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MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ and ‘account takeovers’ are leveraging Big Data, automation

The Last Watchdog

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports.

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7 Habits of a Highly Effective CISO: 2019 Data Security Resolutions

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

It’s 2019 and data is everywhere – and what you can do with what is at your fingertips is truly transformative. What’s in that Big Data Lake? With the uptick in digital transformation that we’re seeing, Big Data is far and wide, bringing genuine security concerns with it.

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Expert releases Metasploit modules for Cisco UCS flaws

Security Affairs

Patch now or cry later Thanks to @iDefense for helping me disclose these — Pedro Ribeiro (@pedrib1337) August 28, 2019. Ribeiro also found the CVE-2019-1936 flaw that could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux shell with root permissions.

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NEW TECH: Exabeam retools SIEMs; applies credit card fraud detection tactics to network logs

The Last Watchdog

I had the chance to visit with Trevor Daughney, Exabeam’s vice president of product marketing at RSA 2019. He explained how Exabeam has taken some of the same data analytics techniques that banks have long used to staunch credit card fraud and applied them to filtering network data logs. Here are a few takeaways: Very Big Data.

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Cisco addressed several vulnerabilities in UCS products

Security Affairs

The critical flaws impacting the CISCO UCS addressed by the tech giant are CVE-2019-1937 , CVE-2019-1974 , CVE-2019-1935 and CVE-2019-1938. ” reads the advisory for the CVE-2019-1937 flaw. “The vulnerability is due to insufficient request header validation during the authentication process.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. However, for every step forward, in terms of improved sharing, organizations got shoved two steps back by the relentless rising tide of Big Data.

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MY TAKE: ‘IOWN’ makes the business case for fostering diversity, respecting individual privacy

The Last Watchdog

Related: Using ‘Big Data’ to improve health and well-being But there’s yet another towering technology mountain to climb: we must also overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law. To tap the full potential of massively interconnected, fully interoperable digital systems we must solve privacy and cybersecurity, to be sure.