IT Governance
MAY 18, 2018
With cyber attacks one of the top threats to organisations , it’s crucial to have the right measures in place to protect yourself from an attack. However, cyber threats are also becoming more sophisticated and persistent, and protection isn’t always enough. Organisations should have a plan in place to respond to an attack, enabling them to contain it and ultimately control the costs and exposure.
Schneier on Security
MAY 17, 2018
The White House has eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea.
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AIIM
MAY 17, 2018
These days it feels almost impossible to have a conversation with anyone involved in the world of Information Management without bringing up machine learning and artificial intelligence. Everyone is talking about it, everyone has an opinion, everyone claims to be doing it — or at least thinking about doing it. AI is part of the popular zeitgeist, entering our lives in the form of autonomous vehicles on our roads, Alexa in our homes, and a burgeoning AI arms race between rival world powers.
OpenText Information Management
MAY 18, 2018
This time last year, when I managed customer support and consulting for an ECM reseller, there was a high level of tension within our school board clients. Close to the end of the school year, records managers start digging through the various physical and digital records stores in preparation for next year. During this time … The post ‘Tis the season of purge and replace for records managers appeared first on OpenText Blogs.
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WIRED Threat Level
MAY 15, 2018
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election. But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 18, 2018
Health service joins UK firms in rushing to comply with new data protection rules The National Health Service is texting patients to warn they could lose alerts about hospital and doctor appointments, joining the deluge of more than 1bn “GDPR” messages currently hitting personal inboxes to meet an EU deadline this week. GDPR, which stands for General Data Protection Regulation , has been described as the biggest overhaul of online privacy since the birth of the internet, and comes into force on
AIIM
MAY 18, 2018
In a recent AIIM Industry Watch survey -- State of Intelligent Information Management: Getting Ahead of the Digital Transformation Curve -- I asked this question -- “ Agree or Disagree : Digitizing and standardizing business inputs is one of the key bottlenecks for Digital Transformation.” The results are clear: Information chaos needs to be tackled at its origins.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 16, 2018
How security researchers caught the creators of counter antivirus services Scan4You.
Data Breach Today
MAY 14, 2018
Restaurant Chain Reports Breach But Has Yet to Confirm Details Chili's Grill & Bar is warning customers that an unknown number of payment cards were compromised at an unknown number of corporate-owned locations earlier this year for a period of time it suspects lasted two months. Should Chili's have waited to alert customers until it had more information?
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 15, 2018
Social network categorises users based on inferred interests such as Islam or homosexuality Facebook allows advertisers to target users it thinks are interested in subjects such as homosexuality, Islam or liberalism, despite religion, sexuality and political beliefs explicitly being marked out as sensitive information under new data protection laws.
TAB OnRecord
MAY 16, 2018
In some ways, moving to an outsourced cloud provider is a bit like outsourcing the storage of your physical files – whether to an active records center or to a box storage provider. In both cases, the files themselves now reside within facilities owned and managed by the outsourcing provider. In both cases you are relying on another party to help ensure the privacy and security of your records.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 12, 2018
Hidden Alexa commands, cell phone tracking, and more security news this week.
Data Breach Today
MAY 17, 2018
Largest Incident: Break-In at California State Agency That Affected 582,000 The number of health data breach victims added to the official federal tally so far in 2018 has doubled in recent weeks to more than 2 million. The largest breach of the year so far involved a break-in at a California government office.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 13, 2018
Digital Rights Watch warns of ‘systematic and wilful degradation of our human rights online’ • Sign up to receive the top stories every morning Gillian Triggs, Australia’s controversial former human rights commissioner has had a personal experience of the dangers of data retention laws. She was caught out, she reveals in a new report on Digital Rights, when she agreed to provide access to 24 hours of her digital life as part of an experiment at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2017.
Dark Reading
MAY 17, 2018
Another widespread worm attack is "inevitable," but spreading a different more lucrative or destructive payload, experts say.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 17, 2018
Despite improvements to algorithmic filtering, Facebook and Google+ still host scores of ISIS and related content and accounts that sometimes stay up for months.
Data Breach Today
MAY 14, 2018
Former Employee Allegedly Accessed Personal Data From Several Nuance Clients Speech recognition software vendor Nuance Communications says an unauthorized third party accessed one of its medical transcription platforms, exposing records for 45,000 people. The company has blamed the breach on a former employee, who accessed personal data from several of Nuance's clients.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 14, 2018
After Cambridge Analytica fallout, the company is investigating apps that had access to large amounts of data before 2014 Facebook said it had suspended roughly 200 apps as part of its investigation into the potential misuse of personal data on the social network, the latest fallout from the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. In an announcement on Monday, the company also said that it had investigated thousands of apps two months after reporting by the Observer and the Guardian revealed that m
Dark Reading
MAY 17, 2018
Two-factor authentication is a common best security practice but not ironclad. Here's how it can be bypassed, and how you can improve security.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 14, 2018
An attack called eFail overcomes the protections of encrypted email standards PGP and S/MIME.
Data Breach Today
MAY 14, 2018
Exploitable Vulnerabilities Could Reveal Plaintext of Encrypted Emails European computer security researchers say they have discovered vulnerabilities that relate to two techniques used to encrypt emails: PGP and S/MIME. Security experts recommend all PGP users immediately delete or disable their PGP tools, pending a full fix.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 16, 2018
Websites are desperately trying to maintain their links to users before the 24 May deadline, when consumers rather than companies will be in charge of personal data ‘Hey there Field Left Blank. So listen, budski, my man, my main man. I know we’ve been sending you spammy emails about cheap holiday deals five days a week. For the last five years. Yeah, maybe we took a few liberties with that.
Schneier on Security
MAY 14, 2018
A new PGP vulnerability was announced today. Basically, the vulnerability makes use of the fact that modern e-mail programs allow for embedded HTML objects. Essentially, if an attacker can intercept and modify a message in transit, he can insert code that sends the plaintext in a URL to a remote website. Very clever. The EFAIL attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the OpenPGP and S/MIME standards to reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 16, 2018
Christopher Wylie testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that Cambridge Analytica specialized in "disinformation, spreading rumors, *kompromat*, and propaganda.".
Data Breach Today
MAY 15, 2018
$20 Million in Potential Losses After Real-Time Payment Connections Compromised Mexican officials are investigating a series of technical glitches that may have been a prelude to a large cyberattack affecting at least five banks, according to news reports. While the full scope of the incidents remains unclear, up to $20 million may have been stolen.
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The Guardian Data Protection
MAY 18, 2018
Dominic Cummings says move would prove campaign did not use data gathered improperly by Cambridge Analytica The chief strategist of Vote Leave has called on Facebook to publish all the data it holds on his Brexit campaign group, challenging the social network to adopt a policy of radical transparency on the impact of targeted online adverts during the EU referendum.
IT Governance
MAY 17, 2018
Social engineering is something that we’ve all done, whether we’ve realised it or not. When we were children it’s likely that we played one parent off against the other to get our own way, telling each that the other had said we could do something we couldn’t – like have another packet of crisps. Fast-forward a little bit and you’ll remember telling your teachers that your dog really did eat your homework.
WIRED Threat Level
MAY 16, 2018
Project Shield already defends journalists and human rights groups from DDoS attacks. Now, Jigsaw will help political campaigns out as well.
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