IT Governance

AUGUST 1, 2019

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Dark Reading

AUGUST 2, 2019

OK, perhaps that's self-evident, so how come it far too often still takes an incident to trigger planning?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2019

The British parliament has been unable to agree the exit package from the European Union. With the possibility of a “no deal” departure looming, EU leaders have granted a six-month extension to Brexit day. But the uncertainty that still lingers with regards to Britain’s future, creates various opportunities which cyber criminals could try to exploit.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 30, 2019

Researchers Detail use of Machine Learning to Find Phishing URLs JPMorgan Chase researchers have published a new paper describing their efforts at developing a novel "early warning" system based on artificial intelligence algorithms that can detect malware, Trojans and other advanced persistent threats before the phishing campaign that targets the bank's employees even starts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

Federal prosecutors this week charged a Seattle woman with stealing data from more than 100 million credit applications made with Capital One Financial Corp. Incredibly, much of this breach played out publicly over several months on social media and other open online platforms. What follows is a closer look at the accused, and what this incident may mean for consumers and businesses.

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AIIM

JULY 30, 2019

Everyone has a process for onboarding new hires, contractors, consultants, etc. There's a checklist to follow: issue the badge, issue the keys to the office and the parking garage, and of course set up the Active Directory account, the email account, and all the other information management system set-up tasks. Similarly, when employees separate, there's a checklist there too: remove access to systems, get the laptop back, get the keys back, etc.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 30, 2019

Authorities Allege Paige A. Thompson Referenced Stolen Files on GitHub A Seattle-area woman has been charged with accessing tens of millions of Capital One credit card applications after allegedly taking advantage of a misconfigured firewall. The incident is likely to increase calls for better corporate caretaking of sensitive consumer data.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One. Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown “zero-day” flaw, or an “insider” attack in which the accused took advantage of access surreptitiously obtained from her former employer.

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TAB OnRecord

AUGUST 1, 2019

Photo courtesy of Brighterside Vertical Farms. Vertical farming is the practice of producing food indoors on vertically inclined surfaces. By controlling light, temperature, water and often times carbon dioxide, vertical farmers are able to grow vegetables (most often leafy greens including lettuce and kale) year-round in vertically stacked layers. As opposed to farming in a [.

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AIIM

JULY 29, 2019

AIIM strongly believes in an even 50/50 split between men and women in the workplace. As the roles of women in the workplace have changed dramatically over the past few decades, more and more women continue to take on roles in Information Management. To grow and support this exciting transition, AIIM launched the Women In Information Management (WIIM) program.

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Data Breach Today

AUGUST 1, 2019

Researchers Say Proxy Machine Can Bypass Transaction Limits Via Man-in-the-Middle Attack A newly discovered vulnerability in Visa's contactless payment cards could allow fraudsters to bypass payment limits of 30 British pounds ($37) at U.K. banks, according to researchers at Positive Technologies, who claim the vulnerability could be exploited in other countries as well.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2019

Marcus Hutchins , the “accidental hero” who helped arrest the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, will receive no jail time for his admitted role in authoring and selling malware that helped cyberthieves steal online bank account credentials from victims, a federal judge ruled Friday. Marcus Hutchins, just after he was revealed as the security expert who stopped the WannaCry worm.

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IT Governance

JULY 31, 2019

Remember after last month’s relatively serene cyber security scene we said this wasn’t the beginning of the GDPRevolution ? July was bound to be a bounce-back month, but we couldn’t have expected the frighteningly high total of 2,266,042,039 breached records. Granted, a big chunk of those come from a single incident – a mammoth breach involving a Chinese smart tech supplier – but as unimaginative football commentators say, ‘they all count’.

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AIIM

AUGUST 2, 2019

Steps to Make Your Paperless Office Dream a Reality. According to AIIM research , 75% of the organizations we surveyed view digital transformation as “important” or “very important” to their organization. But why? Most respondents pointed to operational savings as a result of a more digital and connected workflow. In other words: cut the paper, cut the inefficiencies.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 31, 2019

Experts Say Bank May Have Made Several Errors The cause of Capital One's breach is known. But experts say the incident still raises questions over why Capital One held onto personal data so long and if the bank was adequately monitoring administrator accounts.

