IT Governance
MAY 28, 2019
Last week, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) turned one year old. Whether the panic and stress that accompanied the compliance deadline feels like a distant memory or still gives you nightmares, your data protection and privacy posture is something that shouldn’t be in your rear-view mirror. GDPR compliance is an ongoing process and should be embedded by design in your data protection practices.
Dark Reading
MAY 31, 2019
Follow these best practices to strengthen endpoint management strategies and protect company data.
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IG Guru
MAY 28, 2019
By T.J. StilesMay 7 via the Washington Post T.J. Stiles received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History, the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is a member of the governing boards of the Society of American Historians and the Organization of American Historians. America is losing its memory. […].
Security Affairs
MAY 31, 2019
The Russian army seems to be in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Debian-based Linux distribution Astra Linux. Cyber security seems to subvert the globalization concept, governments are working to develop their own technology fearing possible espionage and sabotage activities of foreign states. The Russian military is in the process of replacing the Windows system with the Linux distribution Astra Linux.
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Krebs on Security
MAY 29, 2019
Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated infractions. As this was the first time I’d ever heard of an organization actually doing this, I asked some phishing experts what they thought (spoiler alert: they’re not fans of this partic
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Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2019
New Guidance Clarifies BA's Responsibility to Safeguard PHI Federal regulators have issued new guidance clarifying when a business associate can be held directly liable for compliance with the HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification rules. Why is there still so much confusion?
Security Affairs
MAY 30, 2019
Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt. Recent research by the cybersecurity experts at VPNpro shows that the popular mobile VPN developer Innovative Connecting is actually a Chinese company that secretly owns 10 VPN products with a total of 86 million installs under its belt.
Krebs on Security
MAY 31, 2019
New York regulators are investigating a weakness that exposed 885 million mortgage records at First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] as the first test of the state’s strict new cybersecurity regulation. That measure, which went into effect in March 2019 and is considered among the toughest in the nation, requires financial companies to regularly audit and report on how they protect sensitive data, and provides for fines in cases where violations were reckless or willful.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 27, 2019
Google knows more about you than you might think. Here's how to keep it from knowing your location, web browsing, and more.
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When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2019
Security Researcher Warns That Flaw Could Lead to Worm-Like Exploit A security researcher warns that nearly 1 million devices running older versions of Microsoft Windows remain vulnerable to a recently discovered flaw in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol service that could enable attackers to use a worm-like exploit to take over unpatched machines.
Security Affairs
MAY 29, 2019
The popular white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy has announced the discovery of a code execution vulnerability in Microsoft’s Notepad text editor. The Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy announced the discovery of a code execution flaw in Microsoft’s Notepad text editor. Am I the first person to pop a shell in notepad? … believe it or not, It's a real bug!
Krebs on Security
MAY 30, 2019
Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software. In March 2019, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) — Canada’s equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), executed a search warrant in tandem with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at the home of a Toronto softwa
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 25, 2019
You don't have to get your hands dirty to do the most important spring cleaning of the year.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 31, 2019
Infections Started in 2015 and Ran Through April Checkers Drive-In Restaurants says 102 of its 900 U.S. locations were hit with point-of-sale malware, with one California restaurant infected over a more than two-year period starting in December 2015. Checkers is the latest victim in a string of attacks against retailers, restaurants and hotel chains.
Security Affairs
MAY 29, 2019
Public Wi-Fi is easily accessible by everyone, as much as free surfing sounds cool, it is risky as well. Let’s see how your data can be hacked easily. In the contemporary world of networking, Wi-Fi has become a vital commodity. Wi-Fi are now installed in each and every place regardless of the size of the place; from international airports to small kiosks, you can find an internet connection everywhere.
AIIM
MAY 30, 2019
Before engaging in any Enterprise Content Management (ECM) initiative in your organization, it is crucial to have a list of current ECM systems or tools and make the proper gap analysis to define the desired state, having always in mind to deliver the right value proposition to the business. Every content has the same life cycle in an organization of any industry, with the following five phases: One of the key items to gather during the requirements analysis of any Enterprise Content Management
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 31, 2019
At this rate, it will take years to fix a critical vulnerability that remains in over 900,000 Windows machines. A worm will arrive much sooner.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 29, 2019
After Privacy Law Went Into Full Effect, Data Security Complaints Doubled One year after Europe's tough new GDPR privacy law went into full effect last May, authorities in Britain have seen the number of annual data breach notifications more than quadruple. Meanwhile, the number of data protection complaints filed by Europeans has doubled.
Security Affairs
MAY 25, 2019
Security experts at Sophos have detected a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases with the intent of delivering the GandCrab ransomware. Sophos researchers have observed a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases, threat actors aim at delivering the GandCrab ransomware. This is the first time the company sees hackers targeting Windows servers running instances MySQL databases to infect them with ransomware.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 28, 2019
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 29, 2019
Special counsel Robert Mueller is making his first public remarks since the release of his report in April.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 31, 2019
Security Experts Warn Exploits Are Coming Microsoft has taken the unusual step of issuing a second warning about BlueKeep, a vulnerability that, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to use a worm-like exploit to take over devices running older Windows operating systems. Security researchers warn that exploits are coming.
Security Affairs
MAY 27, 2019
GreyNoise experts detected scans for systems vulnerable to the BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) vulnerability from exclusively Tor exit nodes. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address nearly 80 vulnerabilities, including an RDS vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep that can be exploited to carry out WannaCry -like attack. The issue is a remote code execution flaw in Remote Desktop Services (RDS) that it can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker by connecting to the targeted system via the RDP
IT Governance
MAY 30, 2019
The cyber security story for May 2019 is much the same as it was last month, with one mammoth breach raising the monthly total. The offender this time is the First American Financial Corp. , which breached sixteen years’ worth of insurance data. That incident accounted for more than 60% of all of May’s breached records. In total, at least 1,389,463,242 records were compromised.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 28, 2019
Outside researchers tipped Facebook off that a social media network was pushing Iranian interests, posing as journalists, and even impersonating politicians.
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Data Breach Today
MAY 28, 2019
Debates Touch on NSA Exploit-Hoarding, City's Patch-Speed Failures, Windows Code Quality Reports that the city of Baltimore was attacked using a vulnerability in Windows originally stockpiled by the National Security Agency has triggered a blame game. Cybersecurity watchers are debating attacker culpability, patch management prowess and zero-day stockpiling.
Security Affairs
MAY 31, 2019
Security experts at Intezer have discovered a new Linux malware tracked as ‘HiddenWasp’ that borrows from Mirai, Azazel malicious codes. HiddenWasp is a new sophisticated Linux malware still undetected by the majority of anti-virus solutions. According to the experts at Intezer, the malware was involved in targeted attacks. . “Unlike common Linux malware, HiddenWasp is not focused on crypto-mining or DDoS activity.
erwin
MAY 31, 2019
It’s time to consider data-driven enterprise architecture. The traditional approach to enterprise architecture – the analysis, design, planning and implementation of IT capabilities for the successful execution of enterprise strategy – seems to be missing something … data. I’m not saying that enterprise architects only worry about business structure and high-level processes without regard for business needs, information requirements, data processes, and technology changes necessary to exec
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