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166 Applebee's Restaurants Hit With Payment Card Malware

Data Breach Today

Payment Card Data Stolen by Malware-Wielding Attackers, Franchisee Warns Anyone who dined out at one of 166 Applebee's restaurants in 15 states may have had their payment card details compromised by point-of-sale malware infections that began in November 2017, RMH Franchise Holdings warns.

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InfoGov Expectations Can Be Problematic

Weissman's World

There is very little doubt that infogov technology can do all sorts of amazing things: it can help us find information that otherwise would be lost to us, it can alert us to process inefficiencies that we otherwise would be unaware of, and it can speed communication between us as never before. The problem, though, […]. The post InfoGov Expectations Can Be Problematic appeared first on Holly Group.

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TLS 1.3 and Proxies

Imperial Violet

I'll generally ignore the internet froth in a given week as much as possible, but when Her Majesty's Government starts repeating misunderstandings about TLS 1.3 it is necessary to write something, if only to have a pointer ready for when people start citing it as evidence. The first misunderstanding in the piece is the claim that it's possible for man-in-the-middle proxies to selectively proxy TLS 1.2 connections, but not TLS 1.3 connections because the latter encrypts certificates.

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Color-coded filing systems: Reduce downtime and increase ROI – Part 2

TAB OnRecord

Part 1 of this post showed you how color-coding works and whom it benefits. We also made the business case for color-coding by demonstrating how it leads to more efficient records retrieval, retention and disposition; improved decision-making; less operational down time; fewer lost opportunities; and minimized risk of legal sanctions. In this blog, we focus on how color-coding improves your records privacy and information security, as well as your space management.

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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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Ukraine Sentences Two Citizens for DDoS Extortion Campaigns

Data Breach Today

Groundbreaking Prosecution Targeted Attackers Who Demanded Bitcoin Payoffs In a groundbreaking prosecution, two individuals in Ukraine have been sentenced for running extortion campaigns that disrupted international victims' websites with massive DDoS attacks unless they paid bitcoin ransoms of up to $10,000.

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Home Office warned over plans to block immigration data access for EU citizens

The Guardian Data Protection

Digital rights campaigners write to Amber Rudd threatening legal action on data protection bill Plans to deny millions of people the right to access immigration data held on them by the Home Office are illegal and will be challenged in court, the government has been told. Organisations representing up to 3 million EU citizens living in the UK and digital rights activists have written to the home secretary, Amber Rudd, giving notice that they will take legal action if a clause in the data protect

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The cost of a cyber attack

IT Governance

With the risk of a cyber attack now being classed as the top threat to organisations , it’s vital to have the right cyber security measures in place to protect your organisation from an attack. It’s not just an organisation’s reputation that can be damaged by a data breach – the financial costs can often have a more severe effect. Lloyd’s of London has estimated the global cost of a serious cyber attack to be more than $120 billion (£92 billion).

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Pennsylvania Sues Uber Over Late Breach Notification

Data Breach Today

State Could Seek As Much as $13.5 Million in Civil Penalties The attorney general of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Uber for allegedly violating the state's mandatory breach notification law. It's the latest in a long string of legal and regulatory repercussions Uber is facing after waiting more than a year to disclose a serious breach.

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A Winning Recipe -- Cloud + SaaS + IaaS (new eBook)

AIIM

A new eBook that might be of interest. A winning recipe: SaaS + Cloud Content Management + IaaS. Processes, Content Management and Infrastructure. Every cloud application rests upon a platform, whether it be a “public” one like Azure or IBM’s platform or Google’s or Amazon Web Services or a private one specific to the application vendor. And that means that customers focused on application choices must also make sure that their underlying IaaS platform meets world-class standards of privacy, com

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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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2018 Global Data Regulations & Compliance Heat Up – Are you Ready?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Every year, new regulations and compliance orders come into play that impact businesses across the world. This year, the major regulation that will be implemented, is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , which takes effect on May 25, 2018. GDPR enables consumers to view, limit and control how companies collect and process their personal data.

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How Dutch Police Took Over Hansa, a Top Dark Web Market

WIRED Threat Level

Dutch police detail for the first time how they secretly hijacked Hansa, Europe's most popular dark web market.

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167 Applebee's Restaurants Hit With Payment Card Malware

Data Breach Today

Payment Card Data Stolen by Malware-Wielding Attackers, Franchisee Warns Anyone who dined out at one of 167 Applebee's restaurants located across 15 different states may have had their payment card details compromised by point-of-sale malware infections that began in November 2017, RMH Franchise Holdings warns.

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New eBook - on modern content problems need modern solutions

AIIM

A new eBook that might be of interest. Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions. A new generation of problems requires new approaches. There is a quote usually attributed to Albert Einstein that states, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”. In the content management business, I might rephrase that to be, “The content management tools we embraced in an earlier era to deal with a specific set of problems are not equipped to deal

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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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How to Prepare for the Future of Healthcare Digital Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Healthcare’s IT evolution has brought numerous security challenges including regulations, the use of digitally transformative technologies that have created huge amounts of data to store and protect, and the extraordinary value of electronic personal health information (ePHI) to cybercriminals. In this blog post, I’ll discuss how healthcare enterprises can not only meet these challenges, but go beyond compliance to best practice to secure their data and their reputations.

