The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Facebook was lucky when the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)—the UK’s independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest—hit the U.S. social media company with a £500,000 fine. Related: Zuckerberg’s mea culpa rings hollow. This penalty was in connection with Facebook harvesting user data, over the course of seven years — between 2007 and 2014.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers’ privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. But you’d be forgiven if you couldn’t tell this by studying the executive leadership page of each company’s Web site. That’s because very few of the world’s biggest companies list any security executives in their highest ranks.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Ireland, France, Germany and UK Report Increases Since Privacy Law Took Effect The number of data breach reports filed since the EU General Data Protection Regulation went into effect has hit nearly 3,500 in Ireland, over 4,600 in Germany, 6,000 in France and 8,000 in the U.K. Regulators say more Europeans are also filing more complaints about organizations' data protection and privacy practices.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Eddie Doyle of Checkpoint Software on Mitigation Strategies How are cybercrime syndicates launching attacks that leverage IoT devices? Eddie Doyle of Check Point Software Technologies offers insights on the latest attack strategies and how to counter them.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Those who have been practicing Human resource management for years knows the importance of relying on data analytics for creating an enhanced work culture or else they might lag behind that of other departments. Many of you tend to hold the purse strings that HR deals with people, they do not require dealing with large-scale data efforts and have gone to the back of the queue as a result.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

From a certain perspective, 2018 hasn’t been as dramatic a cybersecurity year as 2017, in that we haven’t seen as many global pandemics like WannaCry. Related: WannaCry signals worse things to come. Still, Ransomware, zero-day exploits, and phishing attacks, were among the biggest threats facing IT security teams this year. 2018 has not been a d ull y ear as far as breaches.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Phishing Attack Against Cyprus Stole Access Passwords, New York Times Reports For the past three years, hackers have been intercepting sensitive diplomatic cables sent between EU member states after stealing passwords for accessing the EU network via a phishing attack against diplomats in Cyprus, The New York Times reports.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The amount of data stored on electronic systems today is exploding and growing at an exponential rate. Data breaches, privacy concerns, and growing e-discovery costs continue to evolve how organizations approach controlling their business data while balancing worker productivity. Aged or poor data hygiene can further increase organizational inefficiencies, in aggregate costing billions annually. 35% of organizations believe the volume of information and data coming into their organizations will

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Authorities in the United States this week brought criminal hacking charges against three men as part of an unprecedented, international takedown targeting 15 different “booter” or “stresser” sites — attack-for-hire services that helped paying customers launch tens of thousands of digital sieges capable of knocking Web sites and entire network providers offline.

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Jamf

DECEMBER 18, 2018

How will Windows 7 end-of-life (EOL) impact organizations? What does the future of device and user security look like? Jamf CEO, Dean Hager, weighs in on these and other 2019 technology predictions.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 17, 2018

6.8 Million Users' Private Photos Exposed, Triggering GDPR Investigation Ireland's privacy watchdog is probing data breaches at Facebook that exposed users' private data. In the latest breach to be disclosed, Facebook has warned that for a 12-day period in September, up to 6.8 million users' private photos may have been revealed to 1,500 apps built by 876 developers.

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Frustrated by Twitter's silence on abuse against women, Amnesty International crowdsourced its own data and found that the platform was especially toxic for black women.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a systematic approach to capture, manage, store, preserve and deliver information related to business processes. So if it is related to business processes, especially to core business processes, it must be considered key for any organization. Many companies have the willingness to bring into their network of systems an Enterprise Content Management Solution, but then they fail to maintain the system properly once implemented.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2018

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) notifies employees of a data breach that exposed social security numbers and other personal information. According to the data breach notification, hackers have breached at least one of the agency’s servers, the security breach impacted both past and present employees. . Website SpaceRef published a data breach notification note sent by the NASA to its employees, the Agency informed them of an ongoing investigation due to an intrusion int

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Separately, Steganographic Cybercrime Scheme Employs Malicious Twitter Memes Twitter says that an unspecified number of its users may have been targeted by state-sponsored hackers seeking to unmask their identity. Separately, Trend Micro says Twitter has blocked an account that was posting image memes designed to remotely control malware-infected PCs.

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Lenny Zeltser

DECEMBER 20, 2018

My new writing course for cybersecurity professionals teaches how to write better reports, emails, and other content we regularly create. It captures my experience of writing in the field for over two decades and incorporates insights from other community members. It’s a course I wish I could’ve attended when I needed to improve my own security writing skills.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Every day represents a new set of people-process-technology challenges for HR professionals. From the time a prospective employee first comes into contact with an organization to the time they leave or retire, HR professionals must deal with myriad of documents and processes that span the entire lifecycle of an employment relationship. This is not just a question of improved efficiency and better compliance — although that’s important.

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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.

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2018

U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Fail Cybersecurity Audit. US DoD Inspector General’s report revealed United States’ ballistic missile defense systems (BMDS) fail to implements cyber security requirements. The U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General published a report this week that revealed that lack of adequate cybersecurity for the protection of the United States’ ballistic missile defense systems (BMDS).

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Facebook, Google and Twitter's Defenses Don't Appear to be Blocking Campaigns The battle against Russian disinformation is far from over. Two in-depth Senate reports have revealed that such campaigns continue despite efforts by social media companies to cleanse their platforms. Researchers say Facebook's Instagram may be the next battleground.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 19, 2018

No combination of settings can stop location data being used by advertisers, says report Facebook targets users with location-based adverts even if they block the company from accessing GPS on their phones, turn off location history in the app, hide their work location on their profile and never use the company’s “check in” feature, according to an investigation published this week.

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Elie

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This post looks at two-factor authentication adoption in the wild, highlights the disparity of support between the various categories of websites, and illuminates how fragmented the two factor ecosystem is in terms of standard adoption. Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. reuse of passwords found in data breache

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Security researcher SandboxEscaper released a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability. Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter. The security researcher SandboxEscaper is back and for the third time in a few months, released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft’s Windows OS.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Will the newly introduced Data Care Act prove to be a viable U.S. equivalent to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or is it destined to fail? An analysis leads this edition of the ISMG Security Report, which also features reports on robotic process automation and Mastercard's "fusion center.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Former West Point professor Greg Conti explains how military doctrines apply to cyber security, and what lessons enterprises can learn from that.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A few weeks ago, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a new report exploring the progress and prospects – or lack of – around quantum computing. Highlighting several technical and financial problems that need to be overcome before a functional quantum computer can be built, the report states it’s too early to even predict a timeline for the development of the technology.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Hack the Air Force 3.0 – The US DoD announced that more than 30 white hat hackers earned $130,000 for more than 120 vulnerabilities. The U.S. Defense Department, along with bug bounty platform HackerOne, presented the results of the third bug bounty program Hack the Air Force. The program started on October 19 and lasted more than four weeks, it finished on November 22.

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Data Breach Today

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Prosecutors Say They Were Part of APT10 Group and Had Government Ties The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed an indictment charging two Chinese nationals in connection with a cyber espionage campaign, alleging they acted in association with a government agency.

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OpenText Information Management

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We live in an age of unequaled access to data. By some estimates, the average company has between 150 and 400 terabytes of information stored. A large enterprise may have multiple petabytes, i.e. as much data as all the printed books in the world. The problem, though, is that many companies haven’t figured out how … The post AI for Insight: Three things we learned at the Forrester Data Strategy and Insights Forum appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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