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MY TAKE: What if Big Data and AI could be intensively focused on health and wellbeing?

The Last Watchdog

and other jurisdictions have abjectly failed over the past 20 years leveraging Big Data to innovate personalized healthcare services. Healthcare providers haven’t yet figured out how to digitalize medical records in a way that robustly preserves patient privacy and keeps patient information out of data thieves’ hands.

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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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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. As more and more people and businesses rely on mobile banking applications, they become vulnerable to fraud. Data security.

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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. Cybersecurity vendors competing in this nascent space, Salt Security among them, are ramping up their efforts to leverage Big Data and advanced analytics to meet a highly dynamic and complex security threat.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Russia uses mobile apps to radicalize U.S. It was initially considered something that would illustrate a mobile application rather than cause damage. While she enjoys tackling topics across the technology space, she’s most passionate about educating readers on cybersecurity and Big Data.

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Financial Services Organizations Need to Adapt their Security Practices to the Shifting Environment

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Companies and organizations, whether in the public or in the private sector, are re-establishing their business in the era of information and data revolution. businesses are taking advantage of digital technologies like cloud, mobile, and IoT to digitally transform their operations. Weak security practices lead to data breaches.

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Cisco addresses critical issues in IP Phones and UCS Director

Security Affairs

Cisco also fixed three critical vulnerabilities, tracked CVE-2020-3239, CVE-2020-3240, and CVE-2020-3243 , in Cisco UCS Director and UCS Director Express for Big Data. and UCS Director Express for Big Data 3.7.4.0. ” reads the advisory published by Cisco. Cisco addressed the flaw by releasing UCS Director 6.7.4.0