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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. Attribute-based access.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

An archived copy of the site says SSC stands for “ Server Support Company ,” which advertised outsourced solutions for technical support and server administration. md , and that they were a systems administrator for sscompany[.]net. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net.

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Db2 13 for z/OS: Now You Can Dynamically Remove, as Well as Add, Active Log Data Sets

Robert's Db2

Db2 10 for z/OS (which came out back in 2010) provided a new capability related to management of a Db2 subsystem's active log data sets (known, along with the archive log data sets, as the subsystem's "log inventory"). All well and good - unless something goes wrong with the archive log write process. Let's take the data set size case.

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Updates from the MaaS: new threats delivered through NullMixer

Security Affairs

The Originating Malvertising Campaign According to CTI investigation on the adversary infrastructure, we were able to identify an ongoing campaign luring system administrators to install the malicious code into their machines. All at the same time. Bots “public-key” and “private-key” are randomly generated at process startup time.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. It starts off with this like, you know, uptempo like techno beat and it shouldn't have these flashy graphics of encryption and decryption, you know, payload and loading things like that. But MIT didn’t press charges.

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Why Data Democratization? Why Now? What Does It Look Like?

erwin

The systems that deliver the data have to perform well enough to meet the needs of the business. It includes archiving your data, retaining it for compliance and being prepared in case of audits. Consider these business realities: The shortage of IT talent is real , in positions ranging from programmers to system administrators.

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GAO Report shed the lights on the failures behind the Equifax hack

Security Affairs

“In July 2017, Equifax system administrators discovered that attackers had gained. “Specifically, while Equifax had installed a device to inspect network traffic or evidence of malicious activity, a misconfiguration allowed encrypted traffic to pass through the network without being inspected,”. The network.