Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2018

The digital transformation has changed how the world does business. It has created whole new enterprises and industries, but it has also left many organizations vulnerable to new and destructive threats. Digital transformation can and does deliver increased efficiencies, improved decision-making, lower costs, improved reach, and higher profits. But it also frequently relies on increasing amounts of personal and other sensitive data.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

There’s a new breed of identity thief at work plundering consumers and companies. However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. This has long been true of the vast majority of Americans. Related article: 7 hacks signaling a coming global cyber war.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 10, 2018

Federal Agency Offers Insights on Vulnerability Mitigation; Others Weigh In Federal regulators are reminding organizations about the importance of identifying and patching software vulnerabilities. But why are these seemingly basic security steps so challenging for so many?

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Weissman's World

JULY 11, 2018

What is the GDPR? The GDPR is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, and as the EU’s new take on privacy protection, it took effect a month ago to much fanfare. Officially, it “protects fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons, and in particular, their right to the protection of personal data.” Note the […]. The post The GDPR for the Little Guy (or Gal) appeared first on Holly Group.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2018

Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal , a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was summarily kicked off the Internet this week after a half-dozen of the company’s bandwidth providers chose to sever ties with the company. Spammers and Internet service providers (ISPs) that facilitate such activity often hijack Internet address ranges that have gone unused for periods of time.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 11, 2018

Steve Rog of ForeScout Technologies on Improving Security Hygiene The growth of IoT means traditional methods of security are inadequate, says Steve Rog of ForeScout Technologies, who calls for improvements in security hygiene.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 10, 2018

Firm fined £500k for lack of transparency and failing to protect users’ information Facebook is to be fined £500,000, the maximum amount possible, for its part in the Cambridge Analytica scandal , the information commissioner has announced. The fine is for two breaches of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) concluded that Facebook failed to safeguard its users’ information and that it failed to be transparent about how that data was harvested by others.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2018

Microsoft and Adobe each issued security updates for their products today. Microsoft’s July patch batch includes 14 updates to fix more than 50 security flaws in Windows and associated software. Separately, Adobe has pushed out an update for its Flash Player browser plugin, as well as a monster patch bundle for Adobe Reader/Acrobat. According to security firm Qualys , all but two of the “critical” fixes in this round of updates apply to vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s b

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2018

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. And we’re in a nascent phase where clever advances are blossoming even as unprecedented data breaches arise in parallel. The latest example of this dichotomy comes from Timehop, a service that enables social media users to plug into their past. On Sunday, Timehop shared details about how a hacker got into their network, conducted several reconnaissance forays, and then moved swiftly on July 4th to pilfer personal information for 21

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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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Data Breach Today

JULY 11, 2018

Latest Cyber Incident Spotlights Impact on Patient Care A ransomware attack that forced a Missouri medical center to divert ambulances carrying trauma and stroke patients to other facilities serves as reminder of the impact cyberattacks can have on healthcare delivery. What are the lessons to learn?

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Troy Hunt

JULY 12, 2018

It was Jan last year that I suggested HTTPS adoption had passed the "tipping point" , that is it had passed the moment of critical mass and as I said at the time, "will very shortly become the norm" Since that time, the percentage of web pages loaded over a secure connection has rocketed from 52% to 71% whilst the proportion of the world's top 1 million websites redirecting people to HTTPS has gone from 20% to about half (projected).

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 11, 2018

ICO to fine baby club Emma’s Diary £140,000 for infraction before 2017 general election The Labour party bought data on more than 1 million new and expectant mothers and their children from a leading baby club ahead of the 2017 general election. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a notice of intent to fine Emma’s Diary £140,000 for the infraction.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 10, 2018

Mail.ru also ran hundreds of apps on Facebook at a time when the platform’s policies allowed app developers to collect their users' friends' data.

