Data Breach Today
MARCH 13, 2018
While the director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights says HIPAA enforcement remains a top priority for the agency, obtaining enough resources to carry out its mission is an ongoing battle, says former OCR official Deven McGraw.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 16, 2018
The Colombian-American hacker became famous in the early 2000s for breaking into the systems at organizations like *The New York Times*, and later for his role in Chelsea Manning's arrest.
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IT Governance
MARCH 16, 2018
Phishing has been used as a way for criminal hackers to gain sensitive information since the mid-1990s. It uses deceptive emails and websites to trick victims into clicking malicious links, downloading attachments or sending sensitive information. Phishing emails can impersonate well-known brands or even people you know, such as colleagues. The goal is to trick the recipient into believing that the message is important and convince them to click a malicious link/attachment or provide sensitive d
Elie
MARCH 10, 2018
This series of posts recounts how, in November 2016, we hunted for and took down Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. What makes Gooligan special is its weaponization of OAuth tokens, something that was never observed in mainstream crimeware before. At its peak, Gooligan had hijacked over 1M OAuth tokens in an attempt to perform fraudulent Play store installs and reviews.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 14, 2018
Grid Regulator Says Company Left Critical Data Exposed for 70 Days A U.S. power company, unnamed by regulators, has been fined a record $2.7 million for violating energy sector cybersecurity regulations after sensitive data - including cryptographic information for usernames and passwords - was exposed online for 70 days.
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AIIM
MARCH 13, 2018
It’s bad enough that those of us in the technology space use three letter acronyms as if we’re being paid per usage. So here's a quick definition of terms for those mystified by the title of this post. If you are not conversant in Dr. Doolittle (even the Eddie Murphy version), Pushmi-Pullyu is a "gazelle-unicorn cross that has two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body.".
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
MARCH 13, 2018
Data encryption has been around almost since the age of computers. In truth, anyone with minimal experience can write a simple script that uses default services built into virtually every OS to encrypt data. In Linux, for instance, it takes four openSSL commands to generate an encryption key and encrypt data. However, simply encrypting data is not a sufficient control when storing data in the cloud.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 13, 2018
Plaintiffs Claim Spam and Card Fraud Resulted From Breach of 3 Billion Accounts A federal judge has largely rejected a motion by Verizon to dismiss a class-action suit filed by victims of three data breaches that compromised Yahoo, which is now part of Verizon. The Yahoo breaches appeared to have compromised nearly every Yahoo user's personal details at least once.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 13, 2018
A newly passed bill in the Florida Legislature would bring unprecedented levels of transparency to the criminal justice system.
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Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 16, 2018
March 16, 2018 is the 25th anniversary of the Db2 relational database product on Linux UNIX and Windows. Over the past 25 years, this team has built the Db2 brand for the distributed product, complementing IBM’s Db2 mainframe offering and creating a market force.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 14, 2018
One of the effects of GDPR -- the new EU General Data Protection Regulation -- is that we're all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here's a good visualization of that data. Is 600 companies unusual? Is it more than average?
Data Breach Today
MARCH 12, 2018
Congress Has Allocated $120 Million Since 2016 to Combat Foreign Campaigns To the surprise of many, $120 million allocated by Congress since late 2016 to help the State Department combat foreign governments' U.S.-focused propaganda and disinformation campaigns hasn't been spent. Meanwhile, midterm U.S. elections are fast approaching.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 16, 2018
YouTube and other tech giants have repeatedly turned to Wikipedia to help solve some of their biggest problems—often without giving back.
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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?
AIIM
MARCH 12, 2018
Over 100 eBooks, Guest articles, and Tip Sheets from the past year or so -- 107 of them to be exact. Enjoy. E-books. A winning recipe: SaaS + Cloud Content Management + IaaS. Modern problems require modern solutions: Meeting the challenge of Big Content. 2017: A Digitally “Transformative” Year. Digital Preservation – Is Your Current Approach to Managing Long-Term Digital Information Failing the Business?
TAB OnRecord
MARCH 15, 2018
Our most popular resources this month cover cost savings, risk management and RIM training. Learn how to digitize paper documents, how to take the risk out of records retention, and how to decide if custom folders are right for your organization. Five keys to a successful digital document conversion Planning to digitize your files? [.] Read More. The post Reader favorites March 2018: Our most popular RIM resources appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2018
Malware, Mailing Errors and More Reported on the 'Wall of Shame' Large breaches involving hackers continue to plague the healthcare sector this year, but incidents involving lower-tech issues, including mailing errors, also are persisting.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 15, 2018
From election meddling to NotPetya to grid hacking, Russia's digital provocations are no longer being ignored.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 14, 2018
Data protection watchdog forces firm to sign an undertaking declaring it will not share user data with parent company before GDPR The UK’s data protection watchdog has concluded that WhatsApp’s sharing of user data with its parent company Facebook would have been illegal. The messaging app was forced to pause sharing of personal data with Facebook in November 2016, after the Information Commissioner’s Office said it had cause for concern.
AIIM
MARCH 15, 2018
The movement to the cloud is past the tipping point. Cloud solutions are no longer a question of “should we?” but rather “when?” Organizations may not be ready to go 100% to the cloud, but for nearly 80% of organizations, cloud is a critical part of their strategy. Consider this data from a Fall 2017 AIIM survey of 182 end user organizations: How do you view your delivery/deployment methods for content management over the next 2 years?
Data Breach Today
MARCH 15, 2018
If you browsed the latest security headlines, you'd probably think the majority of data breaches were related to hackers, political activists, malware or phishing. While the latter two hint at it, the truth is that nearly half of all data breaches can be traced back to insiders in some capacity.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 12, 2018
While some major distributed-denial-of-service attacks have been thwarted this month, the threat remains as critical as ever.
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.
Elie
MARCH 10, 2018
This series of posts recounts how, in November 2016, we hunted for and took down Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. What makes Gooligan special is its weaponization of OAuth tokens, something that was never observed in mainstream crimeware before. At its peak, Gooligan had hijacked over 1M OAuth tokens in an attempt to perform fraudulent Play store installs and reviews.
Dark Reading
MARCH 16, 2018
Cybercrime funds make up 8-10% of all illegal profits laundered and amount to $80-200 billion each year.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 14, 2018
Was AMD Ambushed? A set of vulnerabilities in AMD chipsets that gives attackers enduring persistence on machines appears to be legitimate. But experts are questioning the motivations of the Israeli security company that found the flaws, contending it ambushed AMD to maximize attention.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 13, 2018
As an Israeli security firm outlines real flaws in AMD's chips, the security community questions its motivations.
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 15, 2018
Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies might change things. You can divide Internet security tasks into two sets: what humans do well and what computers do well.
IT Governance
MARCH 15, 2018
The first few steps of your EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance project can be the most confusing. Where to start, who should be involved and how to meet all your obligations are just a few of the questions you will undoubtedly ask, and the entire process can seem incredibly daunting. What is the GDPR and does your organisation need to comply?
Data Breach Today
MARCH 12, 2018
Researchers: To Foil Attribution, Attackers Planted Code Previously Tied to Lazarus Group Whoever unleashed malware built to disrupt last month's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, designed it to look like it had been executed by a group of hackers tied to North Korea. But researchers at the security firm Kaspersky Lab say any such attribution would be false.
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