Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2018
Groundbreaking Prosecution Targeted Attackers Who Demanded Bitcoin Payoffs In a groundbreaking prosecution, two individuals in Ukraine have been sentenced for running extortion campaigns that disrupted international victims' websites with massive DDoS attacks unless they paid bitcoin ransoms of up to $10,000.
AIIM
MARCH 6, 2018
A new eBook that might be of interest. A winning recipe: SaaS + Cloud Content Management + IaaS. Processes, Content Management and Infrastructure. Every cloud application rests upon a platform, whether it be a “public” one like Azure or IBM’s platform or Google’s or Amazon Web Services or a private one specific to the application vendor. And that means that customers focused on application choices must also make sure that their underlying IaaS platform meets world-class standards of privacy, com
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2018
Payment Card Data Stolen by Malware-Wielding Attackers, Franchisee Warns Anyone who dined out at one of 167 Applebee's restaurants located across 15 different states may have had their payment card details compromised by point-of-sale malware infections that began in November 2017, RMH Franchise Holdings warns.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 6, 2018
Every year, new regulations and compliance orders come into play that impact businesses across the world. This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. GDPR enables consumers to view, limit and control how companies collect and process their personal data.
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
MARCH 6, 2018
OCR Director Roger Severino Offers Update at HIMSS18 Conference HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Roger Severino told an audience at the HIMSS18 conference Tuesday that there will be "no slowdown" in the agency's HIPAA enforcement efforts. But he told ISMG following the presentation that there will be no phase 3 for HIPAA compliance audits.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2018
Many banking institutions boast of being "digital first" and enabling "omnichannel banking." But are they fully aware of the new fraud risks they also are inviting? Kimberly Sutherland and Kimberly White of LexisNexis Risk Solutions discuss how to mitigate omnichannel fraud.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 6, 2018
Meet Ashu Thangaraj, director of Engineering from Bangalore, India. In this post, Ashu shares her experience working as a leader in the tech industry and talks about her ever-growing passion for diversity in the workplace. Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your role here at OpenText? I am Ashu Thangaraj, and I … The post Ashu Thangaraj talks tech, careers and diversity in the workplace appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2018
When working with cloud service providers, healthcare organizations must take responsibility for security practices rather than relying on the vendor, says Sonia Arista, a security consultant who formerly was CISO at Tufts Medical Center. She's a featured speaker at the HIMSS18 conference.
IT Governance
MARCH 6, 2018
Cyber Essentials is a world-leading, cost-effective assurance mechanism for companies of all sizes. The scheme provides five security controls (secure configuration, firewalls, access controls, patch management, malware protection) that, according to the UK government, could prevent most common cyber attacks. Recent reviews have recommended Cyber Essentials Plus as the minimum standard for healthcare providers and partners to demonstrate that they have implemented the most basic cyber security c
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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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 6, 2018
To keep up with the ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape, healthcare organizations must combine basic security principles with advanced technologies, Kristopher Kusche, CISO at Albany Medical Center, says in an interview at the HIMSS18 conference.
IT Governance
MARCH 6, 2018
The government is a well-known target for cyber criminals, but according to a new report, the problem is more significant than many people thought. Big Brother Watch’s Cyber-attacks in local authorities found that UK councils faced 98 million cyber attacks between 2013 and 2017, and a quarter of incidents led to data breaches. This equates to 24.5 million successful cyber attacks and, in all likelihood, hundreds of millions of citizens’ data records being exposed.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 6, 2018
Interesting research: " Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale ": Abstract: Smart contracts -- stateful executable objects hosted on blockchains like Ethereum -- carry billions of dollars worth of coins and cannot be updated once deployed. We present a new systematic characterization of a class of trace vulnerabilities , which result from analyzing multiple invocations of a contract over its lifetime.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 6, 2018
On February 28, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission issued a report, titled Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues (the “Report”), that analyzes the process by which mobile devices sold in the U.S. receive security updates and provides recommendations for improvement. The Report is based on information the FTC obtained from eight mobile device manufacturers, and from information the Federal Communications Commission collected from six wireless carriers.
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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.
Privacy and Cybersecurity Law
MARCH 6, 2018
Last month, the United States (US) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a warning to US taxpayers that cyber criminals are increasing their […].
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2018
Researchers from Italy's University of Padua will demo a new technique to evade Control Flow Guard, the widely deployed security mechanism, at Black Hat Asia.
Threatpost
MARCH 6, 2018
Malware found on POS systems at Applebee's restaurants potentially stole customer credit card information.
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2018
Ocean-boiling is responsible for most of the draconian, nonproductive security policies I've witnessed over the course of my career. Here's why they don't work.
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Info Source
MARCH 6, 2018
DALLAS, March 6, 2018 : M-Files Corporation , the intelligent information management company, today announced that delaware , a systems integrator with a large global presence and strong experience with SAP and Microsoft solutions, is the latest organization to join its worldwide Partner Program. delaware has more than 1,800 professionals in 27 regional offices located across 14 countries.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 6, 2018
Hunton & Williams LLP is honored to be nominated for Advisen’s 2018 Cyber Risk Awards in the category of Cyber Law Firm of the Year. Advisen is an industry leader in insurance consulting, and regularly hosts conferences offering insights and innovation on cyber risk. The winners are determined by online ballot and the awards will be presented in New York City on June 6, 2018.
Info Source
MARCH 6, 2018
March 6, 2018 – Rochester, NY – Better Buys, a trusted authority for delivering unbiased, expert insights on the software and technology that businesses rely on, announced that Alaris, a Kodak Alaris business, has received the Editor’s Choice Award for Q1 2018 in the document scanners category. In recognizing the Alaris S2000 Series Scanners, Better Buys cited several key differentiators that help businesses efficiently capture and manage information.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 6, 2018
While there has been a great deal of hype around the technologies that make up AI, that will change to action this year according to Gartner analysts.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2018
How companies are changing the approach to identity management as people become increasingly digital.
Threatpost
MARCH 6, 2018
More than half of businesses have faced IoT-related attacks, yet only a third consider IoT cyber security “very important.”.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 6, 2018
In addition to experiencing a major fine, violators will be subjected to regular periodic data protection audits which will shine a continuing regulatory spotlight on compliance trouble spots.
Threatpost
MARCH 6, 2018
Google is warning a critical vulnerability found in its Media Framework warrants extra attention by security minded Android users.
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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.
Dark Reading
MARCH 6, 2018
A variant of SamSam sends CDOT employees back to pen and paper with two attack waves in two weeks.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 6, 2018
A new survey by research firm EY finds that only 33 percent of respondents have a plan in place to comply with the European Union legislation, says Andrew Gordon.
eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 6, 2018
Next month, I have the privilege of moderating a panel on the current state of the acceptance of technology assisted review (TAR) with three terrific panelists, courtesy of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS). If you’re in Houston on April 3rd, you might want to check it out! The panel is titled From Asking About It to Asking For It: The Evolution of the Acceptance and Use of TAR and it will be held at the offices of BoyarMiller law firm at 2925 Richmond Avenue, Houston
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