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Will you take the garbage out?

IG Guru

Unmanaged shared files are compared to a shared unmanaged refrigerator. The post Will you take the garbage out? appeared first on IG GURU.

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Identity and Access Management is pivotal for GDPR compliance

OpenText Information Management

GDPR is finally with us, and within just hours of it becoming law Google and Facebook were hit with privacy complaints that could lead to fines up to $9.3 billion. This is a clear demonstration that the European Union (EU) is very willing to take action and that companies everywhere have to be prepared for GDPR … The post Identity and Access Management is pivotal for GDPR compliance appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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FBI Warns Of Pending Large Scale ATM Cashout Strike

Data Breach Today

Attack May Pivot On A Data Breach At 'Unknown Card Issuer' Agency Says The FBI warns that cybercriminals are planning a large-scale operation aimed at emptying ATMs, a type of attack that has caused swift and costly losses for financial institutions. The attack may utilize data from a breach of an unknown card issuer, the FBI says.

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Hanging Up on Mobile in the Name of Security

Krebs on Security

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. Increasingly frequent, high-profile attacks like these are prompting some experts to say the surest way to safeguard one’s online accounts may be to disconnect them from the mobile providers entirely.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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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Q&A: Here’s how Google’s labeling HTTP websites “Not Secure” will strengthen the Internet

The Last Watchdog

In a move to blanket the Internet with encrypted website traffic, Google is moving forward with its insistence that straggling website publishers adopt HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Related: How PKI can secure IoT. Google’s Chrome web browser commands a 60% market share. So the search giant has been leading the push to get 100% of websites to jettison HTTP and replace it with HTTPS.

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HHS OIG Finds Security Flaws in Maryland's Medicaid System

Data Breach Today

Findings by Watchdog Agency Similar to Problems Previously Cited in Other States Maryland's Medicaid system has "numerous significant" security weaknesses that need to be addressed, according to a federal watchdog agency.

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FBI Warns of ‘Unlimited’ ATM Cashout Blitz

Krebs on Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning banks that cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an “ATM cash-out,” in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to fraudulently withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours. “The FBI has obtained unspecified reporting indicating cyber criminals are planning to conduct a global Automated Teller Machine

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Reconciling vulnerability responses within FIPS 140 security certifications

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this blog, I will present a new and efficient approach to reconciling security vulnerabilities and FIPS 140 security certifications, led by Thales eSecurity in collaboration with NIST/CMVP and FIPS 140 evaluation laboratories. A quick and efficient patch also needs a quick and efficient certification. To maintain security over a product’s lifetime, it is a best practice for companies to implement a vulnerability management process.

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Shorten your path to AI with Watson Knowledge Catalog

IBM Big Data Hub

Data can be an organization’s most valued asset, providing insights that help strengthen business. Knowing what works and what does not can help you invest more resources in what would work in the future. Learn more about the Watson Knowledge Catalog.

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How and Why Should You Be Tracking Geopolitical Risk?

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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Intel Has A New Speculative Execution Issue: Foreshadow

Data Breach Today

Vulnerability Poses Special Risks For Virtualized Environments The Meltdown and Spectre attacks from earlier this year showed how the quest to make CPUs run faster inadvertently introduced serious security vulnerabilities. Now, researchers have unveiled a new attack called Foreshadow that builds on those findings, affecting millions of Intel processors made over the past five years.

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Indian Bank Hit in $13.5M Cyberheist After FBI ATM Cashout Warning

Krebs on Security

On Sunday, Aug. 12, KrebsOnSecurity carried an exclusive : The FBI was warning banks about an imminent “ATM cashout” scheme about to unfold across the globe, thanks to a data breach at an unknown financial institution. On Aug. 14, a bank in India disclosed hackers had broken into its servers, stealing nearly $2 million in fraudulent bank transfers and $11.5 million unauthorized ATM withdrawals from more than two dozen cash machines across multiple countries.

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The 5 Challenges of Detecting Fileless Malware Attacks

Dark Reading

Simply applying file-based tools and expectations to fileless attacks is a losing strategy. Security teams must also understand the underlying distinctions between the two.

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The government is ratcheting up its surveillance powers. But we can stop this | Scott Ludlam

The Guardian Data Protection

The people demanding these new powers have proven that they cannot be trusted with the powers they already have The good news is, the war on maths is postponed, because maths won. The government appears to have given up on its ambition of undermining the global encryption standards that underpin secure communications on the internet. That’s the only good news, because there’s very little positive to be said about the government’s latest lunge for intrusive powers embodied in the Telecommunicatio

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

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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Should Staff Ever Use Personal Devices to Access Patient Data?

