OpenText Information Management

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In?part 1, we discussed how British Telecom was phasing out the PSTN and ISDN networks that many businesses depend on, not by 2025, but with rolling deadlines across the country. While the simplest replacement for fax machines is a digital fax solution, this blog describes how you can take things further. Secure File Exchange If … The post Secure communications in a post-PSTN world appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Companies victimized by ransomware and firms that facilitate negotiations with ransomware extortionists could face steep fines from the U.S. federal government if the crooks who profit from the attack are already under economic sanctions, the Treasury Department warned today. Image: Shutterstock. In its advisory (PDF), the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said “companies that facilitate ransomware payments to cyber actors on behalf of victims, including financial in

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Tips for How Not to Become the Next Ransomware Victim As Universal Health Services continues to recover from an apparent ransomware incident last weekend that affected system access for hundreds of its facilities, security experts say others can learn important lessons from the company's experience.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Organizations today have an overwhelming amount of data to manage. AIIM members tell us that they expect the amount of information coming into their organizations to grow by as much as 4.5 times in the next coming months.and this will include everything from scanned images, to audio and video files, and everything in-between. At times it may seem like managing these overflowing buckets is a losing proposition.

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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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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Researchers Describe How the Scheme Works A recently uncovered business email compromise scam that's targeting executives' Microsoft Office 365 accounts has hit over 150 organizations worldwide so far and netted the scammers about $15 million, according to incident response firm Mitiga.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Software Company Offers More Information on Data Exposed in Ransomware Attack Blackbaud, a provider of cloud-based marketing, fundraising and customer relationship management software, now acknowledges that a ransomware attack in May could have exposed much more PII - including banking details - than the company initially believed, according to an SEC filing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

K-Electric, Pakistan’s largest private power company, did not pay the ransom and the Netwalker ransomware operators have leaked the stolen data. In early September, K-Electric (KE), the electricity provider for the city of Karachi, Pakistan, was hit by a Netwalker ransomware attack that blocked billing and online services. K-Electric is the largest power supplier in the country with 2.5 million customers and around 10,000 people.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Such Attacks Could Disrupt Access to Voting Information The FBI and CISA are warning that hackers may attempt to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks on U.S. election infrastructure in November, but such attacks would have limited impact.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election. The company confirmed that it discovered the activity of the accounts following an alert from the FBI.

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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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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Symantec: Palmerworm Targeting Victims in US and Asia Palmerworm, an advanced persistent threat group that's been active since 2013, is waging a cyber espionage campaign using customized malware that's targeting organizations in the U.S. and Asia, according to researchers at Symantec.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2020

From WarGames, to Aaron Swartz, to bug bounties, to Van Buren, here's what cybersecurity researchers should know about the US's primary anti-hacking law before it gets its day in the Supreme Court.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Researchers can detect deep fakes because they don’t convincingly mimic human blood circulation in the face: In particular, video of a person’s face contains subtle shifts in color that result from pulses in blood circulation. You might imagine that these changes would be too minute to detect merely from a video, but viewing videos that have been enhanced to exaggerate these color shifts will quickly disabuse you of that notion.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 1, 2020

New clues indicate that APT28 may be behind a mysterious intrusion that US officials disclosed last week.

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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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Experts found critical security flaws in two popular industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes. Security researchers from Israeli firm OTORIO found critical vulnerabilities in leading industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by attackers to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper with data, and even steal sensitive business secrets.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Hundreds of small and medium-sized organisations in the healthcare sector are set to receive government funding to boost their cyber security practices. The decision, which was announced by Digital Infrastructure Minister Matt Warman during London Tech Week, will help healthcare providers, which are particularly vulnerable to data breaches and cyber attacks.

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Ascent Innovations

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Importing custom data in D365 Data Entities. Every organization has custom data that is specific to their operations/process. Most organizations see tremendous value in bringing over that data to work with your enterprise software system either interactively for transactions or use for reports/dashboards. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations has provided a Data Management Framework (DMF), that allows for the D365 system to be that one fully-integrated & all-encompassing system.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 1, 2020

What to watch out for, and how to protect yourself from malicious versions of these mobile shortcuts.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2020

With twice as much malware now targeting Macs, IT pros need to scramble to adapt to a large, and likely permanent, work-from-home population, experts say.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In addition to Windows and Linux machines, a new variant of the malware now targets Mac and Android devices.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2020

October is cybersecurity awareness month, and securing employees and your data against emerging threats is a good place to start.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Mining malware ebbs and flows with the price of cryptocurrencies, and given the momentum on price is upward, cryptojacking is a very present threat.

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Jamf

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Oh the stories this Jamf Nation User Conference could tell. Want to hear them? Enjoy a recap and catch up on anything you missed.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A researcher reverse engineered an internet-connected coffee maker to see what kinds of hacks he could do with it. The answer: quite a lot.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2020

An executive from Singapore's Cyber Security Agency examines the role of security in a nation increasingly dependent on technology.

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Jamf

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Craig Melissare and Ryan Egan with Second Life Mac walked JNUC participants through five lessons IT directors and asset managers can take away from this unprecedented year to strengthen their technology environments.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To protect your organization from all emerging file-borne threats, the security and leadership teams must align to develop a streamlined approach to file security.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On September 25, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Division of Trading and Markets issued its first no-action letter (Letter) to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA), 1 related to digital asset securities. Based on the Letter, the SEC staff (Staff) would not recommend enforcement action pursuant to SEC Rule 15c3-3 (the Customer Protection Rule) under the U.S.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 1, 2020

White-hat hackers will receive $10,000 for each security bug they discover plus a base fee, under this invitation-only initiative.

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