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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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2018

The EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires organisations to respond to serious data breaches within 72 hours of detection. This places a significant burden on organisations: taking the appropriate measures to comply with the law while simultaneously dealing with the collateral impact of a breach is not a picnic! The Ponemon Institute Cost of a Data Breach Study 2018 indicates that one in four organisations will suffer a data breach in the next two years.

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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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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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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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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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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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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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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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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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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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Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 10, 2018

Advances such as blockchain technology are steadily gaining traction both in terms of investment and adoption. Well-informed IT professionals are starting to deploy these new technologies to establish a more connected, knowledgeable and secure business. Here are some ways blockchain technology and database advancements are working together to help facilitate some of those benefits.

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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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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2018

Most people generally understand what happens after a data breach: the crooks use or sell the information to make a quick profit, and organisations must spend money recovering from the incident and paying legal fees and penalties. But that’s only an overview. In this blog, we continue our discussion of the ongoing threat of debit and credit card fraud by looking at the financial effects of payment card breaches – from both cyber criminals’ and organisations’ perspectives.

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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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Geopolitical risk is now at the top of the agenda for CEOs. But tracking it can be difficult. The world is more interconnected than ever, whether in terms of economics and supply chains or technology and communication. Geopolitically, however, it is becoming increasingly fragmented – threatening the operations, financial well-being, and security of globally connected companies.

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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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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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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Butlin’s has suffered a data breach that has affected up to 34,000 of its customers. A spokesperson confirmed that the compromise had taken place over the past 72 hours and was caused by a phishing email. In a notice posted on its website , Butlin’s managing director, Dermot King, said: “We would like to assure all our guests that your payment details are secure and have not been compromised.

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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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Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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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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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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IT Governance

AUGUST 6, 2018

Welcome to the new education sector blog series. In our first blog ( sign up to the series here ) , we explore data breaches. We will consider why they happen, what you can do to reduce their likelihood and impact as well as which breaches need reporting to the supervisory authority and what information they will need from you. The human factor. Across all sectors and organisation sizes, simple mistakes such as emailing and posting or faxing information to the wrong people top the Information

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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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Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 9, 2018

Researchers found a way to compromise a Mac the first time it connects to Wi-Fi, potentially putting scores of enterprise customers at risk.

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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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IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Building an ISMS (information security management system) that that meets the requirements of ISO 27001 is a challenging project, and it is often difficult to know where to start. One way to simplify the process is to conduct an ISO 27001 gap analysis , a process in which your current state of compliance is measured against the Standard. Below we have outlined exactly how an ISO 27001 gap analysis can benefit your organisation. 1) You’ll gain a high-level overview of what needs to be done to ach

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