Dark Reading

DECEMBER 24, 2019

What does identity management have to do with Charles Dickens' classic 'A Christmas Carol'? A lot more than you think.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 24, 2019

When is data "public"? And what does "public" even mean? Does it mean it's merely visible to the public? Or does it mean the public can do anything they like with it? This discussion comes up time and time again as it did with the huge leak of PDL data only last month. For the most part, the impacted data in this incident came from LinkedIn, a service where by design we (including myself) publish personal information about ourselves for public consumption.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Cyber-disclosure statements noting how long a company can go without a breach can help customers understand the reality of cyber-incidents and their exposure to loss.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 24, 2019

UAE Government Allegedly Built App to Spy on Citizens; Rival Offerings Banned Apple and Google have stopped distributing a popular messaging app marketed to English and Arabic speakers called ToTok. The New York Times has reported that U.S. intelligence agencies believe ToTok was developed by the United Arab Emirates government to spy on its citizens.

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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Do you want to earn your seat at the table for your organization’s important strategic discussions? Maybe you’re going for that next promotion and looking to round out your skillset. You might even just want to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to be among the industry’s elite. There are a multitude of reasons why you may be interested in the Certified Information Professional certification.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Russia successfully disconnected from the internet. Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. The Russian Government has announced on Monday that it has successfully concluded the test on its RuNet intranet and the complete disconnection of the country from the Internet. “The results of the exercises showed that, in general, both authorities and telecom operators are read

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Doorstep Dispensaree has been fined £275,000 for failing to comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , making it the first organisation in the UK to be penalised for breaching its requirements. The London-based pharmacy, which supplies medicines to thousands of care homes, left about 500,000 documents containing personal data in unlocked containers in the back of its premises.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Maze ransomware operators have released 2GB of files that were allegedly stolen from the City of Pensacola during the recent attack. On December 7, 2019, the city of Pensacola has been hit by a ransomware attack, the city was forced to disconnect most of its systems following the attack that impacted emails, telephone lines, and online payment services.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Convenience store and gas station chain Wawa informed customers of a data breach that compromised payment card information at most of its 842 locations. In an announcement released December 19, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens. stated that the company’s information security team had discovered malware on their payment processing servers about a week earlier.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

A popular mobile app in the Middle East called ToTok has been removed from both Apple and Google’s online stores because it was a spy tool. According to a report published by the New York Times, the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. It has been removed from both Apple and Google online stores because authorities were using it to spy on its users, to track the conversations and movements. “Apple told AFP that ToTok was removed from its App Store

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PerezBox

DECEMBER 24, 2019

On December 18th, DeepInstinct put out a great article outlining the latest Legion Loader campaign. Whether a parent, or organization, this served as a great example to demonstrate the effectiveness. Read More. The post Mitigating Web Threats with CleanBrowsing DNS appeared first on PerezBox.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The FBI has issued a warning to the private industry of cyber attacks involving the LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware. The FBI is warning the private industry of cyber attacks involving the LockerGoga and MegaCortex Ransomware. “In an FBI Flash Alert marked as TLP : Amber and seen by BleepingComputer , the FBI is warning the private industry regarding the two ransomware infections and how they attack a network.” reported BleepingComputer. “Since January 2019, LockerGoga rans

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Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 24, 2019

One thing is clear: it will take strong leadership and significant expertise to navigate what looks certain to be an interpretative minefield.

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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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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The smartphone messaging app ToTok is actually an Emirati spying tool : But the service, ToTok, is actually a spying tool, according to American officials familiar with a classified intelligence assessment and a New York Times investigation into the app and its developers. It is used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to try to track every conversation, movement, relationship, appointment, sound and image of those who install it on their phones.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 24, 2019

2019 was another banner year for bots, trojans, RATS and ransomware. Let’s take a look back.

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Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Nearly three quarters of developers worry about the security of their applications and 85 percent rank security as very important in the coding and development process, a new study finds.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 24, 2019

As organizations fear the proliferations of connected devices on enterprise networks, the private and public sector come together to address IoT vulnerabilities.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The Resistance is outmanned and outgunned, but their adaptability wins the day.

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IG Guru

DECEMBER 24, 2019

By Jory Heckman | @jheckmanWFEDDecember 5, 2019 7:03 pm 3 min read Check out the article here where NARA’s Arian Ravabakhsh discusses bold goals and streamlining processes. The post NARA to shed more light on paper records phase-out through updated guidance via Federal News Network appeared first on IG GURU.

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Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In 2020, enterprises will evolve in how they approach their data maturity and strategize their cloud investments.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Tom Kellermann, former cybersecurity adviser to the Obama administration, doesn't mince words when he describes the nation-state threat to the U.S. as the "axis of evil in cyberspace." Nor does hold back about the threat from destructive attacks, 5G deployment and other trends to watch in 2020.

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