Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Potential Coincidence: IoT Botnet Reawakened After Suspect's Release on Bail Kenneth Schuchman, the alleged author of a supercharged variant of Mirai malware called Satori, has been rearrested for violating his bail conditions. In what may be a coincidence, security researchers say a Satori botnet went dormant following Schuchman's arrest, only to be reawakened later.
AIIM
OCTOBER 30, 2018
No matter what industry you are in, audits are stressful. Many of your company’s processes and documents must be analyzed to make sure you are compliant and up to standard. That means the auditor is going to need to see a lot of paperwork. If you currently use filing cabinets, inboxes, and hard drives to store your documents, then an audit is likely your worst nightmare.
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Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Kevin McDonald, director of clinical information security at Mayo Clinic, spells out several steps for helping to ensure the security of medical devices, stressing there's no "silver bullet" that can do the job. He'll be a speaker at ISMG's Healthcare Security Summit, to be held Nov. 13-14 in New York.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Rather than posting the usual long list of data breaches and cyber attacks, I’ve decided to go down a new route. These monthly blogs will now look at three lesser-known stories in detail, as well as give a total number for all records exposed in the month. It’s been the usual mix of data breaches this month, with lots of mistakes being made and lots of ransoms being paid.
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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?
Data Breach Today
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A user identity management system can help improve visibility of data residing in the cloud and improve security, says Deepen Desai, a vice president at Zscaler, a cloud-based information security company.
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Security Affairs
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A few hours after Apple released iOS 12.1 the iPhone bug hunter Jose Rodriguez has found a new passcode bypass issue that could be exploited to see all contacts’ private information on a locked iPhone. “Jose Rodriguez, a Spanish security researcher, contacted The Hacker News and confirmed that he discovered an iPhone passcode bypass bug in the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system, iOS 12.1, released by Apple today.” reads a post published by THN.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Each year, the highly respected analysts at Gartner publish their assessment of the content management sector—the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms. It’s highly recommended reading for everyone involved in the ECM/Content Services space. Not only does each report provide excellent insight into the evolving landscape—including new trends, use cases and emerging technologies—it also … The post Essential Reading: The 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platfor
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Paras Jha (22), the author of the Mirai botnet has been sentenced to six months of house arrest and ordered to pay $8.6 million in compensation for DDoS attacks against the systems of Rutgers University. A New Jersey court sentenced the author of the Mirai botnet , Paras Jha , 22, of Fanwood, after pleading guilty to violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A Girl Scouts of America branch in California was hacked, putting the data of 2,800 girls and their families at risk.
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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.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Windows Defender, the Windows built-in anti-malware tool, implemented the ability to run in a secure sandbox mode. The mechanisms allow detonating an application in a safe environment that is isolated from the operating system and other applications. This means that even if the application is compromised it will not affect the overall system if it hasn’t implemented sandbox escaping mechanisms.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Staff awareness training is a core component of GDPR compliance, yet many organisations haven’t implemented the necessary measures. For all the attention that organisations pay to information security, the biggest threat continues to come from employees. Verizon estimates than one in four data breaches are caused by insiders. That’s hardly a surprise, given how few resources organisations dedicate to educating their staff on how to handle sensitive information.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A Girl Scouts of America branch in California suffered a security breach, hackers accessed data of 2,800 girls and their families. Hackers breached the Orange County, Calif. branch of the Girl Scouts of America, potentially exposing personal information for 2,800 members and their families. According to the Girl Scouts of Orange County, an unknown threat actor gained access to an email account operated by the organization and used it to send messages.
IT Governance
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Staff awareness training is a core component of GDPR compliance, yet many organisations haven’t implemented the necessary measures. For all the attention that organisations pay to information security, the biggest threat continues to come from employees. Verizon estimates than one in four data breaches are caused by insiders. That’s hardly a surprise, given how few resources organisations dedicate to educating their staff on how to handle sensitive information.
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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.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Instead of simply fleeing when discovered, adversaries are actively engaging with incident response teams, a new Carbon Black study finds.
Information Management Resources
OCTOBER 30, 2018
While it’s easy to go down the rabbit hole of focusing on the technology above all else, organizations that lose sight of the importance of human creativity in the pursuit of technological advantage will ultimately fail.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Between usability goals and security/regulatory pressures, setting up customer-facing security is difficult. These steps and best practices can help.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Popular card readers like Square and PayPal have various flaws that allow attacks ranging from fraud to card data theft.
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.
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Fallout Exploit Kit releases Kraken Cryptor ransomware, giving the simple threat a much larger target pool.
OpenText Information Management
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Have you adopted a ‘cloud first’ strategy where you look to the cloud before an on-premises alternative? If you are, then according to Forbes you’re among the 80% of companies that say they are now following this strategy. There are many benefits to transitioning your applications to a cloud service provider. There are even more when … The post Going ‘cloud first’?
Dark Reading
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Why security must lead the integration of marketing into the collaborative security and development model in the cloud.
WIRED Threat Level
OCTOBER 30, 2018
By cutting off the microphone at the hardware level, recent MacBook devices minimize the chance that someone can eavesdrop.
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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.
Information Management Resources
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Everyone doing business today shares an unfortunate truth: no matter how strong your cybersecurity program, your employees are your biggest potential source of failure.
Threatpost
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Puzzles and check-boxes have been replaced with in-the-background behavioral analysis.
Information Management Resources
OCTOBER 30, 2018
One of the most important aspects of data management is ensuring data quality. Without this, capabilities such as machine learning and advanced analytics might yield faulty results.
Info Source
OCTOBER 30, 2018
MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 30, 2018 – ABBYY® a leading provider of content intelligence solutions and services, today announced FineReader 14 now has added support for the latest PDF ISO standard and improved functionality to create PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) documents. Along with improved optical character recognition (OCR) for Japanese and added Hanja symbols for documents in Korean, FineReader 14 is a more powerful PDF productivity tool for global organizations needing to offer digital info
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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.
IG Guru
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Starting on November 1, organizations across Canada subject to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) will be required to provide notice of certain privacy breaches. The breach reporting requirements relate to a “breach of security safeguards,” which is defined in PIPEDA as: the loss of, unauthorized access to or unauthorized disclosure of personal information […].
Threatpost
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Abandoned web applications used by FT 500 Global Companies have exploitable flaws and weaknesses.
Quest Software
OCTOBER 30, 2018
Quest is nominated for Emerging Vendor or the Year for the 25th Anniversary of CRN Awards! We are excite to comeback as a vendor and partner.
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