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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). Big Data Analytics. What one has (tokens).

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Expert releases Metasploit modules for Cisco UCS flaws

Security Affairs

Last week, Cisco released security fixes to address 17 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities affecting some Cisco Unified Computing products, including Integrated Management Controller (IMC), UCS Director, and UCS Director Express for Big Data. ” wrote the expert. ” reads the security advisory published by Cisco.

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Attunity data leak: Netflix, Ford, TD Bank data exposed by Open AWS Buckets

Security Affairs

Attunity data integration and big data management firm exposed a significant amount of sensitive data through unprotected Amazon S3 buckets. Data integration and big data management firm Attunity exposed a significant amount of sensitive data through unprotected Amazon S3 buckets.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

But in the days that followed, several antivirus products began flagging it for bundling at least two trojan horse programs designed to steal passwords from various online gaming platforms. “SonarX served as an easily searchable repository for social media data that previously had been obtained by CHENGDU 404.” Image: DOJ.

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Types of cyberthreats

IBM Big Data Hub

Spyware is a highly secretive malware that gathers sensitive information, like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and other personal data, and transmits it back to the attacker without the victim knowing. Many password attacks use social engineering to trick victims into unwittingly sharing this sensitive data.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Attackers can intercept data transfers, and from there gain access to all manner of sensitive data. Thus, data in transit, as well as data at rest, should be made indecipherable via strong encryption. By encrypting data, it can only be accessed with the right password and by those with the appropriate access rights.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Operational Technology (OT) systems, which were once isolated, have progressively integrated with IT technology and moved to various cloud platforms powered by sophisticated IoT sensors and guided by big data analytics. A Very Human Problem When tackling these security challenges, the human element is the most important factor.