Data Breach Today
MARCH 20, 2018
Hacker May Have Also Obtained Other Customer Data in Breach, Orbitz Warns Expedia's Orbitz travel fare search engine says it may have suffered a breach that resulted in 880,000 payment cards being compromised, along with other customer data, over a two-year period. Orbitz says the apparent breach involved a legacy system no longer connected to its site.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a “dumb f**k”. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway. Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact t
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 20, 2018
Social Media Users' Profiles Get Used Against Them The unfolding story of Cambridge Analytica, which shows how personal information on millions of consumers was obtained via Facebook, demonstrates the degree to which our personal data can be weaponized against us.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 20, 2018
Many medical devices, especially older ones, were not designed with cybersecurity in mind, so healthcare organizations need to take special precautions to reduce risks, says security expert Justine Bone, who describes effective strategies.
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WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 20, 2018
Alphabet tech incubator Jigsaw wants to make it easy to run your own, more private virtual private network.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
The data mining, which the council says is legal, will be used to market the city to tourists The Gold Coast council will use a new city wifi service to harvest Facebook data from visitors to next month’s Commonwealth Games. The data mining, which the council says is legal and will be used to help the city market itself to tourists, relies on visitors using their Facebook accounts to log into a new high-speed wifi service.
IT Governance
MARCH 20, 2018
In the lead up to May, it is important your organisation prioritises steps to prove that you are making an effort to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). One activity that you should start without delay is writing a data subject access request (DSAR) procedure. What is a data subject access request? The GDPR introduces the ‘right of access’ for individuals and from 25 May, the compliance deadline, data subjects will have the right to request: Confirmation that their data
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
A case before the high court in London is seeking to recover personal information from the controversial data mining company An American professor who is using UK law to try to reclaim data that may be held by Cambridge Analytica has told the Guardian he is encouraged that regulatory pressures on both sides of the Atlantic could force companies to be more transparent about their handling of personal information.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 20, 2018
Alexander Nix has been suspended until further notice and replaced by Cambridge's head of data, Alexander Tayler.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 20, 2018
The excitement, insights and innovation at Think 2018 is truly astounding. Today we heard from IBM Chairman, President and CEO, Ginni Rometty, plus industry leaders and clients who are transforming whole business sectors.
IT Governance
MARCH 20, 2018
IT Governance is running a webinar to help organisations understand how penetration testing can help improve existing security measures for securing personal information and comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Regular penetration testing can prevent cyber criminals from exploiting defects in web servers, browsers, email clients, point-of-sale (POS) software, operating systems and server interfaces, so it is an essential part of GDPR compliance.
PerezBox
MARCH 20, 2018
This morning, Armor, a cloud security provider, released a great report into the cyber crime black market. Armor was formerly known as as FireHost – they were one of the leading hosts. Read More. The post Diving Into the Dark Web and Understanding the Economy Powering Cyber Attacks appeared first on PerezBox.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 20, 2018
AMD on Tuesday acknowledged several vulnerabilities that had been reported in its Ryzen and EPYC chips, and said that it would roll out PSP firmware patches in the coming week.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 20, 2018
At first glance I know what you’re thinking. “This post is only really intended for down-and-dirty software developers that poke around in the deepest darkest places that Content Server has to offer. It’s nothing to do with me”. Yes, to a certain extent I’m talking to you. But to a greater degree I’m talking to … The post Going Agile with OpenText Content Server appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
MARCH 20, 2018
Popular secure messaging service Telegram loses battle with Russian courts and now must hand over encryption keys or face being blocked from the country.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 20, 2018
The second day of Think 2018 is here, and there’s an abundance of things to see and do at the Cloud & Data Campus. Here are the not-to-miss Think 2018 keynote speeches, demos, panels, training labs and other hands-on activities for Tuesday, March 20, both at the event and by tuning in online.
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Threatpost
MARCH 20, 2018
Security experts are calling for a higher prioritization of data security in the wake of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Dark Reading
MARCH 20, 2018
Aggregating threat intel from external data sources is no longer enough. You must look inside and outside your traditional knowledge base for the best way to defend against attacks.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 20, 2018
Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce that Richard Thomas , Global Strategy Advisor to the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”), has been selected as Chair for the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s new data protection authority. Adding the appointment to his position at CIPL, Thomas will be formally appointed in May and will work with the Data Protection Commissioner and the States of Guernsey to support the island’s regulatory framework in conjunction with the introduction of its
Dark Reading
MARCH 20, 2018
An open letter to former colleagues in Homeland Security, peers in private sector cybersecurity firms, those who own and operate critical systems, academics, and politicians.
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Info Source
MARCH 20, 2018
. Raleigh, NC – March 20, 2018 – The TWAIN Working Group (TWG), a not-for-profit organization designed to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices, today announced the addition of ABBYY as an Associate member of the TWAIN Working Group. ABBYY, a global provider of intelligent capture solutions to improve business outcomes has joined the Group to provide its technical expertise to the further development of the TWAIN Dir
Dark Reading
MARCH 20, 2018
The Spectre/Meltdown pair has a set of major effects on computing but there are impacts on the organization that IT leaders might not have considered in the face of the immediate problem.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 20, 2018
The importance of identifying data sources, collecting those sources, and applying them wisely is key to prevention, the reduction of threat actor dwell time, and threat mitigation.
Threatpost
MARCH 20, 2018
Dewan Chowdhury, founder of MalCrawler, talks at SAS about the risks that companies face when securing their industrial control systems and robotics.
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eDiscovery Daily
MARCH 20, 2018
This is the third 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 Brett Burney. Brett is Principal of Burney Consultants LLC , and focuses the bulk of his time on bridging the chasm between the legal and technology frontiers of electronic discovery.
Dark Reading
MARCH 20, 2018
Researchers find attackers can abuse the design of Microsoft Azure Guest Agent to recover plaintext administrator passwords.
Architect Security
MARCH 20, 2018
In case you missed it, news that “private” user data was harvested from 50 million profiles by a company called Cambridge Analytica hit the major news media this week. Data was gathered through a “survey” that exposed data about the user and their friends/connections. Short of quitting social media altogether, you should be wary of any of […].
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