The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Would you back out of a driveway without first buckling up, checking the rear view mirror and glancing behind to double check that the way is clear? Consider that most of us spend more time navigating the Internet on our laptops and smartphones than we do behind the wheel of a car. Yet it’s my experience that most people don’t fully appreciate the profound risks they face online and all too many still do not practice simple behaviors that can dramatically reduce their chances of being victimized

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 28, 2019

Recommends Vendors Address Issues Throughout Product Lifecycle A healthcare sector advisory council on Monday released a new voluntary framework for improving the cybersecurity of medical devices throughout their lifecycle. What are the key recommendations?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

Cisco released security updates to address security flaws in several products including Small Business RV320/RV325 routers and hackers are already targeting them. The tech giant addressed two serious issues in Cisco’s Small Business RV320 and RV325 routers. The first one could be exploited by a remote and unauthenticated attacker with admin privileges. to obtain sensitive information ( CVE-2019-1653 ), while the second one can be exploited for command injection ( CVE-2019-1652 ).

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 28, 2019

Security Practitioners Highlight Ways to Fight Against the Threat As the threat of fileless malware continues to persist worldwide, security professionals are devising targeted risk management strategies.

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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

Security experts at Wordfence security firms discovered WordPress Sites compromised via Zero-Day vulnerabilities in Total Donations Plugin. The Total Donations WordPress plugin was abandoned by its developers for this reason security experts are recommending to delete it after they discovered multiple zero-day flaws that were exploited by threat actors.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 28, 2019

For Data Privacy Day, let's commit to a culture of privacy by design, nurtured by a knowledgeable team that can execute an effective operational compliance program.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

A joint operation conducted by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe allowed seizing the xDedic marketplace. Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace , an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. “On 24 January, the U.S.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 28, 2019

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica, which allows city planners see “how, when, and where people travel in urban areas.”. The Intercept’s explainer details a troubling use of consumer data. “Thanks for all you do,” could be Replica initiative’s tagline, since it seems to aggregate a huge amount of presumably phone-generated data to model the way cities work.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2019

On January 16, 2019, Hunton Andrews Kurth hosted a breakfast seminar in London, entitled “GDPR: Post Implementation Review.” Bridget Treacy, Aaron Simpson and James Henderson from Hunton Andrews Kurth and Bojana Bellamy from the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth discussed some of the challenges and successes companies encountered in implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), and also identified key data protection challenges that

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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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Jamf

JANUARY 28, 2019

The Jamf Now Getting Started Kit is now available in Apple Retail Stores — making Jamf Now the only mobile device management (MDM) solution sold through Apple Retail. Get the full details.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 28, 2019

Gambling addiction remains a contentious issue for the betting industry, especially in light of ongoing concerns about the effectiveness of self-exclusion schemes such as GamStop and the political row about restricting the maximum stakes on FOBTs (fixed-odds betting terminals). In its review of online gambling last year, the Gambling Commission said it would also consider “whether gambling on credit should continue to be permitted” as it “increases the risk that consumers will gamble more than t

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 28, 2019

Newly found bug reportedly allows callers to spy on you -- even if you don't pick up.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 28, 2019

One of the best parts of Think is hearing details of successful implementations of hybrid data management solutions and machine learning directly from peers across a variety of industries.

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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JANUARY 28, 2019

Dublin operations centre to target political misinformation ahead of EU elections in May Facebook will tackle political misinformation in the run-up to the EU elections this May with a new “war room” based in Dublin, the company’s incoming communications chief, Nick Clegg, has announced. In his first speech as Facebook’s top public face, Clegg said the company would be setting up an “operations centre focused on elections integrity, based in Dublin, this spring”.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 28, 2019

The development team of the vulnerable Total Donations plugin appears to have abandoned it, and did not respond to inquiries from researchers.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 28, 2019

Former FTC chief technologist Ashkan Soltani argues it's time for Silicon Valley companies to formalize and test not just their products' security, but its "abusability.".

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 28, 2019

At its peak, xDedic listed over 70,000 owned servers that buyers could purchase for prices starting as low as $6 each.

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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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Synergis Software

JANUARY 28, 2019

Rolling out an enterprise-level document management solution across your organization can be a daunting task. While there’s no be-all, end-all method to implementation, setting up enterprise software does require several layers of planning and cross-communication. In fact, the success of the solution often relies as much on the implementation process as it does on the technology itself.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2019

On January 22, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued a report on the Second Annual Review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the “Report”). Although not binding on EU or U.S. authorities, the Report provides guidance to regulators in both jurisdictions regarding implementation of the Privacy Shield and highlights the EDPB’s ongoing concerns with regard to the Privacy Shield.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

The popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were accessed by hackers as result of a massive credential stuffing attack. On Friday, the popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were hit by hackers. The company discovered unauthorized access attempts resulting from credential stuffing activity.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 28, 2019

A new campaign will see government employees hacking into personal IoT devices to identify those at highest security risk.

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While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2019

Experts from Alias Robotics released a free, open-source tool dubbed Aztarna that could be used to find vulnerable robots. A group of experts working a startup focused on robot cybersecurity has released a free, open-source framework dubbed Aztarna that could be used find vulnerable robots that could have been exposed online or inside an industrial environment.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 28, 2019

The best way to conform to the EU's new privacy regulation is to assume that you don't need to hold on to personal data, versus the opposite.

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 28, 2019

Digital technologies are delivering a great number of benefits for business. They are also leading to an increase in competitiveness and an accelerated speed of business. B2B integration allows you to work and trade with your customers and suppliers much more effectively. This blog looks at five key benefits you can gain from deploying a … The post Top 5 benefits of a B2B Integration solution appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Quest Software

JANUARY 28, 2019

Learn how using NetVault Backup with Office 365 Exchange Online can simplify data protection; speed backups and recovery; boost security and lower costs.( read more ).

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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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Micro Focus

JANUARY 28, 2019

Today, most businesses don’t need to be convinced about the need to modernize their IT landscape. Nevertheless, any big transformation can have a wide-ranging impact on the organization. So, it needs to be well thought out. Primarily, enterprises are looking to modernize for two main reasons. One, they are keen to futureproof their business by. View Article.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 28, 2019

On January 25, 2019, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth submitted formal comments to the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (the “International Conference”) on its Declaration on Ethics and Data Protection in Artificial Intelligence (the “Declaration”). The Declaration was adopted by the International Conference on October 23, 2018, for public consultation.

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Information Management Resources

JANUARY 28, 2019

While the question lingers, substantial progress has been made — something we uncovered in our interviews of almost 100 senior security leaders and board members from around the globe.

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