IT Governance

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Remote access is the future of business. Despite travel restrictions easing amid the pandemic, employees continue to work from home in their droves. According to a Gartner survey , 47% of organisations are giving their employees the option of working remotely full-time, and 82% said employees can work from home at least one day a week. But as organisations embrace remote working, they must also understand the security risks that come with it.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Application Programming Interface. APIs. Where would we be without them? Related: Supply-chain exposures on the rise. APIs are the snippets of code that interconnect the underlying components of all the digital services we can’t seem to live without. Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come.

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Micro Focus

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Micro Focus’ innovation in the modernization space continues to gather pace. Eddie Houghton, Enterprise Product Director explains the latest developments in mainframe workload modernization with AWS and Micro Focus. The Rich Micro Focus Heritage in Mainframe Modernization Most large enterprises and public institutions run business-critical applications on mainframe environments that execute vast numbers of transactions.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

360 Netlab experts spotted a new botnet dubbed EwDoor that infects unpatched AT&T enterprise network edge devices. Experts from Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab discovered a new botnet, dubbed EwDoor , that targets AT&T customers using EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller (ESBC) edge devices that are publicly exposed to the Internet.

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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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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

While SD-WAN is a key part of a hybrid workplace and multicloud operation, it should be treated as a stepping stone to SASE, not an alternative.

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Outpost24

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

2022 Cybersecurity Predictions. 03.Dec.2021. Florian Barre. Tue, 11/30/2021 - 10:10. Full-Stack Security. Teaser. 2021 was the year businesses continued to adapt to new working patterns, digital transformation and battle the increasing threats from ransomware attacks. Here our panel of security experts share their predictions for the key security challenges and trends to look out for in 2022 ensuring you can beat the hackers at their own game.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With a little patience and research, you can discover a role you love that also protects those around you.

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Welcome to the "How we do it" Video Series. If you are a Clerk, Records Manager or Archivist for City or County Government, our practical “How we do it” videos are for you! We have compiled a series of videos, from users in City and County Government to share how they quickly and easily perform common electronic records preservation and access tasks with Preservica’ s solutions.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Researchers discovered a critical wormable buffer overflow vulnerability that affects 150 different HP multifunction printer models (MFPs). Cybersecurity researchers from F-Secure have discovered two critical vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as Printing Shellz , that impact approximately 150 multifunction printer models. The vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers to take control of vulnerable devices and steal sensitive information, from enterprise networks.

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Rocket Software

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The holiday season is officially here, and for many that means more spending, whether it’s on gifts, food or special events. This increased volume of transactions also makes it the peak time of year for credit card fraud, according to FICO’s VP of fraud and financial crimes. To combat this, payment processors need to take even greater care during the holidays to guard their business and protect their customers’ personal information.

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DXC Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Many companies experience significant challenges with their accounts payable (AP) functions. These tend to be manual, drawn-out and fragmented finance business processes surrounded by legacy technology. They’re not tied to business outcomes and, therefore, lack an end-to-end process flow and metrics to define success. Businesses that fail to reinvent these business processes remain at risk […].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Experts found four Android banking trojans that were available on the official Google Play Store and that infected +300,000 devices. Researchers from ThreatFabric discovered four distinct Android banking trojans that were spread via the official Google Play Store between August and November 2021. According to the experts, the malware infected more than 300,000 devices through multiple dropper apps.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As smart cities become the new normal for urban living, they must be resilient against the speed and sophistication of modern cyber threats.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Opera released a mini patch for a vulnerability in their turbo servers that dates back to 2018. Prior approval are taken from Opera security team before disclosing this issue! Before we get started there are few things which we need to understand such as, Value added service (VAS): Value added services ( VAS ) is a popular telecommunications term for non-core services, example: (Caller-tunes, Missed call alerts, Online gaming etc).

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Links between the tactics and tools demonstrated in attacks suggest a former affiliate has switched loyalties, according to new research.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The side that's better at collaborating with allies will have the upper hand, and until now, that distinction has gone to the cybercriminals.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Millions of texts leading to the Flubot spyware/banking trojan are targeting everyone who uses Androids in the country, in an "exceptional" attack.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Using tricks to sidestep the app store's restrictions, malware operators pillaged passwords, keystrokes, and other data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Identity Proofing: The New Foundation for Every Digital Identity. divya. Tue, 11/30/2021 - 06:01. Know Your Customer (KYC) has become one of the most prevalent terms in the post-pandemic digital identity world. For every enterprise’s digital initiatives, Identity Proofing must become the foundation of KYC whether they are on-boarding new customers, partners or employees.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Decisions in the UK and Australia, and lawsuits in the United States, could force facial-recognition providers to remove data from their machine-learning models.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Cyberattackers had unfettered access to the technology giant's file server for four months.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

More than 150 HP printer models have bugs that could enable attackers to steal data and gain an initial foothold on enterprise networks.

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IG Guru

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You are invited to the Virtual 3rd Annual Official Cyber Security Summit: Houston/San Antonio on December 2nd from 8:00AM – 6:35PM CST. This conference is designed to enlighten Executives & Business Leaders on the latest cyber threats and solutions through educational sessions led by industry experts & demonstrations from innovative cyber security companies.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A sixth member of international hacking group The Community was sentenced to 10 months in prison and ordered to pay $121,549.37 in restitution.

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Threatpost

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The insurer won’t pay for 'acts of cyber-war' or nation-state retaliation attacks. .

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Preservica

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Welcome to the "How we do it" Video Series. If you are a Clerk, Records Manager or Archivist for City or County Government, our practical “How we do it” videos are for you! We have compiled a series of videos, from users in City and County Government to share how they quickly and easily perform common electronic records preservation and access tasks with Preservica’ s solutions.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

CILIP Skills for Leadership: learnings and reflections. Kate Faulkner's account of attending the CILIP Skills for Leadership: Manage, Motivate and Influence event which took place on 28 and 29 October. Thanks to CB Resourcing for funding Kate's bursary. Attending the course on a bursary supplied by CB Resourcing was an excellent opportunity to step back from work for two mornings, think about the bigger picture and to learn from colleagues in other areas of the library sector.

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