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Unsecured Database Exposed Data on Millions

Data Breach Today

vpnMentor: Server Belonging to OneMoreLead Is Now Secured Researchers at vpnMentor say that B2B marketing company OneMoreLead exposed the data of up to 126 million Americans on a misconfigured Elasticsearch server.

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Black Hat insights: WAFs are getting much more dynamic making them well-suited to protect SMBs

The Last Watchdog

A cornucopia of cybersecurity solutions went on public display today as Black Hat USA 2021 convened once more as a live event in Las Vegas. Related: Kaseya hack raises more supply chain worries. For small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) cutting through the marketing hype can be daunting. That said, there is one venerable technology – web application firewalls ( WAFs) – that is emerging as a perfect fit for SMBs in today’s environment, as all companies shift to a deeper reliance on cloud service

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UF Health Central Florida: Cyberattack Leads to PHI Breach

Data Breach Today

Incident Bears Similarities to Recent Attack at Scripps Health In the wake of a recent cyberattack on UF Health Central Florida that disrupted access to patients' electronic health records for about a month during recovery, the entity is now reporting the incident also exposed patient information.

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Advanced Technology Ventures discloses ransomware attack and data breach

Security Affairs

The American venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) disclosed a ransomware attack, crooks also stole data of some private investors. Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) is an American venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in capital under management. The venture capital firm this week disclosed a ransomware attack, threat actors have also stolen the personal information of some of its private investors.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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COVID 19: What Delta Variant Means to Business Recovery

Data Breach Today

Pandemic Expert Regina Phelps on the New Surge, Vaccines and Dispelling Popular Myths Infection numbers are surging in the southern U.S., states and cities are enacting new mask mandates and the fall flu season looms as the great unknown. Sound familiar? COVID-19 is back with the highly contagious Delta variant. Pandemic expert Regina Phelps discusses what that means for business recovery.

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PayPal to Hire Dozens of Cryptocurrency Security Experts

Data Breach Today

Move Comes as Online Payments Company Expands Digital Currency Services PayPal plans to hire more than 100 cryptocurrency experts, including those with expertise in compliance and anti-money laundering, as the online payments service expands its digital money transferring service and adds a "super app" wallet.

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Cisco fixes critical, high severity vulnerabilities in VPN routers

Security Affairs

Cisco fixed critical, high severity pre-auth security vulnerabilities impacting multiple Small Business VPN routers. Cisco addressed critical and high severity pre-auth security vulnerabilities that impact multiple Small Business VPN routers. An attacker could exploit the issues to trigger a denial of service condition or execute commands and arbitrary code on impacted multiple Small Business VPN routers.

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‘I’m Calling About Your Car Warranty’, aka PII Hijinx

Threatpost

Black Hat: Researchers created 300 fake identities, signed them up on 185 legit sites, then tracked how much the sites used signup PII to pester the accounts.

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INFRA:HALT flaws impact OT devices from hundreds of vendors

Security Affairs

IN FRA:HALT is a set of vulnerabilities affecting a popular TCP/IP library commonly OT devices manufactured by more than 200 vendors. Security researchers from security teams at Forescout and JFrog have disclosed today 14 vulnerabilities that impact a popular TCP/IP library named NicheStack commonly used in industrial equipment and Operational Technology (OT) devices manufactured by more than 200 vendors.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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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Phishing Campaign Dangles SharePoint File-Shares

Threatpost

Attackers spoof sender addresses to appear legitimate in a crafty campaign that can slip past numerous detections, Microsoft researchers have discovered.

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US CISA and NSA publish guidance to secure Kubernetes deployments

Security Affairs

US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations on how to harden Kubernetes deployments and minimize the risk of hack. US CISA and NSA released new guidance that provides recommendations to harden Kubernetes deployments. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

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Zoom Agrees to Pay $85M to Settle Class Action

Hunton Privacy

On July 31, 2021, Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom” or the “Company”) agreed to pay $85 million to settle a class action suit that alleged the Company violated users’ privacy rights by misleading consumers about encryption security, sharing data through third-party integrations without adequate notice or consent, and failing to protect private meetings from being disturbed by “zoombombings.

