The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Firm to appeal decision by Berlin regional court which upholds complaints that users not given informed consent Facebook’s default privacy settings and use of personal data are against German consumer law, according to a judgement handed down by a Berlin regional court. The court found that Facebook collects and uses personal data without providing enough information to its members for them to render meaningful consent.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

With organizations around the world now deploying ever-increasing amounts of encryption solutions in an effort to ward off cybercrime, businesses are facing a combination of challenges. Whether it’s varying protection levels, differing operational techniques and policies, or juggling multiple keys, managing more than one encryption system can quickly turn into a complex web that demands time, expertise and money to manage effectively.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

White House Inaction Questioned by Some Lawmakers The top U.S. intelligence official has warned Congress that Russia will attempt to meddle in the this year's U.S. midterm elections, a repeat of the country's alleged 2016 U.S. presidential election interference.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

If you're going to commit an illegal act, it's best not to discuss it in e-mail. It's also best to Google tech instructions rather than asking someone else to do it: One new detail from the indictment, however, points to just how unsophisticated Manafort seems to have been. Here's the relevant passage from the indictment. I've bolded the most important bits: Manafort and Gates made numerous false and fraudulent representations to secure the loans.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This article was first published in Legaltech News. “Cooperation should not result in one party exerting extensive control over another’s discovery process or the application of a heightened discovery standard.” – Anna Mercado Clark, partner at Phillips Lytle LLP Civil litigation doesn’t have to be uncivil, or so the idea goes. In the spirit of … The post Transparency in eDiscovery?

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In Eindhoven and Utrecht smart tech is tackling traffic, noise and crime. But with privacy laws proving futile and commercial companies in on the act, are the plans as benign as they seem? Stratumseind in Eindhoven is one of the busiest nightlife streets in the Netherlands. On a Saturday night, bars are packed, music blares through the street, laughter and drunken shouting bounces off the walls.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

We speak about the “Mueller probe” as a single entity, but it’s important to understand that there are no fewer than five separate investigations under the broad umbrella of the special counsel’s office.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Millions of Payment Cards and Social Security Numbers Exposed The number of data breaches reported by U.S. organizations reached an all-time high last year. In 2017, organizations that described how bad their breach was - and one-third did not - collectively lost 14 million payment cards and 158 million Social Security numbers, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This story of leaked Australian government secrets is unlike any other I've heard: It begins at a second-hand shop in Canberra, where ex-government furniture is sold off cheaply. The deals can be even cheaper when the items in question are two heavy filing cabinets to which no-one can find the keys. They were purchased for small change and sat unopened for some months until the locks were attacked with a drill.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) is the landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs from across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information surfaced by queries containing the name of the requester.

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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Special thanks to Michael Shepherd, AI Research Strategist, Dell EMC Services, for his co-authorship. Learn more about Michael at the bottom of this post. Imagine you wanted to determine how much solar energy could be generated from adding solar cells to a particular house. This is what Google’s Project Sunroof does with Deep Learning. Enter an address and Google uses a Deep Learning framework to estimate how much money you could save in energy costs with solar cells over 20 years (see Figure 1)

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Non-nationals subject to an immigration procedure are to lose the right to access data held about them, in a discriminatory move that worries the European parliament In September, I warned in a Guardian opinion article that the Brexit process could have the effect of allowing the UK government to bring in more draconian and discriminatory immigration laws, harking back to the 70s and 80s.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Paul Manafort’s longtime deputy is cooperating with the special prosecutor, so we may soon have answers to these questions hovering around the Russia investigation.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Regulator Demands More Risk Disclosure, Better Insider Trading Policies The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released revised guidance "to assist public companies in preparing disclosures about cybersecurity risks and incidents." It includes new prohibitions on trading in corporate shares after a breach has been discovered but before investors have been notified.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

There are a lot : The cybersecurity company McAfee recently uncovered a cyber operation, dubbed Operation GoldDragon, attacking South Korean organizations related to the Winter Olympics. McAfee believes the attack came from a nation state that speaks Korean, although it has no definitive proof that this is a North Korean operation. The victim organizations include ice hockey teams, ski suppliers, ski resorts, tourist organizations in Pyeongchang, and departments organizing the Pyeongchang Olympi

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns. But they rightly have concerns. As the report notes: The top Big Data security issue is that sensitive data can be anywhere – and therefore everywhere – a concern expressed by 34% of global and U.S. respondents.

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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

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Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

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.

OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In my previous blog, I looked at how quickly Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming a part of the retail experience. Industry analysts agree that 2018 will be the year that AI brings top and bottom line benefits to innovative companies. So, where can AI most help retailers? Here’s four questions I think a combination … The post Four important questions that AI can help retailers answer appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Robert Mueller's office has come out with a 37-page indictment that details the extraordinary lengths Russian agents went to influence the 2016 presidential election.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Microsoft Taps Machine Learning to Better Combat Fileless Malware Microsoft has been working to reduce the ability of attackers who use the PowerShell scripting language to "live off the land" in enterprise networks, in part via machine learning. But IT administrators should also have these three essential malicious PowerShell script defenses in place.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. Those 80M records are now searchable, read on for the full story: There's an unknown numbers of data breaches floating around the web.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Another day, another breach. It’s sarcastic, it’s comical, but it’s also real. Barely a day goes by where we don’t hear of a data breach. Affecting big companies and small in virtually every vertical and hitting government institutions at the local, state and federal level, sensitive data is routinely exfiltrated, stolen and leveraged with shocking regularity.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

WHOIS, one of oldest tools on internet for verifying real identities, at risk of being killed due to tough new GDPR regulations Sweeping new European data protection regulations may have the accidental effect of protecting scammers and spammers by killing the WHOIS system used to link misdeeds online to real identities offline, security experts have warned.

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OpenText Information Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Many of you are losing sleep over the state of your content. You know its not adequately managed and governed. You know users hoard it unsecured on their desktops, in cloud repositories, in file shares. They circumvent the established protocols and established systems you’ve put in place. With GDPR looming and a parade of corporate … The post Losing sleep over governance?

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

For over a decade, US Customs and Border Patrol has been unable to verify the cryptographic signatures on e-Passports, because they never installed the right software.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Cost of Troll Farm: $15 Million. Impact: Priceless Want to meddle with a democracy? Just use its social media outlets against it to amplify already existing social divisions. That's the quick take on the indictment recently unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that accuses Russians of running an "active measures" campaign against the United States.

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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I was recently asked to conduct a 2-hour workshop for the State of California Senior Legislators on the topic of “Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Privacy.” Honored by the privilege of offering my perspective on these critical topics, I shared with my home-state legislators how significant opportunities await the state. I reviewed the once-in-a-generation opportunities awaiting the great State of California (“the State”), where decision makers could vastly improve their constituents’ qualit

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Sixty-four percent of the more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, whom we surveyed for the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), believe artificial intelligence (AI) “increases data security by recognizing and alerting on attacks,” while 43% believe AI “results in increased threats due to use as a hacking tool.”. They’re both right.

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