Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Data includes Names, Addresses, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers An Israeli marketing company left the authentication credentials for a database online, exposing more than 140 GB worth of names, email addresses and phone numbers. The exposure was found by a U.S.-based security specialist who became frustrated after receiving unwanted marketing messages over SMS.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
In several recent posts, I’ve talked about professional development options for information management professionals and provided guidance on how to determine whether a particular course or certification is a good fit. For the most part, I’ve stayed away from blogging about AIIM's training for two reasons. First, we wanted these blog posts to be informative and insightful, rather than be perceived as self-aggrandizement.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Former NSA Director and Others Stress Collaboration Among the top issues being discussed at the RSA 2020 conference this week is the need for more cybersecurity collaboration between government agencies and the private sector. Here are some interview highlights.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Let me share with you the result of a one-night long analysis of major black marketplaces searching for anything related to the coronavirus epidemic. Recently I have received many questions from journalists and colleagues about the activity in the dark web related to the coronavirus epidemic, here you are what I have found digging in the major black marketplaces.
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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
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Used Admin Privileges to Steal $10 Million From Retail Platform A former Microsoft software engineer was convicted this week on 18 federal charges tied to stealing more than $10 million through the company's online retail platform.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Fleming Shi of Barracuda Networks on Latest Cloud Security Research Findings Barracuda Networks has released the findings of its latest survey on public cloud security. Fleming Shi, the company's chief technology officer, describes what is holding organizations back from fully embracing the public cloud.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Google revealed that the enhancements to its scanning system implemented in Gmail are boosting its detection capabilities. Google announced that the new scanning capabilities implemented in Gmail have increased the detection rate of malicious documents. The IT giant proudly announced that combining its existing machine learning models with other protections it was able to detect and block more than 99.9% of threats that attempt to target Gmail users.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Panel: Better Algorithms Can Help Mitigate the Risks As companies continue to grapple with the challenges of insider threats, machine learning coupled with behavioral analytics can assist in predicting and detecting potential threats from employees and contractors, according to a panel of security experts at RSA 2020.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
On February 21, 2020, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (“EU Council Presidency”) published a revised part of the proposed Regulation concerning the Respect for Private Life and the Protection of Personal Data in Electronic Communications and Repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications), better known as “the Draft ePrivacy Regulation.”.
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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
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Bad news for the controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI, hackers gained “unauthorized access” to a list of all of its customers. . The controversial facial-recognition company that contracts with law-enforcement agencies announced that attackers have gained unauthorized access to its entire client list. The company already informed its customers of the security breach. .
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
CEO Mary T. Barra addressed the high stakes in rolling out self-driving cars and biometric-enhanced vehicles, where one cyber-event could derail plans for emerging automotive technologies.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
After three months from the first detection, the Lampion origin was identified. A webserver named “portaldasfinancas” is available in Turkey and has been used to spread the threat in Portugal. Lampion malware is the most critical malware affecting Portuguese users’ last three months. From December 2019 it had spread, impersonating and using template emails from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax (Portal das Finanças – ATA) , Energias de Portugal (EDP) , and most recently DPD firm –
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Parliamentary committee hears state and government agencies sought data 8,432 times in 2018-19 Federal government officials have been accused of a “cavalier disregard” for the dozens of state and federal government agencies accessing data retained under the mandatory data retention regime thousands of times a year despite legislation explicitly excluding them from access.
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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.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Technological defences and staff training are two of the most frequently touted measures for preventing data breaches, but their effectiveness is dependent on the way organisations implement them. That means creating a detailed cyber security policy. What is a cyber security policy? A cyber security policy outlines an organisation’s cyber security defence strategy.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Since the launch of OpenText™ Intelligent Capture nearly a year ago, customers and partners have been asking about the transition and benefits within existing Captiva environments. But what is “intelligent” capture? What is the foundational thinking and technology behind it? John Mancini expanded on this shift in capture strategy in a recent AIIM webinar, where … The post Captiva is now OpenText Intelligent Capture appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Experts found a new version of the Cerberus Android banking trojan that can steal one-time codes generated by the Google Authenticator app and bypass 2FA. Security researchers from ThreatFabric warn of a new Android malware strain can now steal one-time passcodes (OTP) generated through Google Authenticator that is used as part of 2FA to protect online accounts.
