Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Maybe you were once advised to “look for the padlock” as a means of telling legitimate e-commerce sites from phishing or malware traps. Unfortunately, this has never been more useless advice. New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link].
Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections. On November 9, 2018, President Donald Trump started tweeting about the senatorial elections in Florida and Arizona. Without any evidence whatsoever, he said that Democrats were trying to steal the election through "FRAUD.".
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Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
The way in which you respond to a data breach has a significant impact on how severe its consequences are. Reporting an event is one action that can help. The number of data breaches that were tracked in the U.S. in 2017 totaled 1,579, a nearly 44.7 percent increase from the previous year. Data breaches, incidents in which personal information is accidentally or unlawfully stolen, lost, disclosed, accessed, altered or destroyed, can happen to organizations of any size and sector.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
US Prosecutors Allege Pair Targeted More Than 200 Victims, Including Cities, Hospitals A federal grand jury has indicted two Iranians for allegedly waging SamSam ransomware attacks on more than 200 entities, including Atlanta and other municipalities and six healthcare organizations. They collected $6 million in ransoms and caused more than $30 million in losses to victims, U.S. prosecutors allege.
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Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Michigan is known as the Wolverine State in deference to the ornery quadruped that roams its wild country. However, after a recent visit to Detroit, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids as a guest of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., or MEDC, I’m prepared to rechristen Michigan the Cybersecurity Best Practices State. Related: California’s pioneering privacy law ripples through other states.
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IT Governance
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Last month I thought I’d try something new, so I focused on three stories rather than putting together a long list of breaches. It wasn’t a very popular approach. So the list is back. I count this month’s total of known leaked records to be 251,286,753. No particular stories stand out this month, but one thing I did notice is that there weren’t as many healthcare breaches as there normally are.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Database Intrusion Dates Back to 2014 The Marriott hotel chain has announced its Starwood guest reservation database has been hacked, potentially exposing up to 500 million accounts. The unauthorized access to the database started in 2014, the company says.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Intelligent computing systems have been insinuating themselves into our homes and public gathering places for a while now. But smart homes, smart workplaces and smart shopping malls are just the warm-up act. Get ready for smart ground transportation. Related: Michigan’s Cyber Range hubs help narrow talent gap. Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years.
AIIM
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
A study (conducted by Hyperfish, Sharegate, and Nintex) found that 50% of organizations still use manual processes to enforce SharePoint governance. It doesn't have to be this way! New Office 365 capabilities allow you to automate important governance activities and core business processes. I invite you to join us for a free live event on Thursday, December 6th from 11am-3pm EST for a day of learning from information professionals who reinvented productivity by bringing together the people, proc
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
The Cyber Essentials scheme is a world-leading assurance mechanism for organisations of all sizes to help demonstrate that the most critical cyber security controls have been implemented. To highlight the importance and usefulness of the Cyber Essentials scheme, we’ve produced a series of blog posts summarising each of the five security controls that, according to the UK government, could prevent “around 80% of cyber attacks”.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Bikini App Developer's Lawsuit Discovery Feeds Parliament's Facebook Probe A British lawmaker has obtained sealed U.S. court documents to reveal internal Facebook discussions about data security and privacy controls, as Parliament probes Facebook and other social media firms, as well as Russian interference and fake news.
The Last Watchdog
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
The vast majority of cyber attacks against organizations pivot off the weakest security link: employees. The good news is that companies today have ready access to a wide variety of tools that can simulate common types of attacks and boost employee awareness. Here’s a guide to five such services. PhishMe. This tool, from Cofense, proactively engages employees via simulated attacks based on real-time threats for various phishing tactics.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Security researchers with Checkmarx developed two mobile applications that abuse the functionality of smart bulbs for data exfiltration. Security researchers with Checkmarx developed two mobile applications that exploit smart bulbs features for data exfiltration. The experts used the Magic Blue smart bulbs that implement communication through Bluetooth 4.0.
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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.
