Tue.Jun 12, 2018

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The expression “a leopard cannot change its spots” maintains that it is challenging to alter ones’ inherent nature — not only who you are but also what defines you. Your spots, in this case, include your ways, habits, and behaviors. In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines.

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Cryptocurrency Theft: $1.1 Billion Stolen in Last 6 Months

Data Breach Today

Exchanges Remain Prime Target; Easily Available Hacking Tools Aid Attackers As bitcoin continues its massive price fluctuations, a new report says criminals have continued their push to get extortion and ransom payments in more stable cryptocurrencies. But bitcoins remain a top target for hackers, who most often choose to directly target cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Legacy Content Migration: The Crowd Has it Wrong

Weissman's World

A few weeks ago, I used this space to wonder how top-of-mind content migration is among organizations whose legacy solutions are more than 8 years old – which, it turns out, accounts for more than 75% of those in service. There was nothing scientific about this query, but the core responses received were illuminating nonetheless, […]. The post Legacy Content Migration: The Crowd Has it Wrong appeared first on Holly Group.

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Should the FDA Create a Cybersecurity Measuring Stick?

Data Breach Today

Agency Gets Suggestions for 'Software as a Medical Device' Precertification Program The FDA should consider some sort of measuring stick when assessing a vendor's cybersecurity culture to determine if it qualifies for the agency's proposed fast-path program for premarket approval of "software as a medical device" products, some industry stakeholders say.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Dixons Carphone reveals data breach affecting 5.9 million customers

The Guardian Data Protection

Consumer electronics retailer apologises and says there is currently no evidence of fraud Dixons Carphone has revealed a major breach of data involving unauthorised access to 5.9 million customers cards and 1.2 million personal records. The consumer electronics retailer said it had detected an attempt to compromise the cards in a processing system at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, but said there was no evidence of any fraud as a result of the incident.

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Yahoo fined £250,000 for hack that impacted 515,000 UK accounts

The Guardian Data Protection

ICO says firm ‘failed to prevent’ 2014 Russia-sponsored hack after 500m accounts compromised Yahoo has been fined £250,000 over a hack from 2014 that affected more than 515,000 UK email accounts co-branded with Sky, the Information Commissioner’s Office has announced. The personal data of 500m user accounts worldwide was compromised during a state-sponsored cyber attack in 2014, which was only revealed in 2016.

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Feds Bust Dozens of Nigerian Email Scammers, but Your Inbox Still Isn’t Safe

WIRED Threat Level

The arrest of dozens of alleged Nigerian email scammers and their associates is a small, but important, first step toward tackling an enormous problem.

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11th Circuit Vacates LabMD Enforcement Order; Casts Doubt on Decades of FTC Cybersecurity Enforcement Practices

Data Matters

In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission has increasingly exercised its enforcement authority to target deceptive and unfair information security practices. During this time, enforcement actions have targeted companies for failing to honor their promises to implement “reasonable” or “industry standard” security practices, defend against well-known security threats, put in place basic security measures, or take many other basic data security steps.

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Vietnam Approves New Cybersecurity Law

Hunton Privacy

On June 12, 2018, Vietnam’s parliament approved a new cybersecurity law that contains data localization requirements, among other obligations. Technology companies doing business in the country will be required to operate a local office and store information about Vietnam-based users within the country. The law also requires social media companies to remove offensive content from their online service within 24 hours at the request of the Ministry of Information and Communications and the Minist

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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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10 Security Projects CISOs Should Consider: Gartner Analyst

eSecurity Planet

Gartner analyst lists 10 security projects CISOs should consider this year - and 10 they should have already done.

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New iPhone OS May Include Device-Unlocking Security

Schneier on Security

iOS 12, the next release of Apple's iPhone operating system, may include features to prevent someone from unlocking your phone without your permission: The feature essentially forces users to unlock the iPhone with the passcode when connecting it to a USB accessory everytime the phone has not been unlocked for one hour. That includes the iPhone unlocking devices that companies such as Cellebrite or GrayShift make, which police departments all over the world use to hack into seized iPhones.

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SharePoint Conference North America: Post-show thoughts

Gimmal

After much demand, SharePoint Conference North America was back this year from May 21st to 23rd at the luxurious MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas. After three packed days, one question remains: was it worth it, and should we be looking forward to next year? Let’s recap.

