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Facebook May Have Gotten Hacked, and Maybe It’s Better We Don’t Know

Adam Levin

Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication phone numbers exposed: After prompting users to provide phone numbers to secure their accounts, Facebook allows anyone to look up their account by using them. The company has also used security information for advertising in the past.).

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[SI-LAB] FlawedAmmyy Leveraging Undetected XLM Macros as an Infection Vehicle

Security Affairs

This is part of a giant list of Living off the Land (LOL) techniques that attackers employ to mask their activities from runtime endpoint security monitoring tools such as AVs. OLE files are hierarchical data structures that have several storages and streams (in contrast to folders and files in an operating system).

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

By some estimates, connected devices now outnumber people, and both are generating data. 16 ZB (zettabytes) of data in 2006, then 2.83 ZB in 2012, and the forecast is a mind-boggling 175 ZB by 2025! That is almost 2000 times more data in less than 20 years (Press 2013, Patrizio 2018). IDC estimated the world created.16

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GraphQL vs. REST API: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

API technologies like SOAP (a web services messaging protocol), REST (an architectural style) and GraphQL (a programming language and tool) simplify software development by enabling third-party data and services integration. Each schema specifies the types of data the user can query or modify, and the relationships between the types.

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The Indian Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) explained

IBM Big Data Hub

These new reporting standards represent an evolution from the voluntary guidelines first issued in 2009 by India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs, which were further refined in the Business Responsibility Report (BRR) of 2012. This data can be sliced and diced to align to the needs of multiple reporting frameworks as required.

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Ode to the use-after-free: one vulnerable function, a thousand possibilities

Scary Beasts Security

Introducing CVE-2012-3748 CVE-2012-3748 has a very storied history. It originally acquired public fame when used in Mobile Pwn2Own to pwn an iPhone 4S (Sep 2012), getting assigned ZDI-13-009. The eventual Apple advisory is here (Feb 2013). A public exploit may be found here on Packet Storm (Sep 2013). Or does it?