The Last Watchdog

JUNE 3, 2022

“The trend that we’re seeing is that more than 30 percent of the content flowing into data lakes is from untrusted sources,” he says. “It’s It’s documents, PDFs, CSV files, Excel files, images, lots of unstructured data; we track 150 different file types. This is the dark side of digital transformation.

Unstructured Data 272

Unstructured Data Malware Digital transformation Authentication 272

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Attackers often use privilege escalation exploits to increase their access rights, or tools like Mimikatz that can extract passwords from a computer’s memory. Instead, they used “additional malicious activity” to get credentials they need to move forward.

Ransomware 96

Ransomware Unstructured Data Accountability Consumer Protection 96

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 9, 2021

A ransomware is a vicious type of malware that cybercriminals use to block access to business critical systems by encrypting data in files, databases, or entire computer systems, until the victim pays a ransom. Even the strongest password can be compromised via brute-force attack. It is a form of cyber extortion.

Ransomware 94

Ransomware Encryption Unstructured Data Authentication 94

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

According to Unitrends’ 2019 cloud storage research, 62% of respondents had successfully recovered data from the cloud. This trend is expected to increase as Gartner projects a threefold rise in unstructured data capacity by 2026. The increased scalability of cloud storage can assist effective data recovery solutions.

Risk 122

Risk Backups Encryption DDOS 122