Mon.Sep 02, 2019

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Hey Jack, How Was Your Account Hacked?

Data Breach Today

Erratic Storm of Tweets Trace to Serial Takeover Artists 'Chuckling Squad' Following racist and anti-Semitic tweets being posted for a short time to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's hijacked account - despite his use of two-factor authentication - Twitter blamed the security lapse on an unnamed mobile provider. A group called "Chuckling Squad" appears to be responsible.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

Federal prosecutors in California have filed criminal charges against four employees of Adconion Direct , an email advertising firm, alleging they unlawfully hijacked vast swaths of Internet addresses and used them in large-scale spam campaigns. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the charges are likely just the opening salvo in a much larger, ongoing federal investigation into the company’s commercial email practices.

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Foxit Software Breach Exposes Account Data

Data Breach Today

PDF and Document Developer's Breach Notification is Light on Details Foxit Software, the developer of popular PDF and document software, says user accounts were compromised in a breach. The company, which has 560 million users, isn't saying how the breach occurred, how many accounts were affected or for how long.

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Lockers checklist: narrowing down your options

TAB OnRecord

As one of the most customizable types of storage out there, lockers come in a variety of sizes, shapes, styles, colors and materials with practically limitless configurations. With all of these options available, where do you start? Download our free printable checklist » We’ve put together a (nearly) comprehensive list to help you narrow down [.] Read More.

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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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Lyceum APT Group a Fresh Threat to Oil and Gas Companies

Data Breach Today

Reports Say Group Also Targeting Telecom Firms An emerging cyber espionage group that apparently started its work in South Africa last year is now focusing on targeting critical control systems for oil and gas companies in the Middle East, according to researchers at two cybersecurity firms.

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ISAC 101: Unlocking the Power of Information

Dark Reading

How information sharing and analysis centers provide contextual threat information by creating communities that helps security professionals and their organizations grow in maturity and capability.

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One million cracked Poshmark accounts being sold online

Security Affairs

Login details of more than 36 million Poshmark accounts are available for sale in the cybercrime underground. Earlier in August, Poshmark , a social commerce marketplace where people in the United States can buy and sell new or used clothing, shoes, and accessories, disclosed a data breach that took place in May 2018. The company discovered unauthorized access to its servers, the intruders stole personal information of the users, including usernames , hashed passwords, first and last names, gend

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Gamification Can Transform Company Cybersecurity Culture

Threatpost

Implementing game mechanics and competition into the mix can incentivize employees to improve their cybersecurity posture.

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Flight booking platform Option Way exposes customer and internal data

Security Affairs

Researchers from vpnMentor security firm have recently discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way. . Researchers at vpnMentor discovered a huge data breach in flight booking platform Option Way as part of a web-mapping project. . Option Way service allows its users to find flight deals to and from destinations around the world. .

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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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How to select the best iPaaS vendors in 2020

OpenText Information Management

According to Information Week, integration is one of the biggest challenges facing CIOs in 2019. As organizations focus on customer experience, the seamless integration of all customer-related applications and touchpoints is essential. Poor integration can have serious business implications. Forrester research found 93% of companies felt their integration strategies had lost customers and revenue.

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Prison library: Bringing children and dads together

CILIP

Prison library: Bringing children and dads together. Bringing children and dads together. THE world of the prison library is, by its very nature, hidden from the view of most people. But prison libraries are a statutory requirement (The Prison Rules, 1999 [link] and there is some wonderful work going on in jails around the country, which few people get to hear about.

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Here’s a Webcast to Learn How to Think Like a Millennial When Addressing eDiscovery Needs: eDiscovery Webcasts

eDiscovery Daily

As we learned in Tom O’Connor’s recent five part blog series , millennials, with their focus on mobile devices and social media sites, may be changing eDiscovery (depending on your point of view). Regardless, eDiscovery is changing and millennials may be a BIG part of that change. Here’s a webcast that will help you think like a millennial to address your eDiscovery needs.

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Sixty seconds with. MI5

CILIP

Sixty seconds with. MI5. Sixty seconds with. MI5. I?m Sarah* and I?m in charge of Information Careers in MI5?s Information, Policy and Compliance Branch leading on the development of our Information Skills Framework. As an organisation, this helps identify our skills gaps, make appropriate recruitment decisions, provide recognition for staff of their information skills and enable them to plan their future career development.

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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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IG World Summer 2019 Issue Available

IG Guru

Click here to access the digital copy. The post IG World Summer 2019 Issue Available appeared first on IG GURU.

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If You Have to Ask How Much a Data Breach Costs, You Can’t Afford One

Adam Levin

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

Security Affairs

Journalists revealed the role of a mole recruited by the Dutch intelligence in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on the Natanz plant in Iran. The story of the Stuxnet attack is still one of the most intriguing case of modern information warfare. The virus was developed by the US and Israel to interfere with the nuclear enrichment program conducted by Iran in the plant of Natanz.

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US cyberattack temporarily paralyzed the ability of Iran to target oil tankers in the Gulf

Security Affairs

The United States cyber army carried out a cyberattack in June on a database used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to plot attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf. The New York Times revealed that the US carried out a cyberattack in June on a database used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to plot attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf. “A secret cyberattack against Iran in June wiped out a critical database used by Iran’s paramilitary arm to plot attacks against oi

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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.