Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Major Cybercrime Gangs Shift From Hacking Banks to Bitcoins Bitcoin's massive rise in value and hype continues to draw the attention of hackers, scammers and organized crime. Flaws in bitcoin mining firmware and hacks of wallet software show that the infrastructure associated with cryptocurrency is not always well-secured.
The Guardian Data Protection
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Information commissioner announces inquiry into parties’ use of personal information after Ukip’s refusal to cooperate Ukip is to face a tribunal over its use of analytics during the EU referendum after refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO announced a formal investigation into how political parties use data analytics to target voters in response to concern about how social media was used during the referendum.
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AIIM
DECEMBER 11, 2017
It's an embarrassing question to ask most organizations, but does your social media presence reflect the reality that the responsibility of business documentation doesn’t go away just because the information is on social media? The reality for most organizations is NO. Recent research conducted by Iron Mountain revealed that 76 percent of businesses regard communications by social media as formal business records, but 46 percent have no idea that they carry legal responsibility for their content
Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Occasionally, I feel like I'm just handing an organisation more shovels - "here, keep digging, I'm sure this'll work out just fine." The latest such event was with NatWest (a bank in the UK), and it culminated with this tweet from them: I'm sorry you feel this way. I can certainly pass on your concerns and feed this back to the tech team for you Troy?
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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.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Nearly $10 Million Stolen from 20 Institutions in Past 1½ Years A group of Russian-speaking hackers over the past year-and-a-half has stolen nearly $10 million from banks, mostly in the United States, Britain and Russia, the Moscow-based, according to cybersecurity firm Group-IB.
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Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Interesting research : The trick in accurately tracking a person with this method is finding out what kind of activity they're performing. Whether they're walking, driving a car, or riding in a train or airplane, it's pretty easy to figure out when you know what you're looking for. The sensors can determine how fast a person is traveling and what kind of movements they make.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Something that barely raised any interest only two years ago was the focus of many of the discussions at this year’s SIBOS. The use of APIs in banking has rapidly gone from a peripheral issue to central to the thinking for many banks. As banks are beginning to gear up for API-related business, the question … The post The future of API banking dominates SIBOS appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The latest ISMG Security Report focuses on the significant changes found in the latest version of the U.S. government's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, commonly known as the NIST cybersecurity framework. NIST seeks comments from stakeholders on the draft of version 1.1 of the framework by Jan. 19.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 13, 2017
The DDoS attack that crippled the internet last fall wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working a *Minecraft* hustle.
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.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 14, 2017
There’s no denying that cyber crime is getting worse every year, but how much has it actually risen over the past few years? Date. Number of records breached. 2010. 3.8 million. 2011. 174 million. 2012. 44 million. 2013. 822 million. 2014. 700 million. 2015. 736 million. 2016. 3.1 billion. With an increase of more than 3 billion records breached over six years, cyber crime is rapidly increasing and it doesn’t seem like organisations’ security functions are keeping up.
IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 14, 2017
As happens so often, IBM is quietly laying the groundwork for the future. A recent step toward that future is TJBot, an unassuming, do-it-yourself cardboard robot that opens a window into what AI researchers are calling “embodied cognition.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The latest ISMG Security Report leads with a report on a malware attack on an industrial safety system that experts contend could threaten public safety. Also, legislation giving DHS's cybersecurity unit a meaningful name progresses through Congress.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 15, 2017
MobileCoin aims to make cryptocurrency transactions quick and easy for everyone, while still preserving privacy and decentralization.
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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.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 14, 2017
No one wants to be ill at Christmas, but every year thousands of us are left sniffling through our turkey and Brussels sprouts after being exposed to freezing temperatures and rooms full of forced festivity. But just like the kinds of virus that give you a cold, computer viruses proliferate over Christmas, with cyber criminals taking advantage of understaffed organisations to launch attacks.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Welcome to the official first complete release of OpenText™ ApplicationXtender. One of the questions that customers and partners sometimes ask is “Why 16.3?” The answer is simple. The current release for all OpenText products is Release 16 and ApplicationXtender is no exception – processes, technologies and management are aligned with this approach.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Experts Offer Insights on Precautions to Take U.S. healthcare entities need to keep security top of mind if they use offshore services to handle protected health information, security experts say, pointing to specific steps to take.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 9, 2017
If a troll is spilling your personal info across the internet, you have ways to fight back. Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the EFF, shares tips.
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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
DECEMBER 13, 2017
It is never long before yet another company suffers a data breach. Although many of these organisations have been the victim of a complex hack, often this is not the case. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey reported that, in 2017, 46% of all UK businesses had identified at least one cyber security breach or attack. This is a massive increase on 2016 , when only 24% of businesses detected one or more cyber security breaches.
Information Management Resources
DECEMBER 14, 2017
IRM focuses on restricting access and improving security for documents, spreadsheets, PDFs and other important files intended to preserve or share information.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Cybercrime Money-Transfer Schemes Increasingly Involve Cryptocurrency Cybercriminals continue to rely on individuals who undertake the risky operation of moving illicit proceeds from one location to another. But these "money mules" face a multitude of risks, including imprisonment, police warn.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 12, 2017
The Islamic State is designing and mass-producing its own advanced munitions—with parts from all over the world.
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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.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Cyber crime is on the rise, with 2.9 million UK organisations being hit by a cyber attack last year at a cost of £29.1 billion ( Beaming ). Cyber crime is a criminal activity that involves a computer or digital media and a network – in most cases, the Internet. What’s behind the rise? Graham Day, author of December’s book of the month, Security in the Digital World , says: “Attackers are slowly discovering all the ways that devices can be used to attack others.
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 12, 2017
No other court in the world has had more influence on the use of machine learning in litigation than the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “SDNY”) and that tradition continues with the court’s new ruling in Winfield v. City of New York. There’s a lot to unpack in this 28-page … The post Court supports eDiscovery machine learning, addresses AI transparency appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Organizations should take an "inside-out" approach to mitigating the insider threat, says Brandon Swafford of Forcepoint, who explains the components of that approach in an in-depth interview.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Over seven months, 39 Nicholas Thompsons submitted net neutrality comments to the FCC. We tried to track each of them down.
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“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.
IT Governance
DECEMBER 11, 2017
ISO 22301 certification requires organisations to prove their compliance with the standard with appropriate documentation. List of documents required for ISO 22301:2012 business continuity management system (BCMS). You must document: Context of the organisation (4.1). Identification of interested parties and legal and regulatory requirements (4.2). Scope of the business continuity policy (BCMS) (4.3).
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Last month, the DHS announced that it was able to remotely hack a Boeing 757: "We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration," said Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. "[Which] means I didn't have anybody touching the airplane, I didn't have an insider threat.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Takeaway: 'Bug Bounty' Plus NDA Still Looks Like Hush Money The hacker to whom Uber paid $100,000 to destroy data and keep quiet about its big, bad breach is a 20-year-old man living in Florida, Reuters reports. But numerous questions remain about the 2016 breach, including whether the payment was a bug bounty, extortion payoff or hush money.
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