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Personal data 202

Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

Watch out! Playing a video on Android devices could be a dangerous operation due to a critical CVE-2019-2107 RCE flaw in Android OS between version 7.0 and 9.0. Playing a specially-crafted video on devices with the Android’s native video player application could allow attackers to compromise them due to a dangerous critical remote code execution flaw.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 29, 2019

VxWorks is designed as a secure, "real-time" operating system for continuously functioning devices, like medical equipment, elevator controllers, or satellite modems.

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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.

AIIM

AUGUST 1, 2019

It is common to take great care in the selection and implementation of new technology. Interactions between hardware and software are cautiously investigated; operating systems and network connections are carefully tested, and uptime on critical systems is painstakingly protected. But one very influential factor that is often overlooked is the natural and emotional reactions of people when things change.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 31, 2019

Questions Remain Over How Hacker Breached Bank Files In what's likely the first of many investigations, the New York attorney general's office announced late Tuesday that it's launching a Capital One probe following the disclosure that over 100 million U.S. residents had their personal data exposed in a breach. Meanwhile, class action lawsuits are looming.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 31, 2019

Digital payments growth. According to 451 Research, digital payment channels are expected to grow from $2.8 trillion in 2018 to $5.8 trillion in 2022. That’s seven times the rate of in-store growth. Within digital payments, mobile payment transactions are expected to overtake e-commerce transactions in 2019 and represent 55% of transactions by 2022.

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WIRED Threat Level

JULY 29, 2019

It occupies a spot next to 'Black Mirror' and Big Brother in popular imagination, but China’s social credit project is far more complicated than a single, all-powerful numerical score.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2019

Expert Luca Bongiorni was looking for new targets to test WHID Elite’s Radio Hacking capabilities and found an interesting one: Electrocuting C**k Ring. Last week I was looking for new targets to test WHID Elite’s Radio Hacking capabilities and suddenly I found an interesting one: an Electrocuting C**k Ring. Yes, you read it correctly (What you cannot find on Amazon…).

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Manufacturing Security IT Access 111

Data Breach Today

AUGUST 2, 2019

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the root causes of the Capital One data breach. Also featured: breach remediation advice and compliance with New York's new third-party risk management requirements.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

Yesterday, I blogged about a Facebook plan to backdoor WhatsApp by adding client-side scanning and filtering. It seems that I was wrong, and there are no such plans. The only source for that post was a Forbes essay by Kalev Leetaru, which links to a previous Forbes essay by him, which links to a video presentation from a Facebook developers conference.

Privacy 102

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AIIM

JULY 30, 2019

Everyone has a process for onboarding new hires, contractors, consultants, etc. There's a checklist to follow: issue the badge, issue the keys to the office and the parking garage, and of course set up the Active Directory account, the email account, and all the other information management system set-up tasks. Similarly, when employees separate, there's a checklist there too: remove access to systems, get the laptop back, get the keys back, etc.

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Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

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Security Affairs

JULY 28, 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019. . A report published by cybersecurity firm Sixgill revealed that data for over 23 million payment card were offered for sale in the cybercrime underground. The report, titled “ Underground financial fraud report “, provides interesting details about the sale of stolen financial data in the Dark Web. .

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Data Breach Today

JULY 29, 2019

Europol Marks Three-Year Anniversary of Non-Profit Security Initiative Three years since its launch, the No More Ransom portal has assisted 200,000 ransomware victims and stopped $108 million from being paid in ransom, according to Europol - one of its founding partners.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 31, 2019

In this piece of research, attackers successfully attack a driverless car system -- Renault Captur's "Level 0" autopilot (Level 0 systems advise human drivers but do not directly operate cars) -- by following them with drones that project images of fake road signs in 100ms bursts. The time is too short for human perception, but long enough to fool the autopilot's sensors.

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