Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Cost of Troll Farm: $15 Million. Impact: Priceless Want to meddle with a democracy? Just use its social media outlets against it to amplify already existing social divisions. That's the quick take on the indictment recently unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that accuses Russians of running an "active measures" campaign against the United States.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
It is time to think about Digital Preservation differently — as a dedicated capability that keeps long-term information alive and usable and trusted and easily found. The time to act is now. AIIM believes that digital preservation needs to be viewed through the prism of a set of Intelligent Information Management capabilities that are integral to delivering upon the Digital Transformation challenge of understanding, anticipating, and redefining internal and external customer experiences.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
After PNB Incident, Security Practitioners Discuss Technologies to Mitigate Risks Now that it's been confirmed that an insider at Punjab National Bank paved the way for $1.8 billion in fraudulent transactions, the Reserve Bank of India is reiterating the need to strengthen security measures tied to SWIFT interbank transactions, and security experts are offering risk mitigation advice.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
For over a decade, US Customs and Border Patrol has been unable to verify the cryptographic signatures on e-Passports, because they never installed the right software.
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
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Why Do Some Companies Reject Security Scrutiny? A government watchdog agency alleges that insurer Health Net of California has refused to cooperate in a security audit called for under a federal contract. Similar disputes often arise when healthcare organizations attempt to scrutinize the security practices of their vendors, some security experts point out.
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IT Governance
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
The Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) latest statistics on data security incidents have revealed a 19% increase from Q2 to Q3 2017, with 815 incidents reported between October and December 2017. This is an astonishing 41% rise on the same period in 2016. The reasons are thought to be growing awareness of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the launch of the ICO’s personal data breach helpline.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
On February 21, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published long-awaited cybersecurity interpretive guidance (the “Guidance”). The Guidance marks the first time that the five SEC commissioners, as opposed to agency staff, have provided guidance to U.S. public companies with regard to their cybersecurity disclosure and compliance obligations.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories. Cyber security reports are a bit like the proverbial London omnibus: you seem to wait for ages, then several come along at once.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
A security researcher found Coinhive code hidden on a Los Angeles Times’ webpage that was secretly using visitors’ devices to mine cryptocurrency.
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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.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Auditors interested in new areas of expertise might want to consider ISO 20000 , the international standard for IT service management (ITSM). There are many benefits of certifying to the Standard, and it appears people are taking notice. According to the latest ISO survey , there was a 63% year-on-year increase in the number of ISO 20000 certifications awarded.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Almost any kind of finance and operational performance management (FOPM) professional, from VPs of finance to analysts and others, can learn a lot at Think 2018.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
If you deliver IT services to customers, you should be familiar with ITIL ® (Information Technology Infrastructure Library ® ). It’s the most widely adopted IT service management (ITSM) framework in the world, detailing practices that enable you to provide IT services that are better aligned with your organisation’s business needs. There are many benefits of adopting ITIL , but for an in-depth discussion about how it helps organisations, let’s take a look at each of the framework’s five stages.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
How cyber vulnerabilities on sensors can lead to production outage and financial loss.
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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.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
People harassing women by delivering anonymous packages purchased from Amazon. On the one hand, there is nothing new here. This could have happened decades ago, pre-Internet. But the Internet makes this easier, and the article points out that using prepaid gift cards makes this anonymous. I am curious how much these differences make a difference in kind, and what can be done about it.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Cybersecurity today is more than an IT issue. It's a product quality issue, a customer service issue, an operational issue, and an executive issue. Here's why.
The Texas Record
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
When you read TSLAC’s local government retention schedules (“local schedules”), you may notice the word “obsolete” pops up in lots of different places. Some folks ask us what we mean when we say obsolete. Obsolete generally refers to a record that is no longer active. How your records management program must treat an obsolete record varies widely depending on how obsolete is used.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
New agency guidance statement also says company officials, execs can't trade stocks if they have unannounced information on a security breach at the company.
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Info Source
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Irvine, Calif. – Feb. 22, 2018 – Ephesoft, Inc., the leading developer of machine learning-based document capture and analytics solutions, today announced that it has appointed Naren Goel as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As CFO, Goel will enact a progressive and responsible fiscal model as Ephesoft scales to meet the growing global demand for its technology, which enables organizations to mine their unstructured data.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Achieving the data visibility to ensure you can provide auditors with the information they need after a breach, and do so in just a few days, has never been more difficult.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
All of the tasks essential to artificial intelligence can be performed faster than with CPUs, largely because of the speed with which they can transfer data between one another.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
The IRS reports an increase in reports of phishing emails asking for W-2 information.
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eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
I alluded to it last week, now I’ll discuss it in more depth. Next month, the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference will be held on Thursday, March 29 – believe it or not, this is the sixth annual conference. And, for the first time, I’m going to be there! If you’re going to be in Gainesville then too, great! If not, you can still attend from the comfort of your desk at work or at home.
Archives Blogs
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
WNYC-FM’s first antenna on the Municipal Building as it appeared in 1943. (WNYC Archive Collections). On February 24, 1943, WNYC began broadcasting an experimental 1,000-watt frequency modulation (FM) signal at 43.9 megacycles [1] using the call letters W39NY. At that time, only a handful of stations in the U.S. had adopted the technology —after all, this was less than ten years after Major Edwin Armstrong had pioneered wide-band FM transmission from atop the Empire State Building (and lat
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
The certificates are available on demand at prices ranging from $299 to $1,599, says Recorded Future.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Otonomo has developed technology to make it easier to distribute and use connected-car data by securing, anonymizing, standardizing, and aggregating information within a labyrinth of regional regulations.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Gender diversity can help fill the security talent gap, new Forrester Research report says.
Docuware
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
''It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities ).
Archives Blogs
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
The second phase of hunting for information on 2116 Maple Street, after locating it on fire insurance maps, getting the water service records, and getting the building permit register information , involves delving into the Archives’ photographic holdings. Houses in Kitsilano. Reference code: AM1535-: CVA 99-1347. The ideal for every house history researcher is to find an old photograph of his or her house in the Archives’ holdings.
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