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Chinese tax software bundled with GoldenSpy backdoor targets western companies

Security Affairs

The campaign is active since at least April 2020, but experts found some samples that suggest the attacks begun at least December 2016. In October 2016, Chenkuo Technology announced a partnership with Aisino for “big data cooperation. However, it is not clear the role of the companies in the attacks.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

But because this industry can largely operate in secret, only occasionally exposed after a data breach or investigative report, we remain mostly ignorant of its reach. In 2016, the European Union passed the comprehensive General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. This might change soon. He's right.

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Cyber Security Combo: Big Data, Machine Learning and AI

Spinone

While the potential of Big Data is vast, it might lag behind as a standalone tool to deal with hackers due to the enormous volume of data to analyze. Big data helps broaden horizons (e.g. to better clarity) to prevent the security breach rather than cleaning up the data leak after it actually happens.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

I first spoke to Kumar Saurabh, LogicHub’s co-founder and CEO, not long after the company launched in 2016. IBM took the chess playing expertise of the best players, and Big Data, and built that into their software,” Saurabh says. “We One SOAR innovator that has been gaining steady traction is Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Research “probably one of the dirtiest words in the indigenous world”

Security Boulevard

ori Perspectives on Trust and Automated Decision-Making” is the following insightful commentary on authorization and consent related to big data collection: In the context of Aotearoa, Pool (2016) notes how research and data collection were part of Britain’s broader ‘civilising mission’. Buried in a 2020 report called “M?ori

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The world of telemedicine, home health care, the IoMT, virtual clinical trials, and more have converged with SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, the cloud, big data, and AI to create advances for patients and health care and life sciences organizations alike. Download How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber-attack pandemic now.

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Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

Security Affairs

On 2016 I was working hard to find a way to classify Malware families through artificial intelligence (machine learning). The popular expert Marco Ramilli provided a follow up to its Malware classification activity by adding a scripting section which would be useful for several purposes.

Malware 101