Krebs on Security
JANUARY 22, 2020
Apple is rolling out a new update to its iOS operating system that addresses the location privacy issue on iPhone 11 devices that was first detailed here last month. Beta versions of iOS 13.3.1 include a new setting that lets users disable the “Ultra Wideband” feature, a short-range technology that lets iPhone 11 users share files locally with other nearby phones that support this feature.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2020
Revamped Malware Targets Browsers and Email Clients FTCODE, a ransomware strain that has been active since at least 2013, has recently been revamped to include new features, including the ability to steal credentials and passwords from web browsers and email clients, according to two research reports released this week.
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AIIM
JANUARY 22, 2020
If your organization is like just about every other organization on the planet, you likely have some degree of an information management problem. Most likely, you create too much information, and you keep too much of it for too long. This causes enough problems by itself, but when you then add to the pile all the redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) information you have in your systems, on your file shares, and in every other possible location, it’s a real nightmare.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2020
Vodafone CEO Has Warned Huawei Ban Would Delay Britain's 5G Rollout by 2 Years Britain's two largest telecommunications firms - BT and Vodafone - plan to lobby Prime Minister Boris Johnson to not fully ban Huawei hardware from the nation's 5G rollout, warning that doing so could delay their rollouts, the Guardian reports.
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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.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 22, 2020
System supporting libraries in Volusia County were hit by a cyber attack, the incident took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches. 600 staff and public access computers were taken down at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches in Daytona Beach, Florida, following a cyberattack. The attack started around 7 AM on January 9, 2020. “The county’s technology staff were immediately notified and coordinated recovery efforts with library staff,” reads the
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The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 22, 2020
The Australian government has spent $1.97bn since the system was introduced as the e-health record in 2009 A decade since it was first announced, the federal government has spent close to $2bn on its troubled My Health Record system, and half of the 23m records created lie empty almost a year after the government made the system opt-out. The former Labor government first proposed the e-health record system in 2009 as a means for patients, doctors and specialists to share patient history, X-rays,
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2020
Operation Faced a Number of Challenges, Including Data Storage The U.S. Cyber Command's campaign to hack ISIS and disrupt its media operations faced some challenges, including a lack of data storage, but ultimately proved successful, according to government documents from 2016 that were made public Tuesday.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 22, 2020
With the investment in technology and personnel training we are currently seeing, 2020 will be a year of reckoning for digital transformation initiatives in the public sector. Here are the four technology predictions for the public sector in 2020. Governments will look inwards as they approach citizen service modernization Public sector organizations all over the … The post Four technology predictions for public sector in 2020 appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2020
While Saudis Dismiss Report, United Nations Demands Immediate Investigation The mobile phone of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was hacked via a malicious file sent directly from the official WhatsApp account of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, investigators have concluded. While the Saudis deny involvement, the United Nations has called for an immediate investigation.
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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.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 22, 2020
For all the cautions against doing so, one-third of organizations in a Proofpoint survey said they paid their attackers after getting infected with ransomware.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2020
Technology Giant Didn't Want to 'Poke the Bear,' Sources Tell Reuters Apple previously scuttled plans add end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups, Reuters reports, noting that such a move would have complicated law enforcement investigations. But the apparent olive branch hasn't caused the U.S. government to stop vilifying strong encryption and technology giants who provide it.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 22, 2020
It's a list of easy-to-guess passwords for IoT devices on the Internet as recently as last October and November. Useful for anyone putting together a bot network: A hacker has published this week a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers, and IoT (Internet of Things) "smart" devices. The list, which was published on a popular hacking forum, includes each device's IP address, along with a username and password for the Telnet service , a remote access protoco
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2020
In light of rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, the Association of Executives in Healthcare Information Security recently issued new data security guidance to help the healthcare sector prepare for potential nation-state attacks, says CISO Christopher Frenz, one of the document's authors.
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Data Matters
JANUARY 22, 2020
Last year ended with businesses scrambling to be ready for the California Consumer Privacy Act’s January 1 deadline. The CCPA’s entry into force did not, however, resolve implementation complexities or answer myriad questions about how the Act will be interpreted. Moreover, the California Attorney General will finalize regulations during 2020 that are likely to expand compliance obligations and narrow flexibility.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 22, 2020
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WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 22, 2020
A UN report links the attack on Jeff Bezos' iPhone X directly to Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 22, 2020
They're especially relevant regarding several issues we face now, including biometrics, secure data management, and human error with passwords.
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HL Chronicle of Data Protection
JANUARY 22, 2020
On Monday 20 January, the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau (“CMAB”), jointly with the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (“PCPD”), presented a paper outlining topics for review of the PDPO to the members of the Legislative Council Panel on Constitutional Affairs (“PDPO Review Paper”). The CMAB and the PCPD are expected to take panel members’ feedback on the PDPO Review Paper and undertake further in-depth study of the issues with a view to making specific proposals for
Threatpost
JANUARY 22, 2020
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers observed a variant of the wormlike botnet that adds scanner technology to brute-force Web authentication.
Adam Shostack
JANUARY 22, 2020
There’s a fascinating talk by Dan Luu, “ Files are Fraught With Peril. ” The talk itself is fascinating, in a horrifying, nothing works, we’re going to give up and raise goats now sort of way. He starts from the startling decision of Dropbox to drop support for all Linux filesystems except Ext4. This surprising decision stems from the fact that a filesystem is a leaky abstraction, The interaction between performance and reliability means that fsync behaves strangely.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 22, 2020
Recent data protection laws mean that the data protection officer and CISO must work in tandem to make sure users' data is protected.
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Security Affairs
JANUARY 22, 2020
US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016. In 2016, the US Cyber Command carried out successful operations against the online propaganda of the Islamic State (ISIS), this is what emerged from declassified national security top-secret documents released on Tuesday.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 22, 2020
New research finds security operations centers suffer high turnover and yield mediocre results for the investment they require.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 22, 2020
Facebook has come under fire for giving third-parties access to user data, particularly in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 22, 2020
A new report calls for safeguards to reduce the dangers posed by misinformation, online extremism, and social media manipulation.
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Threatpost
JANUARY 22, 2020
More than half of security experts think that the good outweighs the bad when it comes to proof-of-concept exploits, according to a recent Threatpost poll.
Hunton Privacy
JANUARY 22, 2020
On January 21, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published the final version of its Age Appropriate Design Code (“the code”), which sets out the standards that online services need to meet in order to protect children’s privacy. It applies to providers of information services likely to be accessed by children in the UK, including applications, programs, websites, social media platforms, messaging services, games, community environments and connected toys and devices, where t
Threatpost
JANUARY 22, 2020
A newly discovered threat actor named Vivin is raking in Monero from cryptomining malware, showing that this type of attack isn't going away anytime soon.
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