AIIM

AUGUST 26, 2019

According to AIIM research, 75% of the organizations we surveyed view digital transformation as “important” or “very important” to their organization. Survey respondents point to techniques like advanced data capture, machine learning, and process automation to provide the powerful potential to reengineer and improve core business processes. The trouble, however, is that that the majority of information capture and content management solutions on the market have been built to work with highly-st

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 30, 2019

For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 28, 2019

Sweden Issues Penalty After School Tests the Technology Sweden's Data Protection Authority has issued its first fine for violations of the European Union's General Data Protection regulation after a school launched a facial recognition pilot program to track students' attendance without proper consent.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2019

Imperva , a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall users. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Imperva sells technology and services designed to detect and block various types of malicious Web traffic, from denial-of-service attacks to digital probes aimed at undermining the security of We

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Andrea Carcano’s journey to co-founding a security company in the vanguard of defending critical infrastructure began at a tender age. Related: Why the Golden Age of cyber spying is here Carcano hacked a computer screen at age 14, and that got him intrigued by software controls. He went on to earn a masters degree in cybersecurity, during which time he won a scholarship from the European Commission to craft a proof of concept attack against an industrial control system (ICS.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 26, 2019

Vendors Issued Security Updates to Fix Severe Flaws Several Months Ago Patch or perish redux: Hackers are unleashing automated attacks to find and exploit known flaws in SSL VPNs manufactured by Fortinet and Pulse Secure to steal passwords. The exploits come despite both vendors having released patches several months ago - Pulse Secure in April, Fortinet in May.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

PerCSoft , a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack. West Allis, Wis.-based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), which operates an online data backup service called DDS Safe that archives medical records, charts, insurance documents and other personal information for various denta

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

Europe came down hard this summer on British Airways and Marriott for failing to safeguard their customers’ personal data. The EU slammed the UK airline with a $230 million fine , and then hammered the US hotel chain with a $125 million penalty – the first major fines under the EU’s toughened General Data Protection Regulation , which took effect May 25, 2018.

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AIIM

AUGUST 30, 2019

Every organization has to migrate content from one system to another at some point. It could be to retire a legacy ECM system, to finally take control of the "digital landfill" that represents most organizations' file shares, or maybe it's another reason altogether. No matter the cause, the content migration itself is no small endeavor because of a couple of major challenges: Large Volumes of Data : Consider that the typical system or file share stores tens of thousands to even millions of docum

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

Department of Homeland Security to Help With Database Protections Within a month, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security hopes to launch a program to help states protect voter registration databases and systems in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Security experts say that in light of recent ransomware attacks against units of government, the effort is overdue.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Many companies are now outsourcing their marketing efforts to cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) providers. But when accounts at those CRM providers get hacked or phished, the results can be damaging for both the client’s brand and their customers. Here’s a look at a recent CRM-based phishing campaign that targeted customers of Fortune 500 construction equipment vendor United Rentals.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 26, 2019

Andrea Carcano’s journey to co-founding a security company in the vanguard of defending critical infrastructure began at a tender age. Related: Why the Golden Age of cyber spying is here Carcano hacked a computer screen at age 14, and that got him intrigued by software controls. He went on to earn a masters degree in cybersecurity, during which time he won a scholarship from the European Commission to craft a proof of concept attack against an industrial control system (ICS.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's not possible, because there is no longer any difference between those categories of devices. Consumer devices are critical infrastructure. They affect national security. And it would be foolish to weaken them, even at the request of law enforcement.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

Ken Suh of Beazley on Assessing the Options In light of emerging cyberthreats, including ransomware, organizations must change how they assess their cyber insurance options, says Ken Suh of Beazley.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Researchers at Wordfence reported an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security flaws in some WordPress plugins. Researchers from Wordfence uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security vulnerabilities in some WordPress plugins to redirect visitors to websites under the control of the attackers. The campaign specifically targeted flaws in WordPress plugins developed by the developer NicDark (now renamed as “Endreww”), such as a plugin called Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk Uplo

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2019

Here are 18 hot IT security startups addressing everything from IoT security and blockchain to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2019

Originally published in Forbes on July 29, 2019. Brands are under pressure to protect themselves and their customers from increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. With daily media headlines and new regulations, consumers have never been more aware of the threats out there. As a result, businesses are being forced to take the issue of cybersecurity more seriously, facing it head on and putting in place the necessary steps (e.g., encryption, two-factor authentication and key management) to protec

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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.

Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

Sal Stolfo of Allure Security on the Role of Deception Technology Deception technology, adversary intelligence and early detection can help counter spoofing and phishing attacks, says Sal Stolfo, the founder and CTO of Allure Security.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

Security experts from Kaspersky spotted a malware in the free version of the popular PDF creator application CamScanner app. CamScanner is a very popular Phone PDF creator app with more than 100 million downloads on Google Play Store. Experts from Kaspersky have discovered malware in the free Android version of the CamScanner app that could be used by attackers to remotely hack Android devices and steal targets’ data.

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erwin

AUGUST 29, 2019

Big or Small, Enterprise Architecture Is a Key Part of a Successful Software Deployment Strategy. A good software deployment strategy could be the difference between multiple and costly false starts and a smooth implementation. Considering the rate at which emerging technologies are introduced, it’s becoming more important than ever for organizations to have a software deployment strategy in place.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 27, 2019

This past March at RSAC 2019, Pure Storage and Thales introduced the security industry’s first end-to-end data encryption framework that realizes storage array data reduction efficiencies. Historically, host data encryption and array data reduction are like oil and water – they simply don’t mix. Our partner Vaughn Stewart from Pure Storage wrote about our work together to overcome this problem in this blog post.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 27, 2019

Mark Sangster of eSentire Shares Lessons Learned Third-party vendor risk continues to pose a security challenge to organizations. Despite many having formal policies for managing third-party risk, almost half of organizations say they've suffered a data breach that traces to a third-party vendor, says Mark Sangster of eSentire.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

BadPackets experts observed on August 22 a mass scanning activity targeting Pulse Secure “Pulse Connect Secure” VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510. On August 22, BadPackets experts observed a mass scanning activity targeting Pulse Secure “Pulse Connect Secure” VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510. Recently another popular cybersecurity expert, Kevin Beaumont, has also observed attackers attempting to exploit the CVE-2018-13379 in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal and CVE-2019-11510 fl

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 27, 2019

Of all of the ransomware variants spotted targeting victims in the first half of 2019, the infamous WannaCry was by far the most prevalent, according to Trend Micro's detection data.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy code. Of course, that's not true. And there are no security mechanisms that can deal with malicious enclaves, because the designers couldn't imagine that they would be necessary. The results are predictable.

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

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Retadup Gang's Malware Scheme Disrupted by French Police and Security Firm Avast French police say they've disrupted the operations of the Retadup malware gang by subverting attackers' command-and-control infrastructure to delete the malicious code from 850,000 infected PCs and servers worldwide. The move came after police received a tip and technical assistance from security firm Avast.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Cisco has released a hardware tool, called 4CAN , developed to help researchers to discover vulnerabilities in automotive systems. . Computer systems in modern vehicles are very complex, they contain a huge quantity of devices and units that exchange a lot of data in real-time. These components communicate via the vehicle’s network, dubbed Controller Area Network (CAN).

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The Schedule

AUGUST 26, 2019

There is a school of thought that traditional records management is dead, a remnant of the past along with paper-based technologies. This is not entirely accurate. We know that records management continues to play, or has the potential to play, a vital role in the larger information governance framework. Defining information governance is rather difficult.

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