WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 10, 2018

Researchers have repeatedly shown that writing samples, even those in artificial languages, contain a unique fingerprint that's hard to hide.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2018

Security researchers at IBM Research developed a “highly targeted and evasive” AI-powered malware dubbed DeepLocker and will present today. What about Artificial Intelligence (AI) applied in malware development? Threat actors can use AI-powered malware to create powerful malicious codes that can evade sophisticated defenses. Security researchers at IBM Research developed a “highly targeted and evasive” attack tool powered by AI,” dubbed DeepLocker that is able to co

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher , an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 9, 2018

How John McAfee's Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallet and Company Fell Short Hubris has a new name: Bitfi. The cryptocurrency wallet-building company, backed by technology eccentric John McAfee, earned this year's not-so-coveted Pwnies Award for "Lamest Vendor Response" for how it mishandled security researchers' vulnerability disclosures. Bitfi has promised to do better.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 6, 2018

The recent data breaches at Timehop and Macy’s are the latest harbingers of what’s in store for companies that fail to vigorously guard access to all of their mission-critical systems. Related podcast: Why identities are the new firewall. A common thread to just about every deep network breach these days is the failure of the victimized entity to effectively deploy multi-factor authentication (MFA) to at least make it harder for threat actors to access their sensitive systems.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2018

As a preview to our upcoming multi-client market research report on the emerging intersection between information governance & security and analytics & machine learning, we asked 50 senior executives and decision-makers for their perspectives on five of the questions we’ll be asking in our research (just a snapshot of the 20+ questions we’ll be asking in the actual survey).

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 6, 2018

City Didn't Pay Ransom, But Spends for Cleanup, New Devices, Better Security The cost of the city of Atlanta's mitigation and subsequent IT overhaul following a massive SamSam ransomware infection in March could reach $17 million, of which $6 million has already been budgeted for new devices, security enhancements as well as upgrades, according to news reports.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Interesting research: " Dancing Pigs or Externalities? Measuring the Rationality of. Security Decisions ": Abstract: Accurately modeling human decision-making in security is critical to thinking about when, why, and how to recommend that users adopt certain secure behaviors. In this work, we conduct behavioral economics experiments to model the rationality of end-user security decision-making in a realistic online experimental system simulating a bank account.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2018

You often see people use the terms ‘ cyber security ’ and ‘ information security ’ interchangeably. That’s because, in their most basic forms, they refer to the same thing: the integrity and confidentiality of information. But there’s a crucial difference, which can be explained simply. Information security. Information is at the heart of any organisation, whether it’s business records, personal data or intellectual property.

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AIIM

AUGUST 8, 2018

The GDPR’s May 25, 2018 deadline set in motion a mad compliance and security scramble not only for European companies, but also for any company doing business in Europe or with European customers. We just published a new market research report on GDPR. The purpose of this survey of 262 executives was to quantify – as close to the May 25th deadline as possible – the following three key issues related to GDPR: How do organizations view the emerging challenges tied to information privacy and securi

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 7, 2018

Cybercrime Gang Phoned Victims to Increase Phishing Attack Success Rates The FIN7 cybercrime gang regularly phoned victims, posing as buyers, to trick victims into opening phishing emails and attachments with malware, federal prosecutors allege. The group's success - 15 million stolen payment cards and counting - is one measure of how difficult these types of attacks are to block.

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Lenny Zeltser

AUGUST 6, 2018

Microsoft is no longer content to simply delegate endpoint security on Windows to other software vendors. The company has released, fine-tuned or rebranded multiple security technologies in a way that will have lasting effects on the industry and Windows users. What is Microsoft’s endpoint security strategy and how is it evolving? As of this writing, Microsoft offers numerous endpoint security technologies, most of which include “Windows Defender” in their name.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2018

A security researcher has devised a new WiFi hacking technique that could be exploited to easily crack WiFi passwords of most modern routers. The security researcher Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, lead developer of the popular password-cracking tool Hashcat , has devised a new WiFi hacking technique that could be exploited to easily crack WiFi passwords of most modern routers.

