Data Breach Today
APRIL 11, 2018
Second Congressional Hearing Probes Privacy Issues At a U.S. House hearing Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would eventually comply worldwide with the European Union's tough privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation.
IT Governance
APRIL 11, 2018
Data breaches and cyber attacks are regularly in the headlines, so it will come as no surprise that all organisations are vulnerable to attack. Falling victim can result in financial loss, regulatory penalties, business disruption and reputational damage. The majority of cyber attacks are automated and indiscriminate, exploiting known vulnerabilities rather than targeting specific organisations.
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IT Governance
APRIL 24, 2018
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will soon be in effect, but many organisations are still working towards compliance. One part of the Regulation tripping people up is Article 32: Security of processing. It describes the technical and organisational measures that organisations should have in place, but it’s densely written and uses unfamiliar terms: Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as we
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 10, 2018
A Facebook permission allowed an app to read messages between 1,500 Facebook users and their friends until October 2015—data that Cambridge Analytica could have accessed.
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IT Governance
APRIL 18, 2018
An integral part of your EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance project is producing appropriate documentation, which includes a personal data breach notification procedure. If you’re just beginning your GDPR project, it’s unlikely that you’ll be fully compliant by 25 May 2018, when the Regulation is enforced. However, in our recent blog, GDPR priorities in the lead up to May , we suggested that your organisation should prioritise creating incident response and breach reporting
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Troy Hunt
APRIL 23, 2018
Remember the anti-piracy campaign from years back about "You Wouldn't Steal a Car"? This was the rather sensationalist piece put together by the Motion Picture Association of America in an attempt to draw parallels between digital piracy and what they viewed as IRL ("In Real Life") equivalents. Here's a quick recap: The very premise that the young girl sitting in her bedroom in the opening scene is in any way relatable to the guy in the dark alley sliding a slim jim down the Merc
The Schedule
APRIL 30, 2018
[Note: This was a forum post to the Records Management Section list on SAA’s site that got a little out of hand. Rather than clog everyone’s mailbox, I decided to post it here. The fact that I can add Futurama GIFs to posts here, and not on SAA Connect, had absolutely nothing to do with this decision (he said, unconvincingly.). For your reference, the original question:].
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
What Remediation Steps Should Be Taken? Over 200,000 Cisco networks switches worldwide reportedly were hacked Friday, apparently affecting critical infrastructure of large internet service providers and data centers across the world, especially in Iran, Russia, the United States, China, Europe and India. What remediation steps should be taken?
IT Governance
APRIL 3, 2018
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s compliance deadline is looming. Every organisation that processes personal data must be in compliance with the new law by 25 May or risk substantial regulatory fines from the Information Commissioner’s Office and legal action from aggrieved data subjects. If you haven’t already, your firm must start your compliance project straight away or risk being in non-compliance.
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Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2018
Bitsight's Tom Turner on Security Ratings Managing third-party risks is more critical than ever, says Tom Turner of BitSight Technologies, who discusses the urgency of communicating that to the board.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 23, 2018
By Peter Galvin, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Thales eSecurity. Today, organizations are rapidly adopting cloud technology. Many organizations have implemented a cloud first philosophy, requiring that any new applications or IT investments start with the cloud. And not just one cloud, but organizations are investing in multiple clouds and SaaS applications.
IT Governance
APRIL 27, 2018
Over the next few months, organisations across the EU and the rest of the world will be coming to terms with two new cyber security laws: the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive). Their requirements overlap in many places, which has inevitably led to questions about whether an organisation can be fined twice for the same incident.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 20, 2018
Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser. To the extent that an election system is not transparently and auditably accurate, it fails in that second purpose. Our election systems are failing, and we need to fix them. Today, we conduct our elections on computers.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 29, 2018
There are a ton of claims around AI and cybersecurity that don't quite add up. Here's what's really going on.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 10, 2018
People who fear their information may have been used by Cambridge Analytica can go to a new help page Tell us how you’ve been affected by the Facebook data breach Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The social network eventually hopes to inform every user who was affected with a warning at the top of their Facebook news feed.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 2, 2018
Following the Unauthorized Transfer Attempt, Philippines Alerts Its Banks Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, says it detected and successfully blocked an attack that attempted to steal funds via fraudulent SWIFT interbank money-moving messages. The attack against BNM led the central bank of the Philippines to issue an alert to banks in that country.
