Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Regulator Demands More Risk Disclosure, Better Insider Trading Policies The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released revised guidance "to assist public companies in preparing disclosures about cybersecurity risks and incidents." It includes new prohibitions on trading in corporate shares after a breach has been discovered but before investors have been notified.
Weissman's World
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Sorry, kids, but there just aren’t any more short-cuts to good information governance than there are in serious mountaineering. The best I can tell you is to leverage the same sort of disciplined project management skills in infogov as you would in any other initiative you engage in. The post Perspective Check: InfoGov Short Cuts appeared first on Holly Group.
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AIIM
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
It is time to think about Digital Preservation differently — as a dedicated capability that keeps long-term information alive and usable and trusted and easily found. The time to act is now. AIIM believes that digital preservation needs to be viewed through the prism of a set of Intelligent Information Management capabilities that are integral to delivering upon the Digital Transformation challenge of understanding, anticipating, and redefining internal and external customer experiences.
Troy Hunt
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Last August, I launched a little feature within Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) I called Pwned Passwords. This was a list of 320 million passwords from a range of different data breaches which organisations could use to better protect their own systems. How? NIST explains : When processing requests to establish and change memorized secrets, verifiers SHALL compare the prospective secrets against a list that contains values known to be commonly-used, expected, or compromised.
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Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Microsoft Taps Machine Learning to Better Combat Fileless Malware Microsoft has been working to reduce the ability of attackers who use the PowerShell scripting language to "live off the land" in enterprise networks, in part via machine learning. But IT administrators should also have these three essential malicious PowerShell script defenses in place.
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AIIM
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Organizations must focus strategically on how to manage digital content and understand that: 1) end-users are consuming technology differently; 2) consumer devices are being increasingly used as “on-ramps” to digital workflows; and 3) how you secure the scan and capture process becomes increasingly important. Let’s explore how these concepts relate to two specific industries – healthcare and retail. 1 -- Healthcare at the practice level illustrates the challenges of matching small business IT re
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Many of you are losing sleep over the state of your content. You know its not adequately managed and governed. You know users hoard it unsecured on their desktops, in cloud repositories, in file shares. They circumvent the established protocols and established systems you’ve put in place. With GDPR looming and a parade of corporate … The post Losing sleep over governance?
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Cost of Troll Farm: $15 Million. Impact: Priceless Want to meddle with a democracy? Just use its social media outlets against it to amplify already existing social divisions. That's the quick take on the indictment recently unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that accuses Russians of running an "active measures" campaign against the United States.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
For over a decade, US Customs and Border Patrol has been unable to verify the cryptographic signatures on e-Passports, because they never installed the right software.
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AIIM
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
There’s a lot going on in the content management space right now. The "scale" of information challenges is getting bigger by the day -- bigger files, more of them, in wildly varying formats and in demand across more and more applications and processes. Our State of the Industry survey this year is focused on better understanding these information management challenges.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Sixty-four percent of the more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, whom we surveyed for the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR), believe artificial intelligence (AI) “increases data security by recognizing and alerting on attacks,” while 43% believe AI “results in increased threats due to use as a hacking tool.”. They’re both right.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Prosecutors Cry 'Deterrence' to Justify Lengthy Sentences. Who's Deterred? Is U.S. computer crime justice draconian? That's one obvious question following England's Court of Appeal ruling that suspected hacker Lauri Love would not be extradited to the United States, in part, because they said the U.S. justice system could not be trusted to treat Love humanely.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has taken on the leadership of the non-profit behind that popular encryption app—and given it a serious injection of cash.
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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
A recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek article entitled “ The Tech Guy Building Wearables for America’s Olympians ” profiles Mounir Zok, the man in charge of the U.S. Olympic Committee’s technology and innovation. The article discusses how Mr. Zok is bringing a Silicon Valley data scientist mentality to help America’s Olympic athletes more effectively leverage data and analytics to win Olympic medals.
The Guardian Data Protection
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
The government’s growing store of personal details allows automatic adjudication on crucial aspects of our lives Is your data safe? The answer must be no if this government manages to push through its data protection bill without important amendments. The Tory claim that the bill is necessary for protecting our data is false. Related: The DWP – a bureaucracy of outstanding brutality | Diane Taylor Related: The data protection bill is yet another legal threat to UK press freedom Continue reading.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 19, 2018
Plaintiffs Seek Damages Over Security Vulnerabilities, Alleged Insider Trading Intel faces 32 lawsuits filed over the trio of flaws in its CPUs known as Meltdown and Spectre, seeking damages for the security vulnerabilities as well as alleged insider trading. The flaws have also been cited in lawsuits against chipmakers AMD and ARM, as well as against Apple.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The cast of characters revealed in the special counsel's epic indictment is drawn from the overlapping circles of oligarchs, spooks, and mob figures.
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.
IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Machine learning has joined artificial intelligence (AI) as the hottest technology topics of 2018. We asked our expert influencers to share their thoughts on the state of the industry: where it's going, and how and why companies should be adopting machine learning and AI.
Dark Reading
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
With threats featuring everything from nation-states to sleep states, the sessions taking place from March 20-23 in Singapore are relevant to security experts around the world.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
After PNB Incident, Security Practitioners Discuss Technologies to Mitigate Risks Now that it's been confirmed that an insider at Punjab National Bank paved the way for $1.8 billion in fraudulent transactions, the Reserve Bank of India is reiterating the need to strengthen security measures tied to SWIFT interbank transactions, and security experts are offering risk mitigation advice.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Facebook is locking users out of their accounts until they download antivirus software that sometimes doesn't even work on their computers.
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IBM Big Data Hub
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
Machine learning is being used at the heart of next- generation methods for self-driving cars, facial recognition, fraud detection and much more. At IBM, we’re applying machine learning methods to SQL processing so databases can literally learn from experience.
OpenText Information Management
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
We are just days away now from the start of a busy spring for Salesforce, its customer and partners. Their World Tour event hits the road in Sydney on March 6th and OpenText will be there amongst the crowds. Meet OpenText, myself and our team at these World Tour stops: Sydney – March 6th, 2018 … The post Visit OpenText at the Salesforce World Tour this spring appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Experts Say New Functionality Ignores Wider Privacy and Security Concerns Google has begun activating a new feature in Chrome that will block 12 types of intrusive advertisements. But some security experts say the online advertising industry needs to solve the malware and privacy problems that have caused users to turn to ad-blocking and anti-tracking tools.
WIRED Threat Level
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Security researcher at FireEye break down the arsenal of APT37, a North Korean hacker team coming into focus as a rising threat.
Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL
Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.
Hunton Privacy
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
On February 21, 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published long-awaited cybersecurity interpretive guidance (the “Guidance”). The Guidance marks the first time that the five SEC commissioners, as opposed to agency staff, have provided guidance to U.S. public companies with regard to their cybersecurity disclosure and compliance obligations.
IT Governance
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Cyber attacks and data breaches are on the rise, and it’s easy to believe they’re all caused by criminal hackers out for financial gain. However, this isn’t the case. Last quarter, it was found that four of the five leading causes of data breaches are because of human or process error. The failure of staff to follow workplace security regulations, as well as criminal hackers finding more ways to exploit members of staff, is becoming an increasing problem.
Data Breach Today
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Case Now Heads Back to Lower Court for Potential Trial The Supreme Court has declined to review the data breach case involving CareFirst, and so now the class action lawsuit against the health insurer is headed back to a Washington federal trial court. The breach case would have been the first of its kind considered by the nation's highest court.
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