CGI
JUNE 6, 2019
Migrating to the hybrid cloud with an eye on modernization. pooja.cs@cgi.com. Thu, 06/06/2019 - 23:17. Any shift to a new IT architecture can be difficult. Migrating to a hybrid cloud may be one of the most challenging moves, given the vast number of legacy processes and services that an enterprise must reconcile or reposition across multiple commercial cloud environments.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JUNE 6, 2019
Warning: Spoilers Ahead. As Game of Thrones fans sift through emotional ashes left behind after the final fiery episode, conjecture and lamentation over what happened and why has dominated pop culture conversations. Debate among ardent fans will likely continue well into the future, but a couple of things are certain: even though the Iron Throne is now toast, there are many takeaways the cybersecurity industry can draw from based on this eight-year dynastic series.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 6, 2019
As GDPR Celebrates Its First Birthday, Privacy Experts Meet in London to Review One year after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, data protection experts gathered at the European Data Protection Summit in London to review the state of privacy - not just in the U.K. and Europe but across the world. Here are eight takeaways.
Krebs on Security
JUNE 4, 2019
Medical testing giant LabCorp. said today personal and financial data on some 7.7 million consumers were exposed by a breach at a third-party billing collections firm. That third party — the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) — also recently notified competing firm Quest Diagnostics that an intrusion in its payments Web site exposed personal, financial and medical data on nearly 12 million Quest patients.
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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.
The Last Watchdog
JUNE 4, 2019
There’s oil in the state of Maryland – “cyber oil.” With the largest concentration of cybersecurity expertise –– the “oil” — in the world, Maryland is fast changing from the Old Line State into “Cybersecurity Valley.” Related: Port Covington cyber hub project gets underway That’s because Maryland is home to more than 40 government agencies with extensive cyber programs, including the National Security Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Defense Information Systems
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 5, 2019
Earlier, Quest Diagnostics Reported Nearly 12 Million Affected by Same Incident How big will the American Medical Collections Agency data breach get? LabCorp has now revealed that data on 7.7 million of the patients it serves was potentially compromised in the breach. Earlier, Quest Diagnostics said nearly 12 million of its clients were affected. Two U.S. senators are demanding answers.
IT Governance
JUNE 6, 2019
Phishing is one of the most longstanding and dangerous methods of cyber crime. It uses deceptive messages to trick victims into clicking bogus links, downloading malicious attachments or sending sensitive information. Despite what people think they know about phishing, they consistently fall victim. According to Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 32% of all cyber attacks involved phishing.
AIIM
JUNE 4, 2019
Hopefully, you've heard by now that we're updating the Certified Information Professional (CIP) exam. To help answer questions and clear up any confusion, I’ve been covering each of the CIP domains in a blog series to explain the updated exam: what's new, what's changed, and how to be successful. In the last post, we focused on Domain 1: Creating and Capturing Information.
Security Affairs
JUNE 7, 2019
In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. The sender of the email, later identified as Gbenga A. Fadipe, requested a change of account. The scam email prompted the department to change an electronic deposit from Plains Capital Bank to a different account with Chase Bank.
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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
JUNE 7, 2019
Botnet Scanning Internet for Vulnerable Windows Machines A new botnet called GoldBrute is actively scanning the internet and using brute-force methods to attack 1.5 million Windows machines that have exposed Remote Desktop Protocol connections, according to research from Morphus Labs. The goal of group controlling the botnet is not clear.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 5, 2019
Apple says an elaborate rotating key scheme will soon let you track down your stolen laptop, but not let anyone track you. Not even Apple.
AIIM
JUNE 6, 2019
By now, you may have heard that AIIM is in the process of updating its Certified Information Professional (CIP) Program. With CIP 3 set to launch soon, your podcast host Kevin Craine wanted to dig deeper into what users can expect from the revamp of the program. To get some answers, Kevin took a two-pronged approach on this episode of AIIM on Air. First, he went straight to one of the people leading the CIP 3 charge - AIIM's Director of Professional Development, Jesse Wilkins.
