Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2020
Operation Night Fury Targets JavaScript Skimming Gangs Hitting E-Commerce Sites Police in Indonesia have arrested three suspected members of an e-commerce hacking crew that employed JavaScript sniffing code to steal customer and payment card data, as part of Interpol's ongoing anti-skimming operation, codenamed "Night Fury," targeting hackers in southeast Asia.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2020
The vendor Fortinet has finally released security patches to remove the hardcoded SSH keys in Fortinet SIEM appliances. Fortinet has finally released security updates to remove the hardcoded SSH keys in Fortinet SIEM appliances. Recently Andrew Klaus, a security specialist from Cybera, discovered a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can be used by attackers to the FortiSIEM Supervisor. .
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2020
Some Are Not Giving Customers Option to Opt out of Data Sale, Legal Experts Say Many companies that should be offering customers the ability to "opt out" of the sale of their information under the California Consumer Privacy Act are failing to do so because of the law's ambiguities, some legal experts say. CCPA went into effect Jan. 1, but it won't be enforced until July.
Adam Levin
JANUARY 27, 2020
A subsidiary of Avast antivirus is selling sensitive user browsing data to many companies, including Revlon, Microsoft, Google, Yelp, Condé Nast, and TripAdvisor. According to a recent joint investigation by Vice’s Motherboard and PCMag, highly granular and sensitive user data from users of Avast antivirus is being repackaged and sold to companies via a subsidiary called Jumpshot which promises buyers of the data information on “Every search.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2020
Newspaper Continues Recovery Effort After Refusing to Pay Ransom The Tampa Bay Times is the latest U.S. news organization hit with the Ryuk ransomware strain. The publication's parent company refused to pay the ransom and is continuing a recovery effort.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2020
Researchers Suspect Konni APT Group Involved A spear-phishing campaign targeted a U.S. government agency for several months last year using emails with content about North Korea geopolitics as a lure, according to an analysis from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 27, 2020
In not the too distant past, companies carried out business the old fashion way, where paper was the norm and customers walked into a brick and mortar buildings to obtain and buy a product or service. Customers had a certain degree of expectations but generally all transactions, customer records, receipts were done on paper. But … The post Industry 4.0 is profoundly impacting the customer experience appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 27, 2020
Phishing Incident Affected Nearly 200,000 A California healthcare provider took nearly seven months to report to regulators a phishing incident that exposed information on 200,000 patients. Security experts are analyzing whether the delay could be justifiable.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 27, 2020
This year : King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology. Once voters have completed their ballots, they must verify their submissions and then submit a signature on the touch screen of their device.
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
JANUARY 27, 2020
Dave DeWalt, former CEO of FireEye and McAfee, has been appointed vice chair of the board of Onapsis, a vendor focused on securing business-critical applications. In this exclusive interview, DeWalt opens up on application vulnerabilities, the evolution of the nation-state threat and technologies to watch in 2020.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2020
Mozilla is intensifying the efforts to protect its users, in the last couple of weeks, the security staff has banned 200 malicious Firefox add-ons. Over the past two weeks, Mozilla has reviewed and banned 197 Firefox add-ons because they were executing malicious code. The malicious Firefox add-ons were found stealing user data and for this reason, they were removed from the Mozilla Add-on (AMO) portal.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2020
Privacy-mature companies complete sales more quickly, have fewer and less serious breaches, and recover from incidents faster, according to Cisco's annual survey.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2020
A German p rivacy watchdog is investigating into clothing retailer H&M because it was allegedly spying on its customer service representatives in Germany. Hamburg’s data protection commissioner has launched an investigation into Swedish clothing retailer H&M ( Hennes & Mauritz) amid evidence that the company was spying on its customer service representatives in Germany.
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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 Matters
JANUARY 27, 2020
On January 22, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that there is not a general presumption of confidentiality over documents containing clinical and preclinical data provided to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to support a marketing authorization application. However, the CJEU indicated that certain information may be protected if the interested party can specifically show that the disclosure will cause it harm.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2020
More details emerged from the recently disclosed Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of e-commerce. Operators of the JavaScript-sniffer family, dubbed «GetBilling» by Group-IB, were arrested in Indonesia. The arrest came as a result of a joint operation « Night Fury » initiated by INTERPOL’s ASEAN Cyber Capability Desk (ASEAN Desk) that involved Indonesian Cyber Police (BARESKRIM POLRI (Dittipidsiber)) and Group-IB’s APAC Cyber Investigati
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 27, 2020
As we embrace this new decade, many tech companies are tightening data control offerings and supplying more secure options to adhere to increased data privacy laws and mitigate noncompliance.
Threatpost
JANUARY 27, 2020
State senators have issued proposals they say would encourage municipalities to upgrade their cyber-postures.
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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.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 27, 2020
NLP is a field that has been experiencing immense growth together with other data science areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning. Here's what you need to know.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 27, 2020
Malware authors continue to show interest in macOS devices, Kaspersky experts confirmed that the Shlayer malware has been the most common threat to the macOS platform. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab revealed that the Shlayer malware was the most widespread macOS threat in 2019. In February, malware researchers at Carbon Black spotted a new strain of the Shlayer malware that was targeting MacOS versions from 10.10.5 up to 10.14.3.
Threatpost
JANUARY 27, 2020
After discovering a wide pattern of potentially malicious behavior in browser extensions, the two search giants are cracking down.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 27, 2020
Intel's made two attempts to fix the microprocessor vulnerability it was warned about 18 months ago. Third time’s the charm?
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Information Management Resources
JANUARY 27, 2020
Designing far-reaching legislation in the current atmosphere of fear and anger – not to mention during a U.S. election year – is a mistake.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 27, 2020
There's an art to reporting security metrics so that they speak the language of leadership and connect the data from tools to business objectives.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 27, 2020
To enable companies to get the most out of their machine learning, Cloud Pak for Data, IBM’s leading data and AI platform, partners with Datameer to build an end-to-end pipeline that collects, organizes, and analyzes data and helps infuse AI throughout the business.
Threatpost
JANUARY 27, 2020
The new U.K. law mandates that manufacturers apply several security controls to their connected devices.
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Import.IO
JANUARY 27, 2020
If you’re in the world of data analysis or data science, you’ve probably heard of data blending. But what exactly is data blending, and what are the benefits and costs associated with it? Keep reading to dive into the basics of data blending. What is Data Blending? Data blending is. The post What is Data Blending? Learn the Basics appeared first on Import.io.
Threatpost
JANUARY 27, 2020
Researchers wonder if a recent "amateur spam" campaign by the once-prevalant malware distribution botnet is a sign of trojans looking to other infection paths.
CILIP
JANUARY 27, 2020
CILIP celebrates new partnership with African Library and Information Association (AfLIA). Thursday 30th January 2020 ? CILIP, the UK library and information association, has announced a new partnership with the African Library and Information Association (AfLIA) as part of the successful Working Internationally programme, funded by the Arts Council England.
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