Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Poor Procedures for Discarding Old Equipment Led to Breach, Lawsuit Alleges A $5 million lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed against Morgan Stanley, claiming the financial organization failed to properly safeguard personally identifiable information when the company discarded old computer equipment.
erwin
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Aligning these practices for regulatory compliance and other benefits. Why should you integrate data governance (DG) and enterprise architecture (EA)? It’s time to think about EA beyond IT. Two of the biggest challenges in creating a successful enterprise architecture initiative are: collecting accurate information on application ecosystems and maintaining the information as application ecosystems change.
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Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
On August 24, 2020, the Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg issued guidance on international data transfers following the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) in the Schrems II case (decision C-311/18 of July 16, 2020). As we previously reported , the judgment of the CJEU invalidated the EU-U.S.
DXC Technology
AUGUST 31, 2020
Like many others, my family and I have done our best to enjoy the unexpectedly large amount of time we have together at home due to social distancing guidelines. Adjusting to the new normal, we have relied heavily on Internet access not only for work and school, but to stay sane and keep the peace. […]. The post Remote work requirement exposes the corporate digital divide appeared first on DXC Blogs.
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
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Healthcare Organizations Facing More Cyberthreats Two recent hacking incidents that each affected more than 100,000 individuals illustrate the variety of cyberthreats healthcare organizations face during these chaotic times. Security experts offer risk mitigation insights.
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
The NSA argued its mass surveillance program stopped terrorist attacks - but a new U.S. court ruling found that this is not, and may have even been unconstitutional.
DXC Technology
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Following this year’s extraordinary events, our retail bank partners have been asking to rapidly implement contactless solutions that minimize touch points for customers. Current circumstances aside, research indicates that contactless is just one part of the future retail banking landscape. In the long term, banks will grow their customer bases and portfolios by offering frictionless […].
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 29, 2020
Email Service Provider Moving to Implement Additional Security Measures Security professionals are expressing surprise that email service provider Sendgrid did not have multifactor authentication in place to protect its customer accounts, which resulted in a large, but unknown, number being compromised with the data being sold on the darknet.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
The Evilnum APT group has added a new weapon to its arsenal, it is a Python-based spy RAT, dubbed PyVil, designed to target FinTech organizations. The Evilnum APT group was first spotted in 2018 while using the homonym malware. Over the years, the group added new tools to its arsenal, including custom and homemade malware along with software purchased from the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) provider.
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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.
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is the fewest we’ve recorded since May 2018. The true figure, as always, will be higher than this – in part because organisations rarely disclose how many records were involved in security incidents.
Hunton Privacy
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
On September 3, 2020, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (“LIBE Committee”) of the European Parliament held a meeting to discuss the future of EU-U.S. data flows following the Schrems II judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”). In addition to Members of the European Parliament (“MEPs”), the meeting’s participants included Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) Chair Andrea Jelinek and Maximilian Schrems.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 29, 2020
Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh Caused $1.4 Million in Damages to Former Employer A one-time Cisco engineer has pleaded guilty to causing $1.4 million in damages to his former employer. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh admitted to deleting 456 virtual machines that affected 16,000 WebEx accounts for weeks, according to the Justice Department.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 30, 2020
The npm security team removed a malicious JavaScript library from the npm repository that was designed to steal sensitive files from the victims. The npm security team has removed the JavaScript library “ fallguys ” from the npm portal because it was containing a malicious code used to steal sensitive files from an infected users’ browser and Discord application.
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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.
OpenText Information Management
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
This blog is co-authored by Annie John and Todd Cernetic. “Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that’s in plain sight” said Stephenie Meyer, the author of the bestselling Twilight series. Not that long-ago, social media was the “new kid on the block,” something we used to share photos with distant family members, comment … The post Is social media being mined for insider threats?
IT Governance
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Organisations spend $3.86 million (about £2.9 million) recovering from security incidents, according to Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020. That represents a slight decrease on 2019, which Ponemon’s researchers credit to organisations doing a better job strengthening their cyber defences and incident response capabilities. The report also notes that 52% of data breaches are caused by cyber attacks, and that malware is the costliest form of attack, with organisations spending $
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
What privacy and security issues are raised by patients using smartphone apps to access health records? Attorney Helen Oscislawski and security expert Jarrett Kolthoff offer an analysis.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Experts warn of the KryptoCibule Windows malware that has been active since late 2018 and has targeted users in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Security researchers from ESET have shared technical detailts of a new piece of Windows malware tracked as KryptoCibule. The malware has been active since at least December 2018, it targets cryptocurrency users as a triple threat.
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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.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Mass domain purchasing enables email attackers to slip by traditional defenses. Here's how artificial intelligence can stop them.
DXC Technology
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
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Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Facebook Takes Down Accounts Associated with Russia's 'Internet Research Agency' Troll Farm Facebook says the Russian troll group that interfered in the 2016 U.S. election is at it again, using sham accounts and a fake news site to spread disinformation in advance of the November election. Facebooks says it took down the accounts involved.
Security Affairs
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France won’t ban the Chinese giant Huawei from its upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his government will not exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the building of the upcoming 5G telecommunication networks. However, Macron said that France will favor European providers of 5G technology due to security concerns.
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Threatpost
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
The company committed to more transparency about app flaws, with an advisory page aimed at keeping the community better informed of security vulnerabilities.
Dark Reading
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
From COVID-19 treatment to academic studies, keeping research secure is more important than ever. The ResearchSOC at Indiana University intends to help.
Data Breach Today
AUGUST 31, 2020
It's Unclear Who Owns the Data and If Those Affected Will Be Notified About 54,000 Australian driver's licenses were exposed in an open Amazon Simple Storage Service bucket, according to a security researcher. It remains unclear what entity or agency exposed the data and whether those affected will be notified.
Security Affairs
AUGUST 31, 2020
Cisco warns that threat actors are attempting to exploit a high severity DoS flaw in its Cisco IOS XR software that runs on carrier-grade routers. Cisco warned over the weekend that attackers are trying to exploit a high severity memory exhaustion denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability ( CVE-2020-3566 ) affecting the Cisco IOS XR Network OS that runs on carrier-grade routers.
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.
Adam Levin
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Databases containing the personal information of millions of U.S. voters have appeared on Russian hacking forums. According to Russian news outlet Kommersant , a hacker called Gorka9 has posted the personal information of several million registered voters in Michigan, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, and South Carolina.The data includes names, birthdates, gender, mailing addresses, email addresses and polling station numbers.
WIRED Threat Level
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Facing looming election threats and a ransomware epidemic, the bureau says it has revamped its process for warning hacking victims.
Data Breach Today
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Users of Financial and Ecommerce Websites Are Frequent Victims So-called "cybersquatting" attacks are surging, with financial and ecommerce websites - including those of PayPal, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of America and Amazon - among the most frequent targets, according to Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.
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