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 ).

Retail 66

Retail Data breaches Encryption Mining 66

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. The bug affected the OCA’s Diameter Signalling Router component and its Communications Services Gatekeeper.

Financial Services 101

Financial Services Libraries Mining Retail 101

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. Ngrok Mining Botnet. Flaw in Western Digital My Cloud exposes the content to hackers.

Computer and Electronics 86

Computer and Electronics Security Mining Data breaches 86

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Some 27 percent of IT professionals who partook in a survey conducted by next-gen firewall supplier Imperva at RSA 2018 reported receiving more than 1 million security alerts daily. In many cases the tedious, first-level correlating of SIEM logs to sift out threats has moved beyond human capability.

Digital transformation 193

Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2018

NTA refers to using advanced data mining and security analytics techniques to detect and investigate malicious activity in traffic moving between each device and on every critical system in a company network. It was one of the more fascinating conversations I had on the floor at Black Hat USA 2018. Remember how Target got hacked?

Digital transformation 140

Digital transformation Security Analytics Access 140

Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

pic.twitter.com/KiaGNKhaig — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) March 1, 2018. This screen faces out into the retail store with people constantly wandering past it only a couple of meters away, well within the distance required to observe the contents off it. — Geoffrey Huntley (@GeoffreyHuntley) March 27, 2018.

Security 60

Security Passwords Authentication Mining 60

CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Wed, 10/31/2018 - 03:39. This series of blog posts builds on the 2018 CGI Client Global Insights, providing insights into how utilities are making progress toward digital transformation. The 2018 CGI Client Global Insights reveal that utilities recognize data as the new “digital capital.”

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Analytics Digital transformation Customer Experience 40