Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2018
Agari's Dan Hoffmann Outlines the Scale and Cost Business email compromise attacks that impersonate executives and business partners to trick employees are "the biggest security issue in all of technology today," says Dan Hoffmann of Agari.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 10, 2018
People who fear their information may have been used by Cambridge Analytica can go to a new help page Tell us how you’ve been affected by the Facebook data breach Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The social network eventually hopes to inform every user who was affected with a warning at the top of their Facebook news feed.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2018
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson: 'Facebook Failed Us' Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg informally met with U.S. lawmakers on Monday ahead of two congressional hearings, where he is expected to face a bruising examination. One senator was blunt with Zuckerberg, contending that on data privacy "Facebook failed us.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2018
A Facebook permission allowed an app to read messages between 1,500 Facebook users and their friends until October 2015—data that Cambridge Analytica could have accessed.
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
APRIL 10, 2018
CMU CERT Researcher Randy Trzeciak on the Power and Promise of Emerging Technology When insider threat researcher Randy Trzeciak looks at artificial intelligence and machine learning, he sees the potential for technology to help organizations predict potentially dangerous insider behavior - not just respond to it.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 10, 2018
Keith Carlson of Amazon Web Services on Making Smarter Investments in Skills, Technologies How can we future-proof against fraud? Keith Carlson, general manager of payments and fraud prevention at Amazon Web Services, discusses the people, skills and technologies necessary to prevent fraud - and prepare for the unexpected.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2018
Balint Seeber found that cities around the US are leaving their emergency siren radio communication systems unencrypted and vulnerable to spoofing.
Data Matters
APRIL 10, 2018
On April 3, 2018, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued new frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding its customer due diligence rule (CDD Rule). The CDD Rule applies to banks, broker-dealers in securities, mutual funds, futures commission merchants and introducing brokers in commodities (collectively, covered financial institutions or CFIs).
Record Nations
APRIL 10, 2018
A paperless office can save more than just the environment with cost-reducing benefits for businesses that deal with a lot of paper (and employees managing those files). Why Go Paperless Paperwork is the largest overhead expensive in any organization, giving even more financial incentive to go paperless. Paperless offices often see immediate benefits, including cutting […].
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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.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2018
Researchers are warning of a new email phishing campaign that launches a trojan capable of distributing ransomware and stealing passwords.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2018
The foundation released a broad, sweeping report Tuesday about the state of our lives online.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2018
A patched vulnerability in San Francisco’s public safety warning siren system suggests other radio-based platforms could also be hacked.
IT Governance
APRIL 10, 2018
The cyber security skills gap isn’t going away. A report by job listings site Indeed found that the UK has the second highest demand for skilled IT professionals in the world. There are a lot of theories about the best way to fill that gap, but it all boils down to finding people with the relevant skills and qualifications. IT Governance offers training and qualifications in a variety of specialist areas.
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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.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 10, 2018
Facebook has revealed that only 53 users in Australia installed the Facebook app This is Your Digital Life. But 311,127 Australians had their private data harvested. This means that for every person who took the personality quiz, almost 6,000 people had their private data accessed Continue reading.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2018
DARPA is launching a program aimed at vulnerability discovery via human-assisted AI. The new DARPA program is called CHESS (Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security), and they're holding a proposers day in a week and a half. This is the kind of thing that can dramatically change the offense/defense balance.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 10, 2018
Why have law firms and lawyers been so keen to integrate machine learning into their practice? We asked OpenText™ Axcelerate™ customer, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (Pillsbury), an Am Law 100 law firm advising and counseling the world’s largest companies across their litigation portfolios. It comes down to the significant time and resources saved from … The post Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP leads the pack integrating AI and Predictive Coding appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2018
Verizon pegged ransomware as the most prevalent malware in its 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2018
A new survey shows most Android users did not give Facebook permission to collect their call and text data.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2018
Critical vulnerabilities are divided into four CVEs tied to Adobe Flash Player and Adobe InDesign CC.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2018
Despite all the good intentions of some great security teams, we are still living in a "cut-and-paste" incident management world.
Data Protection Report
APRIL 10, 2018
As of November 1, 2018, organizations across Canada subject to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) will be required to provide notice of certain privacy breaches. Through an Order in Council , the Federal Government has announced that previous PIPEDA breach notification amendments will come into force this November.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2018
Unencrypted radio protocol that controls sirens left alert system at risk.
Threatpost
APRIL 10, 2018
Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday release includes fixes for 66 bugs, 24 of which are rated critical.
Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2018
Businesses say their current security tools aren't effective in the cloud but hesitate to adopt cloud-based security systems.
Information Management Resources
APRIL 10, 2018
These technologies will become widely adopted in 2018 and 2019, and will augment master data management and data governance to provide increased agility and scalability.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 10, 2018
Users aren't shy about sharing the technique and payload in a new attack.
Architect Security
APRIL 10, 2018
I am speaking at the very first DEF CON in Beijing China [BETA] – Hope to see you there! The dates for #DEFCONBeijing are May 11-13, 2018.
eDiscovery Daily
APRIL 10, 2018
This is the eleventh (and final) of the 2018 Legaltech New York (LTNY) Thought Leader Interview series. eDiscovery Daily interviewed several thought leaders at LTNY this year (and some afterward) to get their observations regarding trends at the show and generally within the eDiscovery industry. Today’s thought leader is Chris Dale. Chris is Editor of the eDisclosure Information Project.
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