Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 31, 2019

We’ve all watched a horror film and said “why are you doing that?!” as the main characters walk aimlessly down to a basement filled with chain saws or shouted, “are you stupid?!!” as they decide that it’s a good idea to hitchhike alone in the dark. While these fictional horror stories are created simply to frighten the audience, real-world businesses are just as guilty of making naïve decisions when it comes to protecting sensitive data, but with very scary consequences that exist.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Practical quantum computing isn’t here yet. But a new survey by Digicert suggests that isn't stopping IT pros from prepping for a post-quantum reality.even if they aren’t exactly sure what that means. Related Stories Episode 163: Cyber Risk has a Dunning-Kruger Problem Also: Bad Password Habits start at Home Spotlight Podcast: Unpacking Black Hat Hacks with Digicert CTO Dan Timpson Lasers Eyed as Way Forward for Quantum Encryption of Data, Cryptocurrencies.

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erwin

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Happy Halloween! Do you know where your data is? What data you have? Who has had access to it? These can be frightening questions for an organization to answer. Add to the mix the potential for a data breach followed by non-compliance, reputational damage and financial penalties and a real horror story could unfold. In fact, we’ve seen some frightening ones play out already: Google’s record GDPR fine – France’s data privacy enforcement agency hit the tech giant with a $57 million penalty in earl

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com , Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed. A notice to customers at notice.web.com. “On October 16, 2019, Web.com determined that a third-party gained unauthorized access to a limited number of its computer systems in late August 2019, and as a result, account information may have been accessed,” Web.com said i

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If your daily screen time is split between a laptop browser and a smartphone, you may have noticed that a few browser web pages are beginning to match the slickness of their mobile apps. Related: The case for a microservices firewall Netflix and Airbnb are prime examples of companies moving to single-page applications, or SPAs , in order to make their browser webpages as responsive as their mobile apps.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 31, 2019

While digital information accuracy is important to all document preservation, some institutions benefit from it more than others. Intelligent Information Management (IIM) and paperless offices are sufficient for most businesses, but if the content is important for historical or informational purposes rather than a backup, the quick and easy options for digitization don’t always do the trick.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Roughly 21 million login credentials for Fortune 500 companies are available for sale, in plain text, in multiple forums and black market places in the dark web. More than 21 million login credentials belonging to Fortune 500 companies are available for sale in various places on the dark web. Experts at ImmuniWeb discovered that 21,040,296 login credentials for 500 Fortune companies are offered in plain text on multiple services in the dark web.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Notorious Cybercrime Marketplace Unveils Massive Data Trove, Researchers Warn The notorious Joker's Stash cybercrime marketplace, which specializes in selling stolen payment card data, has a new listing for 1.3 million credit and debit cards, almost all of which appear to have been issued by Indian banks, reports threat intelligence firm Group-IB.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Defining a New Era of Records Management. Records management has traditionally been significantly focused on compliance. Compliance is important; to be sure; the more highly regulated an organization is, the more important compliance is. Every organization has to comply with something, even if it’s just tax and personnel regulations. And it’s complicated – every year seems to bring more laws and regulations, not less.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Today, I’m excited to share that Ground Labs , a market leader in data discovery has entered a strategic partnership with Thales. Our joint objective is to empower the discovery and remediation of sensitive data. Unlike alternative solutions that can leave sensitive data exposed or compromised, the joint solution will enable organizations to automatically find and classify sensitive data across heterogeneous environments, understand the risks, and mitigate them through policy-based remediation…a

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Two hackers have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016 and attempted to extort money from the two companies. Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre are two hackers that have pleaded guilty to hacking Uber and LinkedIn’s Lynda.com service in 2016. The defendants have also attempted to extort money from the companies requesting them to pay ‘bug bounties’ to avoid publicly disclose the data breaches.

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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Ameya Talwalkar of Cequence on Stopping Large-Scale Attacks Bulletproof proxies have taken the concepts of anonymity and availability and embedded them in automated bot attacks. How can organizations identify and stop these attacks? Ameya Talwalkar of Cequence Security shares insights.

