Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Major Cybercrime Gangs Shift From Hacking Banks to Bitcoins Bitcoin's massive rise in value and hype continues to draw the attention of hackers, scammers and organized crime. Flaws in bitcoin mining firmware and hacks of wallet software show that the infrastructure associated with cryptocurrency is not always well-secured.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 15, 2017
MobileCoin aims to make cryptocurrency transactions quick and easy for everyone, while still preserving privacy and decentralization.
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The Guardian Data Protection
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Information commissioner announces inquiry into parties’ use of personal information after Ukip’s refusal to cooperate Ukip is to face a tribunal over its use of analytics during the EU referendum after refusing to cooperate with an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO announced a formal investigation into how political parties use data analytics to target voters in response to concern about how social media was used during the referendum.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Interesting research : The trick in accurately tracking a person with this method is finding out what kind of activity they're performing. Whether they're walking, driving a car, or riding in a train or airplane, it's pretty easy to figure out when you know what you're looking for. The sensors can determine how fast a person is traveling and what kind of movements they make.
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Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Nearly $10 Million Stolen from 20 Institutions in Past 1½ Years A group of Russian-speaking hackers over the past year-and-a-half has stolen nearly $10 million from banks, mostly in the United States, Britain and Russia, the Moscow-based, according to cybersecurity firm Group-IB.
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Troy Hunt
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Occasionally, I feel like I'm just handing an organisation more shovels - "here, keep digging, I'm sure this'll work out just fine." The latest such event was with NatWest (a bank in the UK), and it culminated with this tweet from them: I'm sorry you feel this way. I can certainly pass on your concerns and feed this back to the tech team for you Troy?
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Security Planner is a custom security advice tool from Citizen Lab. Answer a few questions, and it gives you a few simple things you can do to improve your security. It's not meant to be comprehensive, but instead to give people things they can actually do to immediately improve their security. I don't see it replacing any of the good security guides out there, but instead augmenting them.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The latest ISMG Security Report focuses on the significant changes found in the latest version of the U.S. government's Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, commonly known as the NIST cybersecurity framework. NIST seeks comments from stakeholders on the draft of version 1.1 of the framework by Jan. 19.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Over seven months, 39 Nicholas Thompsons submitted net neutrality comments to the FCC. We tried to track each of them down.
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AIIM
DECEMBER 11, 2017
It's an embarrassing question to ask most organizations, but does your social media presence reflect the reality that the responsibility of business documentation doesn’t go away just because the information is on social media? The reality for most organizations is NO. Recent research conducted by Iron Mountain revealed that 76 percent of businesses regard communications by social media as formal business records, but 46 percent have no idea that they carry legal responsibility for their content
OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Something that barely raised any interest only two years ago was the focus of many of the discussions at this year’s SIBOS. The use of APIs in banking has rapidly gone from a peripheral issue to central to the thinking for many banks. As banks are beginning to gear up for API-related business, the question … The post The future of API banking dominates SIBOS appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
The latest ISMG Security Report leads with a report on a malware attack on an industrial safety system that experts contend could threaten public safety. Also, legislation giving DHS's cybersecurity unit a meaningful name progresses through Congress.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 12, 2017
The Islamic State is designing and mass-producing its own advanced munitions—with parts from all over the world.
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IBM Big Data Hub
DECEMBER 14, 2017
As happens so often, IBM is quietly laying the groundwork for the future. A recent step toward that future is TJBot, an unassuming, do-it-yourself cardboard robot that opens a window into what AI researchers are calling “embodied cognition.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Last month, the DHS announced that it was able to remotely hack a Boeing 757: "We got the airplane on Sept. 19, 2016. Two days later, I was successful in accomplishing a remote, non-cooperative, penetration," said Robert Hickey, aviation program manager within the Cyber Security Division of the DHS Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate. "[Which] means I didn't have anybody touching the airplane, I didn't have an insider threat.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Experts Offer Insights on Precautions to Take U.S. healthcare entities need to keep security top of mind if they use offshore services to handle protected health information, security experts say, pointing to specific steps to take.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 9, 2017
You may already be familiar with TorBrowser. But the anonymous internet has a lot more to offer.
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IT Governance
DECEMBER 14, 2017
There’s no denying that cyber crime is getting worse every year, but how much has it actually risen over the past few years? Date. Number of records breached. 2010. 3.8 million. 2011. 174 million. 2012. 44 million. 2013. 822 million. 2014. 700 million. 2015. 736 million. 2016. 3.1 billion. With an increase of more than 3 billion records breached over six years, cyber crime is rapidly increasing and it doesn’t seem like organisations’ security functions are keeping up.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Follow these five guidelines to keep your organization's data protected.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Organizations should take an "inside-out" approach to mitigating the insider threat, says Brandon Swafford of Forcepoint, who explains the components of that approach in an in-depth interview.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 9, 2017
In an age of nonstop breaches and hacks, here are ways to improve your online security based on your level of risk, from average user to NSA contractor.
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OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 15, 2017
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Dark Reading
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Avast's RetDec machine-code decompiler now available for free on Github.
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Cybercrime Money-Transfer Schemes Increasingly Involve Cryptocurrency Cybercriminals continue to rely on individuals who undertake the risky operation of moving illicit proceeds from one location to another. But these "money mules" face a multitude of risks, including imprisonment, police warn.
WIRED Threat Level
DECEMBER 9, 2017
One way to make sure no one's listening in on your private conversations? Drop the mics. Literally.
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OpenText Information Management
DECEMBER 12, 2017
No other court in the world has had more influence on the use of machine learning in litigation than the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “SDNY”) and that tradition continues with the court’s new ruling in Winfield v. City of New York. There’s a lot to unpack in this 28-page … The post Court supports eDiscovery machine learning, addresses AI transparency appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Dark Reading
DECEMBER 14, 2017
A proposed new law could make it legal for companies to hack back against attacker. But will it work?
Data Breach Today
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Takeaway: 'Bug Bounty' Plus NDA Still Looks Like Hush Money The hacker to whom Uber paid $100,000 to destroy data and keep quiet about its big, bad breach is a 20-year-old man living in Florida, Reuters reports. But numerous questions remain about the 2016 breach, including whether the payment was a bug bounty, extortion payoff or hush money.
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