Krebs on Security
AUGUST 30, 2019
Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2019
Watering-Hole Attack Analysis From Google Follows Apple's February Patches Since at least 2016, hacked websites have targeted zero-day flaws in current versions of Apple iOS to surreptitiously implant data-stealing and location-tracking malware, says Google's Project Zero team. Apple patched the latest vulnerabilities in February.
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AIIM
AUGUST 30, 2019
Every organization has to migrate content from one system to another at some point. It could be to retire a legacy ECM system, to finally take control of the "digital landfill" that represents most organizations' file shares, or maybe it's another reason altogether. No matter the cause, the content migration itself is no small endeavor because of a couple of major challenges: Large Volumes of Data : Consider that the typical system or file share stores tens of thousands to even millions of docum
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 30, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report offers an analysis of how French cyber police disrupted a cryptomining malware gang. Also featured: Apple's botched patching of a jailbreaking vulnerability; an industry veteran's insights on battling payment card fraud.
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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.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 30, 2019
Originally published in Forbes on July 29, 2019. Brands are under pressure to protect themselves and their customers from increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. With daily media headlines and new regulations, consumers have never been more aware of the threats out there. As a result, businesses are being forced to take the issue of cybersecurity more seriously, facing it head on and putting in place the necessary steps (e.g., encryption, two-factor authentication and key management) to protec
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Schneier on Security
AUGUST 30, 2019
Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy code. Of course, that's not true. And there are no security mechanisms that can deal with malicious enclaves, because the designers couldn't imagine that they would be necessary. The results are predictable.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2019
Google researchers discovered that iPhone devices could be hacked by tricking owners into visiting specially crafted websites. Researchers at Google Project Zero discovered that it was possible to hack iPhone devices by visiting specially crafted websites. Earlier this year, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) experts uncovered an iPhone hacking campaign, initially, they spotted a limited number of hacked websites used in watering hole attacks against iPhone users. “Earlier this year Google
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 30, 2019
For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2019
Security experts at Kaspersky have spotted a new Android remote access tool (RAT) dubbed BRATA used to spy on Brazilian users. Security experts at Kaspersky have discovered a new Android remote access tool (RAT), tracked as BRATA (the name comes from ‘Brazilian RAT Android’), that was used to spy on Brazilian users. The BRATA RAT was first detected in January while spreading via WhatsApp and SMS messages. ““BRATA” is a new Android remote access tool malware family.
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.
Hunton Privacy
AUGUST 30, 2019
As an update to our previous blog post , according to media reports , Google has reached a settlement with the FTC in the range of $150 to $200 million over the agency’s investigation into the company’s alleged violations of COPPA through its YouTube platform. The settlement has not been announced by the FTC or Google, and the details of the settlement have not been made publicly available.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2019
Foxit Software, the company behind the Foxit PDF reader app, disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ information, including passwords. Foxit Software, the PDF software provider behind the Foxit PDF reader app disclosed a security breach that took place recently exposing customers’ information. The incident exposed personal identification data of ‘My Account’ service users, third parties accessed to client’s information such as email addresses, passwords, rea
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2019
Practical steps municipal governments can take to better prevent and respond to ransomware infections.
DXC Technology
AUGUST 30, 2019
Enterprises have access to more data than ever before, data that can provide valuable information about customers, markets, and business processes. Leveraged effectively, data (both structured and unstructured) can be used by enterprises to drive decision-making. But most organizations fail to use data to inform their strategic decisions or innovation initiatives.
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2019
A group of hacked websites has been silently compromising fully patched iPhones for at least two years, Project Zero reports.
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 30, 2019
Egon Zehnder’s partner Lindsay Trout discusses the new "CDO Decoded" study on the differences and similarities between CDOs and CIOs, and best practices for hiring these roles to create harmony.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2019
The recently discovered campaign sends stolen data out of the network as part of a DNS query.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2019
Up to 25 percent of valid vulnerabilities found in bug bounty programs are classified as being of high or critical severity.
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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.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2019
Stolen fingerprints, fake hands, voice synthetization, and other nefarious techniques show biometrics has plenty of challenges.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 30, 2019
How much time do your data scientists and business analysts spend looking for the right data?
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 30, 2019
Tech billionaires Jack Ma and Elon Musk can’t agree whether artificial intelligence is going to take over the world.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2019
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was, apparently, hijacked for roughly 20 minutes and used for a racist rant.
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“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.
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 30, 2019
All managers understand that both recruiting top talent as well as crafting a winning team and company culture is crucial to high performance.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2019
A new, highly capable spyware payload can monitor everything in a person's digital life.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 30, 2019
Many SOC analysts are starting to shut off high-alert features to keep pace with the volume, new study shows.
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 30, 2019
When staff from different sectors know how to communicate and collaborate across traditional divisions, the result is a much smoother digital transformation process.
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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.
Threatpost
AUGUST 30, 2019
From new ransomware attacks to privacy issues around Venmo and Ring, Threatpost editors break down the top news of this week.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
AUGUST 30, 2019
Please join us for our September events. September 11. Data and Privacy in the Autonomous Car. Tim Tobin will speak on the webinar, “Data and Privacy in the Autonomous Car, What New Questions Might We Face?” presented by the Privacy + Security Forum. To register, please click here. Location : Webinar. September 13. Medical Technology Executive Forum.
Quest Software
AUGUST 30, 2019
Your data is at risk every day. Threats include viruses, ransomware, natural disasters, hardware failure, and corruption, not to mention end-users losing documents or mistakenly deleting them. With all the possible ways your data can be lost, a sing.
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