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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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Cyber Security Combo: Big Data, Machine Learning and AI

Spinone

While the potential of Big Data is vast, it might lag behind as a standalone tool to deal with hackers due to the enormous volume of data to analyze. Big data helps broaden horizons (e.g. to better clarity) to prevent the security breach rather than cleaning up the data leak after it actually happens.

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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. And to produce signals useful to security teams, you need to analyze this data, in real time.”.

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Octo Tempest cybercriminal group is "a growing concern"—Microsoft

Malwarebytes

In a security blog about Octo Tempest Microsoft states: “Octo Tempest monetized their intrusions in 2022 by selling SIM swaps to other criminals and performing account takeovers of high-net-worth individuals to steal their cryptocurrency.”

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The stolen data is used both to commit fraud directly and indirectly. 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. Big Data and EMV 3DS. Data security. Data Breach.

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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. ” reads the security advisory published by Cisco.