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Reddit Still Hosts Links to Russian Propaganda Sites

WIRED Threat Level

Reddit has deleted hundreds of Russian troll accounts, but the links they shared remain, forming a digital trail of the Internet Research Agency's actions on the platform.

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Memcached DDoS Attacks: 95,000 Servers Vulnerable to Abuse

Data Breach Today

Massive 1.7 Tbps Reflection/Amplification Attack Exploits Open Memcached Servers More than 95,000 servers that run the open source Memcached utiltity appear to remain vulnerable to being abused to launch massive DDoS attacks, with one such attack reaching a record 1.7 terabits per second. Here's how organizations and IT administrators must respond.

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Social networks may have to reveal how they target users with ads

The Guardian Data Protection

Information commissioner calls for more transparency over how individuals’ data is used for political ends Facebook and Twitter may be forced to reveal detailed information about how and why users were targeted for political advertising, the information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has suggested. Speaking to the digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) select committee, which is holding an inquiry into fake news, Denham said that transparency in political campaigning was crucial.

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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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Press for Progress

OpenText Information Management

Today, as the world celebrates and reflects on the achievements of women, OpenText continues the important conversation to promote and support women in technology with our participation in International Women’s Day 2018. We maintain the unequivocal belief that gender equality is critical to the success of OpenText, the technology industry, and that it contributes to … The post Press for Progress appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Leaked NSA Tool 'Territorial Dispute' Reveals the Agency's List of Enemy Hackers

WIRED Threat Level

A leaked NSA tool offers a glimpse into what the NSA knows about the hacking operations of adversaries—some of which may still be secretly ongoing.

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Putin Offers Extradition Promise to US: 'Never'

Data Breach Today

Russian Information Warfare Operations Continue Unabated; What Can Be Done? Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued an unequivocal promise about the extradition potential for 13 Russian nationals accused of working for a Kremlin-backed troll factory: "Never." It's unclear how the U.S. might best battle Russia's influence operations.

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Should Cryptocurrency and ICOs be Self Regulating?

Hanzo Learning Center

You have probably heard about Bitcoin thousands of times by now. You have seen it on the news, discussed it with your friends, and even seen your grandmother posting about it on Facebook. Cryptocurrency is the world’s fastest growing asset and the global cryptocurrency market now stands at roughly $450 billion. The amount of money raised by startups via ICO’s has now surpassed early stage VC Funding for internet companies, but they are still not the “gold standard.

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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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How to write a GDPR privacy notice – with documentation template example

IT Governance

An integral part of your EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance project is producing appropriate documentation, which includes a privacy notice. If you are just beginning your GDPR project, it is unlikely that you will be fully compliant by the time the Regulation is enforced on 25 May 2018. However, in our recent blog, GDPR priorities in the lead-up to May , we suggested that your organisation should prioritise creating a privacy notice, and display this to data subjects wherev

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Ashu Thangaraj talks tech, careers and diversity in the workplace

OpenText Information Management

Meet Ashu Thangaraj, director of Engineering from Bangalore, India. In this post, Ashu shares her experience working as a leader in the tech industry and talks about her ever-growing passion for diversity in the workplace. Tell us a little bit about yourself. What is your role here at OpenText? I am Ashu Thangaraj, and I … The post Ashu Thangaraj talks tech, careers and diversity in the workplace appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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ID and Access Management: The Next Steps

Data Breach Today

Bringing identity and access management to the next level and investigating the potential that blockchain offers to improve the management of device IDs are among the priority security projects at Sentara Healthcare, an integrated delivery system serving Virginia and North Carolina, says CISO Daniel Bowden.

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Pennsylvania Sues Uber Over Data Breach Disclosure

WIRED Threat Level

Pennsylvania’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the ride-hailing giant Monday for failing to disclose a massive hack for over a year—and may not be the last.

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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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Essential guidance on achieving and prioritising GDPR compliance

IT Governance

As the 25 May 2018 deadline for EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance draws near, it is becoming clear that the vast majority of UK businesses will not be ready. A recent research report , carried out by Ipsos MORI on behalf of the UK government, identified that only 38% of businesses and 44% of charities are currently aware of the GDPR.

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GDPR in manufacturing: Where to start, threats and opportunities

OpenText Information Management

There are now less than three months left until the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force. Although it seems like we’ve been talking about this new legislation for a long time, companies in every sector have been slow to react, with almost a third of small UK manufacturers not even beginning GDPR preparations. … The post GDPR in manufacturing: Where to start, threats and opportunities appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Getting Cloud Security Right

Data Breach Today

When working with cloud service providers, healthcare organizations must take responsibility for security practices rather than relying on the vendor, says Sonia Arista, a security consultant who formerly was CISO at Tufts Medical Center. She's a featured speaker at the HIMSS18 conference.

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