Security Affairs
JUNE 2, 2019
The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of offering voluntarily real-time surveillance assistance to law enforcement. The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail made the headlines because it has been accused of supporting real-time surveillance carried out by law enforcement. On May 10, while Stephan Walder, a public prosecutor and head of the Cybercrime Competence Center in Switzerland’s Canton of Zurich, was giving a presentation at an event when the Swi
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 3, 2019
In Addition to Settling With Victims, Heath Insurer Would Invest in Security Measures A proposed $74 million settlement of a consolidated class action lawsuit against Premera Blue Cross after a 2014 data breach that affected nearly 11 million individuals includes $32 million for breach victims and also would require the health insurer to invest $42 million to bolster data security.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 7, 2019
" Hey Siri; I'm getting pulled over " can be a shortcut: Once the shortcut is installed and configured , you just have to say, for example, "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over." Then the program pauses music you may be playing, turns down the brightness on the iPhone, and turns on "do not disturb" mode. It also sends a quick text to a predetermined contact to tell them you've been pulled over, and it starts recording using the iPhone's front-facing camera.
IBM Big Data Hub
JUNE 6, 2019
Together, IBM and Cloudera offer a modern data platform with the governance and security to drive the future of AI and ML. Our solutions are optimized for the cloud, but we give our customers options to put their data where it works best for them.
Security Affairs
JUNE 2, 2019
Turla, the Russia-linked cyberespionage group, is weaponizing PowerShell scripts and is using them in attacks against EU diplomats. Turla (aka Snake , Uroburos , Waterbug , Venomous Bear and KRYPTON ), the Russia-linked APT group, is using weaponized PowerShell scripts in attacks aimed at EU diplomats. Turla group has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations and private businesses.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 7, 2019
Researchers Say Logging Server Left Online Without Authentication Tech Data says it has disabled a logging server used for its StreamOne cloud services marketplace after a data exposure. Tech Data differs with researchers over the sensitivity over what was exposed, but the logging server is offline now.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 2, 2019
Today's cybersecurity superstars share a common thread—one that leads back to early hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow.
Schneier on Security
JUNE 6, 2019
Citing security concerns, the Chinese military wants to replace Windows with its own custom operating system : Thanks to the Snowden, Shadow Brokers, and Vault7 leaks, Beijing officials are well aware of the US' hefty arsenal of hacking tools, available for anything from smart TVs to Linux servers, and from routers to common desktop operating systems, such as Windows and Mac.
Security Affairs
JUNE 5, 2019
A security expert has developed a Metasploit module to exploit the critical BlueKeep vulnerability and get remote code execution. The security researcher Z??osum0x0 has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. The vulnerability , tracked as CVE-2019-0708, impacts the Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and was addressed by Microsoft with May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates.
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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.
Data Breach Today
JUNE 3, 2019
Breach at Collections Agency Exposed Healthcare and Financial Information A data breach at American Medical Collection Agency has affected nearly 12 million patients who had lab tests performed by Quest Diagnostics, exposing a wealth of information, including Social Security numbers.
WIRED Threat Level
JUNE 7, 2019
A Google Cloud outage that knocked huge portions of the internet offline also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it.
Dark Reading
JUNE 4, 2019
Employers can solve the skills gap by first recognizing that there isn't an archetypal "cybersecurity job" in the same way that there isn't an archetypal "automotive job." Here's how.
Security Affairs
JUNE 1, 2019
A new cryptojacking campaign was spotted by experts at Trend Micro, crooks are using Shodan to scan for Docker hosts with exposed APIs. Threat actors are using the popular Shodan search engine to find Docker hosts and abuse them in a crypojacking campaign. Attackers leverage self-propagating Docker images infected with Monero miners and scripts that use of Shodan to find other vulnerable installs and compromise them.
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Data Breach Today
JUNE 4, 2019
Whistleblowers Say Hospital Falsely Attested to Conducting Risk Analysis for EHR Incentive Program A Kansas hospital has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle allegations that it falsely attested to conducting a security risk analysis as required under the HITECH Act electronic health records financial incentives program. Two whistleblowers in the case will receive $50,000 from the settlement.
IBM Big Data Hub
JUNE 3, 2019
Back when I was in school, one of the most difficult classes for my business degree was quantitative analysis. It wasn’t just hard, it was laborious to translate and solve business conditions and problems into algebraic equations by hand. In the beginning, it was merely optimizing output based on a few constraints. As the course progressed, the equations became longer and more complicated in order to solve more complex problems.
Dark Reading
JUNE 5, 2019
LabCorp says its third-party debt-collection provider, AMCA, notified the company that information on 7.7 million patients had leaked. Expect more healthcare companies to come forward.
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