Big Data has become big business and, as such, it has become a prime objective for cybercrooks, political activists and nation-states that want to get their hands on these ever-expanding repositories of proprietary customer information, intellectual property and government secrets stored in those databases.
In this new ebook from SC Magazine, we speak with a range of experts – including engineers, lawyers, analysts, academics and the CISO of the NSA, which likely has the largest database of all – to glean their insights on the technologies and strategies they are putting in place to guard their treasure troves and prevent both insider incidents – such as another Snowden – and attacks from the outside, whether by criminals after data to sell or nation-states eager for blueprints and infrastructure plans. The key takeaway is that companies must take an active role in understanding what data they use, whether they collect it or purchase it, and how they intend on using it. This whitepaper can aid you in that process.Click here to download this ebook on Big Data.
UnitedHealth Group’s CEO Andrew Witty set to testify before Congress tomorrow – security pros say there’s more to the story and it will take several more months of investigation before we know the full kill chain.
Threat actors could leverage a high-severity vulnerability impacting the R programming language, tracked as CVE-2024-27322, to enable arbitrary code execution during the deserialization of packages using the RDS format and potentially facilitate supply chain attacks, The Hacker News reports.
Major Canadian retail pharmacy chain London Drugs had all its stores across Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan temporarily closed down following a cybersecurity incident discovered on Sunday, reports The Register.