Dark Reading

JUNE 13, 2018

We deserve a seat at the executive table, and we'll be much better at our jobs once we take it.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 12, 2018

Exchanges Remain Prime Target; Easily Available Hacking Tools Aid Attackers As bitcoin continues its massive price fluctuations, a new report says criminals have continued their push to get extortion and ransom payments in more stable cryptocurrencies. But bitcoins remain a top target for hackers, who most often choose to directly target cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

Did you know that every zebra has its own unique stripe pattern? Just like a human fingerprint, every zebra can be identified by their distinctive set of stripes. Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. But they’d also be working to supplement their stripe recognition and biometrics with behavioral analytics.

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Weissman's World

JUNE 12, 2018

A few weeks ago, I used this space to wonder how top-of-mind content migration is among organizations whose legacy solutions are more than 8 years old – which, it turns out, accounts for more than 75% of those in service. There was nothing scientific about this query, but the core responses received were illuminating nonetheless, […]. The post Legacy Content Migration: The Crowd Has it Wrong appeared first on Holly Group.

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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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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. But not Jessamyn West. The 49-year-old librarian from a tiny town in Vermont took Equifax to court.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

Threat actors in the hunt for vulnerable targets often look first to ubiquitous platforms. It makes perfect sense for them to do so. Related article: Triaging open-source exposures. Finding a coding or design flaw on Windows OS can point the way to unauthorized to access to a treasure trove of company networks that use Windows. The same holds true for probing widely used open source protocols, as occurred when Heartbleed and Shellshock came to light.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 11, 2018

Case filed in a Mississippi court alleges data mined in UK was illegally sent abroad by two of Banks’s companies A British public interest group has filed a lawsuit in a Mississippi court against two companies controlled by Arron Banks, the pro-Brexit donor, following allegations that the firms may have violated UK data protection rules in an attempt to sway the 2016 vote to leave the EU.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 14, 2018

Russia expects as many as 2 million visitors during the 2018 World Cup, most of whom should take extra precautions against the country's many cyber risks.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2018

First, Attackers Distracted Bank, Using Buhtrap Malware to Cause Mayhem Banco de Chile has become the latest victim of a SWIFT-related malware incident. Attackers first corrupted thousands of PCs' master boot records as a distraction. Then they used fraudulent SWIFT messages to steal $10 million.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2018

The most profound threat to corporate networks isn’t the latest, greatest malware. It’s carbon-based life forms. Humans tend to be gullible and impatient. With our affiliations and preferences put in play by search engines and social media, we’re perfect patsies for social engineering. And because we are slaves to convenience, we have a propensity for taking shortcuts when it comes to designing, configuring and using digital systems.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 12, 2018

Consumer electronics retailer apologises and says there is currently no evidence of fraud Dixons Carphone has revealed a major breach of data involving unauthorised access to 5.9 million customers cards and 1.2 million personal records. The consumer electronics retailer said it had detected an attempt to compromise the cards in a processing system at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, but said there was no evidence of any fraud as a result of the incident.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 10, 2018

Microsoft's Windows red team probes and prods the world's biggest operating system through the eyes of an adversary.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2018

1.2 Million Nonfinancial Records Also at Risk, Electronics Giant Warns The U.K.'s Dixons Carphone is investigating a data breach that resulted in the suspected exposure of 5.9 million payment cards and nonfinancial information for 1.2 million customers. The incident could become the first U.K. breach to fall under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

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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 Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

The variety of laws and regulations governing how organizations manage and share sensitive information can look like a bowl of alphabet soup: HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, PCI and GLBA. A multinational conglomerate, government contractor, or public university must comply with ten or more, which makes demonstrating regulatory compliance seem like a daunting, even impossible, undertaking.

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IT Governance

JUNE 14, 2018

Little more than three years since its previous security incident, electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has admitted to a data breach compromising 5.9 million customer cards and 1.2 million personal records – making it the biggest online data breach in UK history. In a statement released on Wednesday, the retail giant revealed it had identified the colossal breach while it was reviewing its systems and data.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 12, 2018

ICO says firm ‘failed to prevent’ 2014 Russia-sponsored hack after 500m accounts compromised Yahoo has been fined £250,000 over a hack from 2014 that affected more than 515,000 UK email accounts co-branded with Sky, the Information Commissioner’s Office has announced. The personal data of 500m user accounts worldwide was compromised during a state-sponsored cyber attack in 2014, which was only revealed in 2016.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2018

'Operation Wire Wire' a Six-Month, Worldwide Law Enforcement Operation A six-month coordinated global law enforcement effort to crack down on business email compromise schemes has resulted in 74 arrests, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

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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.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 14, 2018

Jeff Flake and Chris Coons sent Jeff Bezos a letter Thursday with nearly 30 questions about how the company handles user data and privacy.

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TAB OnRecord

JUNE 13, 2018

In last week’s blog post we started to explore ten best practices for records management training programs. In part two we will continue by discussing five more best practices for RIM program training success. 6. Don’t forget the value proposition Almost everyone sitting in on your RIM training session will likely be asking themselves “why [.] Read More.

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Data Matters

JUNE 14, 2018

On 11 June 2018, members of a Committee within the European parliament (“ MEPs ”) narrowly voted in favour of suspending the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“ Privacy Shield ”), an agreement that facilitates the transfer of personal data of EU data subjects to the U.S., unless the U.S. government fully complies with the Privacy Shield data protection requirements by 1 September 2018.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 14, 2018

Stakeholders Spotlight a Long List of Problems in Feedback to House Committee A House committee that asked the healthcare sector for feedback on how to improve the cybersecurity of legacy medical devices has received some very strong opinions on the subject. Find out what commenters had to say.

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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.

Dark Reading

JUNE 14, 2018

This often overlooked open source tool uses deep packet inspection to transform network traffic into exceptionally useful, real-time data for security operations.

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JKevinParker

JUNE 9, 2018

The Information Governance Conference , or InfoGovCon, is a fantastic event for information professionals run by my friends at the Information Coalition. This year's event, held September 25-28 in Providence, will mark InfoGovCon's 5th year. I spoke the last 2 years, and I won the 2016 Information Governance Expert of the Year award. At #InfoGov18, I am excited to be a keynote speaker, kicking off the very first Leadership Development Summit.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 12, 2018

The arrest of dozens of alleged Nigerian email scammers and their associates is a small, but important, first step toward tackling an enormous problem.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2018

$50 Million Believed Stolen as Exchange Attacks Continue South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail says hackers stole 30 percent of all of the cryptocurrency tokens it was storing, but many have been successfully frozen or recalled. Security experts say cryptocurrency exchanges remain poorly secured, so they're popular targets for hackers.

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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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CGI

JUNE 11, 2018

Seven tips for executives considering robotic process automation. premanath.puch…. Mon, 06/11/2018 - 04:25. Faced with the challenges of becoming digital organizations that truly meet customer and citizen demands, as Craig Wallace recently blogged, many executives are looking to combine new and emerging technologies to support their holistic transformation.

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Data Matters

JUNE 12, 2018

In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission has increasingly exercised its enforcement authority to target deceptive and unfair information security practices. During this time, enforcement actions have targeted companies for failing to honor their promises to implement “reasonable” or “industry standard” security practices, defend against well-known security threats, put in place basic security measures, or take many other basic data security steps.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 15, 2018

Roger Clark allegedly served as Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road consigliere. Friday, the feds announced his extradition from Thailand.

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