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Black Hat: Security Bugs Allow Takeover of Capsule Hotel Rooms

Threatpost

A researcher was able to remotely control the lights, bed and ventilation in "smart" hotel rooms via Nasnos vulnerabilities.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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e-Records 2021: Call for Presentations Final Extension

The Texas Record

Update: The final deadline for submitting a presentation proposal for the 2021 e-Records Conference has been extended to Wednesday, August 11, 2021. Check out our previous blog post for details about submitting your proposal. Keep up-to-date on all event information at the conference web page: [link]. Thanks! And we’ll see you online in November! 1.

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List of mandatory documents required by ISO 45001

IT Governance

ISO 45001 is the international standard that contains best practices for OH&S (occupational health and safety). Its goal is to reduce injuries and diseases in the workplace, including the promotion and protection of physical and mental health. It’s an issue that’s more important than ever. In addition to the 2.78 million deaths and 374 million injuries each year from workplace incidents, countless others face mental health issues.

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CIPL Responds to the EU Commission’s Consultation on the Draft AI Act

Hunton Privacy

On July 29, 2021, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth submitted its response to the European Commission’s Consultation on the Draft Artificial Intelligence Act (the “Act”). Feedback received as part of this consultation will feed into discussions with the European Parliament and the European Council as the proposal makes its way through the EU legislative process.

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DXC Technology

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Black Hat: Let’s All Help Cyber-Immunize Each Other

Threatpost

We're selfish if we're only mitigating our own stuff, said Black Hat USA 2021 keynoter Jeff Moss. Let's be like doctors battling COVID and work for herd immunity.

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Amazon denies breach or sharing data in massive $888 million GDPR fine via Bloomberg

IG Guru

Check out the story here. The post Amazon denies breach or sharing data in massive $888 million GDPR fine via Bloomberg appeared first on IG GURU.

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Why intelligent classification of clinical trial data is so important

OpenText Information Management

Only one or two in 10,000 compounds that enter pre-clinical trials will ever make it to approval. That journey will take on average 12 years and cost $2.6 billion or more. Adding these facts together, we’ve reached a situation where increasing pressure on R&D has seen return on investment shrink from over 10% in 2010 … The post Why intelligent classification of clinical trial data is so important appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Watch a Hacker Hijack a Hotel Room’s Lights, Fans, and Beds

WIRED Threat Level

It’s not a ghost. It’s a half-dozen vulnerabilities in a digital automation system.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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The COVID testbed and AI

Adam Shostack

There’s a really interesting article in MIT Tech Review, Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Oops, I think I gave away the ending. But there’s a lot of fascinating details: Many unwittingly used a data set that contained chest scans of children who did not have covid as their examples of what non-covid cases looked like.

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Aspire: OpenText an Overall Leader in the CCM market

OpenText Information Management

For the fourth year in a row, independent consulting firm Aspire has ranked OpenText as an Overall Leader in the 2021 Customer Communications Management Aspire Leaderboard™, awarding it the highest score for CCM capabilities. In particular, the OpenText™ Exstream CCM solution was called out for its leadership in Market Presence, Communications Composition, and Business Automation. … The post Aspire: OpenText an Overall Leader in the CCM market appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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5 key learnings of Apple device deployment

Jamf

Running an Apple device deployment can involve challenges, but this webinar can improve your workflow with 5 dos and dont’s to remove friction from your deployment.

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Strategies law department leaders are adopting to thrive despite adversity

OpenText Information Management

There’s no doubt that the past year-plus has been challenging for many legal departments due to the ongoing impact of the pandemic. Forward-thinking legal departments embraced the challenges—many of which were present before but were exacerbated by the pandemic—as opportunities to deliver deeper value to their organizations. We connected with Pat Johnson, Content Strategy Manager … The post Strategies law department leaders are adopting to thrive despite adversity appeared first on OpenTex

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

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.

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Get to Know Us: Meet Marketing Manager Mary Williams

Docuware

DocuWarians is a blog feature that introduces you to the people behind the product. In this post, we're highlighting Marketing Manager Mary Williams.

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Why It’s Time to Consider User Experience When Deploying MFA

HID Global

Why It’s Time to Consider User Experience When Deploying MFA. mmacritchie. Wed, 08/04/2021 - 10:06.

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Subject Finding Aid Project (Update)

Unwritten Record

Hello my fellow Unwritten Recordians, I’m back with an update from the Still Picture Branch regarding progress on the Subject Finding Aid Project! As of my last post in June, we had one batch of descriptions live in the National Archives Catalog , with a second one on the way. As of today, the second AND third batches are live, with over 1,000 descriptions!