Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 28, 2018
South Korean Resettlement Agency Breach Traces to Malware-Laden Email Personal information for 1,000 North Korean defectors, including their names and addresses, has been stolen via a malware attack, officials in South Korea warn. They've traced the leak to a malware infection at a refugee resettlement center, and say police continue to investigate.
AIIM
DECEMBER 28, 2018
You have led the pack in creating a digital transformation strategy but how do you get your employees to engage and help your organization realize its goals? Embracing new technology is not the major challenge – human behavior is a significant factor in the success or failure of such projects. In this article, we look at 5 ways to change your employees behavior and drive digital transformation in your organization.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Tool Hides Virtual Volumes But Leaves Linux Looking 'Bit-for-Bit' Normal Digital steganography is the practice of hiding information in plain sight, especially inside other data or images. And a new toolset, which debuted earlier this month at the Black Hat Europe conference, suggests steganography is going to get much more difficult to spot in the future.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
DECEMBER 28, 2018
As the retail industry follows suit with today’s digital transformation, customer expectations are at an all-time high. Retailers are looking to address these demands with interconnected experiences to give customers more personalized and immediate experiences both in-stores and online. But do these connected experiences actually live up to the hype?
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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Microsoft's Joram Borenstein highlights his top three areas of focus for 2019. Plus, Randy Vanderhoof of the US Payments Forum on securing card transactions in the coming year.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Prosecutors in Japan Seek 10-Year Embezzlement Sentence for Mark Karpeles Mark Karpeles, the former head of hacked Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has continued to maintain his innocence during the closing arguments in an embezzlement trial against him, Japanese local media report. Prosecutors are seeking a 10-year prison sentence for the French national.
Security Affairs
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Personal details of roughly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in South Korea have been leaked in a hacking case. Personal details of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors were leaked as a result of a cyber attack exposing them to severe threats from Pyongyang. A similar incident has never happened before, the Unification Ministry said that leaked data includes names and addresses of North Korean defectors. “We apologise to defectors from the North.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Consultant Rebecca Herold Offers Predictions for the Coming Year This was an eventful year for healthcare cybersecurity and privacy incidents and developments. But what's ahead for 2019? Here are eight predictions from privacy and security expert Rebecca Herold.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 28, 2018
This is a really interesting story of an ad fraud scheme that relied on hijacking the Border Gateway Protocol: Members of 3ve (pronounced "eve") used their large reservoir of trusted IP addresses to conceal a fraud that otherwise would have been easy for advertisers to detect. The scheme employed a thousand servers hosted inside data centers to impersonate real human beings who purportedly "viewed" ads that were hosted on bogus pages run by the scammers themselves -- who then received a check f
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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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Al Pascual of Javelin on Cross-Account Takeover In the wake of Equifax and other major breaches, sophisticated fraudsters are finding success as never before. Al Pascual of Javelin Strategy and Research discusses how identity impersonation is manifesting.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 28, 2018
In-flight airplanes, social engineers, and robotic vacuums were among the targets of resourceful white-hat hackers this year.
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 28, 2018
I'm home! And it's a nice hot Christmas! And I've got a new car! And that's where the discussion kinda started heading south this week. As I say in the video, the reaction to my tweet about it was actually overwhelmingly positive, but there was this unhealthy undercurrent of negativity which was really disappointing to see. Several other non-related events following that demonstrated similar online aggressiveness and I don't know if it was a case of too much eggnog or simply people having more d
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Click Here to Kill Everybody is finally available on Audible.com. I have ten download codes. Not having anything better to do with them, here they are: HADQSSFC98WCQ. LDLMC6AJLBDJY. YWSY8CXYMQNJ6. JWM7SGNUXX7DB. UPKAJ6MHB2LEF. M85YN36UR926H. 9ULE4NFAH2SLF. GU7A79GSDCXAT. 9K8Q4RX6DKL84. M92GB246XY7JN. Congratulations to the first ten people to try to use them.
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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.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 28, 2018
This year revealed consumers have a lot more to learn about what happens to their information online.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Quantum computing will break most of the encryption schemes on which we rely today. These five tips will help you get ready.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Proof-of-concept hack of a voicemail systems shows how it can lead to account takeovers multiple online services.
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 28, 2018
As businesses continue to embrace innovation, the following five trends should remain top of mind for organizations looking to continue to drive their digital transformation initiatives in 2019.
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Dark Reading
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Longtime US resident allegedly stole information for petroleum firm in China that had offered him a position.
Threatpost
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Researcher at ESET outlines research on the first successful UEFI rootkit used in the wild.
Robert's Db2
DECEMBER 28, 2018
This past summer, I delivered a couple of presentations at a meeting of a regional Db2 users group in the USA. During the lunch break, I shared a table with a member of the Db2 for z/OS support team at a large financial institution. He told me an interesting story. At his site, the Db2 for z/OS team had decided that universal partition-by-range (PBR) would be a better table space type for a large table currently housed in a partition-by-growth table space (PBG).
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 28, 2018
As we approach the end of the year and move forward into a year with new cyber risks, here are seven tips to avoid and combat cybersecurity risks.
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Threatpost
DECEMBER 28, 2018
The home surveillance cams have hard-coded credentials.
The Texas Record
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Tune in monthly for a curated collection of articles we found interesting on a broad range of topics; some which are directly related to records management and others which might share common themes. No, we didn’t write these articles —hence the name of this series, “Off the Record”— but fortunately, we didn’t need to in order to share the knowledge with our subscribers.
IG Guru
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Angelique Carson, CIPP/US from the IAPP Welp. The year is finally over. The year we, as privacy professionals, thought might kill us dead at some of our more stressful moments. But we survived the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the passage of California’s landmark Consumer Privacy Act, all in one calendar year. […].
Threatpost
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Conference showcases cutting-edge cybersecurity research, hacking collectives and art.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 28, 2018
This is almost over : From 1 December 2018 -- 6 January 2019, Days of Adriatic squid will take place at restaurants all over north-west Istria. Restaurants will be offering affordable full-course menus based on Adriatic squid, combined with quality local olive oil and fine wines. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
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