Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Police Want More Help From Cryptocurrency Exchanges During Major Investigations Criminals in Europe are annually laundering at least $4 billion - and growing - via cryptocurrencies, warns Europol. The agency is calling on regulators and legislators to regulate cryptocurrencies to help battle money laundering and protect consumers.
AIIM
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
When I was a young child, in an era when school papers had to be researched in libraries with card catalogs and shelves upon shelves of books, my father had the bright idea to purchase a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. Now, we lived on a tight budget and my mother wasn’t too thrilled with this splurge when a perfectly good library was so close to home.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Cyber Incidents Grow, But Low-Tech Breaches Still a Challenge A look at some of the United Kingdom's recent health data breach statistics shows some interesting similarities to the U.S., despite differences in the two countries' health systems and breach reporting practices.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
The "Protect" menu item in Facebook's mobile apps refers users to the company's Onavo Protect VPN, but the tool falls short of basic privacy standards.
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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 15, 2018
Browsealoud Subversion Points to Larger Trust Issues With Third-Party Code Attackers recently snuck cryptomining code onto thousands of websites by inserting it into a third-party accessibility plug-in called Browsealoud. Web specifications designed to guard against these types of rogue actions by third-party code libraries already exist. Why aren't more sites using them?
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Another day, another breach. It’s sarcastic, it’s comical, but it’s also real. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity.
TAB OnRecord
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
When Colorado approved the retail sale of marijuana in 2013, the City & County of Denver was hit with a massive influx of applications from hopeful retailers. In a two-part blog post we show how they dealt with the backlog and redesigned their business process in the new era of legalized marijuana sales. In part [.] Read More. The post City & County of Denver: How to redesign a document-intensive business process – Part 2 appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
One of the most common challenges e-tailers face today is high cart abandonment rates. According to a 2017 Baymard study, the average cart abandonment rate is just over 69%. Without a doubt, the high abandonment rate signifies a serious disconnect between visitor expectations and their actual online buying experience. So the question then becomes, what is causing that … The post How to decrease shopping cart abandonment using AB testing appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
From SMS notifications to an egregious number of emails, the social media company's desperation has gone too far.
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 Governance
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Cyber security spending continues to rise steadily but many organisations are failing to upgrade essential tools to identify and respond to threats, a study from consultancy company Ovum has found. The report, Business Has a Crucial Need for Continuous Threat Visibility and Cybersecurity Management Services , found that 31% of respondents relied solely on outdated cyber security tools, such as basic search and monitoring.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Despite its Olympics diplomacy towards the South, the Kim regime is still engaged in brazen cybercrime targeting its neighbor.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
With only a few months until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect, it is vital that your organisation is compliant. One requirement of the Regulation is that organisations map their data flows to assess their privacy risks. Organisations need to be aware of what personal data they process and ensure this processing is in accordance with the law.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
A look at top vendors in the market for web security gateway solutions, a critical tool for defending against web threats.
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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.
Rippleshot
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
While the Equifax breach has dominated headlines about fears over credit card fraud and identity theft, there are many less widely-reported incidents that occur on a much more regular basis. The real impact of financial fraud is its long-lasting effect once a consumer’s personal credentials are compromised. From tracking down where and when the fraud occurred, how much damage was done, and what other records may have been breached, credit card fraud presents plenty of expensive headaches for bot
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
In a recent video, Hunton & Williams LLP’s partner Manuel (“Bing”) Maisog discusses the Standardization Administration of China’s recent specifications for security standards in China. The specifications will come into effect on May 1, 2018, and will act as a best practices guide for the collection and use of personal information. Bing provides an overview of the specifications, and also asserts that because the specifications are more straightforward and easy to understand than compulsory
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
In the last few weeks, Gold Lowell group has collected over $350K after infecting victims with SamSam crypto malware, researchers at Secureworks found.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Good Washington Post op-ed on the need to use voter-verifiable paper ballots to secure elections, as well as risk-limiting audits.
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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 15, 2018
Malicious e-mail attachments used in this campaign don’t display any warnings when opened and silently install malware.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
And the spinoff bots - and all their command and control hostnames buried in the morass of digital data - are hilarious.
Preservica
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
YaleNews - Euan Cochrane, digital preservation manager at Yale University Library discusses their emulation project that will establish a shareable infrastructure, providing on-demand access to old software and recreating the original software environment on a current-day device. "Digital preservationists at Yale University Library are building a shareable “emulation as a service” infrastructure to resurrect thousands of obsolete software programs and ensure that the information produced on them
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Research group Javelin confirms that the numbers are trending in the right direction, with total fraud losses dropping more than 14% to $783 million.
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The Texas Record
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
We are pleased to announce the State Records Management Education Materials have been updated and are available on the Records Management Interagency Coordinating Council (RMICC) website. In 2014, RMICC identified a need to broadly disseminate information about records management requirements at state agencies and universities. Also, the council determined a need for a second document to address legislators’ and legislative records.
National Archives Records Express
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
As we announced in a previous post , we are requesting comments on two draft documents as part of our Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). The documents are the Electronic Records Management Federal Integrated Business Framework (ERM-FIBF) and the Use Cases for Electronic Messages. We would like to receive feedback from a variety of stakeholders, so please share widely.
Hanzo Learning Center
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
From January 31 to Februrary 1, the Hanzo team was onsite at LegalTech 2018 to gain valuable industry insight and to meet with our customers. Take a look at our recap below to see some of the highlights of the event.
Data Protection Report
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
On January 16, 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court unilaterally created a new state law cause of action for violation of a patient’s health care privacy. ( Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics & Gynecology, P.C. , 327 Conn. 540, __ A.3d __ (Jan. 16, 2018)). Particularly noteworthy is the new standard for a physician’s level of care: compliance with HIPAA.
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Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
New details on old cyberattacks originating from North Korea indicate several forms of malware unintentionally spread wider than authors intended.
eSecurity Planet
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
A look at top vendors in the market for web security gateway solutions, a critical tool for defending against web threats.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Security experts need a front-row seat in the application development process but not at the expense of the business.
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