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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Krebs on Security

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms).

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MY TAKE: Can ‘Network Traffic Analysis’ cure the security ills of digital transformation?

The Last Watchdog

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. When you observe something on the network it’s definitive. Related: How the Uber hack pivoted off of DevOps.

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#ModernDataMasters: Mike Evans, Chief Technology Officer

Reltio

A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals. The definition of success, from my perspective as a manager of a consulting organisation, is our clients achieving the business benefit they want and being delighted with our services.

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Aussie Telcos are Failing at Some Fundamental Security Basics

Troy Hunt

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. This is the user-selected password used for identity verification with store customers wandering past it.

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The ONE Key Aspect of DB2 for z/OS Table-Controlled Partitioning that People Seem Most Likely to Forget

Robert's Db2

First, the basics: table-controlled partitioning refers to a means of range-partitioning the data in a table, so that, for example, sales records for retail store numbers 1-25 go into table space partition 1, records for store numbers 26-50 go into partition 2, records for store numbers 51-75 go into partition 3, and so on.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: So let's first ground ourselves in a common definition of what is and what is not stalkerware. Vamosi: This definition is precise and well suited for apps that record or transmit data in secret. So one of the definitions in that definition of stalkerware. So, according to the coalition against stalkerware.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 38,846,799 records known to be compromised, and 140 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 123 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.