AIIM
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
We're getting close to our December Virtual Event and we have an exciting announcement! As a "Thank You", we're going to be giving away two Office 365 and SharePoint training courses. That's $995 worth of AIIM training for free! To be eligible, simply register and attend our FREE Virtual Event on Thursday, December 6th from 11am-3pm EST. At the end, we will select two winners at random from the list of attendees- that's it!
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
The Impacts of Both Incidents Appear to Be Limited Dell and Dunkin Donuts have both initiated password resets after experiencing separate security incidents aimed at gaining access to customer accounts. The impacts of the attacks, however, appear to be limited.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
A recent freedom of information request by chartered accountants UHY Hacker Young reveals a worrying rise in reported data breaches across the UK education sector. The high-profile GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) mandates data breach reporting in many cases, and a lot of incidents have been reported since the Regulation came into force, but the numbers shared by the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) reveal a growing trend even before then.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Exploring the open API abuse for Docker Containers. Docker is a popular container product which has been adopted widely by the community. Preface. IT industry has seen quite a few transformations in last couple of decades with advent of disruptive technologies. Back in 2000, every aspiring student wanted to become computer /IT engineer, thanks to “.com” boom that was storming the IT industry back in those days.
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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.
AIIM
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Who is AIIM ? Well, that's a challenging question considering AIIM is an organization. But, when we take a step back, it's easier to see that AIIM does have a persona. It's you, me, and the other 155,000 global information professionals worldwide that make up the AIIM Community. So to be able to answer a question like "Who is AIIM?", we had to go straight to the source!
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Search Giant's Pervasive Tracking Isn't Clear to Consumers, Groups Contend Consumer organizations in seven countries plan to file complaints alleging that Google is violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation via its location, web and app activity tracking, in what could be a blow to the search giant's lucrative but data-hungry targeted advertising business.
Hunton Privacy
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
On November 23, 2018, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) published its long-awaited draft guidelines on the extraterritorial application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (the “Guidelines”). To date, there has been a degree of uncertainty for organizations regarding the scope of the GDPR’s application outside of the EU. While the Guidelines provide some clarity on this issue, questions will remain for non-EU controllers and processors.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
According to security reearchers at Trend Micro, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus recently targeted banks in Latin America. The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus recently targeted banks in Latin America, Trend Micro experts reported. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated.
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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.
IT Governance
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) has fined Uber £385,000 for a data breach affecting 35 million people, including 2.7 million British customers. In November 2016, attackers accessed Uber’s Cloud servers, which contained passengers’ names, phone numbers, email addresses and the location where they had signed up. The crooks also accessed the personal data of 3.7 million drivers, including 82,000 from the UK.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Manufacturer Preinstalled Superfish Visual Discovery Adware on 800,000 Laptops A court has preliminarily approved Lenovo's proposal to pay $7.3 million to settle a consolidated class action lawsuit filed over its preinstallation of Superfish adware onto laptops purchased by 800,000 consumers. Superfish, which has dissolved, already reached a $1 million settlement agreement.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
'Tis the season for holiday crafted phishes, scams, and a range of cyberattacks. Experts list the hottest holiday hacks for 2018.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 24, 2018
US Government is inviting its allies to exclude Huawei equipment from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies to exclude Huawei from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures. The United States is highlighting the risks for national security in case of adoption of Huawei equipment and is inviting internet providers and telco operators in allied countries to ban Huawei.
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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.
TAB OnRecord
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Pilot programs are a proven and effective way to minimize the risk of failures and maximize the benefits delivered by digitization initiatives. Here are six common ways that your colleagues are using pilot programs to ensure success when going digital: 1. Proving the business case From the outset of your pilot, look for quantifiable gains [.] Read More.
Data Breach Today
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Tandigm Health Reports Vulnerability in Physician Portal In yet another sign that website security issues are far too common in the healthcare sector, Tandigm Health says a vulnerability on a physician portal potentially exposed patient data.
Dark Reading
NOVEMBER 29, 2018
Forces potentially affected DD Perks customers to reset their passwords after learning of unauthorized access to their personal data.
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