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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. Hackers count on it.

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

The Last Watchdog

Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. Masters reported that very little slowed him down as he discovered ways to make unauthenticated requests for private account data of Peloton cyclers including names, birth dates, gender, location, weight and workout stats.

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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. And threat actors have become adept at account takeovers. Attribute-based access.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

TS: Yes, you can put something into everything, but all of a sudden you have this massive big data collection problem on the back end where you as the attacker have created a different kind of analysis problem. Of course, some nations have more capability than others to sift through huge amounts of data they’re collecting.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

I think it’s super important that organizations are being held accountable for looking after our data. That’s kind of the carrot side — being able to demonstrate that you actually do care about the data of the people you do business with. Trust is an important part of their brand; it should be all about trust.

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Gulf countries came under hackers’ spotlight in 2018, with more than 130 000 payment cards compromised

Security Affairs

With the advent of IoT technologies, big data and machine learning, attack tools become more advanced and encompass several information systems and resources. According to Group-IB data, the two Trojans mentioned above were amongst the most popular for credentials stealing in 2018 in GCC.

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European Businesses Signal ‘Growing Security Gap’ Amid Mass Digital Transformation

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Upwards of 84% of enterprises are using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies such as cloud, big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT). How does digital transformation impact data security? Overall, the picture is clear.