Data Breach Today
MARCH 20, 2018
Hacker May Have Also Obtained Other Customer Data in Breach, Orbitz Warns Expedia's Orbitz travel fare search engine says it may have suffered a breach that resulted in 880,000 payment cards being compromised, along with other customer data, over a two-year period. Orbitz says the apparent breach involved a legacy system no longer connected to its site.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a “dumb f**k”. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway. Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact t
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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
MARCH 19, 2018
The “hot hand,” a metaphor applied frequently to the game of basketball, is the idea that a basketball shooter, after making several consecutive shots, will experience a higher than normal success rate on his or her ensuing shots. I discussed the “hot hand” concept, and its flaw, at a TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) conference many years ago. Figure 1: “The Hot Hand in Basketball” by Thomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone and Amos Tversky.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 22, 2018
This blog was originally published on Business Reporter. To view the article, please click here. To see where the future of payments lies, we should look to its past. The concept of payment, at its most fundamental, is simply about people agreeing to exchange goods or services. A fair trade of one thing for another. Go back a few thousand years and the invention of money meant that food could be effectively turned into metal and stored for as long as needed, before being turned back into food ag
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.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2018
US, UK and Canada Have Begun Probing Data Leak and Privacy Repercussions Regulators, attorneys general and lawmakers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada are attempting to unravel the events that led to the personal information for upwards of 60 million Facebook users leaking to a London-based voter-profiling firm.
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TAB OnRecord
MARCH 22, 2018
Many RIM professionals that we speak with struggle to obtain budget and attention within the organization. Why? One of the reasons is that RIM has traditionally been seen as a cost center: an expense to be minimized, rather than a value-add or investment. When this mindset prevails among top executives, RIM professionals can struggle to [.] Read More.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 19, 2018
In undercover videos filmed by Britain’s Channel 4 news, Cambridge Analytica executives appear to offer up various unsavory tactics to influence campaigns.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 19, 2018
Political Data-Mining Firm Reportedly Obtained 50 Million Users' Private Details Facebook is under fire after reports suggested data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica obtained private information for 50 million Facebook users. The social network contends that it didn't suffer a "breach," as the information was legally obtained but subsequently misused.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
Information commissioner demands access to data and orders Facebook to halt audit The information commissioner is seeking an urgent court warrant to enter the London headquarters of the elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica after the firm was caught in an undercover sting boasting about entrapping politicians , using honey traps and running fake news campaigns.
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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.
National Archives Records Express
MARCH 19, 2018
I am pleased to announce the publication of the Criteria for Successfully Managing Permanent Electronic Records. The guidance supports the Managing Government Records Directive (M-12-18), which states “By December 31, 2019, all permanent electronic records in Federal agencies will be managed electronically to the fullest extent possible for eventual transfer and accessioning by NARA in an electronic format.”.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 21, 2018
Despite the repeated privacy lapses, Facebook offers a fairly robust set of tools to control who knows what about you.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 22, 2018
Banner Health Follows Nuance, Merck in Reporting Details About the Impact Recent financial reports from three healthcare sector organizations that suffered cyberattacks demonstrate how costly data breaches can be for not-for-profit healthcare providers and for-profit companies alike.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 18, 2018
From its stance on extremist content, to its vast caches of user data, Facebook is a corporation whose power must, finally, be reined in The revelation that Cambridge Analytica exploited the data of 50 million Facebook profiles to target American voters is indeed frightening. But Cambridge Analytica shouldn’t act as a diversion from the real bad guy in this story: Facebook.
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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.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 21, 2018
I was fortunate to be one of the presenters at SecureWorld’s recent web conference on “ Deploying Containers in the Age of GDPR.” I suggest you check it out. Here is a taste of what we discussed. A real-time poll of webinar participants asked how ready they think their organizations are for the GDPR deadline of May 25, 2018. It indicated 40% “are doing everything they know about and should be pretty much there.
Elie
MARCH 17, 2018
This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. This is the second post of a series dedicated to the hunt and takedown of Gooligan that we did at Google, in collaboration with Check Point, in November 2016. The. first post. recounts Gooligan’s origin story and provides an overview of how it works.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 23, 2018
Damage Assessment Is Underway, But Backups Are in Place, Officials Say Ransomware has struck the city of Atlanta and frozen internal and customer-facing applications, hampering residents from paying bills or accessing court information. But the city says it has working backups and expects to pay employees on time.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 18, 2018
Call for Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to testify before parliamentary committee The head of the parliamentary committee investigating fake news has accused Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading MPs in testimony, after the Observer revealed details of a vast data breach affecting tens of millions of people. After a whistleblower detailed the harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles for Cambridge Analytica, Damian Collins, the chair of the House of Commons culture, media and
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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
MARCH 22, 2018
Cyber security has become a major priority for every organisation. The right controls and procedures must be put in place to detect potential attacks and protect against them. However, with the risk of a cyber attack increasing every year, how can you keep up with the ever-evolving threats? What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) is the creation of intelligent machines that can learn from experience, allowing them to work and react as a human would.
Elie
MARCH 17, 2018
This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. This is the second post of a series dedicated to the hunt and takedown of Gooligan that we did at Google, in collaboration with Check Point, in November 2016. The. first post. recounts Gooligan’s origin story and provides an overview of how it works.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2018
Al Pascual of Javelin Strategy and Research discusses a new report that shows that while crypto wallets may be considered to be at the sharp end of payments innovation, the security vulnerabilities they face are much the same as those that already exist in digital banking and payments.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 21, 2018
This mess was inevitable. Facebook has worked tirelessly to gather as much data on users as it could – and to profit from it Big corporate scandals tend not to come completely out of the blue. As with politicians, accident-prone companies rarely become that way by accident, and a spectacular crisis can often arrive at the end of a long spell of bad decisions and confidence curdling into hubris.
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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
MARCH 21, 2018
Phishing attacks are on the rise, evolving in variety and sophistication and threatening email security. An IRONSCALES report has revealed that 90–95% of all successful cyber attacks begin with a phishing email. Why is phishing so popular among fraudsters, and why are they so successful? 1. Users are the weak link in the chain. According to the report, phishers are adept at exploiting ignorance, negligence and human nature.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 19, 2018
You give Facebook all of your data in exchange for using their service—an exchange that seems increasingly out of whack.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 22, 2018
Multivector distributed denial-of-service attacks are having a bigger impact than simple volumetric attacks, says Brian McCann, president of Netscout's security business unit, who analyzes the latest trends in an in-depth interview.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 19, 2018
Companies use our personal information to enrich themselves. Regulation of this practice is long overdue The Observer reported on Saturday that Cambridge Analytica acquired 50 million Facebook profiles from a researcher in 2014. This appears to have been among the most consequential data breaches in history, with an impact that may rival the breach of financial records from Equifax.
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.
OpenText Information Management
MARCH 22, 2018
Government agencies at all levels are realizing traditional records management practices are insufficient and ineffective in a digital world. Why? Digital—and increasingly mobile—citizens are driving the digital transformation of government by demanding new levels of information-based interaction and service More information is being generated by more processes—and it’s often sitting isolated in siloes and repositories … The post Traditional records management isn’t working for government
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 23, 2018
A new indictment asserts a long string of attacks against hundreds of universities and private companies, in which Iran pilfered more than $3 billion worth of intellectual property.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 19, 2018
Alert: Hackers Can Potentially Exploit Hardcoded and Default Credentials A recent alert from the Department of Homeland Security warning of vulnerabilities in certain medical imaging products from GE Healthcare is a reminder to other medical device makers and healthcare entities about the risks posed by hardcoded and default credentials.
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