Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2020
Fraud Marketplace Joker's Stash Says it Has 30 Million Cards A long-running marketplace for selling stolen payment card data claims it has 30 million stolen payment cards that experts believe are linked to the breach at Wawa convenience stores late last year. The breach is one of the largest ever involving card-related data.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 29, 2020
Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp. leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. KrebsOnSecurity recently contacted Sprint to let the company know that an internal customer support forum called “Social Care” was being indexed by search engines, and that several months worth of postings about customer complaints and other issues w
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2020
Trend Micro Project Demonstrates Targeting of Industrial Control Systems Trend Micro researchers created a phony "smart factory" that lured attackers, demonstrating how they are increasingly focusing on industrial control systems and have become adept at planting malware within vulnerable infrastructure.
AIIM
JANUARY 29, 2020
It’s no secret that AIIM believes every organization is on — or should be on — a Digital Transformation journey. In fact, AIIM itself is on its own Digital Transformation! But, before I get into that, let’s take a deeper look at Digital Transformation and what it actually entails. At the heart of this transformation journey, is understanding, anticipating, and redefining internal and external customer experiences.
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
JANUARY 29, 2020
United Nations Downplays Significance of Hacks Revealed by News Agency This Week The United Nations did not reveal hacks last year that compromised dozens of servers and domains and may have exposed sensitive data, including information related to human rights abuses, according to The New Humanitarian news agency.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2020
Citizen Lab Report Links Attempted Hacking to Saudi Group A New York Times reporter apparently was targeted with spyware developed by the NSO Group as part of a campaign that may be linked to a Saudi Arabia group, which has previously been accused of hacking attempts against dissidents, journalists and human rights lawyers, according to the think tank Citizen Lab.
Elie
JANUARY 29, 2020
This talk provides a data driven analysis of how accounts get compromised. Then it provides an in-depth overview of the defense we found effective at Google to protect users from account compromise. In particular we will cover how to mitigate password reuse, build a risk aware login system, and how to setup an Advanced Protection Program to protect users at risk of targeted attacks.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 29, 2020
Sizing Up the Important Role the Technologies Can Play Deception technologies offer a way to shift away from a purely defensive "detect and response" postures toward more proactive offensive approaches that draw stealth cyberattackers into the open before a breach.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 29, 2020
To comply with California's new data privacy law, companies that collect information on consumers and users are forced to be more transparent about it. Sometimes the results are creepy. Here's an article about Ralphs, a California supermarket chain owned by Kroger: the form proceeds to state that, as part of signing up for a rewards card, Ralphs "may collect" information such as "your level of education, type of employment, information about your health and information about insurance coverage y
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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.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 29, 2020
Researchers investigate a new perceptual challenge that causes the ADAS systems and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous to consider depthless objects (phantoms) as real. Abstract. The absence of deployed vehicular communication systems, which prevents the advanced driving assistance systems (ADASs) and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous cars to validate their virtual perception regarding the physical environment surrounding the car with a third party, has been exploited in various attacks sugge
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 29, 2020
The Voice of the Customer (VoC) is a term used in business to describe the in-depth process of capturing customer’s expectations, preferences and a strong dislike. From a pragmatic point of view, the VoC refers to the way an organization collects customer feedback, analyzes the data, distributes it to the right people and acts on … The post Why should a Voice of the Customer program matter to your organization?
Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2020
Hefty collection of U.S. and international payment cards from the incident revealed in December found up for sale on dark-web marketplace Joker’s Stash.
Data Matters
JANUARY 29, 2020
With issues around the collection and handling of personal data becoming the focus of increased scrutiny among regulators, policymakers, and consumers, interest has continued to grow among organizations to better understand and address privacy risk. Seeking to support innovation in the market and to accommodate the increasingly global nature of data processing ecosystems, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released Version 1.0 of the NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for I
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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.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 29, 2020
Security researchers have spotted a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, that affects a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions. Security experts from Qualys have discovered a flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-7247, in OpenSMTPD. OpenSMTPD is an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, it includes also some additional standard extensions.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2020
Common elements to highly effective security champion programs that take DevSecOps to the next level.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 29, 2020
Decision makers oftentimes do not fully understand the technology and have not thought through the true costs of implementing artificial intelligence in their organization.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2020
Pwn2Own Miami could help spur more research on and attention to the security of industrial control system products, experts say.
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“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.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 29, 2020
Cloud computing has brought enormous benefits - and risks. Here are the vendors leading the way with state-of-the-art cloud security products.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2020
Servers worldwide that were used to control malware-infected systems jumped more than 71% compared to 2018, Spamhaus says.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 29, 2020
While the business value of AI is easy to understand and evangelize, the operational implications of these trends are far more complex than is generally understood.
Reltio
JANUARY 29, 2020
One fine day the water dispenser of my two-year-old, French-door refrigerator stopped working. No problem, I thought, as I had enough foresight to sign up for a home warranty policy literally a month prior. Aside from having a practically-new appliance break, it took five weeks and three different service visits with hundreds-of-dollars or parts being shipped to my house to fix the issue.
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Interactive Information Management
JANUARY 29, 2020
More and more often, governments (local, state, Federal) are finding the most current, useful and high-performing solutions (particularly in the IT space) are created through very collaborative engagement of the commercial ecosystem. Bringing " commercial insights for government solutions " to bear, is actually essential at this time, for example in designing, building and improving Smart City initiatives.
Rocket Software
JANUARY 29, 2020
At a previous job, one of our systems notified us there had been a disk failure. I was not too concerned, as we had redundancy built into the disk array. In short order; however, we had several other disks fail, and the system came down hard. We would later find out there was a manufacturing issue that caused so many disks to fail in such a short amount of time.
National Archives Records Express
JANUARY 29, 2020
Switchboard Pictures. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel, 1948 – 1967, National Archives Identifier: 19996695. The Office of the Chief Records Officer is changing how we communicate! We are moving to a new tool to manage contact information and send out email communications from our office. . Previously, we used a GSA-listserv.
Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2020
Maya Horowitz with Check Point Research discussed recently-disclosed Zoom vulnerabilities that could have opened up web conferencing meetings to hackers.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 29, 2020
The latest edition for the Analytics Hero blog series.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 29, 2020
The concept of application security is well known, but application security testing and remediation processes remain unbalanced. Most organizations are confident in their approach to AppSec, although others seem to have no approach at all. Read this report to find out more.
Threatpost
JANUARY 29, 2020
Admins are encouraged to update their websites to stave off attacks from Magecart card-skimmers and others.
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