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Chinese threat actors extract big data and sell it on the dark web

SC Magazine

Among the incidents data stolen by Chinese hackers involved a Twitter database. Researchers on Monday reported that cybercriminals are taking advantage of China’s push to become a leader in big data by extracting legitimate big data sources and selling the stolen data on the Chinese-language dark web.

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Data-Centric Security and Big Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Enter data-centric security… a set of technologies that lower the value of data through encryption, tokenization, data masking and access control methods. Data-centric security has been around for years but doesn’t receive the same level of media coverage, hype or attention that other security technologies do.

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News alert: Criminal IP and Quad9 collaborate to exchange domain and IP threat intelligence

The Last Watchdog

Operating on a high-performance global network, Quad9 partners with Criminal IP, which offers extensive cyber threat information, including malicious IPs, domains, and CVEs, derived from sophisticated IP and domain scoring algorithms and big data analysis on a worldwide scale, enhances this mission.

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GCHQ on Quantum Key Distribution

Schneier on Security

QKD also seems unsuitable for some of the grand future challenges such as securing the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, social media, or cloud applications. QKD technology cannot replace the flexible authentication mechanisms provided by contemporary public key signatures. I agree with them.

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News alert: Harter Secrest & Emery announces designation as NetDiligence-authorized Breach Coac

The Last Watchdog

Harter Secrest & Emery’s privacy and data security clients range from Fortune 100 corporations to closely-held businesses in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, data analytics/big data, retail, education, manufacturers, defense contractors, and employers of all sizes. www.hselaw.com.

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How to Associate an Apple ID with a Second iPhone That Has Completed Setup

Tech Republic Security

Learn how to easily associate an Apple ID with a second iPhone to access all your apps, media and iCloud services seamlessly with this step-by-step guide.

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When data privacy and protection are rights, don’t get it wrong

Security Boulevard

Twenty-one years ago, Latanya Sweeney showed that it’s possible to uniquely identify 87% of Americans with just three pieces of personal data: gender, ZIP code and full date of birth. Long before anyone had heard the words ‘data lake’, ‘cloud storage’ or ‘big data’, nevermind ‘social media’, it was clear that the disclosure of even […].