WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The NSA leaker's latest project aims to secure your computer—and you—from not just digital but physical attacks.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 27, 2017

18 Best 2018 B2B Lead Generation Strategies For Marketers. Have you yet planned your best 2018 B2B lead generation strategies? Well if you have not until now then you should probably know that when it comes to B2B lead Generation, 2018 is going to become the lifeblood of modern sales process. With loads of strategies to choose from, it has become very challenging for businesses to survive the competition.

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Weissman's World

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Seems like not an hour goes by that I don’t see a headline about the soaring value of bitcoin – followed near-immediately by another that warns of the imminent bursting of the bitcoin bubble. Since I’m not a bitcoin owner, my interest in these goings-on is more academic than practical. But I am invested (intellectually, […]. The post Bitcoin ≠ Blockchain appeared first on Holly Group.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 18, 2017

According to IDC, the digital universe is doubling every two years, and will reach 40,000 exabytes (40 trillion gigabytes) by 2020. (Note: A single exabyte of storage can contain 50,000 years’ worth of DVD-quality video.) Organizations that fail to immediately address the long-term preservation implications of this massive tsunami of data as it enters the organization will never ever catch up.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Occasionally, I feel like I'm just handing an organisation more shovels - "here, keep digging, I'm sure this'll work out just fine." The latest such event was with NatWest (a bank in the UK), and it culminated with this tweet from them: I'm sorry you feel this way. I can certainly pass on your concerns and feed this back to the tech team for you Troy?

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The DDoS attack that crippled the internet last fall wasn't the work of a nation-state. It was three college kids working a *Minecraft* hustle.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Major Cybercrime Gangs Shift From Hacking Banks to Bitcoins Bitcoin's massive rise in value and hype continues to draw the attention of hackers, scammers and organized crime. Flaws in bitcoin mining firmware and hacks of wallet software show that the infrastructure associated with cryptocurrency is not always well-secured.

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Elie

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices. At its peak in September 2016, Mirai temporarily crippled several high-profile services such as. OVH. , Dyn. , and.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It's an embarrassing question to ask most organizations, but does your social media presence reflect the reality that the responsibility of business documentation doesn’t go away just because the information is on social media? The reality for most organizations is NO. Recent research conducted by Iron Mountain revealed that 76 percent of businesses regard communications by social media as formal business records, but 46 percent have no idea that they carry legal responsibility for their content

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 19, 2017

German watchdog accuses site of merging data from WhatsApp and Instagram into users’ Facebook accounts without consent Germany’s competition authority has accused Facebook of abusing its dominant market position to improperly amass third-party data on its users. A statement released on Tuesday criticised the world’s largest social media site for collecting data via Facebook-owned services, such as WhatsApp or Instagram, and then absorbing it into users’ Facebook accounts.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. The real-time, in-the-moment nature of cause awareness and giving days can inspire donors to give provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote the days effectively. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2018 editorial calendar.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Islamic State is designing and mass-producing its own advanced munitions—with parts from all over the world.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Nearly $10 Million Stolen from 20 Institutions in Past 1½ Years A group of Russian-speaking hackers over the past year-and-a-half has stolen nearly $10 million from banks, mostly in the United States, Britain and Russia, the Moscow-based, according to cybersecurity firm Group-IB.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Cloud security architecture skills to customer-service savvy are among the key IT security skills needed next year as CIOs ramp up hiring.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Every business is in the business of the business. In other words, every organization - public sector or private, small or gigantic, and regardless of structure or geographic location, has a mission and organizational goals and objectives upon which it focuses. Similarly, every organization and every department, office, and function within an organization creates or captures records that document the business of the business.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Messaging app has one month to comply or it will face sanctions for sharing user phone numbers and usage data for ‘business intelligence’ purposes WhatsApp has been ordered to stop sharing user data with parent company Facebook or face sanctions. The French data protection agency, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), said on Monday that WhatsApp did not have a legal basis to share user data under French law for “business intelligence” purposes.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 21, 2017

It’s the holiday season once again and brands are launching their campaigns for the occasion. Here are some of the best Christmas ads and campaigns on social media that you can take inspiration from for your own promotions. Best Christmas ads on Twitter: Marks & Spencer “Two Fairies” Magic was the theme of British clothing […]. The post The Best Christmas Ads on Social Media of All Time; Get Festive!

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The company's fix for an embarrassing security bug includes a big bug of its own.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The latest ISMG Security Report focuses on the significant changes found in the latest version of the U.S. government's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, commonly known as the NIST cybersecurity framework. NIST seeks comments from stakeholders on the draft of version 1.1 of the framework by Jan. 19.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Ever wished you could jet set around the world fast enough to ring in the New Year at a party in every timezone? Well that might not be quite possible, but VRChat is offering something close. VRChat , a social VR experience supporting major PC VR headsets via Steam , is celebrating New Year’s Eve virtually in every timezone, every hour, on the hour.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The information, from data analytics firm Alteryx, was in an Amazon S3 bucket configured to provide any AWS user with access.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 1, 2017

A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing because someone named his wireless network (presumably from his smartphone) "bomb on board.". In 2006, I wrote an essay titled " Refuse to be Terrorized." (I am also reminded of my 2007 essay, " The War on the Unexpected." A decade later, it seems that the frequency of incidents like the one above is less, although not zero.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

There has never been a better time to get into cyber security. There is a growing demand for experts , leading to increased salaries and job opportunities. If you’re thinking about starting a career in cyber security, here are five things you should do. Get work experience. As with most industries, you’re much more likely to get ahead in cyber security if you have experience.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The Justice Department has struck a plea deal with Nghia Hoang Pho, a programmer in the NSA's elite operations unit, for taking his highly classified work home with him.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Bitcoin Exchange Job Lure Traces to Hackers Tied to North Korea Bitcoin-seeking phishing attacks have been trying to socially engineer would-be cryptocurrency exchange executives, warn researchers at Secureworks. The attacks use Word documents with malicious macros and control code previously seen in attacks launched by the Lazarus Group, which has been tied to North Korea.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As the year winds down, questions tend to arise about what the big trends of the past year have been and what the year to come may hold.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2017

And just 11 percent plan to add one in the coming year.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Funny.

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