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Beyond Disaster Recovery

Daymark

For many of us, a rock-solid business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan can mean the difference between a good night’s sleep and living in constant fear of impending doom. Hyperbole aside, many BC/DR plans are under-tested, under-architected, and misunderstood by businesses. Sure, you may have a copy of your data at a secondary site, but how do you know it’s accessible to applications in the event of a failover?

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever. Caz-bees first took shape as a cottage industry circa 2013 to 2014 in response to a cry for help from companies reeling from new Shadow IT exposures : the risk created by early-adopter employees, quite often the CEO, insisting on using the latest smartphone and Software-as-a-Services tools, without any shred of security vetting.

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Millions of Facebook Records Found Unsecured on AWS

Data Breach Today

Third-Party Apps Left Facebook Users' Data Accessible in the Cloud Two third-party Facebook application developers exposed users' personal information by leaving the data exposed without a password in unsecured Amazon Web Services S3 buckets, researchers from UpGuard say. One data set contained 540 million unsecured records, the report found.

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Alleged Chief of Romanian ATM Skimming Gang Arrested in Mexico

Krebs on Security

An alleged top boss of a Romanian crime syndicate that U.S. authorities say is responsible for deploying card-skimming devices at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) throughout North America was arrested in Mexico last week on firearms charges. The arrest comes months after the accused allegedly ordered the execution of a former bodyguard who was trying to help U.S. authorities bring down the group’s lucrative skimming operations.

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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4 Signs Alfresco Is All Growed Up

Weissman's World

Being an information consultant/analyst is a lot like being a parent in that I get to watch companies come into the world, struggle to gain acceptance, and learn to be a force unto themselves (or not). I’m not sure Alfresco yet represents a capital-F force, but after spending two intensive days with their executives, customers, […]. The post 4 Signs Alfresco Is All Growed Up appeared first on Holly Group.

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Toyota Reveals a Second Data Breach

Data Breach Today

Hackers Targeted Servers Storing Data on 3.1 Million Customers Toyota Motor Corp. has reported its second data breach in the past five weeks. The latest incident, revealed Friday, may have exposed data on as many as 3.1 million customers.

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Canadian Police Raid ‘Orcus RAT’ Author

Krebs on Security

Canadian police last week raided the residence of a Toronto software developer behind “ Orcus RAT ,” a product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. Its author maintains Orcus is a legitimate R emote A dministration T ool that is merely being abused, but security experts say it includes multiple features more typically seen in malware known as a R emote A ccess T rojan.

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What exactly is the link between IIM and Digital Transformation?

AIIM

This is part 1 of a four-part series based on our new State of the Industry – Content Services market research study. Every organization is on – or should be on – a Digital Transformation journey. At the heart of this Transformation journey is the drive toward 1) understanding, anticipating, and redefining internal and external customer experiences.

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BEST PRACTICES: Rising complexities of provisioning identities has pushed ‘IGA’ to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Identity governance and administration, or IGA , has suddenly become a front-burner matter at many enterprises. Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. This is, in large part, because the complexity of business networks continues to escalate at a time when compliance mandates are intensifying. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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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Analysis: Dark Web Arrests Also Led to Ransomware Disruption

Data Breach Today

Coveware Says 'Dream Market' Site Shut Down, Hampering Ransomware Attackers Arrests made last week by European, U.S. and other law enforcement agencies appear to have led to the closure of the "Dream Market" dark web site, which, in turn, disrupted certain ransomware attacks, according to an analysis by incident response firm Coveware.

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Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs

Krebs on Security

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals. Krebs is translated as “cancer” in German.

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Crooks use hidden directories of compromised HTTPS sites to deliver malware

Security Affairs

Attackers Store Malware in Hidden Directories of Compromised HTTPS Sites. Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. Crooks are utilizing hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites running WordPress and Joomla websites to store and serve malicious payloads.

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Nigeria Issues New Data Protection Regulation

Hunton Privacy

On January 25, 2019, Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (“NITDA”) issued the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019 (the “Regulation”). Many concepts of the Regulation mirror the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Key elements of the Regulation include: Application : The Regulation applies to all residents of Nigeria, all citizens of Nigeria residing outside of Nigeria and all organizations processing personal data of such individuals.

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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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Maryland Man Sentenced for Leading $4.2 Million BEC Scheme

Data Breach Today

Nkeng Amin Will Serve Substantial Prison Term A 31-year-old Maryland man will serve time in prison for his leadership role in a business email compromise scheme that netted him and five others $4.2 million from 13 victims over a two-year period.

