Data Breach Today
MARCH 1, 2018
Digital Certificate Revocation Blame Game: Trustico Swaps Blows With DigiCert Digital certificate vendor Trustico is sparring with DigiCert, which recently took over Symantec's digital certificate business, following a serious security incident. The private keys for at least 23,000 Trustico digital certificates have been compromised, prompting a scramble to protect affected websites.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
If you're going to commit an illegal act, it's best not to discuss it in e-mail. It's also best to Google tech instructions rather than asking someone else to do it: One new detail from the indictment, however, points to just how unsophisticated Manafort seems to have been. Here's the relevant passage from the indictment. I've bolded the most important bits: Manafort and Gates made numerous false and fraudulent representations to secure the loans.
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The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
In Eindhoven and Utrecht smart tech is tackling traffic, noise and crime. But with privacy laws proving futile and commercial companies in on the act, are the plans as benign as they seem? Stratumseind in Eindhoven is one of the busiest nightlife streets in the Netherlands. On a Saturday night, bars are packed, music blares through the street, laughter and drunken shouting bounces off the walls.
Elie
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The "Right To Be Forgotten" (RTBF) is the landmark European ruling that governs the delisting of personal information from search results. This ruling establishes a right to privacy, whereby individuals can request that search engines delist URLs from across the Internet that contain “inaccurate, inadequate, irrelevant or excessive” information surfaced by queries containing the name of the requester.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Pro Tip: Change TLS Certificates Regularly For Better Data Security Certificate Authorities continue to be tricked into issuing bogus TLS certificates. A study by Recorded Future found that there are at least three underground vendors that can supply fraudulent TLS certificates, which pose serious risks to data security and privacy.
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AIIM
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Ultimately, transforming customer experiences is more than conventional change. It is about doing things differently – and doing different things as well. And different not just for the sake of being different, but in support of the key strategic objectives facing every organization in the age of digital disruption. The shift to a more modular “content services” strategy to address large issues like cloud changes and an increasingly chaotic multi-vendor content environment creates additional cha
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 2, 2018
By leaving Instagram followers off the public record, Columbia researcher Jonathan Albright says Facebook is making the Russian trolls' true audience appear artificially low.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 2, 2018
Breach Costs Hit $114 Million, But Data Broker Still Sees Revenues Rise Equifax has identified 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose names and snippets of their driver's license numbers were stolen, adding to one of the worst breaches in history, which resulted in personal data for nearly every U.S. adult being exposed.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. Those 80M records are now searchable, read on for the full story: There's an unknown numbers of data breaches floating around the web.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 1, 2018
Around the world, enterprises are anxious about May 25, 2018, the day enforcement begins for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They have good reason. Perhaps the most comprehensive data privacy standard to date, the GDPR presents a significant challenge for organizations that process the personal data of EU citizens – regardless of where the organization is headquartered or processes the data.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
A fake story about a Parkland student started on the right, but outrage-tweeting on the left propelled it into the mainstream.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Attorney Steven Teppler, who recently wrote a report that addresses risks related to the internet of things, offers insights on risk management steps organizations in all sectors must take as IoT devices proliferate in the enterprise.
TAB OnRecord
MARCH 1, 2018
In 1967, TAB launched CompuColor® labeling products for application in computer punch cards. Forty-five years later, punch cards are computing history, but color-coded filing techniques are still an integral part of effective information management. What is it that allows color-coding to transcend its original purpose and remain popular four decades later?
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Dark Reading
MARCH 2, 2018
Phishing emails disguised as tax-related alerts aim to trick users into handing attackers their usernames and passwords.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Interest in deception technology is growing because it can play a valuable role in improving intrusion detection, says Anton Chuvakin of Gartner, who explains the intricacies of the emerging technology in an in-depth interview.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Ministers reject calls to suspend practice amid fears it is stopping migrants seeking medical help Ministers have rejected a call from MPs to immediately suspend the disclosure of confidential NHS patient data to the Home Office to trace potential immigration offenders despite evidence it is deterring migrants in England from seeking medical help. A joint letter from Home Office and health ministers to the chair of the Commons health select committee discloses that 1,297 requests for non-clinica
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.
Elie
MARCH 2, 2018
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts the files of infected hosts and demands payment, often in a crypto-currency such as Bitcoin. In this paper, we create a measurement framework that we use to perform a large-scale, two-year, end-to-end measurement of ransomware payments, victims, and operators. By combining an array of data sources, including ransomware binaries, seed ransom payments, victim telemetry from infections, and a large database of Bitcoin addresses annotated with their owne
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
The Kremlin's hacking misdirection is evolving. And even when those attempts to confuse forensics fail, they still succeed at sowing future doubt.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 1, 2018
Report: Dozens of Firms and Advisers Behind Initial Coin Offerings Receive Subpoenas The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly issued dozens of subpoenas and requests for information to technology companies, executives and advisers involved in initial coin offerings. The regulator's new cyber unit investigates ICOs, which attempt to raise funds for cryptocurrency ventures.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby, I wanna go fast. When I launched Pwned Passwords V2 last week , I made it fast - real fast - and I want to talk briefly here about why that was important, how I did it and then how I've since shaved another 56% off the load time for requests that hit the origin. And a bunch of other cool perf stuff while I'm here.
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IT Governance
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
The cyber security skills gap has been widening for years – there are simply not enough trained professionals to meet organisations’ growing cyber security needs. As a result, the value of those with the requisite skills is inflated, but they are left in charge of understaffed and poorly equipped defence teams. According to the latest figures, 68% of organisations acknowledge that demand for cyber security staff is high , and there is reportedly a 25 percentage point gap between availability and
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 1, 2018
While still the best protection against phishing attacks, some Yubikey models are vulnerable after a recent update to Google Chrome.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Organizations Scramble After 80 Million Potentially Breached Records Surface An analysis of a massive 8.8 GB trove of files containing usernames and plaintext passwords suggests hundreds of services may have experienced unreported or undiscovered data breaches. Data breach expert Troy Hunt says the trove of 80 million records appears to contain fresh data.
Troy Hunt
MARCH 1, 2018
If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days. This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" I built it in part to help people answer that question and in part because my inner geek wanted to build an interesting project on Microsoft's Azure.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Dark Reading
MARCH 1, 2018
A comprehensive new report from Cisco should "scare the pants off" enterprise security leaders.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 1, 2018
On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
Web Injects, Malware, Phishing and Fake Advertising Used in Attack Arsenal Criminals continue their quest for acquiring cryptocurrencies without having to buy and manage their own mining equipment. They're resorting to attacks aimed at stealing the cryptocurrencies via hacking, phishing, fake advertising and web injection attacks via repurposed banking Trojans.
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