Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “ Hieupc ” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. That is, until his greed and ambition played straight into an elaborate snare set by the U.S. Secret Service. Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer sk

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TAB OnRecord

AUGUST 26, 2020

In this last post of a 3-part series on the role of how metrics can demonstrate the value of RM, we cover three things that every organization should monitor if they are using an Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS). Read this post to find out the importance of measuring your EDRMS System Performance, the Usage of your EDRMS System, and how to take advantage of Busines Intelligence to address any gaps to help you optimize your EDRMS.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2020

FBI authorities arrested a Russian national in the U.S. after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a malware. US authorities arrested the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a piece of malware. The man was arrested on August 22 and appeared in court on August 24.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 26, 2020

Up to 200,000 patient records from Office 365 and Google G Suite exposed by hardcoded credentials and other improper access controls.

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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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DXC Technology

AUGUST 26, 2020

Pulse Series: As part of the 21st Century Series on Australian Healthcare, David Pare, CTO for DXC Healthcare and Life Sciences in Australia and New Zealand, will focus on news, start-ups and developments within the industry — what’s happening, what’s being done to drive innovation, and what’s new or newsworthy. Years of underinvestment in healthcare IT […].

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IT Governance

AUGUST 26, 2020

Security researchers have discovered a publicly accessibly database that contains sensitive information from 235 million users of Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. The Comparitech report claims that the database – which contains a wealth of information, including users’ names and contact information – belongs to Deep Social, an organisation that gathers personal data from social media accounts and sells them to marketers.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2020

Experts discovered a new hacker hacker-for-hire group that is targeting organizations worldwide with malware hidden inside malicious 3Ds Max plugins. Security researchers from Bitdefender discovered a new hacker group that is currently targeting companies across the world with malware hidden inside malicious 3Ds Max plugins. Autodesk 3ds Max , formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

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The Texas Record

AUGUST 26, 2020

FE-Calculator Download. Determining your record’s fiscal year end (FE) date is important for destroying that specific record on schedule. Read TSLAC’s recommendation for keeping a disposition log to understand consequences of destroying a record too early and TSLAC’s thoughts on keeping a record too long. Fiscal year (FY) is a 12-month period office’s use for accounting purposes.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2020

Zoom’s service outage on August 24 caused a ripple effect felt in schools and companies across the world. Students were unable to attend classes via remote learning, meetings were cancelled and for roughly three hours users were wondered if the now-ubiquitous platform had been brought down by hackers. Although the company later released an announcement attributing the outage to an “application-level bug,” it made clear that most of us are not prepared for an interruption to a service we’ve grown

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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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Record Nations

AUGUST 26, 2020

Over the years, there continues to be a shift towards the use of technology and environmentally friendly initiatives. One way that combines the two is using less paper, and this can be done through scanning services. Not only is scanning beneficial to regular documents but large format documents as well. Large format scanning offers many […]. The post The Benefits of Using Digital Large Format Documents appeared first on Record Nations.

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PerezBox

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2007 I joined FaceBook, in 2020 I am leaving Facebook. It’s been a fun run, but the time has come to say goodbye. Why leave Facebook? My reasoning is. Read More. The post Thanks FaceBook, Bye appeared first on PerezBox.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

Humans are susceptible to normalcy bias, which may leave us vulnerable to disinformation that reinforces our beliefs.

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Micro Focus

AUGUST 26, 2020

How do we Measure Post-Sales Support? Micro Focus uses double-blind competitive benchmarking in order to gauge how well we are doing against the competition. This strategy means we can understand how we are performing with a high degree of statistical accuracy using a highly repeatable and scientific method. There are a number of customer lifecycle.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 26, 2020

Threat actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated in launching disinformation campaigns - and staying under the radar to avoid detection from Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

Under the "shared responsibility model," the security management of cloud offerings is split equally between the vendor and the customer. Easy enough, right?

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Threatpost

AUGUST 26, 2020

The popular Autodesk software was exploited in a recent cyberespionage campaign against an international architectural company.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

Slow patching provides vulnerabilities to exploit. A lack of network segmentation allows unrestricted lateral movement. Yet a report surveying a year of penetration tests finds that passwords still top the list of what attackers use to compromise systems.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 26, 2020

IT teams have had to learn to be dynamic as workforces continue to shift strategies while COVID-19 drags on.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

The group, which has been around since at least 2013, has impacted thousands of organizations, mostly in India.

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OpenText Information Management

AUGUST 26, 2020

The introduction of “just-in-time” (JIT) supply chains—where suppliers deliver supplies as needed—freed up working capital and space for many businesses. While this resulted in supply chains getting longer and more complex, especially when combined with outsourcing, off-shoring and out-of-country procurement, it also enabled organizations to realize many efficiencies—especially around costs and capital management.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

Security leaders from Stanford, Ohio State, and the University of Chicago share challenges and response tactics from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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OpenText Information Management

AUGUST 26, 2020

In January 2020, employees around the world were debating business decisions in brick-and-mortar meeting rooms and chatting around water coolers. A few months later, they were working from home, sometimes using personal phones, PCs and other devices to do their work. This rapid shift in working patterns and locations immediately highlighted some deep-rooted security shortcomings … The post How to treat employees like adults if they behave like children appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

The North Korean operatives have attempted to steal more than $2 billion since 2015 in a series of ongoing campaigns.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 26, 2020

Nine bugs were patched, eight of which are rated ‘high’ severity.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

Risk levels are not steady states. Here are six indications that the danger posed by your supply chain is headed in the wrong direction.

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Collibra

AUGUST 26, 2020

This is the second guest blog post in a series of three – you can read the first blog post here. Success as a Chief Data Officer means knowing yourself and your organization, managing change gracefully with authentic leadership, and making an impact right from the start. Join me for my #CDOSummerSchool #DataLiteracy reflection as we pause at the midpoint of our journey.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 26, 2020

The defendant allegedly planned to pay an employee $1 million to infect the company network with malware.

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CILIP

AUGUST 26, 2020

New book provides a complete introduction to the field of knowledge organization. Facet Publishing announce the release of Introduction to Knowledge Organization by Claudio Gnoli. In the rapidly expanding field of knowledge organization (KO), this book provides a complete introduction presenting historical precedents, theoretical foundations and structural principles in a discursive, intelligible form.

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