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6 Essential Skills Cybersecurity Pros Need to Develop in 2019

Dark Reading

In a time of disruption in the security and tech worlds, cybersecurity professionals can't afford to become complacent - even in the face of a skills shortage.

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The German chemicals giant Bayer hit by a cyber attack

Security Affairs

The German chemicals giant Bayer confirmed that of a cyber attack, it confirmed the incident but clarified that no data has been stolen. The chemicals giant Bayer is the last victims of a cyber attack, it confirmed the incident, but pointed out the hackers haven’t stolen any data. According to the company, at the beginning of 2018, it detected an intrusion that linked to Winnti threat actors, a group of Chinese APTs belonging to the Beijing intelligence apparatus, Groups under the Winnti u

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Toyota suffers second data breach in five weeks

IT Governance

Toyota has disclosed a data breach that may have affected up to 3.1 million customers. It’s the second time the car manufacturer has been breached in the last five weeks. In a statement released on 29 March 2019, the organisation confirmed that several of its Asian subsidiaries were targeted by criminal hackers. It said that it is taking the situation seriously and will implement security measures at dealers and the entire Toyota group.

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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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E-commerce JavaScript Sniffer Attacks Proliferate: Report

Data Breach Today

Group-IB Researchers Analyze the Latest Global Trends JavaScript sniffers - specialized malware that skims credit card information and other data from online shopping - are becoming far more prevalent, with several cybercriminal groups using the malware to target victims all over the world, a new analysis by Moscow-based security firm Group-IB finds.

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Women Now Hold One-Quarter of Cybersecurity Jobs

Dark Reading

New data from ISC(2) shows younger women are making more money than in previous generations in the field - but overall gender pay disparity persists.

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CVE-2019-0211 Apache flaw allows getting root access via script

Security Affairs

The privilege escalation vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0211 ) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems. An important privilege escalation vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0211 ) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems via scoreboard manipulation.

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OpenText announces winners of the 2019 Partner Awards at Enterprise World

OpenText Information Management

The OpenText™ Partner Awards, presented annually at OpenText Enterprise World (EW), recognize our global Partners for their commitment to helping customers transform and maximize the potential of the intelligent and connected enterprise. The award winners exemplify top-performing Partners who are dedicated to helping our joint customers get the most out of their OpenText solutions. 2019 … The post OpenText announces winners of the 2019 Partner Awards at Enterprise World appeared first on O

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Memoir of a Former Black Hat

Data Breach Today

Hector Monsegur on Making the Transition From Hacktivist to Researcher Why trust a former black hat? Hector Monsegur, a former member of LulzSec, describes his transition from hacktivist to researcher.

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Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot

Schneier on Security

Researchers have been able to fool Tesla's autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained the security research work on Tesla vehicle and shared our research results on Black Hat USA 2017 and 2018 in a row. Based on the ROOT privilege of the APE (Tesla Autopilot ECU, software version 18.6.1), we did some further interesting research work on this module.

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More than 2 million Apache HTTP servers still affected by CVE-2019-0211 flaw

Security Affairs

Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered that over 2 million Apache HTTP servers are still affected by the CVE-2019-0211 critical privilege escalation flaw. An important privilege escalation vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0211 ) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems via scoreboard manipulation.

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Polish DPA issues the first fine for a violation of the GDPR – and it’s harsh

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

By Ewa Kurowska-Tober and Magdalena Koniarska . On 25 March 2019, the Polish data protection authority (DPA) (referred to in Polish as “PUODO”) announced the imposition of the first GDPR-related fine in Poland. A data controller was fined approximately PLN 1 million (approx. EUR 230,415 ) for a failure to comply with the information obligation set forth in Article 14 of the GDPR.

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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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Sen. Warren Wants CEOs Jailed After Big Breaches

Data Breach Today

Bill Would Pave Way for Criminal Charges Against Execs for Corporate Wrongdoing Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, has introduced legislation that would pave the way for top executives at major corporations to face criminal charges if their company's wrongdoing leads to harm, such as a major data breach. While business groups immediately criticized the plan, consumer advocates praised it.

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Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border

Schneier on Security

This is a pretty awful story of how Andreas Gal, former Mozilla CTO and US citizen, was detained and threatened at the US border. CBP agents demanded that he unlock his phone and computer. Know your rights when you enter the US. The EFF publishes a handy guide. And if you want to encrypt your computer so that you are unable to unlock it on demand, here's mu guide.

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Experts found 540 Million Facebook user records on unprotected Amazon S3 buckets

Security Affairs

The huge trove of Facebook user data was amassed and stored online on unprotected cloud servers by third-party Facebook app developers. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users. We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity … this is absurd.

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