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New Hack Weaponizes the Web Cache

Dark Reading

Researcher exploits design flaws in Web caching to take control of popular websites, frameworks - and the Mozilla Firefox browser infrastructure.

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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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Dear Marketers Can We Please Use The Term “Big Content”

Attensa

Marketing always gets the good stuff. Despite that, I would like to officially request that the rest of us get to use the term “Big Content” I am not claiming originality here but I started using the term Big Content a few years ago as an analogy to Big Data and a way to describe the challenge of coping with the flood of digital content in the workplace.

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Massive adoption of GPUs in the data center is making curiosity cool again

Information Management Resources

GPU-accelerated analytics and machine learning are fast, visual, interactive and fun, both for business analysts and for data scientists that need a faster platform for feature engineering.

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Microsoft Fixes 11 Critical, 39 Important Vulns

Dark Reading

The most critical vulnerability, experts say, affects Windows Domain Name Systems, while another lets attackers hack Cortana from the lock screen.

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DocuWare Announces Cloud-Based, Preconfigured DocuWare Kinetic Solutions

Info Source

New Windsor, NY June 12, 2018 – Building on the company’s leading cloud technology and business process expertise, DocuWare Kinetic Solutions are preconfigured workflows for common, document-centric business processes. With simplified implementation and an intuitive user experience, this next generation of content services offers a fast path to productivity for any size organization.

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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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Weaponizing IPv6 to Bypass IPv4 Security

Dark Reading

Just because you're not yet using IPv6 doesn't mean you're safe from the protocol's attack vectors.

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Learning made easy

OpenText Information Management

“Great education is a combination of a supporting environment, dedicated teachers and students who take joy in learning.” Hermann J. Steinherr At OpenText™, our goal is to provide customers and partners with the in-depth understanding of our software and the technical knowledge they need to optimize their use of enterprise information products to meet business … The post Learning made easy appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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MacOS Bypass Flaw Lets Attackers Sign Malicious Code as Apple

Dark Reading

A security bypass weakness in macOS APIs let attackers impersonate Apple to sign malicious code and evade third-party security tools.

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June Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Issues Fixes for DNS, Cortana

Threatpost

One of the most serious issues is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows DNS, which could allow an attacker to take full control of the targeted machine.

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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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10 predictions on advanced analytics and BI trends

Information Management Resources

In its new report '100 Data and Analytics Predictions Through 2022,' research firm Gartner looks at how analytics and business intelligence will impact corporate strategies and vendor marketing.

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Bypass Glitch Allows Malware to Masquerade as Legit Apple Files

Threatpost

Malware can to worm its way onto Macs thanks to a recently discovered code-signing bypass flaw.

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What Should our Company Do with Our Paper Files?

Armstrong Archives

Companies across all industries are transferring paper files into electronic versions on the computer. It is a necessary process that makes file access and organization easier and more efficient. It also saves massive amounts of space. However, converting from paper into electronic is a time-consuming and tedious project. Armstrong Archives can help with a variety of services.

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DocuWare’s Kinetic Solutions Represent “Micro-Solutions” Approach

Info Source

Today, DocuWare announced the first two applications in its Kinetic Solutions program. Kinetic Solutions are pre-configured to manage specific business processes and sit in the DocuWare cloud. The first two iterations are for accounts payable and human resources. These are not surprising places to start – as they are two of the most popular areas for businesses to begin their ECM implementations.

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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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How to choose the best EDI software and services in 2018

OpenText Information Management

In our last blog: “What is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?” we looked at why most companies today have deployed EDI systems to trade with customers and suppliers and what are the key benefits of EDI technology for your business. In this blog, we’ll discuss the key features and capabilities you should look for when you’re … The post How to choose the best EDI software and services in 2018 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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'Shift Left' & the Connected Car

Dark Reading

How improving application security in the automotive industry can shorten product development time, reduce costs, and save lives.

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FBI’s BEC Crackdown Leads To 74 Arrests Globally

Threatpost

The operation also resulted in the seizure of nearly $2.4 million and the recovery of about $14 million in fraudulent wire transfers, said the FBI.