Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
After Researchers Release Report, Chipmakers Assert That No New Defenses Are Needed Intel and AMD are disputing the findings of researchers from two universities who say they've discovered new attacks on Intel and AMD processors that can bypass most of the defenses put in place earlier for similar "Spectre" and "Meltdown" attacks.
AIIM
MAY 6, 2021
This post is focused on the following topics. You may click these links to jump to a specific section: What Is Knowledge Management? Tacit Knowledge vs. Explicit Knowledge. Strategies for Making Tacit Knowledge More Explicit. What Is Knowledge Management? According to the late Carl Frappaolo, one of the leading practitioners and analysts in the knowledge management space, “Knowledge Management is the leveraging of collective wisdom to increase responsiveness and innovation.”.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
Alejandro Mayorkas Says Attacks Increased 300% in Past Year About 50% to 70% of all ransomware attacks in the U.S. are targeting small and medium-sized businesses, costing the victims an estimated total of $350 million in the last year, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said Wednesday in a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MAY 6, 2021
Harness the Power of Recurring Business Models. jstewart. Thu, 05/06/2021 - 16:01. The experts call it many things: digital transformation, servitization strategies, and business model diversification. Regardless of the name, the end result is the same: recurring revenues. During the Covid-19 crisis, companies that have successfully invested and executed recurring business models have proven more resilient than those who have not.
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.
Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
Pen Test Partners: Millions Could Have Had Data Exposed Security researchers say API flaws could have exposed the private data of millions of Peloton fitness equipment online service users for months before they were recently patched.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
Qualys Says Vulnerabilities Open the Door to Attacks Exim, one of the most-used message transfer agents, has issued patches for 21 flaws that could put thousands of users at risk of attacks, researchers at security firm Qualys say.
Threatpost
MAY 6, 2021
A large-scale incident earlier this week against Belnet and other ISPs has sent a wave of internet disruption across numerous Belgian government, scientific and educational institutions.
Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
Fermilab Particle Accelerator Has Fixed Exposed Ports, Services The Fermilab physics laboratory in the U.S. has tidied up its systems after security researchers found weaknesses exposing documents, proprietary applications, personal information, project details and credentials. The findings come from the Sakura Samurai security research group.
OpenText Information Management
MAY 6, 2021
For IT, the burden of information management can be heavy—especially across a large enterprise. If you’re facing the challenges of a distributed workforce, never-ending information sprawl, diverse content needs and evolving regulatory requirements, you might be looking to digital transformation for solutions. And you’re not alone. Faced with rising complexity across the ecosystem, 31 percent … The post IT teams want SaaS just as much as business users do appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
Vulnerability Disclosure Program Now Includes IoT Devices, Industrial Control Systems The Defense Department will expand its vulnerability disclosure program in the coming months, inviting ethical hackers to find flaws in a wider array of systems and applications - including IoT and industrial control systems - within the Pentagon's public-facing networks.
Threatpost
MAY 6, 2021
The networking giant has rolled out patches for remote code-execution and command-injection security holes that could give attackers keys to the kingdom.
Data Breach Today
MAY 6, 2021
Proofpoint Sizes Up the Cloud Security Battle Attackers are increasingly using malicious OAuth 2.0 applications to siphon data and access sensitive information from cloud platforms, and mitigating the risks is proving challenging, according to the security firm Proofpoint.
CGI
MAY 6, 2021
Using blockchain to combat counterfeiting in manufacturing. Product authenticity plays a huge role in assuring consumer confidence for B2B and B2C businesses. Whether it’s COVID-19 vaccines, industrial goods, car parts or fair-trade chocolate, today consumers want assurance that the product they’ve purchased is genuine. Correspondingly, for manufacturers and retailers, safeguarding the consumer experience and ensuring safety and trust are key to protecting the brand. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.
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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.
Security Affairs
MAY 6, 2021
A high severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-11292, affects Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem chips used by around 30% of all smartphones worldwide. Researchers from Checkpoint have discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-11292, in the Qualcomm Mobile Station Modem that can be exploited by attackers to trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the smartphone.
IG Guru
MAY 6, 2021
Check out the podcast here. The post Dr. Ann Cavoukian, creator of Privacy by Design, featured in The Strategy of Information podcast appeared first on IG GURU.
Dark Reading
MAY 6, 2021
Attackers used publicly available tools, FiveHands ransomware, and SombRAT to successfully target an organization, officials report.
Threatpost
MAY 6, 2021
The student opted for “free” software packed with a keylogger that grabbed credentials later used by "Totoro" to get into a biomolecular institute. .
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Schneier on Security
MAY 6, 2021
Nice video of a talk by Chris Shore on the history of Colossus.
Adam Shostack
MAY 6, 2021
Apple has released (or I’ve just come across) a document Device and Data Access when Personal Safety is At Risk. Apple makes it easy to connect and share your life with the people closest to you. What you share, and whom you share it with, is up to you — including the decision to make changes to better protect your information or personal safety.
Dark Reading
MAY 6, 2021
More companies moved to cloud-native infrastructure in the past year, and security incidents and malware moved right along with them.
Threatpost
MAY 6, 2021
A malicious app can exploit the issue, which could affect up to 30 percent of Android phones.
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OpenText Information Management
MAY 6, 2021
Many companies today are transitioning from traditional on-premises telephony contact center solutions to cloud telephony solutions—better known as contact center as a service (CCaaS). But why are organizations shifting to CCaaS? And what are some of the benefits gained by migrating to the cloud? There are other questions worth asking too. Are CCaaS capabilities mature … The post CCaaS and speech analytics create a best-in-class contact center offering appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
MAY 6, 2021
The company plans to automatically enroll users in two-step verification if their accounts are properly configured.
OpenText Information Management
MAY 6, 2021
Job opportunity. Offre d’emploi. ??????? Job postings on the Kativik Regional Government (KRG) Facebook page are displayed in three languages: English, French and Inuktitut, the second-most widely spoken Aboriginal language in Canada. There are no roads to connect the 14 villages in the Kativik territory of northern Quebec, encompassing most of the Nunavik region.
Dark Reading
MAY 6, 2021
Internet security, privacy, and authentication aren't new issues, but IoT presents unique security challenges.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Security Affairs
MAY 6, 2021
Chinese military unit PLA Unit 61419 is suspected to be involved in cyber-espionage campaigns against multiple antivirus companies. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group have discovered six procurement documents from official People’s Liberation Army (PLA) military websites and other sources that demonstrate that PLA Unit 61419 has sought to purchase antivirus solutions from several major American, European, and Russian security companies.
Dark Reading
MAY 6, 2021
Organizations should apply principles of least privilege to mitigate threats, security researcher says.
eSecurity Planet
MAY 6, 2021
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are a critical component for robust application security. The best ones find the right balance between performance, security effectiveness, and cost. The primary task for WAFs is to protect specific applications from web-based attacks at the application layer. However, WAFs continue to add advanced features like load balancing, intrusion prevention , threat intelligence , and more, so their role is expanding.
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