Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2020

Cookies like to get around. They have no scruples about where they go save for some basic constraints relating to the origin from which they were set. I mean have a think about it: If a website sets a cookie then you click a link to another page on that same site, will the cookie be automatically sent with the request? Yes. What if an attacker sends you a link to that same website in a malicious email and you click that link, will the cookie be sent?

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erwin

JANUARY 3, 2020

Understanding the data governance trends for the year ahead will give business leaders and data professionals a competitive edge … Happy New Year! Regulatory compliance and data breaches have driven the data governance narrative during the past few years. While these will remain big data governance trends for 2020, we anticipate organizations will finally begin tapping into the true value of data as the foundation of the digital business model.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2020

Audit Finds Agencies Still Have Plenty of Work to Do Certain federal agencies, especially units within the Department of Defense, still have plenty of work to do when it comes to sharing cybersecurity information and threat intelligence among themselves as well as with the private sector, according to a report recently sent to Congress.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 3, 2020

After starting the year strongly, manufacturing left 2019 faced with shrinking production and global uncertainty. Deloitte suggests manufacturers should increase the resilience in their operations while building and improving their ‘digital muscle’. So how will this translate into the major technology trends in manufacturing for 2020? Manufacturers will have to navigate the data tsunami From … The post Predicting the top 7 trends in manufacturing for 2020 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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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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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2020

Homeland Security Reminds CISOs to Protect Critical Systems After an Iranian general was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad late Thursday night, security experts and the Department of Homeland Security warned of possible retaliatory cyber strikes from Iran that could target critical infrastructure, government agencies as well as private businesses.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2020

Data on 29,000 Patients Potentially Exposed A breach stemming from malware infecting a medical imaging server at a small, rural New Mexico hospital serves as a reminder of medical equipment data security and privacy vulnerabilities and risks faced by facilities of all sizes.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2020

Days before Christmas, employees found out that The Heritage Company had been hit by a ransomware attack and was "temporarily suspending operations.".

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2020

Cybercriminals Turn to Steganography, WebSocket Connections E-commerce sites have been under siege from cybercriminals who seek to sneak malicious code into checkout processes. A researcher has now found two new methods that payment card number thieves are using to try to stay under the radar.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2020

Cisco has released software updates for its Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product to address several critical and high-severity issues. Cisco has released software updates that address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in it s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product. All the vulnerabilities were reported to Cisco through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and Accenture’s iDefense service by the security researcher Steven Seeley of Source Incite and Harrison Neal fro

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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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JANUARY 3, 2020

Southwire Also Obtains Irish Court Injunction, Forcing Blackmail Site Offline The Maze gang crypto-locked Georgia cable and wire manufacturer Southwire's systems and publicly dumped stolen data to try to force it to pay a ransom. In response, Southwire has sued its attackers and obtained a court order in Ireland that knocks the gang's "name and shame" site offline.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2020

Experts disclosed PoC exploits for remote command execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities affecting many D-Link routers. Security researchers Miguel Méndez Zúñiga and Pablo Pollanco from Telefónica Chile recently published Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for remote command execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities affecting many D-Link routers.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2020

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses countering the threat of nation-state cyberattacks in 2020. Also featured: an update on France's experiment with facial recognition technology and sorting out what "zero trust" really means.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Travelex currency exchange has been forced offline following a malware attack launched on New Year’s Eve. . This week, the UK-based currency exchange Travelex announced that it has shut down its services as a “precautionary measure” following a malware attack. Statement on IT issues affecting Travelex Services pic.twitter.com/rpKagJLykn — Travelex UK (@TravelexUK) January 2, 2020.

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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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Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2020

The foreign-currency-exchange giant said that it has been hit by a virus, affecting retail customers and banking partners alike.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2020

I couldn't get 2 days into the new decade without without having to deal with ridiculous password criteria from Tik Tok followed by my phone automatically associating with what it thought was my washing machine whilst in a grocery store on the other side of the world (yep, you read that correctly). It somehow seems to just be reflective of how crazy online security is becoming in the modern era.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 3, 2020

From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal.

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The Schedule

JANUARY 3, 2020

This testimonial about the intersections of archives and records management comes from Lori Eaton, Archivist at Found Archives, LLC. At a meeting of foundation archivists in June 2019, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, spoke about the value he found in the margin notes past presidents had made on letters, reports, board materials and other documents preserved in the foundation’s archives.

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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.

Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2020

Cisco patched three authentication bypass bugs tied to its DCNM platform used to manages NX-OS.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 3, 2020

Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2020

Gas stations will become liable for card-skimming at their pay-at-the-pump mechanisms starting in October.

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 3, 2020

Brexit, climate change, an economic slowdown and technology are among the factors that could have the greatest impact on jobs in the 2020s, a new study says.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 3, 2020

While most cloud vendors forecast continued adoption and growth, some customers are taking a harder look at the cloud services they're using

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Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2020

The issue came to light after a Reddit user claimed being able to see strangers on his Xiaomi Mijia smart camera.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 3, 2020

The recent proposal by Germany, backed by France, to fuse the infrastructures of Europe's cloud providers could challenge every data center storing a European's data.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 3, 2020

The app says it didn’t receive any requests for user information from China during the first half of 2019. That might not reassure skeptics.

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 3, 2020

California’s new law gives people the right to learn what personal data companies have collected and for them to request those companies refrain from selling that information.

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IG Guru

JANUARY 3, 2020

The ICRM has announced updates to exam parts and resources for passing the exam. Check out their exam prep page here. The post The ICRM announces updated exams and prep material appeared first on IG GURU.

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 3, 2020

The bank is leaning on its direct API relationships with the major data aggregators rather than letting third parties ask customers for usernames and passwords to access account information.

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