IG Guru

JANUARY 31, 2022

IG leader will integrate Teravine’s governance solution, enabling FileTrail to provide expanded features and capabilities AUSTIN, Texas — January 18, 2022 — FileTrail®, the leader in modern information governance and records management software for law firms and highly regulated industries, announces its acquisition of Teravine, Inc. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, Teravine has specialized in information governance software as a service […].

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 31, 2022

On January 28, 2022, California Attorney General Rob Bonta published a statement regarding recent investigations conducted by the California Office of Attorney General (“AG”) with respect to businesses operating loyalty programs and their compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (“CCPA’s”) financial incentive requirements. As a result of the investigations, the AG’s Office sent non-compliance notices to major corporations across multiple sectors, including retail, food services, tra

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 31, 2022

Many EU government agencies have invested substantially in cloud computing initiatives to boost the adoption of cloud solutions. The rising demand to personalize customer interactions with customer data has driven the demand for SaaS solutions, further enticing enterprises to move to the cloud. The Europe Cloud Computing Market? size exceeded USD 35 billion in 2020 … The post Europe invests in cloud computing, yet compliance is a barrier appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Samba fixes a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44142 , that can allow remote attackers to execute code with root privileges. Samba has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44142 , that can be exploited by remote attackers to gain code execution with root privileges on servers running vulnerable software. Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol that provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients and can integrate with

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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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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 31, 2022

Organizations increasingly use artificial intelligence- (“AI”) driven solutions in their day-to-day business operations. Generally, these AI-driven solutions require the processing of significant amounts of personal data for the AI model’s own training, which often is not the purpose for which the personal data originally was collected. There is a clear tension between such further use of vast amounts of personal data and some of the key data protection principles outlined in EU privacy regulati

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

A critical RCE in the popular WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor impacts hundreds of thousands of websites. Essential Addons for Elementor is a popular WordPress plugin used in over a million sites that provides easy-to-use and creative elements to improve the appearance of the pages. The plugin is affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that impacts version 5.0.4 and older.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

The advent of viable quantum computers will threaten today’s encryption standards, which are the basis of Internet security. Cryptographic agility is the key to post-quantum computing security, although implementing it will be a formidable challenge.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

Threat actors stole $80M worth of cryptocurrency from the Qubit DeFi platform by exploiting a flaw in the smart contract code used in an Ethereum bridge. The DeFi platform Qubit Finance was victim of a cyber heist, threat actors stole around $80 million in cryptocurrency last week. The hack took place at around 5PM ET on the evening of January 27th, the attackers have exploited a flaw in the smart contract code used in an Ethereum bridge.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 31, 2022

The researcher found that he could gain unauthorized camera access via a shared iCloud document that could also "hack every website you've ever visited.".

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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

JANUARY 31, 2022

Apple paid +$100K bounty for a macOS series of flaws that can allow threat actors to take over the microphone and camera. Apple last year addressed multiple macOS vulnerabilities discovered by the security researcher Ryan Pickren in the Safari browser that could allow threat actors to access users’ online accounts, microphone, and webcam. Pickren received a total of $100,500 payouts for these issues as part of Apple’s bug bounty program.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2022

It’s a privilege escalation vulnerability : Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news — a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running most major distributions of the open source operating system. Previously called PolicyKit, Polkit manages system-wide privileges in Unix-like OSes.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

How best to integrate privacy into your organization's security program.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 31, 2022

In my role as Open Source Community Manager for the Call for Code for Racial Justice , I oversee a community of developers, data scientists, designers and general problem-solvers all looking to use technology to fight for racial justice. Just like any role, there are challenges I must deal with on a daily basis, but the one thing that has pleasantly surprised me since I started almost a year ago has been the interest and enthusiasm from people all around the world and from different backgrounds

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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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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

The cybercriminals behind the malware claim to have compromised more than a dozen companies; they have aggressively outed victims and purportedly paid a significant share of ransoms back to affiliates.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

The US CISA added eight more flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog that are known to be used in attacks in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added eight more flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The ‘ Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog ‘ is a list of known vulnerabilities that threat actors have abused in attacks and that are required to be addressed by Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

Letting mental health issues fester may result in burnout and attrition, which affect both the company and the humans it employs.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

We may be a tad late to Data Privacy Day but we are looking ahead: 2022 will be a big year for privacy. See our timeline on our NT Analyzer blog for some of the privacy events on the horizon that are on our radar. Read the NT Analyzer blog.

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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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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

A new study coincides with OMB’s finalization of its zero-trust strategy through 2024.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

The UK government has finally published the UK’s own standard form international data transfer agreement ( UK IDTA ) for transferring personal data outside the UK to countries not deemed to have adequate data protection regimes. It has also published a standard form international data transfer addendum to the revised EU SCCs ( EU SCC UK Conversion Addendum ) which allows use of the revised EU SCCs for export from the UK.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

IT leaders who formed the SSE Forum say the technology offers cloud-forward security for modern workplaces.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 31, 2022

The vulnerability affects all unpatched Windows 10 versions following a messy Microsoft January update.

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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.

Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

It has entered into a patent sale agreement with Catapult IP Innovations.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 31, 2022

Finland is weathering a bout of Pegasus infections, along with a Facebook Messenger phishing scam.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 31, 2022

Analysis of "shaming site" data dumps found sensitive documentation from OT organizations, including oil and gas.

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HID Global

JANUARY 31, 2022

Using 3-D Secure Transaction Signing to Drive Down Card Not Present (CNP) Fraud. cwattles. Mon, 01/31/2022 - 09:52.

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Docuware

JANUARY 31, 2022

How many moving parts does your company have? As many as a luxury wristwatch? When influencing so many central business components, exchanging any part for a new one means ensuring that all of the other parts continue working together just as well as a whole. As far as the luxury wristwatch goes, running “just as well” may be fine, but for organizations implementing office automation solutions , everyday efficiency increases are the aim.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 31, 2022

We all rely on passwords. For better or worse, we will continue to use passwords to access our computing devices and digital services for years to come. Related : The coming of password-less access. Passwords were static to begin with. They have since been modified in two directions: biometrics and dynamic passwords. Here is an overview of the passwords we’re now using – and their respective security limitations: Static passwords.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2022

A hacking campaign, tracked as Eternal Silence, is abusing UPnP to compromise routers and use them to carry out malicious activities. Researchers from Akamai have spotted a malicious campaign, tracked as ‘Eternal Silence,’ that is abusing Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) to turn routers into a proxy server used to carry out a broad range of malicious activities anonymously.

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