Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ).

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Retail Data breaches Encryption Mining 66

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year. The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable.

Financial Services 103

Financial Services Libraries Mining Retail 103

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Demisto launched in May 2016.

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Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2021

A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. The crypto-mining has a modular structure and employes multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection. ” reads the analysis published by Cybereason.

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Mining Retail Insurance Manufacturing 102

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Access 270

CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

while the share of spending on traditional direct response media like newspapers has shrunk from 38% in 2008 to 14% in 2016. In the 2018 CGI Client Global Insights, 87% of utilities executives ranked analytics as both a top IT and business priority, compared to just 41% in 2016. Why is this so? Quite simply, data.

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Energy and Utilities Analytics Digital transformation Customer Experience 40

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year).

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Encryption Cloud Data breaches Government 48