Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2018

In past years’ Thales Data Threat Reports, we asked IT security pros around the world separate questions about whom they believed were the riskiest internal threats and external threats. The results were useful but didn’t allow us to compare which category proved most worrisome. This year, we restructured the two separate questions into a single one, and that gave us some very interesting results about who worries these IT security professionals the most.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 8, 2018

Data is increasingly amassed and harnessed to accelerate organizational transformation in the new digital economy. But because databases can hold sensitive details, protecting them is imperative. Unprotected data at rest is an attractive target for cybercriminals, and in today’s ever more distributed environment, not a week goes by without hearing of a new data breach.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 9, 2018

It's a powerful tool, but recent incidents have shown that there's no winning with facial recognition.

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Dark Reading

MAY 5, 2018

Use these five tips to get your security shop thinking more strategically about data.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 11, 2018

Recently, India’s Central Bank, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) came out with a directive on April 6, 2018 related to “storage of payment system data”. This order makes it mandatory for all system providers (as well as their service providers/intermediaries/ third party vendors and other entities) to ensure that all data relating to payment systems operated by the provider are stored in a system only in India.

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Lenny Zeltser

MAY 7, 2018

This cheat sheet offers guidelines for IT professionals seeking to improve technical writing skills. To print it, use the one-page PDF version; you can also customize the Word version of the document. General Recommendations. Determine your write-up’s objectives and audience. Keep the write-up as short and simple as possible to achieve the objectives.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 6, 2018

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica’s mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon • The six weeks that brought Cambridge Analytica down How do 87m records scraped from Facebook become an advertising campaign that could help swing an election? What does gathering that much data actually involve?

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 6, 2018

Scammers, pranksters, and bad actors all want to break into whatever social media accounts they can. Here's how to keep yours safe.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 9, 2018

Microsoft Patches Flaw, Warns It Could Be Exploited via Websites, Malvertising Security alert: Microsoft has issued updates to fix 67 unique flaws in its products. One vulnerability in Windows VBScript engine is already being actively exploited in the wild via malicious Word documents and could also be employed for attacks via websites and malvertising, Microsoft warns.

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TAB OnRecord

MAY 10, 2018

Our most popular resources this month cover the costs of imaging for DIY and outsourcing projects, how to design a quality RIM training program, and lessons on how to apply green practices to your RIM program. The real cost of imaging: DIY vs. outsourcing One of the biggest questions to answer before starting an imaging [.] Read More. The post Reader Favorites May 2018: Our most popular RIM resources appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 5, 2018

In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner’s Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll’s request Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to hand over all the data and personal information it has on an American voter, including details of where it got the data and what it did with it, or face a criminal prosecution. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served the enforcement notice to the company on Friday in a landmark legal decision that opens the way for

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Data Matters

MAY 11, 2018

Changes to data breach notification laws continue to pop up across the country this Spring. The latest comes from a new law signed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey that amends the state’s data breach standards. Although much of the Arizona law has remained the same, the new law updates a few key provisions, including the definition of personal information, the requirements for the content of the data breach notice, the timing of notice, and the capping of penalties. .

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Data Breach Today

MAY 8, 2018

Researcher: 400 Sites or More Fall Victim to Massive, Forced Monero Mining Operation A remote code execution vulnerability revealed in late March in the Drupal content management system is now being used on a large scale for mining the virtual currency monero, a researcher says. At least 400 websites have been infected, and the total number is likely far higher, security experts warn.

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Dark Reading

MAY 8, 2018

The expenses and actions typically associated with a cyberattack are not all created equal. Here's how to explain what's important to the C-suite and board.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 8, 2018

Theresa May tells cabinet two amendments to data protection bill will undermine free press The government is facing two difficult votes, and potential defeats, over amendments to the data protection bill that are due to be debated in the Commons on Wednesday. The amendments would establish a “Leveson two” inquiry into the misuse of personal data by the media, and a measure that would impose punitive legal costs on English media organisations that refuse to sign-up to Impress, the officially reco

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 7, 2018

Each insight is useful for only a limited amount of time, so organizations that don’t closely track their insights’ shelf lives may be making poor decisions because of outdated information. Learn how to fix this.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 8, 2018

Unpatched Struts Implementations Remain Widespread, Researcher Warns Equifax says it continues to field queries from U.S. lawmakers about the full extent of its massive 2017 data breach, which occurred after an attacker exploited its unpatched Apache Struts web application. Research finds that many more organizations are using unpatched Struts applications.

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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.

WIRED Threat Level

MAY 9, 2018

For the last three years, Iran has restrained its state-sponsored hackers from disruptive attacks on the West. That ceasefire may now be over.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 8, 2018

Campaign groups say clause preventing access to records will make EU citizens ‘second class’ The government is being warned that it will face judicial review proceedings in June unless it scraps a clause in the data protection bill that would prevent immigrants from accessing their Home Office records. The campaign groups the3million , a grassroots organisation representing EU citizens living in the UK, and the Open Rights Group argue that the exemption for data protection for immigrants is unla

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Dark Reading

MAY 10, 2018

Hacker Kevin Mitnick demonstrates a phishing attack designed to abuse multi-factor authentication and take over targets' accounts.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 7, 2018

ProtectWise Says Group's Mistakes Proved Helpful During Investigation Security vendor ProtectWise says a series of operating mistakes has allowed it to gain insight into a group, believed to be affiliated with Chinese intelligence, that specializes in stealing code-signing certificates. The certificates allow for the signing of malware that's unlikely to raise security alarms.

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WIRED Threat Level

MAY 11, 2018

Enabling JavaScript should make Excel more powerful, but increasing access points makes it even more of a web security nightmare than it already is.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 11, 2018

A stringent new law will change how companies handle your data. Here’s what you need to do ‘Urgent action required ”, “Do you still want to hear from us?”, “We’ve updated our privacy policy”, “Should we stop sending you updates? If not, act now!” Many of us will have received emails like this during the past few weeks, some of them from companies we haven’t used for years or have maybe never even heard of.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 7, 2018

Last month, Wired published a long article about Ray Ozzie and his supposed new scheme for adding a backdoor in encrypted devices. It's a weird article. It paints Ozzie's proposal as something that "attains the impossible" and "satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists," when (1) it's barely a proposal, and (2) it's essentially the same key escrow scheme we've been hearing about for decades.

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Data Breach Today

MAY 11, 2018

With the rise of P2P payment networks and the U.S. working toward a real-time national payments network, the push is on to battle fraudsters. Also, attackers are hacking legitimate websites to more stealthily distribute "Gandcrab" crypto-locking ransomware.

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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.

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Threatpost

MAY 10, 2018

The GandCrab ransomware continues to virulently spread and adapt to shifting cyber-conditions, most recently crawling back into relevance on the back of several large-scale spam campaigns.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 9, 2018

Home Office figures show there were almost 25,950 subject access requests for files in 2016 Tens of thousands of people each year could be prevented from obtaining information about their own immigration status under new data protection powers, Home Office figures reveal. Changes proposed in the data protection bill, which was being debated by MPs on Wednesday, would deprive applicants of a reliable means of obtaining files on themselves from the department through what are known as subject acce

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 8, 2018

By 2025, there will be 180 trillion gigabytes of data in the world, compared to only 10 trillion gigabytes in 2015. Of this, 90 percent will be unstructured, which is why many organizations are adopting open source data lake technologies such as Apache Hadoop to handle this expanding volume and variety of data.

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