The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

“The trend that we’re seeing is that more than 30 percent of the content flowing into data lakes is from untrusted sources,” he says. “It’s It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. This is the dark side of digital transformation.

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Unstructured Data Malware Digital transformation Authentication 272

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2024

In this instance, hackers are suspected to have exploited simple cybersecurity loopholes, including the fact that the software shipped with easy-to-guess default passwords. A data diode facilitates a uni-directional stream of information from one device to another, preventing bi-directional data flow.

Penetration Testing 182

Penetration Testing CISO Unstructured Data Technology 182

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

With just over 3% of the data, the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) is slightly affected and the other departments are only marginally affected in terms of volume.” 4,779 Federal Administration’s files contained personal data such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses.

Ransomware 137

Ransomware Data breaches Unstructured Data Architecture 137

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Attackers often use privilege escalation exploits to increase their access rights, or tools like Mimikatz that can extract passwords from a computer’s memory. Instead, they used “additional malicious activity” to get credentials they need to move forward.

Ransomware 103

Ransomware Unstructured Data Accountability Consumer Protection 103

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Wiz Research found that Microsoft’s AI research team, while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of additional private data — including a disk backup of two employees’ workstations.

Unstructured Data 121

Unstructured Data Accountability Backups Risk 121

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

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.

Encryption 133

Encryption Software Computers and Electronics Technology 133

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

Risk 126

Risk Backups Encryption DDOS 126