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Is Your Information Governance Mostly Sound and Fury?

Weissman's World

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Shakespeare penned these words as a metaphor for life (Macbeth, Act V, Scene V), but they relate equally well to information governance in that organizations often spend more time arguing over the particulars than actually doing much about them. This […]. The post Is Your Information Governance Mostly Sound and Fury?

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Exposing the inner-workings of the ransomware economy

Elie

This blog post shed light on the inner workings of the ransomsphere economics and exposes which cybercriminal groups are the biggest earners. This is the second blog post in my series about ransomware economics. The first post. is dedicated to the methodology and techniques needed to trace ransomware payments end-to-end. As this post builds on that methodology, I encourage you to read through the first post if you haven’t done so.

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Mergers and acquisitions: How to take inventory of the target company’s records collections

TAB OnRecord

In last week’s blog post, we looked at a set of questions to help you evaluate the state of the RIM program in the target company involved in a merger or acquisition. The questions focused on assessing the current state of the program as well as any gaps or risks that might jeopardize the success… Read More. The post Mergers and acquisitions: How to take inventory of the target company’s records collections appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.

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Tips for Reverse-Engineering Malicious Code

Lenny Zeltser

This cheat sheet outlines tips for reversing malicious Windows executables via static and dynamic code analysis with the help of a debugger and a disassembler. To print it, use the one-page PDF version; you can also edit the Word version to customize it for you own needs. Overview of the Code Analysis Process. Examine static properties of the Windows executable for initial assessment and triage.

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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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Court: Production of Hard Copy Versions of Documents Also Kept As ESI Does Not “Run Afoul” of Rule 34

eDiscovery Law

Ortega v. Mgmt. & Training Corp., NO. 16-cv-0665 MV/SMV, 2017 WL 3588818 (D.N.M. Jan. 1, 2017). In this case, Plaintiff sought to compel native/electronic production of documents previously produced in hard copy. Defendant claimed that the documents in question were “ordinarily kept by Defendant both electronically and in hard copy” and produced only the hard copy format.

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China Releases Four Draft Guidelines in Relation to Cybersecurity Law

Hunton Privacy

On August 31, 2017, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee of China published four draft voluntary guidelines (“Draft Guidelines”) in relation to the Cybersecurity Law of China. The Draft Guidelines are open for comment from the general public until October 13, 2017. Information Security Technology – Guidelines for Cross-Border Transfer Security Assessment : Compared with the first draft published in May, the second Draft Guidelines add new definitions of certain t

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Exposing the inner-workings of the ransomware economy

Elie

In-depth research publications, industry talks and blog posts about Google security, research at Google and cybersecurity in general in open-access.

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Utilities: Interesting Times – Blessing or Curse?

CGI

Utilities: Interesting Times – Blessing or Curse? ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Fri, 09/08/2017 - 03:37. When I first heard, “May you live in interesting times” my reaction was, ‘what a cool thing to wish from someone’. It wasn’t until almost a decade later that someone pointed out that it was an apocryphal Chinese curse. There’s no doubt about it, the Utilities sector is living in ‘Interesting Times’ and those times are becoming ever more ‘interesting’.

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Quit Talking About "Security Culture" - Fix Org Culture!

The Falcon's View

I have a pet peeve. Ok, I have several, but nonetheless, we're going to talk about one of them today. That pet peeve is security professionals wasting time and energy pushing a "security culture" agenda. This practice of talking about "security culture" has arisen over the past few years. It's largely coming from security awareness circles, though it's not always the case (looking at you anti-phishing vendors intent on selling products without the means and methodology to make them truly useful!

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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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OCR Releases Guidance on HIPAA Compliance During Emergencies

Hunton Privacy

On September 7, 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued an announcement containing disaster preparedness and recovery guidance in advance of Hurricane Irma. The announcement follows a bulletin issued in late August during Hurricane Harvey that addressed how protected health information (“PHI”) can be shared during emergencies.

