Data Breach Today
JANUARY 14, 2019
Offerings Abound on Darknet Forums; The Dark Overlord Seeks Multilingual Hackers Numerous cybercrime gangs continue to use darknet forums to seek fresh recruits, sell stolen data or advertise hacking services. One recent job listing from the data-leaking blackmail gang called The Dark Overlord sought technically proficient individuals who were fluent in Arabic, Chinese or German.
Weissman's World
JANUARY 14, 2019
You say you’re tired of not being able to find the information you’re looking for. You say you’re concerned the information you do find is reliable. You say you’re worried about security breaches. And you say you’re ready to do something about it. So I say it’s time you go ahead and take your first […]. The post Start Your Information Journey With A Step Backwards appeared first on Holly Group.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 14, 2019
Daniel Kaye Was Paid to Disrupt Liberia's Largest Telecommunications Firm A U.K. court has sentenced Daniel Kaye, 30, after he admitted launching DDoS attacks against Liberia's largest telecommunications company in 2015 and 2016. A rival internet services provider paid Kaye $100,000 to launch the attacks.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 14, 2019
Zurich American Insurance Company is refusing to refund its client because consider the attack as “an act of war” that is not covered by its policy. The US food giant Mondelez is suing Zurich for $100 Million after the insurance company rejected its claim to restore normal operations following the massive NotPetya ransomware attack. On the other side, Mondelez was requesting the payment of a policy that was promising to conver “ all risks of physical loss or damage ” as w
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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 14, 2019
Punishment Includes Terminations, Demotions and 'Financial Penalties' The organization that manages IT for Singapore's public healthcare sector says it has terminated, demoted or financially penalized several employees for their roles in the handling of a 2017 cyberattack on SingHealth, the nation's largest healthcare group. What do U.S. security experts think of these measures?
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 14, 2019
I recently read two different essays that make the point that while Internet security is terrible, it really doesn't affect people enough to make it an issue. This is true, and is something I worry will change in a world of physically capable computers. Automation, autonomy, and physical agency will make computer security a matter of life and death, and not just a matter of data.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 14, 2019
Starting from Firefox 69, Mozilla will disable Adobe Flash by default, a process that aims to completely remove the support for the popular plugin. Mozilla announced that the Firefox 69 will no longer support Adobe Flash due to a large number of serious flaws exploited by hackers in attacks across the years. The decision was made public for the first time by Adobe in July 2018, the software giant declared it would stop using Flash Player and stop providing security updates by the end of 2020.
Data Matters
JANUARY 14, 2019
On December 19, 2018, Ohio adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law. By doing so, Ohio joins South Carolina as the second state to have adopted the Model Law and the fourth state – along with Connecticut and New York – to have enacted cybersecurity regulations for insurance companies. See CT Gen Stat § 38a-999b (2015) ; 23 NYCRR 500.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2019
In 2019, there will be no end in sight to email-driven cybercrime such as business email compromise, spearphishing, and ransomware.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 14, 2019
Join the on-demand webinar, Accelerating AI Innovation with Data Virtualization to hear directly from IBM and Intel on how you can benefit from IBM Cloud Private for Data.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2019
Tools for illegally mining Coinhive, Monero, and other cryptocurrency dominate list of most prevalent malware in December 2018.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 14, 2019
German watchdog is going to ask Facebook changes to protect privacy and personal information of its users. The news was first reported by the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, German regulators are going to request Facebook changes in its platforms aimed at protect ing privacy and personal data of its users. The German watchdog want to ask the social network giant to change the way it collects and shares users’ personal data to be compliant with privacy laws.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 14, 2019
When organizations are looking to move into the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and integrate platforms and applications with IoT devices, they’re often faced with challenges. Devices aren’t always the same and can even change between versions, and they don’t always function (or speak to the platform) in the same way. As Karl … The post Internet of Things with a purpose appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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 14, 2019
The City Hall of Del Rio, a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack, operations were suspended. Last week, the City Hall of Del Rio, a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas, was hit by a ransomware attack. On Thursday, tens of computers at the City Hall of Del Rio were infected, in response to the incident, the City’s M.I.S.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2019
German antitrust regulators prepare to require changes from Facebook regarding privacy and personal information.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 14, 2019
On January 10, 2019, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed legislation amending the state’s data breach law. The amendments take effect on April 11, 2019. Key updates to Massachusetts’s Data Breach Notification Act include the following: The required notice to the Massachusetts Attorney General and the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation will need to include additional information, including the types of personal information compromised, the person responsible for the breach
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 14, 2019
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at A New Initiative for Poland in Warsaw, January 16-17, 2019. I'm speaking at the Munich Cyber Security Conference (MCSC) on February 14, 2019. The list is maintained on this page.
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Threatpost
JANUARY 14, 2019
The malware's operator, Grim Spider, could be affiliated with Russian cybercrime rings, according to some -- others say there's no concrete evidence.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 14, 2019
Enterprises must be skeptical of data as it essentially determines how the AI will work and bias in the data may be inherent because of past customers, business practices and sales.
Threatpost
JANUARY 14, 2019
He said that similar flaws were also found in the Dreamhost, HostGator, OVH and iPage web hosting platforms.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 14, 2019
The firm says risk assessment should begin with understanding attacker taxonomy and continue with vulnerability analysis.
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Threatpost
JANUARY 14, 2019
Dual data exposures and a wide-scale data leak due to a vulnerable MongoDB database have kicked off 2019 so far.
Information Governance Perspectives
JANUARY 14, 2019
It is important for us to realize how our own lives are being altered by IoT every day. Our houses, cars, work and lives are many times more wired and internet connected than even one or two years ago. Locks, doorbell cameras, voice activated assistants, drones, auto pilot cars, smart devices – you name it, it is already happening today. As end-users we are uniquely positioned to appreciate why this data needs to be managed securely.
Threatpost
JANUARY 14, 2019
Firefox 69 will force users to manually install Adobe Flash as the plugin inches toward end of life.
CGI
JANUARY 14, 2019
Setting new standards for the IoT. michael.hardy@…. Mon, 01/14/2019 - 14:26. CGI Director Paul Rainey also contributed to this blog. Nobody debates what a kilometer is. It’s a standard unit of measurement with defined parameters. It wasn’t always this way, though. In the past, units of measure often were approximated and based on such things as the breadth of one’s hand, which can vary significantly from one person to the next.
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Information Governance Perspectives
JANUARY 14, 2019
It is important for us to realize how our own lives are being altered by IoT every day. Our houses, cars, work and lives are many times more wired and internet connected than even one or two years ago. Locks, doorbell cameras, voice activated assistants, drones, auto pilot cars, smart devices – you name it, it is already happening today. As end-users we are uniquely positioned to appreciate why this data needs to be managed securely.
Data Protection Report
JANUARY 14, 2019
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), California’s new privacy law which takes effect on January 1, 2020, requires the Attorney General to adopt implementing regulations that further the objectives of the CCPA. Much concern has been raised about the law as currently written, including by Attorney General Xavier Becerra himself. With regulations set to be issued on or before July 1, 2020, the Attorney General’s Office will host six public forums to give key stakeholders an opportu
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JANUARY 14, 2019
Whilst competing factions in the UK Parliament continue to wrangle over the UK’s future relationship with the EU, in the background work continues to ensure that regulatory regimes, including data protection law, will function smoothly once the UK does, eventually, leave the Union. To that end, the Government has now published the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (“ Exit Regulations “, available here ).
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