Krebs on Security
AUGUST 2, 2019
On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One. Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown “zero-day” flaw, or an “insider” attack in which the accused took advantage of access surreptitiously obtained from her former employer.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2019
Watchdog Points to Numerous Risk Management Shortcomings Some 23 federal agencies come up short in their cybersecurity efforts even as attacks on their IT infrastructures continue to grow and concerns about foreign interference in the upcoming 2020 elections persist, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
AUGUST 2, 2019
The British parliament has been unable to agree the exit package from the European Union. With the possibility of a “no deal” departure looming, EU leaders have granted a six-month extension to Brexit day. But the uncertainty that still lingers with regards to Britain’s future, creates various opportunities which cyber criminals could try to exploit.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2019
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the root causes of the Capital One data breach. Also featured: breach remediation advice and compliance with New York's new third-party risk management requirements.
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.
AIIM
AUGUST 2, 2019
Steps to Make Your Paperless Office Dream a Reality. According to AIIM research , 75% of the organizations we surveyed view digital transformation as “important” or “very important” to their organization. But why? Most respondents pointed to operational savings as a result of a more digital and connected workflow. In other words: cut the paper, cut the inefficiencies.
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Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2019
Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans. The only source for that post was a Forbes essay by Kalev Leetaru, which links to a previous Forbes essay by him, which links to a video presentation from a Facebook developers conference.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 2, 2019
DirectTrust's new effort to develop a standard for instant messaging in healthcare could potentially help providers securely communicate in real time over multiple platforms, says Scott Stuewe, the nonprofit alliance's president and CEO.
Troy Hunt
AUGUST 2, 2019
Over the last year and a bit I've been working to make more data in HIBP freely available to governments around the world that want to monitor their own exposure in data breaches. Like the rest of us, governments regularly rely on services that fall victim to attacks resulting in data being disclosed and just like the commercial organisations monitoring domains on HIBP, understanding that exposure is important.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2019
There's a really interesting video of protesters in Hong Kong using some sort of laser to disable security cameras. I know nothing more about the technologies involved.
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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.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 2, 2019
Data belonging to more than one million payment cards from South Korea surfaced in the dark web over the past two months. Experts noticed a spike in the number of stolen payment card details belonging to users from South Korea over the past two months. Card details from over one million payments cards from South Korea was offered for sale on the Dark Web.
Schneier on Security
AUGUST 2, 2019
Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in prosecution, the accused don't have the same level of access to aid in their defense: The proposed privacy laws would make this situation worse. Lawmakers may not have set out to make the criminal process even more unfair, but the unjust result is not surprising.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
OK, perhaps that's self-evident, so how come it far too often still takes an incident to trigger planning?
WIRED Threat Level
AUGUST 2, 2019
Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras.
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Adam Shostack
AUGUST 2, 2019
Shortly, I’m off to Blackhat. My Threat Modeling Intensive classes both sold out (thank you!). Nearly a decade ago, I put forth a set of best practices: Breath mints Ricola Purell Advil Gatorade This year, I’m adding a travel humidifier. I’ve been using this one, and it really needs to soak for 10 minutes, but then it adds a nice stream of moisture to the room.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
An email phishing attack, thought to be from a nation-state actor, claims that engineers have failed licensing exams.
IBM Big Data Hub
AUGUST 2, 2019
The pressure is rising for business users, automation, and governed data lakes to drive business value. Learn how enterprise data preparation fits in.
Threatpost
AUGUST 2, 2019
Comprehensive testing of 21 free Android antivirus apps revealed big security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns; especially for AEGISLAB, BullGuard, dfndr and VIPRE.
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The Texas Record
AUGUST 2, 2019
Please join us on Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. Central Time , when we will be presenting a free 60-minute webinar on Managing Social Media Records. This presentation will cover the basics of social media retention, capture, disposition, and policy management for both local governments and state agencies. Have you ever wondered what record series your agency’s Facebook posts fall under?
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
Cybersecurity experts will share their latest insights and strategies for protecting industrial sites and equipment, from electric motors to satellites.
Threatpost
AUGUST 2, 2019
Researchers spotted the never-before-seen LookBack malware being used in spearphishing campaigns against three U.S. utilities.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
Where Capital One went wrong, what the bank did right, and more key takeaways from the latest mega-breach.
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Productivity Bytes
AUGUST 2, 2019
Encryption is a hot topic lately, especially as people have growing concerns about data security. If you’re thinking about encrypting your Android, here are some Android phone encryption pros and cons to help you decide what to do. 1. It’s a Security Booster One of the top reasons why many people encrypt their Android devices … + Read More.
Threatpost
AUGUST 2, 2019
Vast majority of Apple iOS users haven't updated to iOS 12.4, leaving themselves wide open to a public exploit.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
Enjoy the respite from the security tasks that await you back at home. Then prepare yourself for the uphill battles to come. Here's how.
IT Governance
AUGUST 2, 2019
If you think that charities might be shown lenience under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) , you’re wrong. The Regulation treats charities in much the same way as any organisation, because although they’re not using personal data to make a profit, they still run the risk of data breaches and privacy violations. This is a lesson that the transgender advocacy charity Mermaids learned recently , after it accidentally made internal emails containing confidential client information avail
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Threatpost
AUGUST 2, 2019
Apple's Siri follows Amazon Alexa and Google Home in facing backlash for its data retention policies.
Dark Reading
AUGUST 2, 2019
Enjoy the respite from the security tasks that await you back at home. Then prepare yourself for the uphill battles to come. Here's how.
Information Management Resources
AUGUST 2, 2019
IoT is finally entering its rightful place as a fully fledged enterprise technology that is revolutionizing many different industries and business functions.
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