IT Governance
APRIL 16, 2018
How can you be sure that your organisation is compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) if you don’t know exactly what data you hold? You might think it’s impossible to be unaware of data you store, but you’d be surprised. Information has a way of being left on hard drives, appropriated by other departments or reproduced in different formats.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 20, 2018
Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser. To the extent that an election system is not transparently and auditably accurate, it fails in that second purpose. Our election systems are failing, and we need to fix them. Today, we conduct our elections on computers.
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AIIM
APRIL 19, 2018
Organizations need to think about how the advent of the third wave of exponential change – the drive to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - will require them to look at the future through a different set of lenses. I’d like to offer three of these “lenses” – I’m sure there are more – but I think these three are ones that those in this community are uniquely prepared to tackle.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2018
Bitsight's Tom Turner on Security Ratings Managing third-party risks is more critical than ever, says Tom Turner of BitSight Technologies, who discusses the urgency of communicating that to the board.
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WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 17, 2018
Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead.
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The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 17, 2018
Former Cambridge Analytica employee gives evidence before parliamentary committee Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, according to evidence from former employee Brittany Kaiser. Speaking to the Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee, Kaiser said Cambridge Analytica had a suite of personality quizzes designed to extract personal data from the social network, of which Aleksandr Kogan’s This Is Your Digital Life app
Data Breach Today
APRIL 17, 2018
A Wide Assortment of Hacker, Insider Incidents Reported The reporting of major health data breaches has spiked in recent weeks, with a wide variety of incidents reported. So what's behind the surge?
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 16, 2018
New research shows just how prevalent political advertising was from suspicious groups in 2016—including Russian trolls.
AIIM
APRIL 18, 2018
Truly disruptive moments occur only once in a generation. They occur when the cumulative inertia of technology innovation combines to disrupt business models. And the heart of disruption is ultimately when radical technology changes are standardized and then incorporated into new business models. Let’s take a look at a couple. The first ones on this graphic are the telephone and electricity.
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The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 17, 2018
Statement comes as company faces US lawsuit over facial recognition feature launched in 2011 and planned to expand to EU Facebook has released more information on the social media platform’s tracking of users off-site, after its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, failed to answer questions about the process from US politicians and as the company prepares to fight a lawsuit over facial recognition in California.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 16, 2018
'EITest' Shuffled as Many as 2 Million Users a Day to Malware Security researchers are claiming at least a temporary victory over an enormously productive malware distribution scheme that shuffled as many as 2 million users a day from legitimate websites to malware.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 19, 2018
We leave traces of our genetic material everywhere, even on things we’ve never touched. That got Lukis Anderson charged with a brutal crime he didn’t commit.
AIIM
APRIL 17, 2018
Automation in the workplace is already well underway. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 50% of workplace tasks could be fully automated by 2055 , if not before. For employees, this can be a daunting concept, as increased automation in professional settings could lead to job loss on a mass scale. Yet, automation is the workplace might not be all doom and gloom, depending on how we look at it.
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The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 14, 2018
Damian Collins, chair of the Commons committee looking into data breaches, says we are in the foothills of a global story Damian Collins is a few minutes late for our interview in his House of Commons office and immediately apologises. Even in normal times, as chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee, he has a lot on his plate. But over the last few weeks, since the Observer broke the story of the Facebook data scandal , the spotlight has fallen on this 44-year-old backbench T
Data Breach Today
APRIL 18, 2018
FBI's Elvis Chan on Efforts to Bolster Cybersecurity of Social Media Stung by signs of Russian influencing of the 2016 presidential election, the FBI is working with social media companies to bolster cybersecurity in advance of the 2018 mid-term election. Elvis Chan of the FBI describes these efforts.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 19, 2018
New research from Princeton University exposes vulnerabilities in the social network's universal login API.
Dark Reading
APRIL 17, 2018
Hackers are craftier than ever, pilfering PII piecemeal so bad actors can combine data to set up schemes to defraud medical practices, steal military secrets and hijack R&D product information.
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The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 18, 2018
Users will be asked to review information about targeted advertising but some say opting out is deliberately difficult Facebook has started to seek explicit consent from users for targeted advertising, storage of sensitive information, and – for the first time in the EU – application of facial recognition technology as the European general data protection regulation (GDPR) is due to come into force in just over a month.
Data Breach Today
APRIL 17, 2018
Advice: Update Outdated Protocols, Equipment The U.S. and U.K. warned Monday that Russian hackers have compromised critical internet infrastructure with the aim of spying, extracting intellectual property and gaining footholds for future cyberattacks.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 17, 2018
By accepting Verge, Pornhub could help make cryptocurrency transactions in general more mainstream.
Elie
APRIL 18, 2018
This post explains why artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to building anti-abuse defenses that keep up with user expectations and combat increasingly sophisticated attacks. This is the first post of a series of four posts dedicated to provide a concise overview of how to harness AI to build robust anti-abuse protections. The remaining three posts delve into the top 10 anti-abuse specific challenges encountered while applying AI to abuse fighting, and how to overcome them.
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The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 15, 2018
Lords report stresses need for artificial intelligence to be used for the common good Britain needs to lead the way on artificial intelligence regulation, in order to prevent companies such as Cambridge Analytica setting precedents for dangerous and unethical use of the technology, the head of the House of Lords select committee on AI has warned. The Cambridge Analytica scandal, Lord Clement-Jones said, reinforced the committee’s findings, released on Monday in the report “AI in the UK: ready, w
Data Breach Today
APRIL 19, 2018
Agreement Includes Pledge to Not Aid Governments With Cyber Warfare Thirty-four companies have signed on to the Microsoft-led Cybersecurity Tech Accord, which is aimed at protecting civilians from cybercriminal and state-sponsored attacks.
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 16, 2018
Rube-Goldbergesque IoT hacks are surprisingly simple to pull off—and can do a ton of damage.
Elie
APRIL 18, 2018
This post explains why artificial intelligence (AI) is the key to building anti-abuse defenses that keep up with user expectations and combat increasingly sophisticated attacks. This is the first post of a series of four posts dedicated to provide a concise overview of how to harness AI to build robust anti-abuse protections. The remaining three posts will delve into the top 10 anti-abuse specific challenges encountered while applying AI to abuse fighting, and how to overcome them.
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The Guardian Data Protection
APRIL 17, 2018
The conceit of data mining firms is that they could win elections by moulding electorates based on new identities and value systems – a process accelerated by the echo chamber of social media Facebook sees itself as a commercial firm, not a social institution, and behaves accordingly. It makes money based on the depth and scale of its users’ data. That is why no one should be surprised that a former executive from the controversial data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica claimed in parliament that
Data Breach Today
APRIL 19, 2018
WhiteHat Security's Craig Hinkley on How Emerging Tech Can Improve Staff Training We have been talking about the cybersecurity skills gap for a decade, but the pain is truly being felt now as businesses churn out new apps with insufficient security, says WhiteHat Security's Craig Hinkley. What is machine learning's role?
WIRED Threat Level
APRIL 17, 2018
CCleaner owner Avast is sharing more details on the malware attackers used to infect legitimate software updates with malware.
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