In my mind, Dark Data is a subset of Big Data—enormous but without formal boundaries as defined by database schemas. In other words, it’s the human generated content in documents, presentations, spreadsheets, notes, and other readable formats that make up the bits and bytes of a corporate file system.
In January 2014 the Security Industry Authority will stop issuing paper-based licence applications, Vigilance can reveal.
According to a source at the SIA, for individuals, the only way to apply for a new licence will be to fill in their application online at the SIA website; they will then be told which identity and other documents to take to one of over 750 post offices around the country to complete their application.
Researchers Sagie Dulce and Michael Cherny, Imperva’s Application Defence Centre (ADC) team, take a close look at the recent data breach against Loyalty Build.
Key take outs from the blog post include:
As 'sophisticated' as this breach might prove to be, a simple monitoring of data records could have alerted security personal and might have prevented this breach. Most would agree that copying a million records is worth opening a ticket to IT Security team.
After the MongoHQ breach we advised that customers take responsibility for their sensitive data and know how their business partners are securing it. In the Loyaltybuild case, customers agreed to share too much, in plaintext, with no guarantees. When using third party services businesses should share the bare minimum of information with their partners. This is particularly true of sensitive information.
In both cases, simple encryption of the sensitive data might have minimized the fallout. Moreover, in both cases customers were way too trusting with their service provider. Whether a cloud-based startup or an established business like Loyaltybuild, customers need to protect themselves and not assume their service providers will do the job for them.
Sharik is a Trojan which injects itself into legitimate processes, and adds registry entries for an added level of persistence. The infection also sends information about the victim's PC to a remote server. The threat can also receive commands from a known CnC server to download further malicious files. The point of origin in this case is almost always a compromised website, as discussed previously in a Zscaler blog. At the time of research, Chris Mannon, a researcher, Zscaler ThreatLabZ, had not pinpointed the initial infection for this threat. The end result of the Trojan infection appears to be identical to past iterations of this threat.
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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