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Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Does It Work as Advertised?

eSecurity Planet

Whether it’s studying the performance of your direct competitors, using predictive analytics to determine what the future may hold for your industry, or analyzing employee performance and making optimization decisions based on that information, the entire point is to take data in and use it to make better-informed decisions.

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

Krebs on Security

While the various charging documents released in this case do not mention it per se, it is clear that members of this group also favored another form of supply chain attacks — hiding their malware inside commercial tools they created and advertised as legitimate security software and PC utilities. Security analysts and U.S. Image: DOJ.

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Cisco addresses critical issues in IP Phones and UCS Director

Security Affairs

Cisco also fixed three critical vulnerabilities, tracked CVE-2020-3239, CVE-2020-3240, and CVE-2020-3243 , in Cisco UCS Director and UCS Director Express for Big Data. and UCS Director Express for Big Data 3.7.4.0. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Add to that the websites we visit that Google tracks through its advertising network, our Gmail accounts, our movements via Google Maps , and what it can collect from our smartphones. Its goal is psychological manipulation, in the form of personalized advertising to persuade you to buy something or do something, like vote for a candidate.

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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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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. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Chinese tax software bundled with GoldenSpy backdoor targets western companies

Security Affairs

In October 2016, Chenkuo Technology announced a partnership with Aisino for “big data cooperation. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. However, it is not clear the role of the companies in the attacks.

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