WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 1, 2019

Been curious about Tor but worried it's too complicated to use? Good news: The anonymity service is more accessible than ever.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 3, 2019

A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc. is likely to fool quite a few people. It starts with an automated call that display’s Apple’s logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. The scary part is that if the recipient is an iPhone user who then requests a call back from Apple’s legitimate customer support Web page, the fake call gets indexed in the iPhone’s “recent calls” list as a previous call from the legi

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2019

Until recently, organisations often spent almost all of their information security budget on prevention, effectively taking an all-or-nothing approach to the threat of data breaches. They either repelled the attack or faced the consequences head-on. However, with data breaches becoming more common and varied, organisations have realised that it’s impossible to eradicate every risk.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 4, 2019

Chancellor Angela Merkel Among the Victims of Massive Hack Attack and Data Leak Hundreds of members of the German parliament, Chancellor Angela Merkel as well as numerous local celebrities have had their personal details and communications stolen and leaked online as part of what authorities are calling an attack on the country's democracy and institutions.

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Weissman's World

JANUARY 3, 2019

It’s 2019, and Steve Weissman anticipates and addresses a number of key themes for the new year: 0:44 – Metadata and database fields: ‘labels’ as the keys to … everything! 1:38 – AI and machine learning: not the same things, no matter what the marketing says 3:24 – RPA: simply workflow by another name? 4:08 […]. The post Perspective Check – Anticipation 2019 appeared first on Holly Group.

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AIIM

JANUARY 2, 2019

On average, organizations believe the volume of information will grow from X to 4.2X. This explosive growth translates into a rising ride of chaos. 75% of organizations see information chaos as a major problem for their organization. As a result, there is a core instability in information management practices in most organizations. 92% of organizations believe that something needs to change and that they must modernize their information management strategy.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Nation States and Cybercrime Gangs Keep Blurring; Tools Alone Don't Equal Actors Don't rush to blame the printing outage at newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing on anything more than an organization failing to block a malware outbreak. And even if it does prove to be a Ryuk ransomware attack, there's no proof yet that any particular nation state is behind the campaign, experts warn.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 1, 2019

There are few things organisations fear more than data breaches. They cause immediate delays, are expensive and could lead to long-term reputational damage. The stakes were raised with the enforcement of the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in May 2018. It demands adequate security measures and has been widely publicised, as it has the potential to levy large fines against non-compliant organisations.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 2, 2019

Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net is struggling to bring its systems back online after suffering a ransomware infestation on Christmas Eve, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company says its systems were hit by the Ryuk ransomware, the same malware strain that crippled printing and delivery operations for multiple major U.S. newspapers over the weekend.

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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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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 2, 2019

On December 28, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published guidance regarding the conditions to be met by organizations in order to lawfully share personal data with business partners or other third parties, such as data brokers. The guidance focused, in particular, on such a scenario in the context of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Tribune Media Suspects Ryuk Ransomware Hit Publishing and Production Systems Production of newspapers owned by Chicago-based Tribune Publishing have been disrupted after malware began infecting the company's publishing and printing systems. Tribune newspapers report that they appear to have been hit by crypto-locking Ryuk ransomware.

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AIIM

JANUARY 3, 2019

In today's digital world, the chance of information-related security breaches is high. Is your company's data security plan up to date and bullet proof? Don't leave your information assets at risk. It's time to take action! I invite you to join us for a free webinar on Wednesday, January 16th @ 2pm EST. AIIM Chief Evangelist, John Mancini, is sharing top tips to help your organization: Understand the unique challenges posed by “unstructured” information and content.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2019

Developers that include the GNU’s wget utility in their applications have to use the new version that was released on Boxing Day. GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

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PerezBox

JANUARY 3, 2019

The last few posts have been about deploying and configuring OSSEC as an important tool in your security suite. In this article I will provide you a script I wrote. Read More. The post Installing OSSEC on Linux Distributions appeared first on PerezBox.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2019

Hacking Incidents Still Dominate, But Fewer Huge Incidents Than in Years Past Major health data breaches added to the official federal tally in 2018 impacted more than twice as many individuals as the incidents added to the list 2017. But the 2018 victim total was far less than in 2016 and 2015, when the healthcare sector was hit with a string of huge cyberattacks.

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AIIM

JANUARY 4, 2019

“Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not”- Michael Dell. In our series, we have been looking at this digital age and how technology is changing the roles and functions of traditional project positions and causing them to evolve into the positions that they were always supposed to be. Our second article focused on the role of the project sponsor.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2018

‘Roma225’ campaign -The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers investigated a recent espionage malware implant weaponized to target companies in the Italian automotive sector. The malware was spread through well-written phishing email trying to impersonate a senior partner of one of the major Brazilian business law firms: “ Veirano Advogados ”. The malicious email intercepted during the CSDC operations contains a PowerPoint add-in document (“.ppa ” extension), armed with auto-open VBA macro c

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 3, 2019

In an era of tighter privacy laws, it's important to create an online environment that uses threat intelligence productively to defeat disinformation campaigns and bolster democracy.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 3, 2019

With an operating system that's used by 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies, Microsoft closely monitors cyberattack trends. Joram Borenstein, general manager of Microsoft's Cybersecurity Solutions Group, discusses his top three concerns for 2019.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 3, 2019

Password-manager Blur and role-playing game Town of Salem both disclosed data breaches this week that impacted a combined 10 million.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2018

New thunderclouds on Facebook, the social network giant is accused of tracking non-users via Android apps. According to a report presented by Privacy International yesterday at 35C3 hacking conference held in Germany, the list of Android apps that send tracking and personal information back to Facebook includes dozens of apps including Kayak , Yelp, and Shazam , “Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users and logged-out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Martec's law states, “Technology changes exponentially; organizations change logarithmically.” Translation? Technology will accelerate faster than companies can adapt to increasing data growth and adopt new business models.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 2, 2019

Co-Developed with Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council, Designed for Organizations of All Sizes With the aim of helping healthcare entities of all sizes improve their cybersecurity, the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a four-volume publication of voluntary best practices. Experts weigh in on whether it will prove helpful, especially for smaller organizations.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 4, 2019

Instead of losing sight of the cybersecurity forest as we navigate the compliance trees, consolidate and simplify regulatory compliance efforts to keep your eyes on the security prize.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The European Commission decided to launch its bug bounty initiative, the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project. Bug bounty programs are very important for the security of software and hardware, major tech firms launched their own programs to discover flaws before hackers. The European Commission recognized the importance of bug bounty programs and decided to launch its bug bounty initiative, the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Wired has an excellent article on China's APT10 hacking group. Specifically, on how they hacked managed service providers in order to get to their customers' networks. I am reminded of the NSA's " I Hunt Sysadmins " presentation, published by the Intercept.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Mastercard has launched a "fusion center" designed to increase its speed of response and coordination among departments in the event of a cyberattack, says CSO Ron Green, who explains the initiative.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 4, 2019

New information on the Starwood breach shows that the overall breach was somewhat smaller than originally announced, but the news for passport holders is worse.

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