Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Business Email Compromises Accounted for Nearly Half of Cybercrime Losses Last Year Cybercrime led to $3.5 billion in losses in the U.S. last year, with a sharp uptick in business email compromise scams - which accounted for nearly half those losses, according to a newly released FBI Internet Crime Report, which is based on complaints the FBI received.
erwin
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
When an organization’s data governance and metadata management programs work in harmony, then everything is easier. Data governance is a complex but critical practice. There’s always more data to handle, much of it unstructured; more data sources, like IoT, more points of integration, and more regulatory compliance requirements. Creating and sustaining an enterprise-wide view of and easy access to underlying metadata is also a tall order.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Coronavirus Will Not Alter Plans for Event in San Francisco While public health concerns over the spread of the coronavirus are leading to the cancellation of some international events, the RSA Conference 2020 will proceed as scheduled in San Francisco Feb. 24-28.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Microsoft is recommending administrators to disable the SMBv1 network communication protocol on Exchange servers to prevent malware attacks. Microsoft is urging administrators to disable the SMBv1 protocol on Exchange servers as a countermeasure against malware threats like TrickBot and Emotet. “To make sure that your Exchange organization is better protected against the latest threats (for example Emotet, TrickBot or WannaCry to name a few) we recommend disabling SMBv1 if it’s enabled on
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
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Chinese Firm Denies Allegations That It Can Access Networks As the U.S. ramps up pressure on its allies to ban equipment from Chinese manufacturer Huawei from their 5G networks, U.S. officials now say they have evidence that the firm has created a backdoor that allows it to access mobile phone networks around the world, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Electronic Health Records System Inaccessible Hundreds of pediatric healthcare providers in Massachusetts were still unable to access their electronic health record systems Thursday after a malware attack earlier this week on a large physician network affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital. What can others learn from the incident?
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Huawei can secretly tap into communications through the networking equipment, states a U.S. official , while White House urge allies to ban the Chinese giant. This week The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials say Huawei can covertly access telecom networks where its equipment is installed. “U.S. officials say Huawei Technologies Co. can covertly access mobile-phone networks around the world through “back doors” designed for use by law enforcement, as Washington tries to persua
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
County Officials Reveal Details of the Attack Election officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, revealed this week that its voter registration system was hit by ransomware in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
A new Data Protection Agency would overhaul federal regulation efforts around data privacy - but experts are skeptical that the U.S. government can get it right.
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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.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Researcher Says Exposed Granicus Database Could Have Made Websites Vulnerable One of the largest IT services providers for U.S. federal and local government agencies left a massive production database exposed to the internet, potentially allowing attackers to rewrite content on websites or plant malware, according to a security researcher.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Security pros need be on high alert from now until Tax Day on April 15. Here are seven ways to help keep your company safe.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The e-learning industry is increasingly influenced by the concept of ‘gamification’. This is the application of competitive gaming in a learning environment. Thanks to our GDPR Challenge E-learning Game , you can now reap the benefits of gamification when training your staff on their data protection obligations. The idea behind the game is to make lessons more engaging than standard e-learning.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
What happens when understaffed security teams at home and abroad are sequestered in physical quarantine zones?
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
New research from MIT shows that the Voatz app appears to have some glaring security holes.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Researchers are urging users of the GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress plugin to update as soon as possible.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Similar to how an individual would not go to the dentist only once their teeth began falling out, an organization should not wait until a breach to get serious about cybersecurity.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The tech giant acknowledged some achievements in efforts to bolster mobile app security but recognized more needs to be done.
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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.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
This week I'm at Microsoft Ignite "The Tour" in Sydney with Lars Klint. I've spent most of the last couple of days doing the "hallway track" (basically just wandering around and saying "hi" to people) and doing a bunch of meetings with folks here on cyber things. I didn't mention it in the video, but there was also the Azure User Group Wednesday night and a panel here at Ignite last night so definitely keeping busy.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Developers of the popular WordPress GDPR Cookie Consent plugin have addressed a critical bug that could potentially impact 700K users. Critical vulnerabilities in the WordPress GDPR Cookie Consent plugin could be exploited by potential attackers to delete and change the content of the sites and inject malicious JavaScript code due to improper access controls.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
As we gear up for the voting season, let's put aside any links between foreign interference and voting machine security and focus on the actual risks threatening election security.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Google Play Protect now scans over 100 billion applications on Android devices every day, these amazing figures were disclosed by Google. In May 2017, Google introduced a security defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google aims at monitoring the behavior of the apps and the detection of the malicious ones once they have been installed on Android devices.
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If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The United States is one of the few democracies without some formal data protection agency, and we need one. Senator Gillibrand just proposed creating one.
Data Matters
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
On January 14, 2020, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, proposed a consultation on its draft recommendations on practical ways to collect website user consent for cookies and similar technologies (the “Recommendations”). The Recommendations follow the publication in July 2019 of updated guidance on cookies, including requirements for obtaining GDPR-standard consent, by various European data protection authorities, including the CNIL and the ICO (the latter guidance was reported by D
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
A recent phishing scam targeted Puerto Rico’s Industrial Development Company.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for security, but a robust plan and the implementation of new technologies will help you and your IT team sleep better.
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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.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
With data analytics playing such a huge role in the success of businesses today, strong data governance has become more vital than ever.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Strasbourg decision in Fergus Gaughran’s case is problem for police data storage UK police who indefinitely retained in their records the DNA profile of a man convicted of drink-driving breached his human rights, Strasbourg judges have ruled. The ruling by the European court of human rights (ECHR) over Fergus Gaughran’s claim presents a significant challenge for police data storage practices in the UK.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Artificial intelligence today is effective for specific, well-defined tasks, but it struggles with ambiguity which can lead to subpar or even disastrous results.
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