IT Governance

MAY 29, 2018

Remember when I said last month that “with the GDPR less than a month away I imagine future lists will be even longer thanks to the introduction of mandatory data breach notifications”? Well, May’s list of incidents is very long, and the GDPR only came into effect at the end of the month. If I were a cynic I might think that some breached organisations were seeking to keep their exposure to regulatory fines to a minimum by rushing to report historic incidents before the GDPR – and its enhanced p

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Weissman's World

MAY 25, 2018

Fun fact: an estimated 75% of today’s content management solutions were installed before the year 2010 – meaning that most organizations are now depending upon systems that at best are dated, and at are worst dangerously close end-of-life. This being the case, you’d think that folks would be working hard to move their legacy content […]. The post Legacy Content Migration: Urgent Need is Largely Invisible appeared first on Holly Group.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 2, 2018

The troubled data firm, which improperly accessed the data of up to 87 million Facebook users, has ceased operations.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 10, 2018

Cisco Warns of Dangers of Running Vulnerable Web Applications The Gandcrab ransomware has been a moving target. Since it was discovered in January, it quickly became one of the most widely distributed file-encrypting malware programs. Researchers with Cisco say they've now found it seeded within legitimate websites, making its spread tougher to stop.

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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.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 24, 2018

Sinkholing Should Help Mitigate 'VPN Filter' Outbreak At least 500,000 routers, mostly located in Ukraine, have been infected with "VPN Filter" malware that experts believe is a prelude to a massive cyberattack. But the FBI has reportedly sinkholed the control domain for the router botnet, which should help contain the potential damage.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 21, 2018

Many firms have the required consent already; others don’t have consent to send a request The vast majority of emails flooding inboxes across Europe from companies asking for consent to keep recipients on their mailing list are unnecessary and some may be illegal, privacy experts have said, as new rules over data privacy come into force at the end of this week.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. , which are specially crafted inputs that have been developed with the aim of being reliably misclassified in order to evade detection.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 15, 2018

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 2, 2018

When you hire a life coach, feelings can often be mixed. Someone is helping you on the way to improving yourself, but that path is one you have to walk, and it can be tough. Feelings can be much the same about the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which some organizations view as a burden. But can’t it make your business fitter and healthier?

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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

MAY 1, 2018

Tripwire's Tim Erlin on Ways to Prevent Breaches Improperly implemented foundational controls pave the way for many data breaches, says Tim Erlin of Tripwire, who offers tips on building a strong foundation.

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TAB OnRecord

MAY 2, 2018

A properly functioning classification system is an integral part of your RIM program. Without it, records will become disorganized and potentially lost, undermining the entire purpose of your RIM program. What is functional classification? Functional classification is the “what” of your RIM program. It is the method for identifying records and their content.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 19, 2018

Vote Leave’s director refuses to go before the Commons. He fears the truth will out Dominic Cummings is just a troll. He may have trolled the whole country and changed the course of British history, but he’s still the man with an egg for a face, who screams everyone must be accountable for their actions – everyone except him. MPs who want to question Cummings about the finances of his Vote Leave campaign are “grandstanding” fools spreading “fake news”.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down into three types: Adversarial inputs. , which are specially crafted inputs that have been developed with the aim of being reliably misclassified in order to evade detection.

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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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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 6, 2018

Scammers, pranksters, and bad actors all want to break into whatever social media accounts they can. Here's how to keep yours safe.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2018

Your company's website does not have to be the next victim of a SQL injection breach. Here's how to prevent SQL injection attacks.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 15, 2018

Revenge of the Personality Test, Take Two Researchers at the University of Cambridge, via a myPersonality test on Facebook, reportedly used data from 3 million users to power a spin-off company that delivered targeted advertising services. Facebook says the app is one of 200 that it's suspended for suspicious data handling practices.

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TAB OnRecord

MAY 16, 2018

In some ways, moving to an outsourced cloud provider is a bit like outsourcing the storage of your physical files – whether to an active records center or to a box storage provider. In both cases, the files themselves now reside within facilities owned and managed by the outsourcing provider. In both cases you are relying on another party to help ensure the privacy and security of your records.

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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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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 5, 2018

In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner’s Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll’s request Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to hand over all the data and personal information it has on an American voter, including details of where it got the data and what it did with it, or face a criminal prosecution. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served the enforcement notice to the company on Friday in a landmark legal decision that opens the way for

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Dark Reading

MAY 30, 2018

The ability to learn gives security-focused AI and ML apps unrivaled speed and accuracy over their more basic, automated predecessors. But they are not a silver bullet. Yet.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 3, 2018

Dutch researchers have pushed the mind-bending Rowhammer hacking technique one more step towards a practical attack.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 31, 2018

Tom Standage has a great story of the first cyberattack against a telegraph network. The Blanc brothers traded government bonds at the exchange in the city of Bordeaux, where information about market movements took several days to arrive from Paris by mail coach. Accordingly, traders who could get the information more quickly could make money by anticipating these movements.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 4, 2018

Passwords Inadvertently Saved to Log in Plaintext Format; Twitter Blames Bug Twitter has apologized after it discovered that it had been inadvertently storing users' passwords in plaintext in an internal log, potentially putting them at risk. Twitter has blamed a bug for the fault, and recommends all users change their passwords immediately.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 29, 2018

Purchasing options outside of the office are diverse and varied depending on what people want to buy, where and when they buy it, and what they need it for. While shoppers might have personal preferences, they don't limit ourselves to one retailer for all purchasing decisions. So why do that in a work environment?

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 6, 2018

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon • The six weeks that brought Cambridge Analytica down How do 87m records scraped from Facebook become an advertising campaign that could help swing an election? What does gathering that much data actually involve?

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IT Governance

MAY 17, 2018

Social engineering is something that we’ve all done, whether we’ve realised it or not. When we were children it’s likely that we played one parent off against the other to get our own way, telling each that the other had said we could do something we couldn’t – like have another packet of crisps. Fast-forward a little bit and you’ll remember telling your teachers that your dog really did eat your homework.

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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 3, 2018

By fine-tuning social engineering techniques and targeting small businesses, Nigerian scammers have kept well ahead of defenses.

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Dark Reading

MAY 17, 2018

Another widespread worm attack is "inevitable," but spreading a different more lucrative or destructive payload, experts say.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 9, 2018

Microsoft Patches Flaw, Warns It Could Be Exploited via Websites, Malvertising Security alert: Microsoft has issued updates to fix 67 unique flaws in its products. One vulnerability in Windows VBScript engine is already being actively exploited in the wild via malicious Word documents and could also be employed for attacks via websites and malvertising, Microsoft warns.

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