Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2019
Facebook Under Fresh Scrutiny Over How It Stored User Passwords Facebook has corrected an internal security issue that allowed the company to store millions of user passwords in plaintext that were then available to employees through an internal search tool.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 21, 2019
Unless you decide to go Henry David Thoreau and shun civilization altogether, you can’t — and won’t — stop generating data , which sooner or later can be traced back to you. Related: The Facebook factor. A few weeks back I interviewed a white hat hacker. After the interview, I told him that his examples gave me paranoia. He laughed and responded, “There’s no such thing as anonymous data; it all depends on how determined the other party is.”.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2019
Third Time is the Charm as Orange County Keeps Having to Recover? Attackers have hit North Carolina's Orange County with ransomware for the third time in six years. Government officials say IT teams have been working overtime to restore systems, and that no data has been lost.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 21, 2019
As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, hackers will poke and prod at the web applications companies rely on – and find fresh weaknesses they can exploit. Related: Cyber spies feast on government shut down. Companies are scaling up their use of web apps as they strive to integrate digital technology into every aspect of daily business operation.
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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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2019
Bedding Retailers May Not Be Sleeping Soundly Script-based payment card malware continues its successful run, impacting a range of e-commerce sites, security researchers warn. With fraudsters continuing to refine their tactics, countering card-sniffing scripts continues to be difficult.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2019
Third-Party Vendor at Center of Breach An incident involving a third-party vendor migrating a server containing archived email of a medical device provider has resulted in a reported health data breach impacting more than 277,000 individuals. What went wrong?
IT Governance
MARCH 21, 2019
You might have heard increased chatter recently about the need for an EU representative under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). This rule applies to any organisation outside the EU that monitors the behaviour of, or provides goods or services to, EU residents. The representative will be a point of contact for data subjects and supervisory authorities concerning data protection queries.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2019
Gangs Help Each Other to Distribute and Disguise Trojans and Ransomware Emotet pushes Ryuk, GandCrab taps NTCrypt, and BokBot borrows from Trickbot. With millions to be potentially stolen from victims, is it any wonder that malware-wielding gangs continue to get a little help from their cybercrime friends?
Security Affairs
MARCH 21, 2019
Pwn2Own 2019 hacking competition is started and participants hacked Apple Safari browser, Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Workstation on the first day. As you know I always cover results obtained by white hat hackers at hacking competitions, for this reason, today I’ll share with you the results of the first day of the Pwn2Own 2019. Pwn2Own 2019 is the hacking competition organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that is taking place in Vancouver, Canada, alongside the CanSecWest c
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
MARCH 21, 2019
Mohan Koo of Dtex Systems on the Roles of People and Analytics Enterprises are getting wiser to understanding the insider threat. But mitigating it? That remains a challenge - especially at a large scale. Mohan Koo of Dtex Systems talks about how to blend human and data analytics to address the challenge.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 21, 2019
The Daily Beast is reporting that First Look Media -- home of The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald -- is shutting down access to the Snowden archives. The Intercept was the home for Greenwald's subset of Snowden's NSA documents since 2014, after he parted ways with the Guardian the year before. I don't know the details of how the archive was stored, but it was offline and well secured -- and it was available to journalists for research purposes.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2019
Terranova's Lise Lapointe on How Cybersecurity Awareness Must Evolve As CEO of Terranova Security, an awareness training provider, Lise Lapointe sees an evolution of education programs that used to be merely phishing simulation tests. What are the most effective forms of training?
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 21, 2019
Facebook has disclosed that it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext, where employees could search them.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2019
The social media giant said that it is notifying users whose passwords it stored in plain text, which made them accessible for Facebook employees to view.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 21, 2019
In December 2018, the second edition of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Legal Holds was published with new guidelines for implementing an effective legal hold program. The Sedona Conference is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to the advanced study of law and policy in the areas of antitrust law, complex litigation, and intellectual … The post Practical guidance on implementing an effective legal hold program appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2019
On the first day of Pwn2Own 2019 hackers poked holes in Apple Safari, VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox.
Dark Reading
MARCH 21, 2019
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being weaponized using the same logic and functionality that legitimate organizations use.
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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.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2019
The most serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's 8800 Series IP Phones could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to conduct a cross-site request forgery attack or write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
DXC Technology
MARCH 21, 2019
There are some very smart hackers out there with access to the latest techniques and exploits, but time and again it has been observed that attackers don’t need to deploy the latest and greatest because they can achieve their goals with the older and basic. Why bother with something complex or burn a new tool […].
ITPro.TV
MARCH 21, 2019
Last September, at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Microsoft showcased several new role-based certifications. As an early adopter, I naturally was excited to learn about the new certifications and began researching and preparing to take the AZ-100 and AZ-101 certification exams. I have already sat and passed the AZ-100 exam, and I have begun preparing to … Continue reading What is going on over at Microsoft?
Synergis Software
MARCH 21, 2019
Engineering document management (EDM) systems are a big investment. But while a poorly planned and implemented EDM rollout can cause lost productivity and delays, a successful implementation can help your organization streamline workflows, cut costs, and much more—in other words, the benefits greatly outweigh the risks. In this second installment of the Top 11 Mistakes to Avoid, we’ll be covering the final six mishaps our Applications Consultants see companies make during Adept implementations—a
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DXC Technology
MARCH 21, 2019
Par Mattis Vimard, consultant Digital Strategy, DXC Technology D’après une étude de 1995, menée par la Harvard Business Review, 70% des changements organisationnels n’atteindraient pas leurs objectifs. Plus de vingt ans après ce constat, la vision de l’entreprise s’avère encore éloignée des aspirations individuelles des collaborateurs. Les résistances aux changements restent l’un des principaux freins […].
John Battelle's Searchblog
MARCH 21, 2019
Do you know this person? Might it be you? Over the years I’ve found some of the best business partners by posting on this site. The overall audience for Searchblog has waxed and waned, but I’m deeply appreciative that there’s a core group of you who still watch this feed to see whatever it is I happen to be thinking about. You may have noticed I’ve not been posting as much as I normally do, and there’s a reason for that.
Threatpost
MARCH 21, 2019
The plugin, Social Warfare, is no longer listed after a cross site scripting flaw was found being exploited in the wild.
Dark Reading
MARCH 21, 2019
The group now employs a new administrative interface for managing its campaigns, as well as documents that link to SQL databases for downloading its code.
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WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 21, 2019
Critics point out serious flaws in a study promising an "online polygraph," with potential to create deep biases.
Information Management Resources
MARCH 21, 2019
By 2030, 80 percent of the work of today’s project management discipline will be eliminated as AI takes on traditional PM functions such as data collection, tracking and reporting.
Hunton Privacy
MARCH 21, 2019
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP has issued a white paper on Ten Principles for a Revised U.S. Privacy Framework (the “White Paper”). CIPL believes that the use of personal information and privacy can most effectively be regulated at the federal level, and puts forward ten principles that should be included in any new federal privacy framework to ensure appropriate protection for consumers while facilitating the digital economy, innovation and the
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