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Déjà Vu – Canada’s Breach Reporting and Notification Requirements

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

On September 2, 2017, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) published draft Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations. The draft Regulations will be open for comment for 30 days. If the Regulations are not further amended by ISED, they may be registered and republished. ISED has stated that there will be a delay between finalizing the Regulations and their coming into force to permit organizations time to implement any necessary organizational changes.

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Intelligent Automation is a hot topic

CGI

Intelligent Automation is a hot topic. harini.kottees…. Thu, 09/07/2017 - 01:00. Intelligent Automation (IA) is expected to be one of the most significant disrupters since the creation of the internet. As with the internet, there are advocates who will embrace the change to come and others who won’t. Fast forward 20 years and we can all see that the internet has driven significant global economic growth and prosperity, transformed how businesses operate, created more jobs and opened up a global

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Animals in the Archives

Archives Blogs

How about some cute animals to kick off the start of the school year? We in the Archives noticed the National Archives’ new social media campaign – the Archives Hashtag Party! Each month follows a differently themed hashtag (you can follow @USNatArchives to see the themes). Last month was #ArchivesSquadGoals. This month’s theme is #ArchivesCute, and in the Amherst College Archives we’ve decided to join the party.

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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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FTC Brings First Enforcement Action Under Privacy Shield Framework

Hunton Privacy

On September 8, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had settled charges against three companies for misleading consumers about their participation in the Privacy Shield framework. The FTC alleged that Decusoft, LLC, Tru Communication, Inc. and Md7, LLC violated the FTC Act by falsely claiming that they were certified to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, when in fact the three companies never completed the Privacy Shield certification process.

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The UK IoT Jobs Sector

Information Matters

DOWNLOAD REPORT. I’ve just finished a short report looking at the state of the Internet of Things jobs market in the UK. It is a snapshot of vacant IoT positions across a range of employers. Some of the key findings: large north-south divide in IoT job opportunities (72% of positions are south of Birmingham); significant proportion (12%) of non-technology companies/organisations offering IoT vacancies; interesting mix of established technology companies and start-ups developing innovative

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FTC Announces Settlement with Lenovo Regarding Preinstalled Laptop Software

Hunton Privacy

On September 5, 2017, the FTC announced that Lenovo, Inc. (“Lenovo”) agreed to settle charges that its preloaded software on some laptop computers compromised online security protections in order to deliver advertisements to consumers. The settlement agreement (the “Settlement”) is between Lenovo, the FTC and 32 State Attorneys General. . In its complaint, the FTC charged that, since August 2014, Lenovo sold consumer laptops in the United States with a preinstalled “man-in-the-middle” software p

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Roethke and Bellow Headline 1965 National Book Awards

Archives Blogs

Roethke and Bellow headline 1965 National Book Awards…even though one of them is dead. Ted Roethke’s widow accepts the award for her late husband’s collection The Far Field , and his friend, fellow poet Stanley Kunitz, converts the usual speech of thanks into a eulogy. Noting that Roethke was so talented “he could afford to praise,” Kunitz reveals that among his papers were “twelve hundred poems by other poets written out in his hand.

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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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Musical roots: creating a guide to family history resources in the Musicians’ Union Archive

Archives Blogs

During the summer of 2017 Henry Carden , a postgraduate Communications, Media & Culture student, carried out a research placement in the University Archives funded by the Musicians’ Union. Here he writes about his work opening up the family history resources contained within the Musicians’ Union Archive. Marbled edges of MU membership registers (Musicians’ Union Archive).

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A Brief History of Athletics at Florida State University

Archives Blogs

For most individuals, when they think of Florida State University, they think of Florida State Football. Although football is a paramount addition to Florida State University, it used to be just a minor team at Florida State, with only fourteen official members on the football team in 1903. Football captains from Florida State University and Stetson University meet on the football field – Tallahassee, Florida. 1947.

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Un contributo “Teatrale” al discorso sul genere

Archives Blogs

[link] in:politica Tagged: genere, teatro, transgender.

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