Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2018
Testing Networks With WannaCry, Petya and EternalRocks Finds Widespread Failures Simulated attacks by an information security testing firm have found that fresh WannaCry, NotPetya and EternalRocks would still rip through many an enterprise network. Here's how organizations must respond.
The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 4, 2018
Newspaper says it bought access to details from world’s largest biometric database, used to administer public services The personal information of more than a billion Indians stored in the world’s largest biometric database can be bought online for less than £6, according to an investigation by an Indian newspaper. The reported breach is the latest in a series of alleged leaks from the Aadhaar database, which has been collecting the photographs, thumbprints, retina scans and other identifying de
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2018
A look ahead at five trends that should have a significant impact on cybersecurity in 2018 is featured in the final ISMG Security Report for 2017. Cybersecurity and privacy thought leader Christopher Pierson forecasts the likely occurrences.
AIIM
JANUARY 4, 2018
Here’s your chance to get to know our AIIM18 speakers a little better before you get to San Antonio and see them live. We can’t wait to see you April 11-13th. Name John Daly. Email jdaly@stlmsd.com. LinkedIn Profile [link]. Job Title Information Governance Manager. Company Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Can you give us a sneak peek into your AIIM18 Presentation?
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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
JANUARY 4, 2018
Makers of Operating Systems, Devices and Cloud Services Rush Fixes Microprocessor makers Intel, ARM and AMD, as well as operating system and software developers and makers of smartphones and other devices, are rushing to prep, test and ship fixes for the serious CPU flaws exploitable via Meltdown and Spectre attacks.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2018
No ID Required for High-Value Purchases Through Telesales Fraudsters recently ordered a total of nine iPhones and Samsung S8s from Sprint and Verizon with my personal details. With the internet awash in stolen personally identifiable information, are mobile operators doing enough to prevent fraudulent orders?
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 4, 2018
Critics of voter ID laws have had a difficult time proving their menace in court. A new algorithm could change that.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2018
This episode of the ISMG Security Report is devoted to producer/host Eric Chabrow's recollection of the evolution of cybersecurity news and analysis during his nine years at Information Security Media Group. Chabrow is retiring after 45 years in journalism.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 4, 2018
Unlock the trusted information about your customers with MDM and empower your business analysts to search, explore and match with other data collections with governed freedom.
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
JANUARY 4, 2018
Privacy Expert Rebecca Herold Offers Trend Outlook for the New Year So, what can we expect next year? Privacy expert Rebecca Herold offers her predictions for the 11 most significant healthcare information security and privacy events that will occur throughout 2018.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 4, 2018
In its recently published report, “Five Emerging Use Cases to Drive Cloud Fax ROI”(August 2017), Gartner states, “While ad hoc use of fax is generally observed to be diminishing, enterprise use of fax for high-volume, production fax processes has remained steady, or in some cases has increased as enterprises find new use cases for the … The post Gartner declares enterprise-level cloud faxing is on the Hype Cycle Slope of Enlightenment appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 4, 2018
Why Making a Prediction Is So Difficult So what actions can we expect in 2018 from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights as it enforces the HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification rules? Making a prediction is difficult, given all the changes at HHS.
Schneier on Security
JANUARY 4, 2018
After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side-channel attacks where one process can spy on other processes. They affect computers where an untrusted browser window can execute code, phones that have multiple apps running at the same time, and cloud computing networks that run lots of different processes at once.
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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
JANUARY 4, 2018
CISOs need to precisely tailor their risk management strategies to protect the specific high-value assets of their organization; a broad-brushed approach will never work, says UK-based Kelly Bissell, managing director and global lead, Accenture Security.
IT Governance
JANUARY 4, 2018
This week, we look back at the big news from last year, and consider what the next 12 months have in store. Hello and welcome to the first IT Governance podcast of 2018. Happy new year. As it’s the first one, let’s have a brief recap of some of last year’s biggest stories, and then look ahead to what we can expect from the next 12 months. The three biggest infosec stories of 2017 were, arguably, the Yahoo data breach, the WannaCry ransomware outbreak and the Equifax data breach.
The Texas Record
JANUARY 4, 2018
Join us on Friday, January 26 in Georgetown, TX for the 2018 Winter Regional Forum hosted by the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA). Several TSLAC employees from our division as well as our archivists helped plan this exciting day of training sessions located in our own backyard. Themes for the program include: Electronic Records Management, Cyber security, Personally Identifiable Information, Risk assessment, and The Cloud.
IT Governance
JANUARY 4, 2018
Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is demonstrated by an audit of the cardholder data environment (CDE). The type of audit depends on the compliance requirements of the payment brand and the level of the merchant/service provider as defined by that brand. Level 1 merchants must have an external audit performed by a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and submit a Report on Compliance (RoC) – also commonly known as a Level 1 on-site assessment – to their acqu
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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
JANUARY 4, 2018
Intel, Amazon, ARM, Microsoft and others have shared patch updates to keep customers informed on their mitigation efforts to protect against the far reaching Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities impacting computers, servers and mobile devices worldwide. .
Dark Reading
JANUARY 4, 2018
Apple alone remains silent so far on potential impact to its products and its plans to address new side-channel attack vulnerabilities.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 4, 2018
A new study finds that nearly three in four organizations plan to incentivize employees to improve data hygiene and take accountability for compliance.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 4, 2018
Rather than scrambling to deal with attacks after the fact, companies need to focus on improving detection capabilities with tools that help them work within data laws, not outside of them.
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eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 4, 2018
2018 will bring more high-profile data breaches, with attacks and threats getting increasingly sophisticated. We outline 10 security trends to watch.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 4, 2018
The proposed Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act has its pros and cons. But it's not the only option for protecting your company's digital assets.
eDiscovery Daily
JANUARY 4, 2018
When we first started the eDiscovery Daily blog back in September 2010, it took a while for us to gain traction. In fact, we were happy when we had 100 views in a given day on the blog. Now we get several times that number daily. Even on a holiday like Christmas Day, we still considerably exceed those early blog view numbers. Back then, you could only view our blog from within our own site, but that’s not true anymore.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 4, 2018
After 10 years of development, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain that has been widely adopted.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 4, 2018
Insecure devices put your company at jeopardy. Use this checklist to stay safer.
Information Management Resources
JANUARY 4, 2018
The firm was one of only four companies in the 30-member semiconductor index to lose value in 2017.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 4, 2018
Former DHS OIG employee makes an unauthorized copy of PII data of DHS employees and parties involved in DHS OIG investigations.
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