Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2019
Infected City Fires IT Manager; New Victims in Florida, Georgia More U.S. cities and other governmental units reportedly have been hit by ransomware in an unrelenting wave that has proved profitable for hackers. Here's a roundup of the latest incidents.
Schneier on Security
JULY 2, 2019
Google has released an open-source cryptographic tool: Private Join and Compute. From a Wired article : Private Join and Compute uses a 1970s methodology known as "commutative encryption" to allow data in the data sets to be encrypted with multiple keys, without it mattering which order the keys are used in. This is helpful for multiparty computation, where you need to apply and later peel away multiple layers of encryption without affecting the computations performed on the encrypted data.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2019
Campaign Targeted Those Interested in Libyan Politics Malicious actors are increasingly using social media platforms to spread malware to unsuspecting victims. In the latest incident, Facebook removed more than 30 pages from its platform after security analysts with Check Point Research found that a hacker had loaded them with malware.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 2, 2019
Opinion: We've been assured that facial recognition technology is secure, reliable, and accurate. That's far from certain.
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
JULY 2, 2019
What Trends Does the Breach List Reveal So Far in 2019? With half of 2019 in the rear-view mirror, what are the emerging healthcare data breach trends so far this year? Hacker/IT incidents continue to be the dominant cause of breaches, while another formerly common cause - lost or stolen devices - has become relatively rare, according to the federal tally.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 2, 2019
Cloud-Based Databases Belonged to IT Firm Attunity Several unsecured Amazon S3 buckets belonging to IT services firm Attunity left at least 1 TB of data, including files from companies such as Netflix, TD Bank and Ford, exposed to the internet, UpGuard researchers disclosed. Although the databases have been secured, an investigation is continuing.
Dark Reading
JULY 2, 2019
The common belief that encryption enables bad behavior primarily used by thieves, international terrorists, and other villainous characters is simply not true. Here's why.
Data Matters
JULY 2, 2019
Sidley was honored as the Data – Security “Firm of the Year” at the 2019 Who’s Who Legal Awards. Click here for more information on our Privacy and Cybersecurity practice. The post Sidley Honored at 2019 Who’s Who Legal Awards appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.
Adam Levin
JULY 2, 2019
The former CIO of Equifax has been sentenced to prison for selling his stock in the company before news of its 2017 data breach was publicly announced. Jun Ying, the former Chief Information Office of Equifax U.S. Information Solutions, sold his shares in the company for over $950,000 ten days before the company admitted that its data had been accessed by hackers.
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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.
Dark Reading
JULY 2, 2019
The Florida city approved its insurer to pay $460,000 in ransom for a cyberattack that shut down servers, email, and phone.
Security Affairs
JULY 2, 2019
US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command : USCYBERCOM has discovered active malicious use of CVE-2017-11774 and recommends immediate #patching. Malware is currently delivered from: 'hxxps://customermgmt.net/page/macrocosm' #cybersecurity #infosec — USCYBERCOM Malware Alert (@CNMF_VirusAl
OpenText Information Management
JULY 2, 2019
There is a lot of buzz in the market around AI. However, does it justify the investment? Here at OpenText™ we regularly speak with leading companies who are interested in partnering with us and deploying OpenText™ Magellan™ to embark on their AI journey. But when it comes to making the investment in the platform and … The post Are predictive analytics and machine learning platforms worth the investment?
Jamf
JULY 2, 2019
With Apple’s launch of Apple Business Manager, will you still need Jamf Now to manage your devices? If you use Jamf Now, should you also use Apple Business Manager? The short answer: Yes!
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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.
Dark Reading
JULY 2, 2019
How writing patterns, online activities, and other unintentional identifiers can be used in cyber offense and defense.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 2, 2019
To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me.
Dark Reading
JULY 2, 2019
A wave of new MacOS malware over the past month includes a zero-day exploit and other attack code.
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 2, 2019
UK inquiry looking at whether video-sharing app breaches data protection law The video-sharing app TikTok is under investigation in the UK for how it handles the personal data of its young users, and whether it prioritises the safety of children on its social network. Elizabeth Denham, the information commissioner, told a parliamentary committee the investigation began in February, prompted by a multi million-dollar fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for similar violations.
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Dark Reading
JULY 2, 2019
Staying ahead can feel impossible, but understanding that perfection is impossible can free you to make decisions about managing risk.
Security Affairs
JULY 2, 2019
Some court websites of a Georgia state were brought offline after their systems were infected by ransomware in a cyber attack. A Georgia state agency confirmed that a cyberattack has brought offline some court websites. According to local media, hackers infected the systems of the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts with ransomware, “News outlets report hackers demanding a ransom infected computers with malware at the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts.” reported the
Dark Reading
JULY 2, 2019
'PASTA' hardware and software kit now retails for $28,300.
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 2, 2019
Minister and former MP ask watchdog to investigate and party chair to launch inquiry A minister and a former Conservative MP have asked the information watchdog to investigate whether Boris Johnson’s campaign to become party leader is breaching data protection laws. Harriet Baldwin, a foreign office minister, and Ben Howlett, a former MP for Bath, have also asked the party’s chair, Brandon Lewis, to launch an inquiry after receiving allegedly unsolicited requests for support from the BackBoris.c
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Threatpost
JULY 2, 2019
A new malware is targeting Macs with new tactics to sniff out antivirus and virtual machines.
Reltio
JULY 2, 2019
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Threatpost
JULY 2, 2019
IBM has disclosed multiple critical and high-severity flaws across an array of products, the most severe of which exist in its IBM Spectrum Protect tool.
Security Affairs
JULY 2, 2019
Firefox finally addressed the issues with antivirus apps crashing HTTPS websites starting with the release of Firefox 68. Mozilla announced that it will resolve the issues that caused antivirus apps crashing HTTPs websites with the release of Firefox 68 version. The problems began after the release of Firefox 65 in December 2018, since then experts observed a significant increase in a certain type of TLS error that is triggered by the interaction of antivirus software with the browser.
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Information Management Resources
JULY 2, 2019
California, Washington DC and New York are dolling out the highest salaries for data scientists, data analysts, data engineers and machine learning pros.
Threatpost
JULY 2, 2019
Google fixed several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in its Android operating system.
IBM Big Data Hub
JULY 2, 2019
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