Data Breach Today
JANUARY 21, 2019
Facebook Probed by FTC Over Failures that Enabled Cambridge Analytica Scandal The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is close to concluding its investigation into Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Washington Post reports, noting that the social network may face a record-setting fine, exceeding the $22.5 million fine the FTC in 2012 slammed on Google.
AIIM
JANUARY 21, 2019
Information is cascading down upon every organization in unprecedented volumes and forms, challenging traditional and manual concepts of records management and information stewardship. This information tsunami is happening at the very time that the process value of these digital assets is more mission-critical than ever. Every organization — regardless of industry — is now a technology organization.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 21, 2019
Attackers Combine Off-the-Shelf Hacking Tools With Legitimate Admin Utilities Banks in West Africa have been targeted by at least four hacking campaigns since mid-2017, with online attackers wielding commoditized attack tools and "living off the land" tactics to disguise their efforts, Symantec warns.
IT Governance
JANUARY 21, 2019
Google has been fined €50 million (about £44 million) by CNIL, France’s data protection regulator, for a breach of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). . It’s by far the biggest fine related to the GDPR, which took effect in May 2018 and gave regulatory bodies much stronger disciplinary powers. . What did Google do wrong? . The CNIL concluded that Google had violated the GDPR in two ways.
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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
JANUARY 21, 2019
New GAO Report Spotlights Problems and Potential Solutions Implementing standards for recording demographic data, and also sharing best practices, could help address the challenges involved in matching the right patient with all the right records, a new government study concludes.
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Schneier on Security
JANUARY 21, 2019
This is clever : Malicious apps hosted in the Google Play market are trying a clever trick to avoid detection -- they monitor the motion-sensor input of an infected device before installing a powerful banking trojan to make sure it doesn't load on emulators researchers use to detect attacks. The thinking behind the monitoring is that sensors in real end-user devices will record motion as people use them.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 21, 2019
It takes a master demagogue to weaponize unstable individuals and aim them at political enemies.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 21, 2019
If you’re an IT professional managing data, it’s time to start planning for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, also known as CCPA. The new guidelines will go into effect on January 1, 2020.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 21, 2019
Upgrades are vital for organizations to improve performance. Upgrading to the latest software version ensures systems are optimized and business continuity is protected. New features provide your users with access to the latest tools to be effective. The reality is, competitive advantage and service levels won’t increase by using yesteryear’s software, so it’s less about whether … The post Upgrading to OpenText Content Suite 16 EP5—the time is now appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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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.
IBM Big Data Hub
JANUARY 21, 2019
Every company has its own set of problems that it attempts to solve. In our case, we needed a more efficient and accurate way to identify the relationships between businesses on which we maintain data.
Security Affairs
JANUARY 21, 2019
The electronics firm Omron released a security update to address flaws in its CX-Supervisor product that can be exploited DoS attacks and remote code execution. CX-Supervisor allows to rapidly create human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems thanks to the availability of a large number of predefined functions and libraries.
The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 21, 2019
CNIL found that company failed to offer users transparent information on data use The French data protection watchdog CNIL has fined Google a record €50m (£44m) for failing to provide users with transparent and understandable information on its data use policies. For the first time, the company was fined using new terms laid out in the pan-European general data protection regulation.
Dark Reading
JANUARY 21, 2019
The fine represents the first major penalty for a US technology company under the new European regulations.
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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.
IT Governance
JANUARY 21, 2019
Committing to cyber resilience is a lot like mountaineering. When you’re getting started, the concept seems exhausting and nigh on impossible. You’re scrambling around trying your best to get staff to move away from simple passwords like ‘123456’ , yet you’re seeing organisations that have conducted sophisticated, multi-level programmes that combine data breach prevention and response.
