, 2018

The RCS (Royal College of Surgeons) has revealed that more than 8,000 fax machines are still owned by NHS hospital trusts in England. In a press release , the chair of the RCS’s Commission on the Future of Surgery, Richard Kerr, criticised the NHS’s continued reliance on the “archaic” technology. He said that, although the health service is increasingly investing in artificial intelligence and imagining in patient care, “NHS hospital trusts remain stubbornly attached to using archaic fax machine

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Data Breach Today

JULY 19, 2018

US Accuses Alexander Vinnik of $4 Billion in Bitcoin Money Laundering A Greek court has ruled that Russian national Alexander Vinnik will be sent to France to face cybercrime charges. The U.S. has accused Vinnik of laundering $4 billion in bitcoins via the BTC-e exchange, which it said also handled stolen Mt. Gox and Silk Road bitcoins.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 19, 2018

The Australian Digital Health Agency’s bullish approach to My Health Record shows it learned no lessons from the UK’s disastrous version A three-month countdown clock alerted many Australians this week to the government’s progress on a massive, mandatory health data centralisation scheme. Known as My Health Record , the scheme compulsorily enlists all Australians into sharing their health information, unless they opt out before the deadline of 15 October 2018.

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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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Data Breach Today

JULY 19, 2018

An advisory group that includes a diverse array of members will spend the coming months devising detailed guidance on how to address the "shared responsibility" of medical device cybersecurity, explains Greg Garcia, who is leading the initiative.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 19, 2018

Protect Your Business With an Endpoint Management Solution As organizations are seeing higher numbers of people working remotely, including parts of their IT team, the need for stronger endpoint management is even more important. Automating routine tasks can also be great for business as it drives key business growth by increasing productivity through the automation of of manual processes while optimizing resource allocation and reducing IT costs.

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IT Governance

JULY 19, 2018

This week, we discuss a £200,000 fine for the IICSA, a move to suspend the EU-US Privacy Shield, how much a data breach might cost your organisation, and the sentencing of two National Lottery hackers. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 20 July. Here are this week’s stories. The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined the IICSA (Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse) £200,000 for sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of historic sexual abus

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Data Breach Today

JULY 19, 2018

Unsecured Amazon S3 Bucket to Blame RoboCent, a company that specializes in robocalling voters, left nearly 3,000 files containing detailed data about Virginia voters online by mistake. The data has been secured, but the incident points again to ongoing problems of security misconfigurations in repositories and lack of end-to-end encryption.

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IT Governance

JULY 19, 2018

If you want to be taken seriously as an IT auditor, you’ll need an ISACA ® qualification. The independent organisation’s certification scheme is the most well-respected in the industry, and those with an ISACA qualification can demonstrate that they are among the IT governance elite. ISACA offers several qualifications for IT professionals. We’ve listed three of the most common, along with key information.

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Threatpost

JULY 19, 2018

Hackers are embedding malicious code within compromised, uploaded images on trusted Google sites – weaponizing the website and staying under the radar.

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Dark Reading

JULY 19, 2018

It's a ridiculous business decision to rely on the discretion of a minimally trained user to thwart a highly skilled sociopath, financially motivated criminal, or nation-state.

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OpenText Information Management

JULY 19, 2018

Digital transformation is a hot topic in every part of business, especially the supply chain. Recent research from IDC and OpenText™ found that over 40% of supply chain organizations are either advanced or very advanced in their digital transformation initiatives. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) can be considered the supply chain’s first great disruptive digital technology.

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Record Nations

JULY 19, 2018

As technology continues to improve, going paperless is becoming more and more common—and in some cases like healthcare it’s now standard. From saving money in both the long and short-term, to increasing productivity and security right from the get-go, there are numerous reasons to scan your records. In this video learn more about the top […].

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Cisco has found over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, WebEx and Nexus products. The tech giant has reported customers four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Policy Suite. The flaws tracked as CVE-2018-0374 , CVE-2018-0375 , CVE-2018-0376, and CVE-2018-0377 have been discovered during internal testing.

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Information Management Resources

JULY 19, 2018

Edge computing, deep learning, computer vision and natural language generation are a few of the tech areas companies will most embrace.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security , discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. Found file on VirusTotal w/ 15K+ Mega accounts (user names/passwords & users' file listings).

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Threatpost

JULY 19, 2018

In this InfoSec Insider cyber insurance expert Nick Sanna discusses how to balance threat exposures and protecting assets with insurance against hacking, breaches and vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2018

British Airways canceled flights at Heathrow due to an ‘IT system issue,’ the incident occurred on Wednesday and affected thousands of passengers. The problem had severe repercussions on the air traffic, many passengers also had their flights delayed. “On one of the busiest days of the summer, British Airways cancelled dozens of flights to and from Heathrow, affecting at least 7,000 passengers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 19, 2018

Sharpe Engineering helps clients understand and utilize data in motion with stream processing and machine learning technologies that make sense of previously underutilized data.

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Threatpost

JULY 19, 2018

Cisco also pushed out seven high-severity fixes for its SD-WAN solution for business users, and a patch for a DoS flaw in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches.

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Dark Reading

JULY 19, 2018

Hawaii, Idaho, North Carolina, and Rhode Island are among states now using gratis DDoS mitigation, firewall, and user access control service from Cloudflare.

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Threatpost

JULY 19, 2018

In a stalking or random criminal scenario, the ability to guide someone to an out-of-the-way, isolated location could be a precursor to kidnapping or worse.

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IG Guru

JULY 19, 2018

Infonomics, by Douglas B. Laney at Gartner, Inc. is a book on how to monetize, manager, and measure information as an asset for competitive advantage. Simply put, using your data to get ahead. Infonomics is a necessary read for anyone who creates or captures information in his or her business. Now that we have ruled […]. The post A Review: Infonomics appeared first on IG Guru.

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Dark Reading

JULY 19, 2018

Scaling security infrastructure requires scaling trust of users, devices, and methods of authentication. Here's how to get started.

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IG Guru

JULY 19, 2018

Drones and related technologies continue to tangle up courtrooms – with implications on downstream information, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, healthcare, and so much more. That’s why we’re so very pleased to announce our first Keynote Speaker of the main #InfoGov18 Conference – Kathryn Rattigan. Ms. Rattigan is a Business Litigation, Data Privacy, and Cybersecurity attorney at Robinson+Cole with specialization […].

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Threatpost

JULY 19, 2018

This bill making its way through Congress would allow law enforcement to more easily uncover location data for cell phones from mobile carriers in an emergency.

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CGI

JULY 19, 2018

Is the federal government ready for robotic process automation? harini.kottees…. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 04:38. Robotic process automation (RPA) has come into its own, and many organizations are gaining efficiencies by automating repetitive, rules-based tasks. Don’t think of the shambling, clanking humanoid automatons from 1950s sci-fi, or even the sleek bomb-disposal robots used today by the military and police departments.

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Role Model Software

JULY 19, 2018

Last time, we talked about the different flavors of two sets of eyes. They exist on a continuum that we see as: maximizing communication efficiency; maximizing code design quality; and minimizing rework. The last two options on that continuum are flavors of pair programming (or “pairing” for short): Pair program with another person only at certain points while writing the code (opportunistic pairing).

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