Dark Reading

JUNE 13, 2018

We deserve a seat at the executive table, and we'll be much better at our jobs once we take it.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 12, 2018

Exchanges Remain Prime Target; Easily Available Hacking Tools Aid Attackers As bitcoin continues its massive price fluctuations, a new report says criminals have continued their push to get extortion and ransom payments in more stable cryptocurrencies. But bitcoins remain a top target for hackers, who most often choose to directly target cryptocurrency exchanges.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

Did you know that every zebra has its own unique stripe pattern? Just like a human fingerprint, every zebra can be identified by their distinctive set of stripes. Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. But they’d also be working to supplement their stripe recognition and biometrics with behavioral analytics.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. But not Jessamyn West. The 49-year-old librarian from a tiny town in Vermont took Equifax to court.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2018

The most profound threat to corporate networks isn’t the latest, greatest malware. It’s carbon-based life forms. Humans tend to be gullible and impatient. With our affiliations and preferences put in play by search engines and social media, we’re perfect patsies for social engineering. And because we are slaves to convenience, we have a propensity for taking shortcuts when it comes to designing, configuring and using digital systems.

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Weissman's World

JUNE 12, 2018

A few weeks ago, I used this space to wonder how top-of-mind content migration is among organizations whose legacy solutions are more than 8 years old – which, it turns out, accounts for more than 75% of those in service. There was nothing scientific about this query, but the core responses received were illuminating nonetheless, […]. The post Legacy Content Migration: The Crowd Has it Wrong appeared first on Holly Group.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 10, 2018

Microsoft's Windows red team probes and prods the world's biggest operating system through the eyes of an adversary.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

Threat actors in the hunt for vulnerable targets often look first to ubiquitous platforms. It makes perfect sense for them to do so. Related article: Triaging open-source exposures. Finding a coding or design flaw on Windows OS can point the way to unauthorized to access to a treasure trove of company networks that use Windows. The same holds true for probing widely used open source protocols, as occurred when Heartbleed and Shellshock came to light.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2018

First, Attackers Distracted Bank, Using Buhtrap Malware to Cause Mayhem Banco de Chile has become the latest victim of a SWIFT-related malware incident. Attackers first corrupted thousands of PCs' master boot records as a distraction. Then they used fraudulent SWIFT messages to steal $10 million.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 11, 2018

Case filed in a Mississippi court alleges data mined in UK was illegally sent abroad by two of Banks’s companies A British public interest group has filed a lawsuit in a Mississippi court against two companies controlled by Arron Banks, the pro-Brexit donor, following allegations that the firms may have violated UK data protection rules in an attempt to sway the 2016 vote to leave the EU.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 14, 2018

Russia expects as many as 2 million visitors during the 2018 World Cup, most of whom should take extra precautions against the country's many cyber risks.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 14, 2018

The variety of laws and regulations governing how organizations manage and share sensitive information can look like a bowl of alphabet soup: HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, PCI and GLBA. A multinational conglomerate, government contractor, or public university must comply with ten or more, which makes demonstrating regulatory compliance seem like a daunting, even impossible, undertaking.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 13, 2018

1.2 Million Nonfinancial Records Also at Risk, Electronics Giant Warns The U.K.'s Dixons Carphone is investigating a data breach that resulted in the suspected exposure of 5.9 million payment cards and nonfinancial information for 1.2 million customers. The incident could become the first U.K. breach to fall under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 12, 2018

Consumer electronics retailer apologises and says there is currently no evidence of fraud Dixons Carphone has revealed a major breach of data involving unauthorised access to 5.9 million customers cards and 1.2 million personal records. The consumer electronics retailer said it had detected an attempt to compromise the cards in a processing system at Currys PC World and Dixons Travel, but said there was no evidence of any fraud as a result of the incident.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 15, 2018

Roger Clark allegedly served as Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road consigliere. Friday, the feds announced his extradition from Thailand.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 12, 2018

Gartner analyst lists 10 security projects CISOs should consider this year - and 10 they should have already done.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2018

'Operation Wire Wire' a Six-Month, Worldwide Law Enforcement Operation A six-month coordinated global law enforcement effort to crack down on business email compromise schemes has resulted in 74 arrests, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 12, 2018

ICO says firm ‘failed to prevent’ 2014 Russia-sponsored hack after 500m accounts compromised Yahoo has been fined £250,000 over a hack from 2014 that affected more than 515,000 UK email accounts co-branded with Sky, the Information Commissioner’s Office has announced. The personal data of 500m user accounts worldwide was compromised during a state-sponsored cyber attack in 2014, which was only revealed in 2016.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 14, 2018

As recent events have shown, using an encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal is no privacy panacea.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2018

For many years, I have said that complexity is the worst enemy of security. At CyCon earlier this month, Thomas Dullien gave an excellent talk on the subject with far more detail than I've ever provided. Video. Slides.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 14, 2018

Stakeholders Spotlight a Long List of Problems in Feedback to House Committee A House committee that asked the healthcare sector for feedback on how to improve the cybersecurity of legacy medical devices has received some very strong opinions on the subject. Find out what commenters had to say.

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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.

Dark Reading

JUNE 14, 2018

This often overlooked open source tool uses deep packet inspection to transform network traffic into exceptionally useful, real-time data for security operations.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 14, 2018

Jeff Flake and Chris Coons sent Jeff Bezos a letter Thursday with nearly 30 questions about how the company handles user data and privacy.

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JKevinParker

JUNE 9, 2018

The Information Governance Conference , or InfoGovCon, is a fantastic event for information professionals run by my friends at the Information Coalition. This year's event, held September 25-28 in Providence, will mark InfoGovCon's 5th year. I spoke the last 2 years, and I won the 2016 Information Governance Expert of the Year award. At #InfoGov18, I am excited to be a keynote speaker, kicking off the very first Leadership Development Summit.

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Data Breach Today

JUNE 11, 2018

$50 Million Believed Stolen as Exchange Attacks Continue South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinrail says hackers stole 30 percent of all of the cryptocurrency tokens it was storing, but many have been successfully frozen or recalled. Security experts say cryptocurrency exchanges remain poorly secured, so they're popular targets for hackers.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 15, 2018

Very few organizations have fully incorporated all relevant risks and threats into their current digital strategy, research finds.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 9, 2018

Opinion: The NATO Secretary General explains how the alliance manages the dark side of the web.

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IT Governance

JUNE 14, 2018

Little more than three years since its previous security incident, electronics retailer Dixons Carphone has admitted to a data breach compromising 5.9 million customer cards and 1.2 million personal records – making it the biggest online data breach in UK history. In a statement released on Wednesday, the retail giant revealed it had identified the colossal breach while it was reviewing its systems and data.

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