Quest Software
JANUARY 21, 2019
Going all in to migrate to the cloud? Learn the right way from this DCIG paper on system administration practices and performance monitoring tools.( read more ).
eDiscovery Daily
JANUARY 21, 2019
This is a story that a word geek like me can really appreciate. We talk a lot on this blog about the importance of metadata to provide additional useful information in discovery productions and help minimize the risk of fraud. You wouldn’t think that the font you use on a document could expose it as a fake document, but in this case, it did. In Newser ( Alleged Fraudster Made a Really Poor Font Choice , written by Arden Dier), the choice of fonts apparently exposed a an alleged fraud scheme in
DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JANUARY 21, 2019
On 12 December 2018, the French Government issued an ordinance [1] finalizing, at the legislative level [2] , the alignment of the French Data Protection Law (“FDPL”) with the General Data Protection Regulation [3] (“GDPR”) and the Directive 2016/680 [4]. Following-up the adoption of the GDPR, the French Law No. 2018-493 related to personal data protection [5] modified the FDPL to adapt the French data protection legislative framework to the GDPR and provide for French sp
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OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 21, 2019
In a recent Adweek webinar sponsored by OpenText™ Hightail™, guest speaker Jay Pattisall, Forrester principal analyst and former agency executive, shared that agencies need to “become more nimble and responsive to their [marketing] clients to help them meet their need for growth and their need to be more customer-centric.” He added that marketers are prioritizing … The post How can agencies work better with marketers?
Micro Focus
JANUARY 21, 2019
With so many modernization discussions in the Micro Focus community and the IT world at large, we wanted to offer a quick way for customers, partners and the wider COBOL community to get a quick download of recent discussions, assets and events. Covering all things Modernization, our new Did You Know newsletter, new for 2019, View Article.
The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 21, 2019
My brother Peter Driscoll, who has died aged 71 of pancreatitis and cancer, was a sociable man with a large circle of friends. He was also deeply passionate about music and sailing. He was committed to public service, which included being chair of governors at his children’s school in Liphook, Hampshire, and the presiding officer for elections and chair of the National Association of Data Protection Officers , the professional body for those who work in information governance, as he did.
Data Protection Report
JANUARY 21, 2019
On 21 January 2019 the French data protection authority (the CNIL ) imposed a major fine on the US Google entity, Google LLC. It follows two complaints filed as soon as the GDPR came into force by two consumer rights associations, None of Your Business and La Quadrature du Net. From the press release, available here , the CNIL makes the following points about the infringement and fine: Regarding Consent infringements.
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DLA Piper Privacy Matters
JANUARY 21, 2019
By Denise Lebeau-Marianna and Caroline Chancé. On 18 January 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to appoint Marie-Laure Denis as the next president of the French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (CNIL). If her nomination is confirmed by the Parliament, Marie-Laure Denis will take over the presidency of the CNIL on 1 st February 2019, a position held by Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin since 2011. 2019 is expected to be a busy year for the new appointee as she will
IG Guru
JANUARY 21, 2019
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InfoGovNuggets
JANUARY 21, 2019
“Google Fined $57 Million in Biggest Penalty Yet Under New European Law,” The Wall Street Journal , January 22, 2019. Fine for failure to properly secure consents to use personal data for ads under GDPR. Certainly, a Compliance point. But also goes to Governance (what processes did Google have to operate in compliance with the GDPR?).
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Information Management Resources
JANUARY 21, 2019
An email error caused the information about 1,000 veterans to be released by the Lebanon VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania.
InfoGovNuggets
JANUARY 21, 2019
“Russia Accuses Facebook, Twitter of Failing to Comply With Data Laws,” The Wall Street Journal , January 22, 2019. Russian laws require that servers storing the personal data of Russians be located in Russia. Other countries ( e.g. , Vietnam) have similar laws. Compliance : how does a world-wide company comply with the laws of each of the countries that have an interest in the data that is stored?
Info Source
JANUARY 21, 2019
MALVERN, PA, January 21, 2019 – Ricoh today announced its first series of intelligent multifunction printers (MFPs) built with innovative technologies to meet the constantly changing needs of digital workplaces – today and in the future. The new RICOH IM C Series is part of Ricoh’s new Dynamic Workplace Intelligence approach to deliver continual improvements and ensure technical capabilities evolve in parallel with customer requirements.
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