Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Using Containers, Malicious Documents Will Be Isolated in Office 365 A handful of common lures still have astounding success in compromising computers: phishing emails, malicious links and the king of them all: the malicious Microsoft Office document. But Microsoft is introducing virtualized containers in Office 365, which will isolate untrusted documents.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
From the start, two-factor authentication, or 2FA , established itself as a simple, effective way to verify identities with more certainty. Related: A primer on IoT security risks The big hitch with 2FA, and what it evolved into – multi-factor authentication, or MFA – has always been balancing user convenience and security. That seminal tension still exists today even as the global cybersecurity community is moving to extend MFA as a key security component in much more complex digital systems sp
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Letters From Texas Health Resources Hospitals Mailed to Wrong Recipients A misconfigured billing system that caused a mailing mishap affecting nearly 83,000 individuals has prompted Texas Health Resources to file 15 breach reports to federal regulators - one for each hospital involved.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
As most of us know, IoT devices are on the rise in enterprise networks. According to McKinsey & Company , the proportion of organizations that use IoT products has grown from 13 percent in 2014 to 25 percent today. That pace is unlikely to slow down over the coming years; Pagely noted that organizations are still turning to IoT devices as a way to automate and optimize their business processes as well as save on energy costs.
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
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Moscow Reportedly Seeks Leverage as Counter-Extradition Attempts Keep Failing What's the best way to spring your citizens from foreign jail if they've been detained on U.S. hacking charges? That's a question that continues to plague Russia, including in the ongoing case against Aleksey Burkov, who's been charged with being part of a $20 million payment fraud scheme.
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Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
By year's end, the National Institute of Standards and Technology should be ready to publish the first version of its privacy framework, a tool to help organizations identify, assess, manage and communicate about privacy risk, says NIST's Naomi Lefkovitz, who provides implementation insights.
erwin
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Can the 80/20 Rule Be Reversed? erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. This research showed that the majority of responding organizations weren’t actually prepared for GDPR, nor did they have the understanding, executive support and budget for data governance – although they recognized the importance of it.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Paige Thomson Will Stay in Halfway House Until Her 2020 Trial Alleged Capital One hacker Paige A. Thompson has been released from prison and will stay in a halfway house until her trial in federal court next year. Prosecutors allege that Thompson stole over 100 million records from the bank earlier this year.
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
On 30 October 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ( Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit – “ Berlin DPA ”) imposed an administrative fine of about EUR 14.5 million against Deutsche Wohnen SE for infringements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Facts and legal evaluation by Berlin DPA.
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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.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
On November 5, 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (“the Berlin Commissioner,” Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit ) announced that it had imposed a fine of €14.5 million (approximately $16 million) on Deutsche Wohnen SE, a prominent real estate company. This is the highest fine issued in Germany since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) became applicable.
Data Matters
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect in January. Sidley’s seasoned class action practitioners anticipate the CCPA will drive a proliferation of data- and privacy-driven suits, on multiple fronts. This webinar will explore this emerging area in consumer class action litigation and highlight concrete steps businesses can take to mitigate CCPA-related risks.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough. .
Information Management Resources
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
The University of Rochester Medical Center has been hit with a $3 million settlement fine and a two-year corrective action plan for two technology-related breaches.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Fraudulent tech-support sites are causing the browser to lock up and display a disturbing message. Force quitting is the only way out.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Facebook disclosed a new security incident, the social network giant admitted that app developers may have accessed its group users’ data. Facebook disclosed another security incident, the company revealed that roughly 100 app developers may have improperly accessed users’ data in certain Facebook groups. Let’s understand how it is possible.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
On November 5, 2019, Representatives Anna G. Eshoo (CA) and Zoe Lofgren (CA) introduced the Online Privacy Act (the “Act”), which proposes sweeping legislation that would create federal privacy rights for individuals, require companies to adhere to data minimization and establish a federal Digital Privacy Agency (“DPA”). The Act would provide users with a broad panoply of rights with respect to their personal information, including rights to (1) access, correct, delete and transfer their persona
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
This is a fascinating article about a bait-and-switch Airbnb fraud. The article focuses on one particular group of scammers and how they operate, using the fact that Airbnb as a company doesn't do much to combat fraud on its platform. But I am more interested in how the fraudsters essentially hacked the complex sociotechnical system that is Airbnb. The whole article is worth reading.
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Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Yes, ransomware is plaguing businesses and government organizations, but impersonators inserting themselves into financial workflows - most often via e-mail - continue to enable big paydays.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Another organization in the healthcare industry was a victim of a Ransomware attack, this time the victim is Brooklyn Hospital. A ransomware attack has infected several computer systems at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, the organization permanently lost patient data. The patient records encrypted in the attack include names and certain dental or cardiac images.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
The original Google Pixel didn't make the cut for this month's Android security patches. .
Information Governance Perspectives
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Truth is stranger than fiction… There’s a memorable scene in Back to the Future 3 where Marty receives a Western Union telegraph from Doc almost a century after it was originally mailed, warning him of events to come. Seems an unlikely possibility that any organization would honor such a request to preserve, protect and deliver documents Continue reading.
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Threatpost
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Facebook said that 100+ third-party app developers had access to restricted data for members of Groups, in its latest privacy snafu.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Prioritizing alerts is foundational to security, but almost every organization struggles to manage this process efficiently. Here's what you can do about it.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Web analytics help phishers hone their attacks -- but website defenders can also use these tactics to better detect the scope of attacks and mitigate their effects.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Proactive defense and automation can help your company deal with scale and prioritize risks in order to more efficiently fight cyber espionage.
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Threatpost
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Since Emotet came out of hibernation last month, researchers are seeing the banking trojan's authors take on a consistent trend of new evasion tactics and social engineering techniques.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
The newly formed App Defense Alliance will try to solve a malware problem that has bedeviled the Play Store since inception.
Threatpost
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
A targeted campaign is delivering an information-stealing malware called Predator the Thief.
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