Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2019
Authorities Say He Spent Ransom Proceeds on Luxury Goods, Gambling A 24-year-old man living in England has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for his role in a ransomware scheme that targeted millions of computers across 20 countries, the U.K.'s National Crime Agency announced Tuesday.
Krebs on Security
APRIL 9, 2019
Microsoft today released fifteen software updates to fix more than 70 unique security vulnerabilities in various flavors of its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least two zero-day bugs. These patches apply to Windows , Internet Explorer (IE) and Edge browsers, Office, Sharepoint and Exchange. Separately, Adobe has issued security updates for Acrobat/Reader and Flash Player.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2019
FireEye Finds Cybercrime Group Is Adding LockerGoga, Ryuk Ransomware to Its Arsenal FIN6, a cybercrime group that has focused on attacking point-of-sale devices to steal credit card numbers, now also is waging ransomware attacks that target businesses with either LockerGoga or Ryuk, according to a new analysis from security firm FireEye.
AIIM
APRIL 9, 2019
This is part 2 of a four-part series based on our new State of the Industry – Content Services market research study. Part 1 -- What exactly is the link between IIM and Digital Transformation? The past few years have created many new challenges for the Information Professionals who are entrusted with managing an organization’s digital assets. Information is cascading down upon every organization in unprecedented volumes and forms, challenging traditional and manual concepts of records management
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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
APRIL 9, 2019
Ondrej Krehel of LIFARS Outlines Fraud Vulnerabilities Cryptocurrency exchanges have been notable targets for fraudsters, says Ondrej Krehel of LIFARS, who describes their vulnerabilities.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2019
Kenneth Citarella of Guidepost Discusses How Connectivity Is Changing Fraud Technology is making fraud faster to commit, but key methods remain unchanged, says Kenneth Citarella of Guidepost, who provides insights on fraud prevention strategies.
DXC Technology
APRIL 9, 2019
Is your enterprise machine ready? If it isn’t, you need to act. Make no mistake, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies – such as machine learning (ML) and robotic processing automation (RPA) – are coming and coming fast. In this article and the two that follow, I will provide some thoughts about the impacts these new technologies […].
IT Governance
APRIL 9, 2019
This blog has been updated to reflect industry updates. Originally published December 2017. With the number of data breaches increasing every year, they are now a huge issue for organisations. 46% of all UK businesses identified at least one cyber breach in the past 12 months and and the International Data Cooperation predicts that a quarter of the world’s population will have been affected by a data breach by 2020.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2019
The free tools will be developed by the Global Cybersecurity Alliance to monitor election infrastructure and processes in the runup to the 2020 Presidential election.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
APRIL 9, 2019
In previous posts in the series, we’ve discussed advantages brought by Auto-Classification projects, and different types of solutions and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms available at OpenText™ to undertake such projects. In this installment, we discuss the preparation phase. Choosing taxonomies Our first step is to think about our taxonomy, i.e. our classification scheme.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 9, 2019
The TajMahal spyware includes more than 80 distinct spy tools, and went undetected for five years.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2019
If the appsec industry were to develop a better AST solution from scratch, what would it look like?
Security Affairs
APRIL 9, 2019
Yahoo is continuously trying to settle a lawsuit on the massive data breach over the period of 2013 to 2016. This time Yahoo could pay $117.5 million for the settlement of 3 billion hacked accounts. As the news was first published by the team of Reuters , “Yahoo has struck a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history”.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
APRIL 9, 2019
A company only survives for 115 years by reinventing itself, questioning assumptions, and constantly looking for an edge. Owens-Illinois (O-I), the world’s largest manufacturer of glass containers, used worldwide by many leading food and beverage brands, recently began just such a reinvention. After decades of growth, spanning 78 plants in 23 countries on 5 continents, O-I is undertaking a data transformation from the ground up by reassessing their data infrastructure, and they came to IBM for h
Threatpost
APRIL 9, 2019
A high-severity flaw in the Verizon Fios Quantum Gateway, used in millions of U.S. homes, could allow for command injection.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2019
Massive criminal marketplace discovered packaging and selling stolen credentials along with victims' online behavior footprints.
Security Affairs
APRIL 9, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team spotted an interesting infection chain leveraging several techniques able to defeat traditional security defences and spread LimeRAT. Introduction. Few days ago, Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team came across an interesting infection chain leveraging several techniques able to defeat traditional security defences and hiding a powerful inner payload able to seriously threaten its victims.
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Hunton Privacy
APRIL 9, 2019
On April 8, 2019, the European Commission High-Level Expert Group (the “HLEG”) on Artificial Intelligence released the final version of its Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines’ release follows a public consultation process in which the HLEG received over 500 comments on its initial draft version. The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP contributed its own comments during this process.
Security Affairs
APRIL 9, 2019
In the last weeks, a new Android surveillance malware dubbed Exodus made the headlines, now expert found the iOS version of the government spyware. Security experts at LookOut have discovered an iOS version of the dreaded surveillance Android app Exodus that was initially found on the official Google Play Store. Exodus for Android is a three-stage malware, the first is a small dropper that collected basic device information (i.e.
Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2019
One of the flaws gives attackers way to gain root access to devices, Tenable says.
Threatpost
APRIL 9, 2019
Flowershop, Equation, Flame and Duqu appear to have a hand in the different phases of Stuxnet development, all working as part of an operation active as early as 2006.
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Dark Reading
APRIL 9, 2019
The April release of security updates patches 74 vulnerabilities, two of which are being exploited in the wild.
Threatpost
APRIL 9, 2019
During its regularly scheduled April security update, Adobe overall issued 43 patches, including ones for 24 critical vulnerabilities in eight of its products.
ForAllSecure
APRIL 9, 2019
Welcome back to the second installment of the ForAllSecure Journey series. In my previous post , we took a look back at ForAllSecure’s history. In today’s piece, I’d like to share not only my vision for the future, but also an exciting announcement. Where it all began. In 1998, I joined Stanford as a computer security officer, a role that is called CISO today.
Security Affairs
APRIL 9, 2019
Adobe Patches 43 Flaws Across Eight Products. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for April 2019 address a total of 43 vulnerabilities affecting the eight products of the company. Adobe’s Patch Tuesday updates for April 2019 address a total of 43 vulnerabilities affecting the Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Dreamweaver, XD, InDesign, Experience Manager Forms, and Bridge CC products. “Adobe has published security bulletins for Adobe Acrobat and Reader ( APSB19-17 ), Adobe Flash
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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.
Micro Focus
APRIL 9, 2019
In my previous blog I assessed how modernization has been reported by the IT analyst community. Now it is time to look at their recommendations for modernization in the context of the Micro Focus view of ‘three central elements’ to the process. According to this IDC white paper and this Forrester report the key focus. View Article.
Threatpost
APRIL 9, 2019
Overall Intel patched four vulnerabilities, including high-severity flaws in its Media SDK and Intel NUC mini PC.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 9, 2019
Security firm FireEye is naming a collection of tools it says might help identify more of the digital saboteurs' intrusions.
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