TAB OnRecord
APRIL 26, 2018
Many RIM managers are tasked with finding ways to ensure their RIM programs are effectively and accurately used. The best way to accomplish this is to develop a policies and procedures manual for record users. This will ensure your organization reaps all of its RIM program benefits. It should outline what responsibilities, expectations, and authority [.
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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
APRIL 4, 2018
Digital Transformation is becoming a business mandate. Why? Figure 1: “Driving Business Strategies with Data Science: Big Data MBA” Because in our evolving world, successful digital transformation will be the difference whether a business survives or wilts in the modern economy. Consequently, Professor Sidaoui and I felt it was critical that we prepare our University of San Francisco students for a world where digital transformation was the business norm.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 9, 2018
This vulnerability is a result of an interaction between two different ways of handling e-mail addresses. Gmail ignores dots in addresses, so bruce.schneier@gmail.com is the same as bruceschneier@gmail.com is the same as b.r.u.c.e.schneier@gmail.com. (Note: I do not own any of those email addresses -- if they're even valid.) Netflix doesn't ignore dots, so those are all unique e-mail addresses and can each be used to register an account.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 25, 2018
Researchers didn't have to hack Amazon's Alexa voice assistant to use it for eavesdropping. They just took advantage of the system in place.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 3, 2018
The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place • Richard Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation Journalists have been asking me whether the revulsion against the abuse of Facebook data could be a turning point for the campaign to recover privacy.
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When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 9, 2018
Time Inc.'s Deputy CISO on the Challenge of Ensuring Content Security In this era of "fake news," Time Inc. Deputy CISO Preeti Palanisamy takes seriously the challenge of maintaining the integrity of journalism from content creation through production and eventual publication.
TAB OnRecord
APRIL 5, 2018
In parts one and two of this blog post we discussed the importance of records management professionals getting involved in the early stages of the information lifecycle, and the need to convey RIM principles in terms of business outcomes. The final segment of this three-part post covers the skills needed by RIM professionals to be [.] Read More. The post How modern RIM professionals are staying relevant – Part 3 appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.
Dark Reading
APRIL 17, 2018
Hackers are craftier than ever, pilfering PII piecemeal so bad actors can combine data to set up schemes to defraud medical practices, steal military secrets and hijack R&D product information.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
APRIL 4, 2018
Thales eSecurity’s CTO Jon Geater and Peter Carlisle , Thales eSecurity’s VP of Sales, EMEA, were recently featured in major news outlets espousing their opinions about internet-connected devices and the new Cyber Security Export Strategy. Geater, on new UK IoT security guidelines. Earlier this month, the UK government announced guidelines to make internet-connected devices safer.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
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WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 25, 2018
Researchers found—and helped fix—a flaw in Vingcard RFID locks that would let hackers break into any room in hotels around the world.
The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 5, 2018
Founder says he takes full responsibility for data breaches and will not ‘throw anyone else under the bus’ Mark Zuckerberg has rejected calls for heads to roll at Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, saying that he takes full responsibility. Speaking after Facebook’s fullest statement yet about the data breach, which the company now says resulted in 87m profiles being extracted from the platform, Zuckerberg insisted he remained the correct person to run the company.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 24, 2018
Money Would Have Been Better Spent on Prevention, Experts Say The city of Atlanta's ransomware outbreak cleanup and response tab has hit $2.6 million, after a March attack froze corporate servers, employees' PCs and resident-facing portals. Experts say the breach response funds would have been put to better use preventing the outbreak in the first place.
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