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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Data Breach Today
MAY 15, 2018
Revenge of the Personality Test, Take Two Researchers at the University of Cambridge, via a myPersonality test on Facebook, reportedly used data from 3 million users to power a spin-off company that delivered targeted advertising services. Facebook says the app is one of 200 that it's suspended for suspicious data handling practices.
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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.
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.
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?
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
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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.".
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Data Breach Today
MAY 17, 2018
Serbia Makes Arrest; UK Close to Sentencing Another The noose appears to be tightening around the Dark Overlord, a group of international hackers who have stolen and held for ransom sensitive information from dozens of companies, healthcare organizations and U.S. public schools. Serbian police say they've arrested a person in cooperation with the FBI and U.K. authorities.
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
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.
IT Governance
MAY 14, 2018
With the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS Directive) to be transposed into national laws across the EU by 9 May 2018, the UK government has published guidance for those tasked with its enforcement. The UK government has transposed the NIS Directive into national law, and officially titled it The Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 (NIS Regulations).
Schneier on Security
MAY 14, 2018
EFF is reporting that a critical vulnerability has been discovered in PGP and S/MIME. No details have been published yet, but one of the researchers wrote : We'll publish critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on 2018-05-15 07:00 UTC. They might reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including encrypted emails sent in the past.
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.
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.
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Data Matters
MAY 17, 2018
On May 8, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal announced that he was vetoing Senate Bill 315 (“SB 315” or “the bill”), cybersecurity legislation that would have expanded the criminalization of “unauthorized computer access” to capture, in addition to traditional hacking, activity that opponents warned is necessary to robust private and public sector cyber defense.
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.
Data Breach Today
MAY 17, 2018
Knowing as many details as possible about the customer, the payment and the recipient is a critical component of stopping fraud as payments become faster, says anti-fraud specialist David Barnhardt.
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