Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Fraud investigators say they’ve uncovered a sophisticated new breed of credit card skimmers being installed at gas pumps that is capable of relaying stolen card data via mobile text message, thereby enabling fraudsters to collect it from anywhere in the world. One interesting component of this criminal innovation is a small cellphone and Bluetooth-enabled device hidden inside the contactless payment terminal of the pump, which appears to act as a Bluetooth hub that wirelessly gathers card

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Faulty Decryptor Often Shreds Victims' Data, McAfee and Coveware Warn A rush by some media outlets to attribute a late-2018 alleged Ryuk ransomware infection at Tribune Publishing to North Korean attackers appears to have been erroneous, as many security experts warned at the time. Rather, multiple cybercrime gangs appear to be using Ryuk, say researchers at McAfee and Coveware.

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Weissman's World

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Our very own Kevin Parker has written another stellar piece on the importance of information architecture to information governance. You can read it in ARMA’s Information Management Magazine – and if you want to learn more, register for Kevin’s ARMA iMasters Webinar on February 27. He IS a busy boy! The post Why Information Architecture is VITAL to Information Governance appeared first on Holly Group.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Facebook Promises Quick Patch for Face ID and Touch ID Bypassing Problem Facebook says it will soon issue a patch for a bug in its WhatsApp messenger application that can circumvent a security feature launched just last month for Apple devices. The flaw could let someone with physical access to a device bypass Face ID and Touch ID.

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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.

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AIIM

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

There are some important sessions planned for AIIM19 this year. Topics range from artificial intelligence to business process automation and data analytics and beyond. But none will be more informative than a session planned by David Jacopille from Massachusetts Financial Services titled “Bot Bootcamp: How to Manage Your Artificial Employees.” I spoke recently with David and asked him to give us a preview of what to expect.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Security experts at BitDefender have released a new version of the GandCrab decryptor able to decrypt versions of GandCrab 1, 4 and 5. Security experts at BitDefender have released a new version of the GandCrab decryptor that could be used to decrypt versions of GandCrab 1, 4 and 5, including the latest version 5.1. The GandCrab decryptor is available for free from BitDefender and from the NoMoreRansom project.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Organizations are taking a new approach to optimizing their security stack by ensuring their systems focus on processing the traffic they are designed to see Explore the realm of stateless technology and the Internet edge, with best practices, lessons learned, and key deployment strategies

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The constant stresses from advanced malware to zero-day vulnerabilities can easily turn into employee overload with potentially dangerous consequences. Here's how to turn down the pressure.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Security experts at Check Point have disclosed technical details of a critical vulnerability in the popular file compression software WinRAR. Experts at Check Point discovered the logical bug in WinRAR by using the WinAFL fuzzer and found a way to exploit it to gain full control over a target computer. Over 500 million users worldwide use the popular software and are potentially affected by the flaw that affects all versions of released in the last 19 years.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Party claims MP contacted its supporters after quitting for the Independence Group Labour has reported its former MP Joan Ryan to the Information Commissioner’s Office alleging she accessed party systems to contact members after resigning from the party on Tuesday to join the breakaway Independence Group. It is understood the party has informed the information commissioner about the alleged breach and that it intends to submit a full report.

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DXC Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Quantum computing is the next holy grail of computer science and engineering, promising to change everyday life for the better. Today’s smartphones have the same computing power as a military computer 50 years ago that was the size of an entire room. Yet despite the phenomenal strides we have made in technology and computing, there […].

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Cisco released security patches that address more than a dozen issues in its products, including high severity flaws in HyperFlex, Prime Infrastructure, and Prime Collaboration Assurance. Cisco released security patches that address more than a dozen issues in its products, including high severity vulnerabilities affecting HyperFlex, Prime Infrastructure, and Prime Collaboration Assurance.

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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.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

At IBM's recent Think 2019, enterprises embarking upon their AI journey were squarely focused on sessions and labs focused on how to get data ready for successful AI deployments. We sent our newest, freshest team member Thomas LaMonte loose at Think during his second week at IBM to get his first impressions.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Windows servers running Internet Information Services (IIS) are vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks carried out through malicious HTTP/2 requests. Microsoft revealed that Windows servers running Internet Information Services (IIS) are vulnerable to denial-of-service ( DoS ) attacks. Attackers can trigger a DoS condition by sending specially crafted HTTP/2 requests, the CPU usage will temporarily spike to 100% forcing the IIS into killing the malicious connections. “Microsoft is a

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The police are increasingly getting search warrants for information about all cellphones in a certain location at a certain time: Police departments across the country have been knocking at Google's door for at least the last two years with warrants to tap into the company's extensive stores of cellphone location data. Known as "reverse location search warrants," these legal mandates allow law enforcement to sweep up the coordinates and movements of every cellphone in a broad area.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Security expert found a “highly critical” vulnerability (CVE-2019-6340) in the popular Drupal CMS that could be exploited for remote code execution. Drupal released security updates that addresses a “highly critical” vulnerability in the popular Drupal CMS, tracked as CVE-2019-6340, that could be exploited for remote code execution. The CVE-2019-6340 flaw is caused by the lack of proper data sanitization in some field types, an attacker could exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary PHP code. ̶

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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.

Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

SOC security analysts shoulder the largest cybersecurity burden. Automation is the way to circumvent the unavoidable human factor. Third in a six-part series.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Adobe released a second patch to address the CVE 2019-7089 flaw in Adobe Reader after an expert found the way to bypass the first fix. Adobe on Thursday released a second patch to address a critical information disclosure vulnerability in Adobe reader, tracked as CVE 2019-7089 , after the expert who initially discovered the flaw devised a method to bypass the first fix.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 21 February 2019. Here are this week’s stories.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With the demand for creative content to support an ever-increasing volume of campaigns and programs on the rise, marketers turn to digital asset management (DAM) solutions to address their creative challenges. A DAM platform like OpenText™ Media Management helps marketers organize and store large volumes of digital media content. But to solve both halves of … The post How to beat the creative content crunch appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Quest Software

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Level up your backup and recovery strategy including your hybrid data center. See how NetVault Backup provides advanced, cloud-ready data protection.( read more ).

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Users of the popular file-compression tool are urged to immediately update after a serious code-execution flaw was found in WinRAR.

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erwin

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Much like the hospitality industry , digital transformation in retail has been a huge driver of change. One important fact is getting lost among all of the talk of “the retail apocalypse” and myriad stories about increasingly empty shopping malls: there’s a lot of money to be made in retail. In fact, the retail market was expected to grow by more than 3 percent in 2018 , unemployment is low, and wages are at least stable.

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Jamf

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

If you aren't already leveraging the largest Apple IT community on the planet, this systems engineer wants to fill you in on what you're missing.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It's like polymorphic behavior - only the changes are in the email lures themselves, with randomized changes to headers, subject lines, and body content.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

At the Think 2019 conference, IBM hosted a plethora of data-management-focused sessions with several announcements that will undoubtedly impact the data management strategy of many businesses.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Extortion scams capitalize on compromised credentials, sensitive data, and technical vulnerabilities on Internet-facing applications to pressure victims to pay up.

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