Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2019

A serious DoS flaw affects several industrial automation products manufactured by the Yokogawa Electric. The DoS vulnerability in several Yokogawa Electric products affects the Open Communication Driver for Vnet/IP, a real-time plant network system for process automation. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-16196, could be exploited by an attacker to stop communication function of Vnet/IP Open Communication Driver triggering a DoS condition.

Agriculture 89

Agriculture Manufacturing Communications Paper 89

WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 5, 2019

A rogue PewDiePie fan, Marriott hack details, and more of the week's top security news.

Security 60

Security 60

InfoGovNuggets

JANUARY 5, 2019

“Three Former Credit Suisse Bankers Arrested for Involvement in Mozambique Debt Deals,” The Wall Street Journal , January 4, 2019. “The indictment alleges that the former employees worked to defeat the bank’s internal controls, acted out of a motive of personal profit and sought to hide these activities from the bank.”. Normally, an employer is liable for the acts of its employees.

Compliance 28

Compliance Government IT 28

Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2019

Victims of the Aurora Ransomware could use a decryptor tool developed by the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie to decrypt their data for free. Good news for the victims of the Aurora Ransomware, there are many variants of this Windows malware but most of the victims have been infected by the version that appends the.Nano extension to the encrypted files.

Ransomware 92

Ransomware Encryption Archiving Access 92

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.

IT

InfoGovNuggets

JANUARY 5, 2019

Starting out the New Year with a story highlighting the three major aspects of this blog: the intersections between Governance, Compliance, and Information. “Equifax Is Back in Washington’s Crosshairs,” The Wall Street Journal , January 2, 2019. Congress planning new legislation for credit-reporting companies after the Equifax hack affecting nearly 150 million people.

Government 28

Government Compliance Privacy 28

InfoGovNuggets

JANUARY 5, 2019

“Fentanyl’s New Foe: A Quick Test Strip That Can Prevent Overdoses,” The Wall Street Journal , January 3, 2019. You can now check your illicit drugs to see if they’ve been adulterated with fentanyl. So, there’s a business value in providing people a test to establish that what they bought is what they thought they bought. Is this also Information Governance?

Information governance 28

Information governance Government 28

InfoGovNuggets

JANUARY 5, 2019

“Congo Keeps Voters in the Dark About Election Results,” The Wall Street Journal , January 3, 2019. Government blocks the internet while votes are being counted. Certainly, a Governance issue, with incumbent government having the power (if not the right) to do this, and the government does have control of the process. And this does involve Information, both as to the results of the vote and the public discussion of the process in the interim, but also aspects of collection of and

Government 28

Government Compliance Access 28

InfoGovNuggets

JANUARY 5, 2019

“Popular Weather App Collects Too Much User Data, Security Experts Say,” The Wall Street Journal , January 3, 2019. Weather App in the US, Canada, and third-world countries collects your location, your email address, and your phone’s device id; all this information is stored on severs in China. Also reports of forcing users to subscribe to other services, at a cost.

Information governance 28

Information governance Compliance Government Security 28