AIIM

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Finding the right information quickly is an imperative function for all organizations, yet 75% of AIIM respondents said this is a challenge for them at work. One main cause is the overwhelming amount of costly legacy information systems and technologies that are difficult to modernize or connect to one another to make useful. Sound familiar? I invite you to join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, October 24th @ 2pm EDT as Martyn Christian, CEO and Founder of UNDERSTND Group demonstrates how a n

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

A former NASA contractor has pleaded guilty for a cyberstalking scheme, the man blackmailed seven women threatening to publish their nude pictures. Richard Bauer (28), an ex-NASA contractor has pleaded guilty for a cyberstalking, the man allegedly threatened to publish nude pictures of the women unless they sent him other explicit pictures. Richard Bauer of Los Angeles, who worked at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Southern California, pleaded guilty for stalking, computer hacki

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2018

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Data in Smarter Cities in New York City on October 23, 2018. I'm speaking at the Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 24, 2018. I'm speaking at ISF's 29th Annual World Congress in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 30, 2018. I'm speaking at Kiwicon in Wellington, New Zealand on November 16, 2018.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

A Russian-speaking hacker, who goes by the name of Alexey, claims to have hacked into over 100,000 MikroTik routers with a specific intent, disinfect them. Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. The campaign started in Brazil, but it rapidly expanded to other countries targeting MikroTik routers all over the world, over 200,000 devices were compromised.

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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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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Editor’s Note: Tom O’Connor is a nationally known consultant, speaker, and writer in the field of computerized litigation support systems. He has also been a great addition to our webinar program, participating with me on several recent webinars. Tom has also written several terrific informational overview series for CloudNine, including his most recent one, Preparing for Litigation Before it Happens , which we covered as a webcast on September 26.

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IG Guru

OCTOBER 14, 2018

October 11, 2018 In the midst of Hurricane Michael, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and its federal partners remain in close coordination as part of disaster response. As part of his declaration of a Public Health Emergency (PHE), HHS Secretary Alex Azar has waived sanctions and penalties under certain provisions of the Health […]. The post OCR Reissues Guidance to Help Ensure Equal Access to Emergency Services and the Appropriate Sharing of Medical Information During Hurricane Mich

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. Once again thank you! · APT28 group return to covert intelligence gathering ops in Europe and South America. · D-Link fixed several flaws in Central WiFiManager access point management tool. · Expert presented a new attack tech

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InfoGovNuggets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

“Report: Big Tech Needs Fixes,” The Wall Street Journal , September 25, 2018 B4. Report from Harvard concludes that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Apple and similar tech giants “can’t be trusted to police themselves” and should be able to continue to swallow up smaller companies to get user data. So, who governs the ungoverned?

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Information Management Resources

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Käthe Anchel is expected to help push Umpqua’s recent focus on what it calls the “human-digital” banking experience.

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InfoGovNuggets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

What happens when you have inadequate controls to prevent non-compliance with the law? You get publicly scolded by the regulator? “Regulator Scolds Deutsche Bank on Money-Laundering Controls,” September 25, 2018 B11. German authorities also require the appointment of an independent monitor (KPMG). This monitor will join the other monitors appointed by various US authorities.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Security expert published the PoC exploit code for the recently fixed critical remote code execution flaw in Edge web browser tracked as CVE-2018-8495. The October 2018 Patch Tuesday addressed 50 known vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s products, 12 of them were labeled as critical. One of the issues is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Edge web browser tracked as CVE-2018-8495. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Windows Shell improperly handles URIs, aka

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InfoGovNuggets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

“Google CEO Faces GOP Scrutiny,” The Wall Street Journal , September 25, 2018 A6. GOP lawmakers look to discuss Google’s work in (and with) China, market power, and political bias affecting search results. Does Washington, much less the GOP, have the power to govern Google? From whence does that power to govern come, and what does that power control?

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Our feelings won’t be hurt when you say educating employees isn’t your favorite part of your job. While important, the reality of training employees about cybersecurity is that it’s a time-consuming, often thankless task, that requires too much coordination, time, and budget. The fact remains, though, that fostering a risk-aware corporate culture through security awareness has never been more important.

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InfoGovNuggets

OCTOBER 14, 2018

What you do when an important executive is alleged to have violated company policy says a lot about your compliance program. “Claims About Executive Tested Uber Overhaul,” The Wall Street Journal , September 27, 2018 B3. Senior executive investigated; rather than being terminated, he received a formal warning (apparently, informal was not sufficient), his bonus was reduced Why do you give bonuses to people who violate company policy?

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