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

Krebs on Security

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI. Security analysts and U.S. Chengdu404’s offices in China.

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Has Big Data’s “Three Vs” Become the “Four As”?

Security Boulevard

Back when I started giving regular Big Data security talks, all the rage was using Gartner’s framing of Velocity, Volume and Variety (Three Vs). For example in a 2012 talk I called for a fourth V to be included: vulnerability (to disinformation — integrity attacks).

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Why Your Security Data Lake Project Will … Well, Actually …

Anton on Security

Note that this blog was informed by my observations of the previous wave of security data lakes ( dating back to 2012 ) and related attempts by organizations to build security data science capabilities. So, in 2012, we said : “Finally, “collect once?—?analyze However, we are not living in 2012 or 2018 anymore?—?we

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The Evolution of SIEM: Where It’s Been and Where It is Going

CyberSecurity Insiders

Splunk was founded in 2003 as essentially the first-ever flexible and powerful store and search engine for big data. It introduced indexing which can search any kind of raw data – from structured to unstructured – and quickly transformed the data into searchable events.

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Why Your Security Data Lake Project Will … Well, Actually …

Security Boulevard

Note that this blog was informed by my observations of the previous wave of security data lakes ( dating back to 2012 ) and related attempts by organizations to build security data science capabilities. So, in 2012, we said : “Finally, “collect once?—?analyze However, we are not living in 2012 or 2018 anymore?—?we

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Best Enterprise VPN Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Since its launch in 2012, Los Angeles, California’s IPVanish has garnered over 1,600 servers in 75 locations and 40,000 IPs. Available for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Amazon, and Linux platforms, IPVanish plans come with unlimited devices and bandwidth and zero logging of client data. 5 star rating with 10k+ in the Apple Store.

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Hackers access DNA data of over 2 million patients

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ohio based DNA Diagnostics Center(DDC) that deals with DNA research, and paternity tests has notified the Maine Attorney General’s Office that its IT staff have discovered a cyber incident that relates to the data exposure of over 2 million patients whose DNA was tested between 2004 and 2012.