CGI
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
CGI-sponsored GTNews survey reveals major challenge for corporate banks—declining client satisfaction (part 2). In my first blog in this two-part series, I shared a key finding of The Global Treasurer’s Transaction Banking Survey (GTNews survey) for 2019—declining corporate client satisfaction. In that blog, I covered possible drivers behind this four-year decline, along with how corporate banks can respond.
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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.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Experts warn that hackers are actively scanning the Internet for Microsoft Exchange Servers vulnerable in the attempt to exploit the CVE-2020-0688 RCE. Hackers are actively scanning the Internet for Microsoft Exchange Servers affected by the CVE-2020-0688 remote code execution flaw. The vulnerability resides in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component, the root cause of the problem is that Exchange servers fail to properly create unique keys at install time. “Knowledge of a the validatio
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Post-Brexit, Sean wants to keep his data protected by the EU’s GDPR rather than laxer US privacy laws Given Google’s recent announcement about moving UK users’ data to US jurisdiction, what’s the best way to migrate to EU-based services? Can you download+upload or crossload your Gmail to another service? And are we in for the same treatment by Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram et al?
Gimmal
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The Federal Directive for M-12-18 deadline has arrived and a new directive was issued to extend requirements for agencies transitioning to electronic records. The new directive , M-19-21 (Transition to Electronic Records) , includes initiatives established with M-12-18 and expands on those requirements to eliminate paper records by 202 2.
Data Protection Report
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the decision of the English High court in AA v. Persons Unknown & Ors. Given the level of interest in the case, we have prepared a deeper-dive into the facts and the implications of the decision, with a focus on the important role played in the case by cyber insurance. This is set out below. The context. For some time, cyber exposure has been at or near the top of every major company’s risk register.
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Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
This law journal article discusses the role of class-action litigation to secure the Internet of Things. Basically, the article postulates that (1) market realities will produce insecure IoT devices, and (2) political failures will leave that industry unregulated. Result: insecure IoT. It proposes proactive class action litigation against manufacturers of unsafe and unsecured IoT devices before those devices cause unnecessary injury or death.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Slowly but surely, the U.S. Courts of Appeal increasingly agree on how to interpret the definition of “automatic telephone dialing system” (“ATDS” or “autodialer”) in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). On February 19, 2020, a unanimous Seventh Circuit panel refused to revise a putative class action in Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Affected devices include iPhones, iPads, Macs, Amazon Echos and Kindles, Android devices, and various Wi-Fi routers.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
2020 marks the 20th anniversary of OpenTextTM Exstream. It is hard to believe that the market-leading Customer Communications Management (CCM) software was “born” in the garage of two University of Kentucky engineering students in 1999, and the first customer was a French telco company one year later in 2000. A lot has changed in those … The post Celebrating 20 years of excellence appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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Adam Shostack
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML) has released “ An Architectural Risk Analysis of Machine Learning Systems.” This is an important step in the journey to systematic, structured, and comprehensive security analysis of machine learning systems, and we can contrast it with the work at Microsoft I blogged about last month. As always, my goal is to look at published threat models to see what we can learn.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
From vacuum cleaners to baby monitors, the IoT landscape continues to be plagued by concerning security issues that lead to privacy threats.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
According to a new report on the global banking industry from Finextra, 45% of retail banks say they can onboard a new customer in under 40 minutes. Yet, only a quarter of respondents felt they could pull front and back end systems together to deliver optimum customer service. As banks look to fully exploit the potential … The post The state of AI and information readiness in banking appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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