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AIIM

AUGUST 10, 2018

As a preview to our upcoming multi-client market research report on the emerging intersection between information governance & security and analytics & machine learning, we asked 50 senior executives and decision-makers for their perspectives on five of the questions we’ll be asking in our research (just a snapshot of the 20+ questions we’ll be asking in the actual survey).

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 9, 2018

Messages Can Be Manipulated, But Fixes Would Pose Privacy Risks, WhatsApp Says Check Point says it has found three ways to falsify messages in WhatsApp, which it claims could be employed by scammers and used to spread fake news. WhatsApp acknowledges the findings, but it will not engineer patches.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 9, 2018

As any financial services executive knows, improving business results with precise, timely decisions is much harder than it looks.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 6, 2018

Long and interesting story -- now two decades old -- of massive fraud perpetrated against the McDonald's Monopoly sweepstakes. The central fraudster was the person in charge of securing the winning tickets.

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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.

IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2018

The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires certain organisations to appoint a DPO (data protection officer) to help them comply with the Regulation. However, a shortage of DPOs means many organisations are appointing staff to act as DPOs without the proper level of expertise, experience or qualifications. The GDPR stipulates that DPOs should have appropriate experience and qualifications to fulfil the role.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 7, 2018

Factories Crippled After WannaCry Variant Infects Unpatched Windows 7 Machines A WannaCry outbreak has hit unpatched Windows 7 systems at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., crippling its factories. The world's largest chipmaker, which traced the infection to a new software tool that it failed to scan for malware before installation, says the outbreak could cost it $170 million.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 10, 2018

Android smartphones from Asus, LG, Essential, and ZTE are the focus of a new analysis about risks from firmware bugs introduced by manufacturers and carriers.

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 6, 2018

Duo security researchers compiled a massive dataset of public Twitter profiles and built a tool to scour profiles and detect the fakes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

August is two-thirds of the way through year, and we have already seen a number of serious, far-reaching data breaches making headlines, some occurred in 2018, and some from 2017 that are now being disclosed. This underscores the harsh realities of the state of cybersecurity today. If you have looked at our recently released annual Data Threat Report: Retail Edition , you understand this is not just hyperbole.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 6, 2018

Carbon Black's Matt Bennet Shares Insights on Making Big Data Meaningful Big data holds the key to moving from a preventive security stance to a more predictive stance, says Matthew Bennett of Carbon Black.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 9, 2018

Researchers at the Black Hat security conference will demonstrate a new pacemaker-hacking technique that can add or withhold shocks at will.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 6, 2018

On July 19, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) announced that it served a formal notice to two advertising startups headquartered in France, FIDZUP and TEEMO. Both companies collect personal data from mobile phones via software development kit (“SDK”) tools integrated into the code of their partners’ mobile apps — even when the apps are not in use — and process the data to conduct marketing campaigns on mobile phones.

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

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Would you like to know how to protect yourself from the ever-present threat of cybercrime perpetrated by black hat hackers? Yes, there are bad and good hackers. Their main aim is to exploit your “mistakes and vulnerabilities” to blackmail you into sending them money or they’ll leak your private data. If your data and online privacy are important to you, and it should be whether you use the internet for social media, shopping, making money online, or learning, read this article with keen interest

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 10, 2018

As the HIPAA security rule turns 20, it's time for regulators to make updates reflecting the changing cyberthreat landscape and technological evolution that's happened over the past two decades, says security expert Tom Walsh.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 4, 2018

The Russian shadow behind the attack on Italian President Mattarella, a coordinated attack via Twitter involved hundreds of profiles inviting him to resign. Cybersecurity experts and Italian media believe that the Italian President Sergio Mattarella is the last victim of the Russian troll farm. On May 27 the late afternoon, thousands of Twitter profiles suddenly started spreading messages against the Italian president asking him to resign.

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