The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

LW: You make the point that governments and private industry erect and maintain fortified structures continuously, in ways that would surprise ordinary citizens. Rich people build more luxurious fortified compounds because they can afford luxury on top of security. The annual value of the global data security market was $187.35

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. I had a lively discussion with Craig Hinkley, CEO of NTT Application Security , about the thinking behind this crusade. “We

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

Incident response in the cloud. James Campbell, CEO of Cado Security , shares his experience with traditional incident response, and how the cloud, with its elastic structure, able to spin up and spin down instances, is changing incident response. CAMPBELL: James Campbell, CEO and co founder of Cado security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

While these challenges are not new, they emphasize the need for a flexible, cloud-native infrastructure. Native integrations with IBM’s data fabric architecture on AWS establish a trusted data foundation, facilitating the acceleration and scaling of AI across the hybrid cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Attackers can compromise credentials because of extensive user password problems throughout most organizations; however, a number of security solutions provide credentials protection for both basic and advanced needs. Infrastructure Protection Defense against DDoS and DNS attacks starts with effective network security architecture.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) discovered a new version of the KmsdBot botnet that employed an updated Kmsdx binary targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The malware was employed in cryptocurrency mining campaigns and to launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ” reads the report published by Akamai.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2022

Pro-Ukraine hackers, likely linked to Ukraine IT Army , are using Docker images to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a dozen websites belonging to government, military, and media. “Container and cloud-based resources are being abused to deploy disruptive tools. ” reported Crowdstrike.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. This variant of Xbash is equipped to quietly uninstall any one of five popular types of cloud security protection and monitoring products used on such servers. Each of us have a responsibility to embrace best privacy and security practices. Targeting one device.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Two of the largest government security agencies are laying out the key cyberthreats to Kubernetes, the popular platform for orchestrating and managing containers, and ways to harden the open-source tool against attacks. ” Further reading: Top Container Security Solutions for 2021. ” Containers, Kubernetes Take Over.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Security Forensics Investigation. He has “worked around the clock” to secure assets, identify crypto on the blockchain , find records, and work with regulators and government authorities. There were no “appropriate” security controls with digital assets. Security is another issue with the industry. Securing Crypto.

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IT Governance

APRIL 16, 2018

Last week the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) released their annual report on the cyber threats facing UK businesses. Cryptojacking is when cryptocurrency miners are delivered through malware, using a computer’s processing power to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Cloud security.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s digital age where data stands as a prized asset, generative AI serves as the transformative tool to mine its potential. AWS, on the other hand, provides robust, scalable cloud infrastructure. AWS’s scalable infrastructure allows for rapid, large-scale implementation, ensuring agility and data security.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. The regulation around IoT security was this year’s signal that the answer is, fortunately, no. Insights from VDOO’s leadership. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

Forescout’s Platform not only enables robust NAC capabilities, but also offers options for enhanced security, including eXtended Detection and Response (XDR). Most importantly, Forescout’s agnostic Platform works with both a wide variety of networking vendors, device vendors, and security tools.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management. Third-party governance.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

A malicious advertising campaign originating out of Eastern Europe and operating since at least mid-June is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to home networks, according to executives with GeoEdge, which offers ad security and quality solutions to online and mobile advertisers. IoT a Security Concern.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Built on decades of innovation in data security, scalability and availability, IBM Db2 keeps business applications and analytics protected, highly performant, and resilient, anywhere. How Db2, AI and hybrid cloud work together AI- i nfused intelligence in IBM Db2 v11.5 is a proven, versatile, and AI-ready solution.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains. Amongst those verified domain searches are government departments and they too are enormously varied; local councils, legal and health services, telecoms and infrastructure etc.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 17, 2023

IBM software products are embedding watsonx capabilities across digital labor, IT automation, security, sustainability, and application modernization to help unlock new levels of business value for clients. These models have been trained on IBM curated datasets that have been mined to remove hateful, abusing and profane text (HAP).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. ” A DARK CLOUD. “We’ve identified in excess of a thousand of his victims.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I want a new football game and football because my little brother always tries to steal mine. We are at a pivot point for content services and ECM as a monolith may have had its day, especially with cloud based services. A cloud based operating model becomes more and more interesting, also from a financial perspective.”. “Go

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Security vendors and startups use deception techniques to confuse and befuddle attackers. By masking high-value assets in a sea of fake attack surfaces, attackers are disoriented and attack a fake asset, in the process alerting security teams to their presence. But it can work the other way. What is Deception Technology?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Other methods.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The voluminous report, entitled “Liberty and Security in a Changing World,” was authored by The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, an advisory panel that includes experts in national security, intelligence gathering and civil liberties. The report begins by describing the varying goals of U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I had a chance to discuss this with Doug Dooley, COO of Data Theorem , a Silicon Valley-based application security startup helping companies deal with these growing API exposures. DevOps has decentralized the creation and delivery of smart applications that can mine humongous data sets to create cool new user experiences.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

With more than 65,000 employees in 56 countries, Thales is a global leader in technology solutions for the aerospace, transport, defence and security markets. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. But, that’s not the whole story.

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Adam Shostack

MAY 20, 2020

Understanding the way intrusions really happen is a long-standing interest of mine. The US Government has some interesting advantages: a large collection of attractive targets, a mandate that all CFO agencies have a security process, published investments in security, a large and skilled incident response force.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining. Are you looking for a pattern you suspect is there, but that’s hard to detect?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Finally, it also is useful for companies looking for a governance, risk, compliance ( GRC ) solution. Government organizations are arguably the most at risk of fraud attempts. According to FTC findings in 2019, government impostor fraud was the most-reported type of fraud. million in losses. Want to learn more?

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Collibra

JULY 21, 2021

Compliance is one aspect where data quality and Data Governance interact, and data quality improvement initiatives designed for constant data monitoring can support both. . Data quality implemented on top of a data governance foundation provides a view of quality in the context of how the business uses data, enabling: . Pattern mining.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

Multiple sites affiliated with the University of Florida student government hacked (unknown). Internet hosting provider Hostinger resets users’ passwords after security breach (14 million). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). Financial information.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

The new Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, opened Day 2 of Black Hat USA 2021 with a remote presentation on Hacking the Cybersecurity Puzzle. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is relatively new. Easterly was appointed by Congress a few weeks ago.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. They’re digitizing the handwritten prescriptions and trying to understand what kind of drugs were prescribed then – this scholarly material could be mined for different kinds of research projects.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). To make a long story short – the top reason that they didn’t invest in data security was “lack of perceived need” at 52%.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

This week, we discuss a data breach at Mumsnet, no data breach at OkCupid, and a lawsuit against Apple for implementing security measures. Hello, and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Thursday, 14 February 2019. Natalie Sawyer, a spokesperson for OkCupid, said: “There has been no security breach at OkCupid.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

Yet, today, it's essentially wrong, and moreover isn't a helpful starting point for a security discussion. We've reached this point thanks in large part to the cloud and the advent of utility computing. And, when we do think about it, it falls under the domain of site reliability engineering (SRE) rather than being a security function.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There are several interesting sessions today related to eDiscovery, Information Governance, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy. 10:00am – 11:00am: ARMA’s Information Governance Implementation Model: The Way Forward For Information Governance. Key Takeaways: Receive an overview of the Information Governance Implementation Model.

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