Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We’ve all watched a horror film and said “why are you doing that?!” as the main characters walk aimlessly down to a basement filled with chain saws or shouted, “are you stupid?!!” as they decide that it’s a good idea to hitchhike alone in the dark. While these fictional horror stories are created simply to frighten the audience, real-world businesses are just as guilty of making naïve decisions when it comes to protecting sensitive data, but with very scary consequences that exist.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Practical quantum computing isn’t here yet. But a new survey by Digicert suggests that isn't stopping IT pros from prepping for a post-quantum reality.even if they aren’t exactly sure what that means. Related Stories Episode 163: Cyber Risk has a Dunning-Kruger Problem Also: Bad Password Habits start at Home Spotlight Podcast: Unpacking Black Hat Hacks with Digicert CTO Dan Timpson Lasers Eyed as Way Forward for Quantum Encryption of Data, Cryptocurrencies.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Happy Halloween! Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Who has had access to it? These can be frightening questions for an organization to answer. Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. In fact, we’ve seen some frightening ones play out already: Google’s record GDPR fine – France’s data privacy enforcement agency hit the tech giant with a $57 million penalty in earl

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Sodinokibi and Globelmposter Gangs Target Larger Victims, Coveware Warns Ransomware continues to be a highly profitable cybercrime. Ransomware incident response firm Coveware reports that for the third quarter of this year, the average ransom amount paid was $41,198, a six-fold increase from the same period last year, driven by strains such as Ryuk and Sodinokibi.

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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com , Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. A notice to customers at notice.web.com. “On October 16, 2019, Web.com determined that a third-party gained unauthorized access to a limited number of its computer systems in late August 2019, and as a result, account information may have been accessed,” Web.com said i

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Imperial Violet

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This is the third in a series of posts about running experiments on post-quantum confidentiality in TLS. The first detailed experiments that measured the estimated network overhead of three families of post-quantum key exchanges. The second detailed the choices behind a specific structured-lattice scheme. This one gives details of a full, end-to-end measurement of that scheme and a supersingular isogeny scheme, SIKE/p434.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Notorious Cybercrime Marketplace Unveils Massive Data Trove, Researchers Warn The notorious Joker's Stash cybercrime marketplace, which specializes in selling stolen payment card data, has a new listing for 1.3 million credit and debit cards, almost all of which appear to have been issued by Indian banks, reports threat intelligence firm Group-IB.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Roughly 21 million login credentials for Fortune 500 companies are available for sale, in plain text, in multiple forums and black market places in the dark web. More than 21 million login credentials belonging to Fortune 500 companies are available for sale in various places on the dark web. Experts at ImmuniWeb discovered that 21,040,296 login credentials for 500 Fortune companies are offered in plain text on multiple services in the dark web.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Defining a New Era of Records Management. Records management has traditionally been significantly focused on compliance. Compliance is important; to be sure; the more highly regulated an organization is, the more important compliance is. Every organization has to comply with something, even if it’s just tax and personnel regulations. And it’s complicated – every year seems to bring more laws and regulations, not less.

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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 Matters

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The European Commission’s Medical Devices Coordination Group (MDCG) has published a much-anticipated guidance on the qualification and classification of software devices as medical devices (MDSW) 1 under the new Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations (IVDR) (the Guidance, available here ). The Guidance seeks to provide clarification to medical software manufacturers with respect to (i) when software is considered a device (qualification) and (ii) what risk catego

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Ameya Talwalkar of Cequence on Stopping Large-Scale Attacks Bulletproof proxies have taken the concepts of anonymity and availability and embedded them in automated bot attacks. How can organizations identify and stop these attacks? Ameya Talwalkar of Cequence Security shares insights.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

asty PHP7 remote code execution bug exploited in the wild. Experts warn of a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. A remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. On October 22, the security expert Omar Ganiev announced via Twitter the availability of a “freshly patched” remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM , the FastCGI Process Manager

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Information Management Resources

OCTOBER 31, 2019

While it's impossible to predict the next attack scheme and whether you'll be a target, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a perfect time to review the threat landscape and make sure your defenses are ready for the challenge.

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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 Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Companies doing business in California or with Californians must be ready to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by January 1, 2020 – less than three months away. However, as businesses were putting the finishing touches on their compliance efforts, the California legislature amended the law and the Attorney General proposed a round of very significant regulatory requirements.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2019

More Than 200 Restaurants Affected Between July and September Fast food chain Krystal says it's investigating a payment card "security ncident" that affected as many as 228 of its restaurants across southeastern U.S. states. The incident, which involves one of the company's payment card processing systems, ran from July through last month.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Internet and subscription-service businesses have changed how we access everything from news to shopping to music. So, is it any wonder that software has followed suit? In this blog, we’ll look at the differences between an SPSS Statistics Subscription and the traditional on-premises license that was the only way to purchase SPSS Statistics up until 2017.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. The defendants have also attempted to extort money from the companies requesting them to pay ‘bug bounties’ to avoid publicly disclose the data breaches.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Please join us for the fourth in a series of programs focused on 2019 blockchain developments. This webinar will discuss legal, regulatory and other considerations for smart contracts. Lawyers from Sidley’s blockchain, investment funds and global finance practices will discuss: The blockchain technology behind smart contracts. The legal validity of smart contracts under state law.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Organization Refuses to Pay Ransom, Struggles to Bounce Back A ransomware attack on the operator of non-profit clinics that serve the uninsured in St. Louis led to the breach of information on 152,000 patients, clinicians and employees. The organization says it did not pay a ransom, and IT experts have not been able to unlock the data encrypted by hackers.

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DXC Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The gig economy is fundamentally redefining the nature of work and the workplace, and not just for the burgeoning ranks of freelancers, independent contractors and project workers. Today, close to one-third of the global workforce is forgoing traditional employment. They are placing a higher value on independence, flexibility and mobility. Some still collect a steady […].

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

sPower , a US-based renewable energy provider, was the victim of a cyber attack that disconnected the US power grid operator from its power generation station. sPower , a Utah-based renewable energy provider was hit by a cyber attack, the incident took place in March. This is the first time that a cyber attack hit a renewable energy provider causing the temporary interruption of communications with several solar and wind installations. “These interruptions had no impact to generation and d

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Customers of Adobe and Italy's UniCredit Affected in Separate Incidents Two new security incidents demonstrate how easily millions of customer records can be exposed. Researchers found an unsecured database containing records of customers of Adobe Creative Cloud. And Italy's UniCredit bank announced a "data incident" that exposed a file containing customer records.

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OpenText Information Management

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Over the last few years, the enterprise security landscape has drastically changed. According to Accenture, there are over 130 large-scale, targeted breaches in the U.S. per year, and that number is growing by 27 percent every year. Likewise, Cisco reports that 31% of organizations have experienced cyberattacks on operational technology infrastructure.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna , even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer.

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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.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Scammers Include Fake Audio in Attempt to Steal Credentials Cybercriminals are targeting users of Microsoft's Office365 subscription services with phishing campaigns that uses fake voicemail messages in an attempt to steal victims' credentials and other information, according to researchers at the security firm McAfee.

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Import.IO

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If you’re at all familiar with data analysis, then you’ve encountered data visualization. It is a key part of data analysis. We’ll explain how it is used and discuss each of the different types of visualizations, but first let’s make sure we all understand what it is and why it’s. The post What is Data Visualization and Why Is It Important? appeared first on Import.io.

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