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Imperial Violet

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This is the third in a series of posts about running experiments on post-quantum confidentiality in TLS. The first detailed experiments that measured the estimated network overhead of three families of post-quantum key exchanges. The second detailed the choices behind a specific structured-lattice scheme. This one gives details of a full, end-to-end measurement of that scheme and a supersingular isogeny scheme, SIKE/p434.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The European Commission’s Medical Devices Coordination Group (MDCG) has published a much-anticipated guidance on the qualification and classification of software devices as medical devices (MDSW) 1 under the new Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulations (IVDR) (the Guidance, available here ). The Guidance seeks to provide clarification to medical software manufacturers with respect to (i) when software is considered a device (qualification) and (ii) what risk catego

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 26, 2019

asty PHP7 remote code execution bug exploited in the wild. Experts warn of a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. A remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. On October 22, the security expert Omar Ganiev announced via Twitter the availability of a “freshly patched” remote code execution vulnerability in PHP-FPM , the FastCGI Process Manager

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2019

More Than 200 Restaurants Affected Between July and September Fast food chain Krystal says it's investigating a payment card "security ncident" that affected as many as 228 of its restaurants across southeastern U.S. states. The incident, which involves one of the company's payment card processing systems, ran from July through last month.

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Information Management Resources

OCTOBER 31, 2019

While it's impossible to predict the next attack scheme and whether you'll be a target, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a perfect time to review the threat landscape and make sure your defenses are ready for the challenge.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Companies doing business in California or with Californians must be ready to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by January 1, 2020 – less than three months away. However, as businesses were putting the finishing touches on their compliance efforts, the California legislature amended the law and the Attorney General proposed a round of very significant regulatory requirements.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One of the two flaws in Chrome addressed by Google, CVE-2019-13720, was exploited in a campaign that experts attribute to Korea-linked threat actors. This week Google released security updates to address two high severity vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, one of which is a zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks in the wild to hijack computers.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Organization Refuses to Pay Ransom, Struggles to Bounce Back A ransomware attack on the operator of non-profit clinics that serve the uninsured in St. Louis led to the breach of information on 152,000 patients, clinicians and employees. The organization says it did not pay a ransom, and IT experts have not been able to unlock the data encrypted by hackers.

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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.

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Interesting story. I always recommend using a random number generator like Fortuna , even if you're using a hardware random source. It's just safer.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Internet and subscription-service businesses have changed how we access everything from news to shopping to music. So, is it any wonder that software has followed suit? In this blog, we’ll look at the differences between an SPSS Statistics Subscription and the traditional on-premises license that was the only way to purchase SPSS Statistics up until 2017.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Google released security updates to address two high severity flaws in Chrome, one of which is actively exploited in attacks in the wild to hijack computers. Google released security updates to address two high severity vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, one of which is a zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks in the wild to hijack computers.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Customers of Adobe and Italy's UniCredit Affected in Separate Incidents Two new security incidents demonstrate how easily millions of customer records can be exposed. Researchers found an unsecured database containing records of customers of Adobe Creative Cloud. And Italy's UniCredit bank announced a "data incident" that exposed a file containing customer records.

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DXC Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The gig economy is fundamentally redefining the nature of work and the workplace, and not just for the burgeoning ranks of freelancers, independent contractors and project workers. Today, close to one-third of the global workforce is forgoing traditional employment. They are placing a higher value on independence, flexibility and mobility. Some still collect a steady […].

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In an extraordinary essay , the former FBI general counsel Jim Baker makes the case for strong encryption over government-mandated backdoors: In the face of congressional inaction, and in light of the magnitude of the threat, it is time for governmental authorities­ -- including law enforcement­ -- to embrace encryption because it is one of the few mechanisms that the United States and its allies can use to more effectively protect themselves from existential cybersecurity threats, particularly

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

sPower , a US-based renewable energy provider, was the victim of a cyber attack that disconnected the US power grid operator from its power generation station. sPower , a Utah-based renewable energy provider was hit by a cyber attack, the incident took place in March. This is the first time that a cyber attack hit a renewable energy provider causing the temporary interruption of communications with several solar and wind installations. “These interruptions had no impact to generation and d

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