Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Policies Offer Incentives for Good Information Security Practices Apple and Cisco say they've partnered with insurers Aon and Allianz to offer cyber insurance policies for organizations that meet best security practices and use products from the technology companies. The partnership follows increasing interest in cyber insurance as a hedge against hacking risks.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
This past month, CEOs, elected leaders and academics from around the globe gathered at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the world’s most pressing problems including technological change, global trade, education, sustainability, and gender equality. As in previous years, digital transformation remained a key theme at the event as well as discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies impacting the workforce.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
US Secret Service Alert: ATM Attackers Are Dressing Like Diebold Technicians The Department of Justice has charged two men, arrested in Connecticut near the scene of a jackpotting attack against a drive-up ATM, with bank fraud stemming from a malware attack. Police say they recovered $9,000 in $20 bills, as well a black box and other equipment from the suspects' car.
Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
I was recently asked to conduct a 2-hour workshop for the State of California Senior Legislators on the topic of “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy.” Honored by the privilege of offering my perspective on these critical topics, I shared with my home-state legislators how significant opportunities await the state. I reviewed the once-in-a-generation opportunities awaiting the great State of California (“the State”), where decision makers could vastly improve their constituents’ qualit
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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
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Lauri Love Wins Appeal, But Faces Prosecution in England Lauri Love, a British man accused of 2012 and 2013 hack attacks against U.S. government computers - including systems operated by the Federal Reserve, U.S. Army and NASA - has won his legal bid to quash a U.S. extradition request. But he still faces a potential trial in England.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Policies Offer Incentives for Good Information Security Practices Apple and Cisco say they've partnered with insurers Aon and Allianz to offer cyber insurance policies for organizations that meet best security practices and use products from the technology companies. The partnership follows increasing interest in cyber insurance as a hedge against hacking risks.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
We’re now less than five months away from the required compliance date of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Organizations that have EU residents as customers, suppliers or partners are required to be in compliance by May 2018. For legislation that has received so much publicity, it’s surprising how unprepared many organizations are for … The post Data discovery: the first step to GDPR compliance appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
But the response to the new hacking tool, now readily available to the masses of script kiddies, has been a mix of outrage, fear, some applause, and more than a few shrugs.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Learn about this emerging attack method and how it's impacting organizations around the world in this eSecurityPlanet series.
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.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
The Guardian is reporting that "every NHS trust assessed for cyber security vulnerabilities has failed to meet the standard required.". This is the same NHS that was debilitated by WannaCry.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
In Senate hearing, Uber CISO admits company messed up in not quickly disclosing breach that exposed data on 57 million people.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
The adoption of machine learning and the need for access to data beyond just data science team is changing how many firms approach information warehousing.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Companies overlook critical security steps as they move to adopt the latest cloud applications and services.
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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.
Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
I was recently asked to conduct a 2-hour workshop for the State of California Senior Legislators on the topic of “ Big Data , Artificial Intelligence and Privacy.” Honored by the privilege of offering my perspective on these critical topics, I shared with my home-state legislators how significant opportunities await the state. I reviewed the once-in-a-generation opportunities awaiting the great State of California (“the State”), where decision makers could vastly improve their constituents’ qual
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Survey reports that the number of fraud victims topped 16 million consumers last year, and much of that crime has moved online.
Information is Currency
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
A governance program can benefit an organization because it does the following: Facilitates strategic planning and efficient decision-making. Builds a common understanding of the content and users’ technology. Provides a forum for users to advocate for their needs. Establishes clear user feedback and support channels. Grows understanding of required roles and responsibilities.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Five mega-breaches last year accounted for more than 72% of all data records exposed in 2017.
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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
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Octoly's incident response was sorely lacking, says the Upguard researcher who found the exposed repository.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Critical flaw is one of two critical use-after-free vulnerabilities in Flash fixed today by the software firm.
Threatpost
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
The vulnerability has a CVSS base score of 10.0, the highest possible, and now affects 15 products.
eDiscovery Daily
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
We’ve completed another LegalTech New York (LTNY) (a subset of “Legalweek”). What did attendees at the conference think about this year’s show? Let’s take a look. As I’ve done the past couple of years, I reached out to several attendees (some of whom I met with during the show) to get their thoughts and impressions of this year’s show. As always, these should be taken as their personal opinions and observations regarding the show, not those of their employer or clients.
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Archives Blogs
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
An article recently appeared in the media about allegations of serious sexual harassment by former Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein. Weinstein served as the 9th Archivist of the United States from 2005 to 2008. Shortly after becoming the 10th Archivist of the United States in 2009, I learned of the allegations against Weinstein, and I was deeply disturbed by them.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
After NotPetya and severe blackouts, Ukrenergo responds with an investment in cybersecurity.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
A new study shows that the most common concerns are the risk of unauthorized access, the threat of malware infiltrations and the inability to monitor the activity of employees.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
The Windows Insider Preview Bounty Program will award between $500 and $15,000 for eligible submissions.
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Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Vicarious experience is a robust tool for getting executive buy-in. Look at what competitors have experienced and use this to make convincing arguments.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
I've been giving a bunch of thought to passwords lately. Here we have this absolute cornerstone of security - a paradigm that every single person with an online account understands - yet we see fundamentally different approaches to how services handle them. Some have strict complexity rules. Some have low max lengths. Some won't let you paste a password.
Information Management Resources
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
In effect, the technology could be used to safely on-board Internet of Things and other connected devices, registering them in a private ledger.
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