Data Breach Today

Incident at Oklahoma Dept. of Veterans Affairs Spotlights Tough Choices When is it acceptable to allow healthcare workers to use their personal smartphones to access patient records? A recent incident at the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs spotlights the dilemma.

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Patch Tuesday, August 2018 Edition

Krebs on Security

Adobe and Microsoft each released security updates for their software on Tuesday. Adobe plugged five security holes in its Flash Player browser plugin. Microsoft pushed 17 updates to fix at least 60 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, including two “ zero-day ” flaws that attackers were already exploiting before Microsoft issued patches to fix them.

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How business continuity contributes to your organisation’s cyber resilience

IT Governance

Organisations are starting to realise that it’s impossible to prevent every cyber security threat they face, and are turning their attention towards more sophisticated ways of protecting themselves. That typically means becoming cyber resilient – or, in other words, combining cyber defences with business continuity. This enables organisations to not only prevent attacks but also mitigate the disruption, should an incident occur.

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How to Stop Google From Tracking Your Location

WIRED Threat Level

A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Tracking Cybersecurity Threats in Manufacturing

Data Breach Today

With the rise of the industrial internet of things comes a far broader attack surface in the manufacturing sector. Chris Morales of Vectra outlines findings of a new report on cyberattack trends in the manufacturing sector.

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IBM Puts Data To Work for AI and in the Cloud

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM Hybrid Cloud Marketing VP Scott Hebner speaks with Big Data and Analytics Hub about the bets he’s placing on the offering to evolve into the company’s first AI platform and emulate WebSphere’s success.

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An incident response plan could save your organisation £285,000

IT Governance

IR (incident response) plans are the most effective way of mitigating the damage of data breaches, Ponemon Institute has found. Its 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study revealed that the average cost of a data breach for organisations without an IR plan was $148 (about £116) per record, which is approximately $14 (about £11) more than those with an IR plan.

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Coalition's surveillance laws give police power to access electronic devices

The Guardian Data Protection

Proposed laws would also compel Facebook, Apple and Google to assist in decrypting private communications Law enforcement agencies would gain new powers to conduct covert surveillance on electronic devices and compel technology companies to assist in decrypting private communications under proposed legislation. The minister for law enforcement and cyber security, Angus Taylor, released an exposure draft of the bill on Tuesday that would extend obligations to tech giants including Facebook, Apple

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Are Legacy Medical Device Security Flaws Going Unfixed?

Data Breach Today

Many medical device makers appear to building better cybersecurity into their products, but some manufacturers are still avoiding fixing vulnerabilities in legacy devices that pose potential safety risks, says security researcher Billy Rios, who discusses the latest flaws in some Medtronic cardiac devices.

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Saving Lives With Tech Amid Syria’s Endless Civil War

WIRED Threat Level

A band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network to warn when and where air strikes will hit—a constant threat under Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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These 3 GDPR Requirements You Must Support Today are Nothing Compared With What’s Coming

Reltio

Ramon Chen, Chief Product Officer, Reltio. On May 25, 2018 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) went into effect. The primary objectives of the GDPR are to give control back to their EU citizens and residents over their personal data, to simplify the regulatory environment for international business, and to unify regulations within the European Union.

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Coalition Groups Weigh In on CCPA Clean Up Legislation

Data Matters

On June 29, the day after California Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) into law, Data Matters provided a summary of the important new legislation. In doing so, we noted that the law was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2020 and that, if and when it did, it would be the “broadest privacy law in the United States” and “may well have an outsize influence on privacy laws nationwide.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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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The Industrial Internet of Things: Emerging Risks

Data Breach Today

Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: Chris Morales of the cybersecurity firm Vectra discusses how the industrial internet of things is changing the nature of industrial espionage and disruption.

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What exactly is an ISO 27001 gap analysis, anyway?

IT Governance

The breadth of applicability of? ISO 27001 ?can make it difficult for organisations to determine how to apply the Standard effectively and economically. As a result, building an? ISMS (information security management system) that meets the requirements of ISO 27001 can be challenging. One solution is to conduct an ISO 27001 gap analysis – a process many organisations consider an important starting point when putting a prioritised plan in place.

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Revealing the calm behind the commotion

Jamf

In just over a year, Rituals transitioned from PC to Mac and deployed 650 MacBook, 700 iPad, 650 iPhone and 1,500 iPod devices across the company. See why they made the change and how they made it happen.

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