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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. Rapid 7 estimates that there are upwards of 1.5

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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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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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NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: Striving for contextual understanding as digital transformation plays out

The Last Watchdog

Perhaps the biggest change lies in the way the rules are generated and maintained, where once a pool of highly skilled and experienced cybersecurity analysts iterated and codified actions as lovingly-maintained rules, today big data systems power machine learning systems to train complex classifiers and models.

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Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private

Malwarebytes

In its most north-eastern reaches, those east of the Salmon Falls River—which serves as a dividing line between Vermont and Maine— are protected from having their Internet Service Provider (ISP) sell, share, or grant access to their data without their specific approval. Those west of the river, however, have no such protection.

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Q&A: Here’s why it has become vital for companies to deter ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

I recently had a fascinating conversation with Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi , about why we are currently in a situation where criminally motivated actors are proving to be every bit as innovative as legitimate businesses, when it comes to leveraging cloud services, and developing breakthrough uses of mobile computing and the Internet of things.

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Best 3 Cloud, Container and Data Lake Vulnerability Scanning Tools

eSecurity Planet

Guardium Vulnerability Assessment tool scans the databases, data warehouses, data lakes , and other components of big data infrastructure to detect vulnerabilities based on Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), Center for Internet Security (CIS), CVE , and other standards.