Fri.Nov 29, 2019

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Security Firm Prosegur Hit By Ryuk Ransomware

Data Breach Today

Incident May Have Disrupted Networked Security Cameras Global security company Prosegur has blamed Ryuk ransomware for a service disruption that started Wednesday, which may have hampered networked alarms. Prosegur isn't revealing much detail but says it is in the process of restoring services.

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Great Plains center hit by ransomware attack

Security Affairs

A few days ago the Great Plains center was hit by a ransomware attack that forced its staff to to pen and paper. A few days ago the Great Plains Health medical center was hit by a ransomware attack that forced its staff to switch to pen and paper.A few days ago the Great Plains center was hit by a ransomware attack that forced its staff to to pen and paper.

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Google: Government-Backed Hackers Targeted 12,000 Users

Data Breach Today

Technology Giant Issues Warnings to Targeted Individuals Across 149 Countries Google has directly warned more than 12,000 users across 149 countries that they have been targeted by government-backed hackers. Google says the attack attempts occurred in the third quarter of this year and targeted users of such services as Gmail, Drive and YouTube.

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International law enforcement operation shuts down Imminent Monitor RAT operations

Security Affairs

A successful new operation was announced by Europol, it announced to have dismantled the global organized cybercrime ring behind Imminent Monitor RAT. Europol announced to have dismantled the global organized cybercrime ring behind the Imminent Monitor RAT, The Imminent Monitor RAT is a hacking tool that allows threat actors to remotely control the victim’s computers, it could be used to carry out various malicious actions, including: recording keystrokes, stealing data and passwords from browse

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Health Data Breaches: 3 Lessons Learned

Data Breach Today

Insights From Major Healthcare Sector Breaches and Cyberattacks The healthcare sector has had plenty of significant data breaches so far this year. What can be learned from organizations' experiences? Here are three key lessons.

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The Threat of Ransomware and Doxing

Data Breach Today

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses new combination ransomware and doxing attacks. Plus, Twitter drops phone numbers in 2FA, and why we need to consider quantum cryptography today.

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How to write effective travel and study grant proposals

CILIP

How to write effective travel and study grant proposals. How to write effective grant proposals, and why you should. ILIP?s Working Internationally project is looking at how information professionals from across the globe can learn from each other and share ideas. As part of the project, CILIP is making a number of grants and awards available to individual members to enable them to travel and study.

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Amazon Plans Ring Facial Recognition-Based ‘Watch List’, Report

Threatpost

Amazon's facial recognition would alert Ring users if "suspicious" individuals are near their house.

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What Is a Dead Drop?

WIRED Threat Level

A mainstay of spycraft still has plenty of relevance in the digital age.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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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The Basics of HR Automation for Small Businesses

Docuware

In a small business, the Human Resources (HR) function can be held by a small team or by one person who also has other responsibilities. For example, an HR manager in a small business may also handle training, processing expenses, payroll and other administrative tasks. That’s why automating HR processes is just as crucial in the small business environment as it is in a large enterprise.

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Professor Daniel J. Solove provides a valuable Newletter on Privacy + Security

IG Guru

Professor Solove’s newsletter provides updates about his scholarship, blog posts, conferences, and privacy and data security training materials. The newsletter is emailed once per week. The post Professor Daniel J. Solove provides a valuable Newletter on Privacy + Security appeared first on IG GURU.

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Joyeux Anniversaire! Mario Braggiotti, host of WQXR’s “To France—With Music”

Archives Blogs

It’s the birthday of Mario Braggiotti, the late pianist, composer and host of WQXR’s To France—With Music. The New York Public Radio Archive is celebrating the occasion with a recently acquired broadcast recording of Mr. Braggiotti on WQXR’s The Listening Room. In this appearance, we experience Braggiotti as a beguiling pianist-raconteur, taking WQXR listeners on a musical trip through his fascinating life in 1920s Paris and beyond.

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Group-IB presents its annual report on global threats to stability in cyberspace

Security Affairs

Group-IB, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape in the “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020” report. Group-IB , a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has analyzed key recent changes to the global cyberthreat landscape. According to Group-IB’s experts, the most frustrating trend of 2019 was the use of cyberweapons in military operations.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Like Underwater Drone

Schneier on Security

The Sea Hunting Autonomous Reconnaissance Drone (SHARD) swims like a squid and can explode on command. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here.

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3 Everyday Things in Your Office That Could Lead to a Data Breach

Adam Levin

When you think about cyberthreats , what comes to mind? An extortionist announcing your doom with a dark monitor and a laughing skull? State-sponsored cyber-warriors working from a secure command post? President Trump’s certain, “somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds ?” Chances are good, your version of cyber risk involves one of the above “types” hunched over a keyboard deploying massively sophisticated malware on the networks of unsuspecting bus

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General Election 2019 ? Manifesto Special

CILIP

General Election 2019 ? Manifesto Special. Access to quality library services is one of the most transformative investments our society could make. Which is why we?ve been working with Bobby Seagull to launch our ?Manifesto for Libraries? calling on the Government to ?recognise the opportunity to transform lives across the UK by investing in the future of our libraries.?

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2019 – 1.34 billion records breached

IT Governance

It was a big month for data breaches this month, with a confirmed 1,341,147,383 records being exposed in 87 incidents. However, almost all of those came from one leaked database , the origin of which is unclear. Here is a full list of data breaches in November – as always, those affecting the UK are listed in bold. Cyber attacks. Peer-to-peer lender company LendingCrowd reports security incident (unknown).

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“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.