Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2018
Records From Hacked Stresser/Booter Service vDos Helped Unmask Suspect In separate cases, two hackers have either pleaded guilty or been sentenced to serve jail time in part for launching or facilitating DDoS attacks. One defendant, John Kelsey Gammell, was unmasked after taunting a former employer over the "ongoing IT issues" his DDoS attacks were causing.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 26, 2018
Scouring the blockchain, researchers found years-old evidence tying Silk Road transaction to users' public accounts.
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TAB OnRecord
JANUARY 25, 2018
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AIIM
JANUARY 23, 2018
Scanning and information capture lead a curious double life. On one hand, it seems like we’ve been doing scanning and capture forever, at least within larger companies. Scanning and capture are stable, mature technologies with a well-documented ROI. On the other hand, they are still somewhat new when it comes to adoption by many smaller and mid sized organizations.
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Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2018
Points to Need for Clients to Have Business Continuity Plan A ransomware attack on electronic health records vendor Allscripts late last week is a reminder of the potential disruption to patient care delivery healthcare entities can face if a cloud-services provider suffers a cyberattack. It also points to the need for business continuity planning.
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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 25, 2018
This morning we announced, in tandem with our partner 451 Research, the Global Edition of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report. It’s abundantly clear that medium to larger enterprises (the focus of the report and underlying survey) are finding it harder than ever to protect their sensitive data. The twin drivers of the problem are increased threats and the drive to digitally transform how organizations deliver value and revenue.
AIIM
JANUARY 26, 2018
A new set of European rules and standards related to privacy and data protection (the General Data Protection Regulation , or GDPR ) has 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. The regulation is designed to harmonize privacy across the EU, codify more rigorous privacy rights; strike a balance between privacy and security and create an explicit obligation for both data contr
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 25, 2018
Crypto-Lockers Remain Serious Threat Despite Recent Attack Volume Decline After spiking in 2017, the volume of attacks involving ransomware has since declined, but the malware still remains a potent threat. For attackers, ransomware barriers to entry are lower than ever, thanks to highly automated ransomware-as-a-service offerings.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 23, 2018
Thanks to Tinder's patchwork use of HTTPS, researchers found they could reconstruct someone's entire experience in the app.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 24, 2018
Major DDoS attacks cost some organizations more than $100,000 in 2017, according to a new NETSCOUT Arbor report.
OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 22, 2018
The upstream oil and gas industries have traditionally been slow to adopt new technologies. Anything new has to be proven in the field before most companies will adopt it. The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics should be different. For oil and gas, this combination offers the ability to continuously increase operational performance … The post AI and analytics has the power to change upstream oil and gas appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 23, 2018
Struggles With Firmware Fixes For Meltdown and Spectre The usual advice for major security flaws is to patch as quickly as possible. Now Intel is calling for a full stop due to imperfect patches for a trio of chip security vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 23, 2018
In the haste to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that shook the computer industry, several clumsy patch attempts have had to be pulled.
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Dark Reading
JANUARY 22, 2018
Latest version targets systems running ARC processors.
IT Governance
JANUARY 22, 2018
Most organisations are aware of the catastrophic damage that extreme cyber attacks can cause, but few have put in place appropriate measures to defend and respond to such incidents, according to a new report from PwC. Strengthening digital society against cyber shocks , which analyses key findings from the 2018 Global State of Information Security ® Survey (GSISS), focuses on the effects of massive incidents such as NotPetya and WannaCry.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2018
Network of Fake Ad Agencies Distributed 1 Billion Bad Ads, Researchers Find The web may be largely funded thanks to online advertising, but the threat posted by malicious advertisements continues to escalate. Indeed, the latest malvertising scheme, uncovered by security firm Confiant, served 1 billion malicious advertisements.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 21, 2018
Opinion: Researchers from Yale Privacy Lab argue that the scourge of trackers in Android apps means users should stop using the Google Play store.
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OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 25, 2018
In recent years, the pressure applied to marketers has grown significantly. Year over year, goals are handed down and marketers are expected to do more with less. This trend often leaves marketers scrambling to find new ways to meet these goals. What’s more, in today’s digital ecosystem, with an abundance of options, visitors have come … The post Top four reasons to start AB testing today appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JANUARY 23, 2018
Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 17 percent in 2018 to $287.8 billion, up from $246.8 billion in 2017. While the increase in cloud migration is by no means a new trend, we are seeing more and more organizations seeking cloud-like consolidation, whether on-premises or in a private or public cloud. Consolidation is becoming the norm, and it is critical that organizations, whether consolidating internally or externally, have a secure multi-tenant environmen
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 22, 2018
15 Million UK Residents' Records Exposed, 860,000 Consumers At Risk Data broker Equifax has released a revised count of U.K. victims of its massive 2017 data breach, now saying 860,000 residents had their personal details exposed. The data broker is offering its own fraud-monitoring services to breach victims, provided they share their personal details.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 22, 2018
Pixek, an end-to-end encrypted photo app, could point to the future of searchable cloud data storage.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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OpenText Information Management
JANUARY 25, 2018
The Life Sciences sector is used to constant regulatory change. However, the next few years are about to see major new legislation in the EU that could result in major disruption to Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare companies – wherever they are. As I mentioned in my previous blog, I’m going to concentrate on two … The post Regulatory Matters: EU regulatory change is coming fast in Life Sciences appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
eSecurity Planet
JANUARY 26, 2018
A look at how security vendors that are employing artificial intelligence and machine learning to help IT security teams.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2018
Action Comes After $17.2 Million Lawsuit Settlement After settling a breach lawsuit for $17.2 million, Aetna has signed another large settlement related to privacy breaches involving mailings to its health plan members. The latest settlement with the New York state attorney general's office involves two mailings last year.
WIRED Threat Level
JANUARY 20, 2018
False alarms, free speech, and more of the week's top security news.
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The Guardian Data Protection
JANUARY 21, 2018
AI is sure to bring many benefits but concerns over its ability to make decisions mean human journalists’ input remains vital Journalism is largely collaboration: reporters with sources, writers and editors, lawyers advising publishers, producers with distributors, and audiences feeding back their knowledge. Rapid development of artificial intelligence means journalists are likely to collaborate more and more with machines that think.
IT Governance
JANUARY 25, 2018
A recent article about the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2018 said that “the top five risks to global stability over the next five years are natural disasters, extreme weather, cyberattacks, data fraud, and failure to address climate change”. The past few years have seen an increase in cyber attacks and their associated damages. The report’s findings suggest that this acceleration is unlikely to slow.
Data Breach Today
JANUARY 24, 2018
After Meltdown and Spectre, Researchers Will Pummel Microprocessors for Flaws Technology giants are still struggling to identify what's at risk from the Spectre and Meltdown flaws in modern CPUs, never mind getting working security updates into users' hands. In the meantime, expect a rush by researchers to find more flaws in microprocessor code.
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