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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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Data Breach Today

JULY 10, 2018

Breach Underlines Need for Strong Authentication in Cloud Services Timehop, an application that revives older social media posts, says the lack of multifactor authentication on a cloud services account led to a data breach affecting 21 million users. The breach exposed names, email addresses, phone numbers and access tokens Timehop used to read information from accounts.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 9, 2018

How can we always be sure the stories we’re reading are accurate? Is there an agenda to distort facts to change opinions? Does a story assert falsehoods, misquote its subjects or rely on hyperbole? In short: is the news we’re consuming the truth? Or is it “fake news?” Meet Mike Tamir, an analytics hero who uses data science to take fake news head-on.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JULY 11, 2018

Firm removes category, which affected 65,000 people, from ad tools, following safety fears Facebook’s advertising tools algorithmically labelled 65,000 Russians as interested in treason, potentially putting them at risk from the repressive state, until the company removed the category, following inquiries from journalists. The labelling raises new concerns over data-driven profiling and targeting of users on the website, which has already faced criticism for the same tool algorithmically inferri

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 10, 2018

Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.

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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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Data Breach Today

JULY 9, 2018

Patients, Dentist Alarmed By HealthEngine, Which Claims It Had Consent Australian medical booking platform HealthEngine offered AU$25 (US$19) gift vouchers to dental patients who sent photos of their treatment invoices to the company, which it positioned to patients as "invaluable" research. Privacy experts say the company may have fallen afoul of Australian privacy guidelines.

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TAB OnRecord

JULY 12, 2018

In a three-part post, we have been sharing insights from our work helping organizations go digital. In parts one and two we talked about the value that digitization projects can bring to your organization, the realities of having a hybrid record environment, and questions to ask before commencing a digitization project. In our final post, [.] Read More.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. Connected devices outnumber people. The United Nations estimates the current world population at 7.6 billion 1 , and Gartner projects over 20.8 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. Connected things are what make the IoT – sensors, cameras, wearable electronics, medical devices, automatic controls.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 9, 2018

There haven't been as many hacks and attacks compared to this time last year, but that's where the good news ends.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2018

Thousands of Individuals' Data Was Allegedly Accessible to All Agency Workers An incident involving an unsecured database containing information about thousands of HIV/AIDS patients in Tennessee is shining a spotlight on privacy risks involving sensitive health data.

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IT Governance

JULY 9, 2018

NHS Digital has suffered a data breach in which 150,000 patients had their confidential data shared without their permission. The breach affected national data opt-out (formerly type 2 opt-out) patients. National data opt-out is used when patients only consent to their data being used for their individual care. However, GP surgeries that used TPP’s SystmOne software after 31 March 2015 had not passed on this opt-out information, so patient information was used for clinical research.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2018

Whether offering instant access to patient records, allowing remote diagnosis of treatment, or giving access to lifestyle management and monitoring apps, it’s undeniable that the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected services are revolutionising the healthcare industry. Working to improve operational efficiencies and deliver a greater level of care, the now-dubbed ‘Connected Health’ market has grown to such an extent recently that it is expected to be worth more than £450 billion by 2024.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 10, 2018

The bug serves as a reminder of China-friendly censorship code hidden in all iOS devices.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 12, 2018

Breach May Have Affected More Ticketmaster Sites, Researchers Say Magecart, the criminal group behind the recent data breach at certain Ticketmaster websites, may have also hit the company's sites in Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and Hungary, according to RiskIQ, which says the group's digital payment card skimmers may also affect as many as 800 other e-commerce sites.

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IT Governance

JULY 11, 2018

As part of an EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance project, organisations are required to map their data and information flows. However, identifying and keeping track of all the information flowing in and out of your organisation can be challenging. What can a data flow map help with? A data flow map can help you identify all the information your organisation holds and how it’s being transferred between other data processers and/or controllers, and allows you to assess privacy

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Schneier on Security

JULY 13, 2018

This is weird : Police in Detroit are looking for two suspects who allegedly managed to hack a gas pump and steal over 600 gallons of gasoline, valued at about $1,800. The theft took place in the middle of the day and went on for about 90 minutes, with the gas station attendant unable to thwart the hackers. The theft, reported by Fox 2 Detroit , took place at around 1pm local time on June 23 at a Marathon gas station located about 15 minutes from downtown Detroit.

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