IT Governance

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

Researchers Say Proxy Machine Can Bypass Transaction Limits Via Man-in-the-Middle Attack A newly discovered vulnerability in Visa's contactless payment cards could allow fraudsters to bypass payment limits of 30 British pounds ($37) at U.K. banks, according to researchers at Positive Technologies, who claim the vulnerability could be exploited in other countries as well.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Company officials at Capital One Financial Corp ought to have a crystal clear idea of what to expect next — after admitting to have allowed a gargantuan data breach. Capital One’s mea culpa coincided with the FBI’s early morning raid of a Seattle residence to arrest Paige Thompson. Authorities charged the 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer with masterminding the hack.

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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.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

Report Also Highlights Cybersecurity Concerns About Use of Equipment Made in China The U.S. Department of Defense has purchased IT gear known to have significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities, according to a new inspector general audit, which also highlights concerns about the use of equipment manufactured in China.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

Experts: Problems at VA Medical Center Are Common at Many Healthcare Entities A watchdog agency review of a VA medical center in California spotlights security issues involving medical device "workarounds" that some experts say are common but often overlooked or underestimated risks.

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AIIM

AUGUST 1, 2019

It is common to take great care in the selection and implementation of new technology. Interactions between hardware and software are cautiously investigated; operating systems and network connections are carefully tested, and uptime on critical systems is painstakingly protected. But one very influential factor that is often overlooked is the natural and emotional reactions of people when things change.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

Settlement Stems From Flaws in Video Surveillance Software Sold to Government Agencies Cisco has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that claimed the networking company sold video surveillance software to local, state and federal agencies over a six-year period that contained serious security vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Cisco is going to pay $8.6 million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. Back in 2008, a whistle-blower identifies a vulnerability in Cisco video surveillance software, but the tech giant continued to sell the software to US agencies until July 2013. The case was filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of New York and was handled under the False Claims Act, which specifically addresses fraud and misconduct in federal government contr

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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.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

A security consultant reported vulnerabilities in Cisco's Video Surveillance Manager in 2009 - but the company ignored the issues and fired the consultant.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a new Mirai Botnet that has command and control server in the Tor network to make takedowns hard. Experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new Mirai Botnet that uses a Command and Control hidden in the Tor Network, a choice that protects the anonymity of the operators and makes takedowns operated by law enforcement hard. “Barely a month since discovering a new Miori variant , we found another new Mirai sample through our research.” reads th

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Threatpost

AUGUST 1, 2019

Researchers are warning that unpatched flaws found in the Hickory Smart Bluetooth Enabled Deadbolt allow an attacker with access to a victim's phone to break into their houses.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

Security researchers at Dragos Inc have tracked the activity of a threat actor recently discovered and dubbed Hexane. Security experts at Dragos Inc. have discovered a new threat actor, tracked as Hexane, that is targeting organizations in the oil and gas industry and telecommunication providers. The Hexane group has been active since at least the middle of 2018, it intensified its activity since early 2019 with an escalation of tensions within the Middle East. “Dragos identified a new act

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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.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

Staying on top of the latest cybersecurity risks and preferred attack methods can feel impossible, but standards like FIDO2 are designed to help relieve the burden.

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Jamf

AUGUST 1, 2019

According to a recent study Jamf commissioned, here are 7 reasons why retail mobile technology is growing in 2019. A powerful Mobile Device Management (MDM) system is key to keeping it all running smoothly.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 1, 2019

IBM’s integrated platform for Data & AI, which is 100% complimentary to Red Hat offerings. It runs on OpenShift today and has a hardware version called Cloud Pak for Data System. The beauty of Cloud Pak for Data is that it includes all of IBM’s strategic Data and AI services – including Watson – as one integrated offering. This allows customers to consume what they need in a cloud-native fashion on the infrastructure of their choice (on-prem, IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure and more) and build persona

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

Online card-skimming activities grew sharply this summer fueled by the availability of attack kits and other factors, Malwarebytes says.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

MICROCHIPS Act ( S. 2316 ) – Two US Senators have introduced a bill to protect US government supply chain against foreign sabotage and cyber espionage. Two US senators have introduced legislation a bill, dubbed Manufacturing, Investment and Controls Review for Computer Hardware, Intellectual Property and Supply ACT (MICROCHIPS Act – S. 2316) that aims at protecting US government supply chain against foreign sabotage and cyber espionage.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

Security teams often look to technology to solve their security challenges. Yet sometimes investing in new products can create more issues.

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Preservica

AUGUST 1, 2019

Preservica , the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, has been selected by the Colorado State Archives (CSA) to preserve and streamline access to all mandated permanent records generated by Colorado government agencies, divisions, courts, special districts and other entities. The initial project will include more than 50 terabytes of audio recordings of the Colorado State General Assembly proceedings from 1973-2012.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

The agency this week will share the source code and hardware specifications for the secure voting system prototypes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

South Korea is the largest victim of card present data theft at a time when criminals are ramping up cyberattacks in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 1, 2019

The complaint claims the networking giant knowingly sold bug-riddled software to federal and state governments, that would allow complete network compromise.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

Protection failures come at a time when malicious Android software is becoming more of a problem.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since the European Commission unveiled a proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation in January 2017, this new piece of legislation, aiming to adapt rules on electronic communications and cookies, has undergone many iterations. The European Parliament has left its version untouched since October 2017, and in the meantime the Council of the EU has regularly published changes of its own (reflecting points of divergence between the various EU Member States).

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 1, 2019

To keep your turnover low, focus on these areas: compensation, advancement opportunities, training, and environment.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2019

This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms. These algorithms will be continually updated from a central cloud service, but will run locally on the user's device, scanning each cleartext message before it is sent and each encrypted message after it is dec

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