Data Breach Today
JULY 10, 2018
Federal Agency Offers Insights on Vulnerability Mitigation; Others Weigh In Federal regulators are reminding organizations about the importance of identifying and patching software vulnerabilities. But why are these seemingly basic security steps so challenging for so many?
eSecurity Planet
JULY 10, 2018
VIDEO: Dirk Hohndel, VP and Chief Open-Source Officer at VMware, talks about how dev security should be done, whether the code is open source or proprietary.
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Data Breach Today
JULY 10, 2018
Breach Underlines Need for Strong Authentication in Cloud Services Timehop, an application that revives older social media posts, says the lack of multifactor authentication on a cloud services account led to a data breach affecting 21 million users. The breach exposed names, email addresses, phone numbers and access tokens Timehop used to read information from accounts.
Krebs on Security
JULY 10, 2018
Microsoft and Adobe each issued security updates for their products today. Microsoft’s July patch batch includes 14 updates to fix more than 50 security flaws in Windows and associated software. Separately, Adobe has pushed out an update for its Flash Player browser plugin, as well as a monster patch bundle for Adobe Reader/Acrobat. According to security firm Qualys , all but two of the “critical” fixes in this round of updates apply to vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s b
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.
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 10, 2018
Firm fined £500k for lack of transparency and failing to protect users’ information Facebook is to be fined £500,000, the maximum amount possible, for its part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal , the information commissioner has announced. The fine is for two breaches of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded that Facebook failed to safeguard its users’ information and that it failed to be transparent about how that data was harvested by others.
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Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
Threat actor Magecart has infiltrated over 800 e-commerce sites with card skimming software installed on third-party software components, RiskIQ says.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 10, 2018
Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.
Schneier on Security
JULY 10, 2018
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, are able to recover user passwords by way of thermal imaging. The tech is pretty straightforward, but it's interesting to think about the types of scenarios in which it might be pulled off. Abstract: As a warm-blooded mammalian species, we humans routinely leave thermal residues on various objects with which we come in contact.
WIRED Threat Level
JULY 10, 2018
The bug serves as a reminder of China-friendly censorship code hidden in all iOS devices.
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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.
The Guardian Data Protection
JULY 10, 2018
And why was Facebook fined so little? Facebook fined for data breaches in Cambridge Analytica scandal In March 2017 the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced an inquiry into how voters’ data was being obtained and used by political campaigns following the Observer’s early investigative reports into Cambridge Analytica. Related: Facebook fined for data breaches in Cambridge Analytica scandal Continue reading.
Information Governance Perspectives
JULY 10, 2018
Amb-Dr. Oyedokun Ayodeji Oyewole is the Chairman of the Board at the Institute of Information Management (IIM) based in Nigeria. Prior to leading the institute, he spent years in IT and cyber-security roles for Swedish firms and consulting for the Oil and Gas industry. Dr. Oyewole is both an accomplished Records and Information Management practitioner and a fierce advocate for the discipline.
Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
A DNS attack can have an outsize impact on the targeted organization - or organizations. Here's how to make hackers' lives much more difficult.
OpenText Information Management
JULY 10, 2018
A ‘Mundus Novus’ – or new world – of competing and conflicting macro-trends is converging to pose unprecedented challenges for businesses today. Delivering the opening keynote on day one of OpenText™ Enterprise World 2018 in Toronto, our Vice-chair, CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea told over 4000 delegates that “The new demands of a millennial workforce, the … The post OpenText Enterprise World 2018 – Day One appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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 10, 2018
New Accenture study finds half of businesses provide cybersecurity training for new hires and only 40% of CISOs prioritize building or expanding insider threat programs.
Threatpost
JULY 10, 2018
The company issued fixes for 111 vulnerabilities in products spanning from Flash Player, Acrobat and Reader, Experience Manager, to Adobe Connect.
Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
Large sporting events are always going to be targets, but the fact that the competition is in Russia adds another layer of concern. Here are three tips to stay safer.
CGI
JULY 10, 2018
Six big takeaways for financial institutions from CBA LIVE. pallavi.m@cgi.com. Tue, 07/10/2018 - 04:34. As a consulting executive, I help clients in the banking industry on everything from their vision for digital transformation, to the nitty-gritty of implementation and execution. While it’s good to have this level of focus with individual clients, I also appreciate the chance to step back and see what else is going on in this dynamic sector.
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Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published data on the most prolific threat groups and campaigns, compiled from private intelligence reports developed this quarter.
The Security Ledger
JULY 10, 2018
Voice based interfaces are growing in popularity, complexity and influence. But securing these interfaces has, thus far, been an afterthought. If we are destined to interact with the smart systems around us using our voice, how exactly will we manage to authenticate to those devices? In this podcast we speak with Ben Rafferty of the firm Semafone. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Episode 100: Estonia’s Former CIO talks about engineering a secure electronic vote Fitness apps: Go
Info Source
JULY 10, 2018
Princeton, N.J./New York, N.Y., July 9, 2018 – National-ranking audit, tax and advisory firm WithumSmith+Brown PC (Withum) has announced the formation of a Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Services Group to address the unique challenges posed by digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. As an extension of the firm’s Technology Services Group, the team provides a deep level of expertise to a diverse client base involved with and entering into today’s new alternative as
The Security Ledger
JULY 10, 2018
Fitness apps are proving to be a lot less beneficial to military security than they are for military fitness. That after researchers in the Netherlands discovered that data from the Polar fitness app revealed the homes and habits of those exercising in clandestine locations around the world, including intelligence agencies, military bases, nuclear. Read the whole entry. » Related Stories Mobile, automation-industry leaders promote two new IoT security efforts Evasive new botnet can take ove
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Threatpost
JULY 10, 2018
Researchers released a workaround for Apple's USB Restricted Mode security feature the same day it was rolled out.
Information Management Resources
JULY 10, 2018
Organizations need to quickly adapt to the evolving and ever-changing information management environment or they face the risk of being left behind the competition.
Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
Purchase adds layers to privileged access management system.
Threatpost
JULY 10, 2018
Microsoft patches 17 critical bugs and 34 important bugs as part of its monthly security bulletin.
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Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.
Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
Patch Tuesday includes 53 security updates, including mitigation for the latest side-channel attack.
eDiscovery Daily
JULY 10, 2018
We’re just a little over a month away from ILTACON 2018 , one of the most important conferences every year in the legal technology world. This year’s conference is at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center at National Harbor, MD. CloudNine will be exhibiting at the conference and I will be speaking at the conference! More on that to come later.
Dark Reading
JULY 10, 2018
Terms of the deal - which closes in Q3 - were not disclosed.
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