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Dell notifies customers about data breach

Malwarebytes

Email addresses are a unique identifier that can allow data brokers to merge and enrich their databases. So, this is another big data breach that leaves us with more questions than answers. We have to be careful that we don’t shrug these data breaches away with comments like “they already know everything there is to know.”

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How Your Organization Can Prevent Account Takeover

Security Boulevard

With the acceleration in digital spending, there’s been an increase in related cyberthreats, like account takeover. Account takeover (ATO) occurs when a malicious actor gains unauthorized access to a user’s digital identity account. ATO is often the source of data breaches, theft, and other fraudulent activities.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints. Dearth of planning.

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, compromised card details are used to make unauthorized purchases online and personal details are used to take over an account or apply for a credit card in someone else’s name. Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam. Big Data and EMV 3DS.

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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. ” wrote the expert. ” reads the security advisory published by Cisco.

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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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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

Data lakes continue to swell because each second of every day, every human, on average, is creating 1.7 megabytes of fresh data. These are the rivulets feeding the data lakes. Big data just keeps getting bigger. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built.