Data Breach Today
MARCH 20, 2018
Hacker May Have Also Obtained Other Customer Data in Breach, Orbitz Warns Expedia's Orbitz travel fare search engine says it may have suffered a breach that resulted in 880,000 payment cards being compromised, along with other customer data, over a two-year period. Orbitz says the apparent breach involved a legacy system no longer connected to its site.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 21, 2018
Despite the repeated privacy lapses, Facebook offers a fairly robust set of tools to control who knows what about you.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And it’s only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to you, but you are probably a “dumb f**k”. This is according to statements by a young Mark Zuckerberg anyway. Back in 2004, when a 19-year-old Zuckerberg had just started building Facebook, he sent his Harvard friends a series of instant messages in which he marvelled at the fact t
Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
MARCH 19, 2018
The “hot hand,” a metaphor applied frequently to the game of basketball, is the idea that a basketball shooter, after making several consecutive shots, will experience a higher than normal success rate on his or her ensuing shots. I discussed the “hot hand” concept, and its flaw, at a TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) conference many years ago. Figure 1: “The Hot Hand in Basketball” by Thomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone and Amos Tversky.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 19, 2018
Political Data-Mining Firm Reportedly Obtained 50 Million Users' Private Details Facebook is under fire after reports suggested data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica obtained private information for 50 million Facebook users. The social network contends that it didn't suffer a "breach," as the information was legally obtained but subsequently misused.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that exploited the same terms as the firm that collected data and passed it on to Cambridge Analytica, according to a new whistleblower.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 22, 2018
This blog was originally published on Business Reporter. To view the article, please click here. To see where the future of payments lies, we should look to its past. The concept of payment, at its most fundamental, is simply about people agreeing to exchange goods or services. A fair trade of one thing for another. Go back a few thousand years and the invention of money meant that food could be effectively turned into metal and stored for as long as needed, before being turned back into food ag
Data Breach Today
MARCH 22, 2018
Banner Health Follows Nuance, Merck in Reporting Details About the Impact Recent financial reports from three healthcare sector organizations that suffered cyberattacks demonstrate how costly data breaches can be for not-for-profit healthcare providers and for-profit companies alike.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 19, 2018
In undercover videos filmed by Britain’s Channel 4 news, Cambridge Analytica executives appear to offer up various unsavory tactics to influence campaigns.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 20, 2018
Information commissioner demands access to data and orders Facebook to halt audit The information commissioner is seeking an urgent court warrant to enter the London headquarters of the elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica after the firm was caught in an undercover sting boasting about entrapping politicians , using honey traps and running fake news campaigns.
Collaboration 2.0
MARCH 18, 2018
The word 'Digital' is a dangerously generic buzzword that few understand or agree on.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 23, 2018
Damage Assessment Is Underway, But Backups Are in Place, Officials Say Ransomware has struck the city of Atlanta and frozen internal and customer-facing applications, hampering residents from paying bills or accessing court information. But the city says it has working backups and expects to pay employees on time.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 19, 2018
You give Facebook all of your data in exchange for using their service—an exchange that seems increasingly out of whack.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 18, 2018
From its stance on extremist content, to its vast caches of user data, Facebook is a corporation whose power must, finally, be reined in The revelation that Cambridge Analytica exploited the data of 50 million Facebook profiles to target American voters is indeed frightening. But Cambridge Analytica shouldn’t act as a diversion from the real bad guy in this story: Facebook.
TAB OnRecord
MARCH 22, 2018
Many RIM professionals that we speak with struggle to obtain budget and attention within the organization. Why? One of the reasons is that RIM has traditionally been seen as a cost center: an expense to be minimized, rather than a value-add or investment. When this mindset prevails among top executives, RIM professionals can struggle to [.] Read More.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 21, 2018
Al Pascual of Javelin Strategy and Research discusses a new report that shows that while crypto wallets may be considered to be at the sharp end of payments innovation, the security vulnerabilities they face are much the same as those that already exist in digital banking and payments.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 23, 2018
On Friday, after months of silence, Tumblr named 84 accounts it says were devoted to spreading propaganda and disinformation on the platform.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 18, 2018
Call for Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to testify before parliamentary committee The head of the parliamentary committee investigating fake news has accused Cambridge Analytica and Facebook of misleading MPs in testimony, after the Observer revealed details of a vast data breach affecting tens of millions of people. After a whistleblower detailed the harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles for Cambridge Analytica, Damian Collins, the chair of the House of Commons culture, media and
AIIM
MARCH 22, 2018
I was reflecting a bit on some of the themes raised by Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, during her opening keynote at Think 2018 and their alignment with some of the concepts we at AIIM have been raising over the past year under the banner of Intelligent Information Management. I suppose it may seem a bit cheeky as the “Chief Evangelist of AIIM” to be commenting upon the comments of the “Chief Executive” of IBM, so for those who want to hear her thoughts without the benefit of my interpretation, the r
Data Breach Today
MARCH 22, 2018
Multivector distributed denial-of-service attacks are having a bigger impact than simple volumetric attacks, says Brian McCann, president of Netscout's security business unit, who analyzes the latest trends in an in-depth interview.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 20, 2018
Alexander Nix has been suspended until further notice and replaced by Cambridge's head of data, Alexander Tayler.
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.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 19, 2018
Companies use our personal information to enrich themselves. Regulation of this practice is long overdue The Observer reported on Saturday that Cambridge Analytica acquired 50 million Facebook profiles from a researcher in 2014. This appears to have been among the most consequential data breaches in history, with an impact that may rival the breach of financial records from Equifax.
National Archives Records Express
MARCH 19, 2018
I am pleased to announce the publication of the Criteria for Successfully Managing Permanent Electronic Records. The guidance supports the Managing Government Records Directive (M-12-18), which states “By December 31, 2019, all permanent electronic records in Federal agencies will be managed electronically to the fullest extent possible for eventual transfer and accessioning by NARA in an electronic format.”.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 19, 2018
Alert: Hackers Can Potentially Exploit Hardcoded and Default Credentials A recent alert from the Department of Homeland Security warning of vulnerabilities in certain medical imaging products from GE Healthcare is a reminder to other medical device makers and healthcare entities about the risks posed by hardcoded and default credentials.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 23, 2018
With $380 million in the spending bill earmarked for securing digital elections, the time for talk is over.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 22, 2018
Non-profit organisation behind Firefox browser announces move after Cambridge Analytica revelations Mozilla, which makes the popular Firefox web browser, has become the first major organisation to stop advertising on Facebook amid the controversy over the Cambridge Analytica files. Related: Mark Zuckerberg apologises for Facebook's 'mistakes' over Cambridge Analytica Continue reading.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 21, 2018
I was fortunate to be one of the presenters at SecureWorld’s recent web conference on “ Deploying Containers in the Age of GDPR.” I suggest you check it out. Here is a taste of what we discussed. A real-time poll of webinar participants asked how ready they think their organizations are for the GDPR deadline of May 25, 2018. It indicated 40% “are doing everything they know about and should be pretty much there.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 22, 2018
Bill Seeks $380 Million for States, But DHS Says Most Lack Security Clearances States will not have the full range of much-needed cybersecurity practices and equipment in place for this year's U.S. midterm elections. But efforts underway might deliver many much-needed improvements in time for the 2020 elections, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tells a Senate committee.
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