Tag: Security

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: karan-sachdeva; Companies are entering “chapter two” of their digital transformation. The next chapter is all about moving from experimentation to true transformation. It’s about gaining speed and scale. We are helping businesses activate data as a strategic asset, with desire to maximize the impact of AI as core to the business strategy.To do so, businesses must explore AI and become comfortable with data science embedded into business processes. Early open source data science and AI proofs-of-concept are beginning to mature. Businesses leaders are starting to seek help on how ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; We’re living in the age of the surveillance state, and it’s not just the state surveilling, either. Governments and corporations are walking hand-in-hand down the road to totalitarianism in lockstep with jackboots on. Though there are plenty of ways to change that, in this article, we’ll be talking about how to avoid it by showing you how to hide your IP address. The reasoning behind that is simple: if they don’t know who you are or where you’re from, nobody can come after you. Hiding your IP address makes you a lot more secure, and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jinan Budge. Research announcement: Another Asia Pacific Forrester Wave™ evaluation is coming. This time, I will be evaluating cybersecurity consulting providers in the region. Gather round! The cybersecurity consulting market has been alive and well in AP since I began my career many years ago. I have worked at — and was a client of — a few consultancies throughout my career. There are many providers in this market, and over the past 20 years, I’ve seen the ebbs and flows of CISOs in our region preferring and utilizing global players, one-person shops, and everything ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Each year, we honor AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who are leaders in the channel and play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS).APN Partners are dedicated to helping AWS customers build, market, and sell their offerings so they can grow a successful cloud business. Announced during our annual AWS Partner Summits, APN Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the-cloud and traditional APN Consulting and Technology Partners whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration. Please join us in congratulating these leading ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In an effort to deliver a simpler, smarter, and more unified experience on its website, the UK’s Ministry of Justice and its Lead Technical Architect, James Abley, created a bespoke AWS Landing Zone, a pre-defined template for an AWS account or infrastructure. And they did it in six weeks.Supporting 33 agencies and public bodies, and making sure they all work together, the Ministry of Justice is at the heart of the United Kingdom’s justice system. Its task is to look after all parts of the justice system, including the courts, prisons, probation services, and legal aid, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Following are the new finding types:  Recon:EC2/PortProbeEMRUnprotectedPort The new Recon:EC2/PortProbeEMRUnprotectedPort finding type indicates that an EMR-related sensitive port on an Amazon EC2 Instance is not blocked by a security group, access control list, or an on-host firewall, and known scanners on the internet are actively probing it. Ports that can trigger this finding, such as the port 8088 (YARN Web UI port), could potentially be used for remote code execution. This is a high severity finding type.  PrivilegeEscalation:IAMUser/AdministrativePermissions The new PrivilegeEscalation:IAMUser/AdministrativePermissions finding type is triggered when a user or role attempts to assign a highly permissive policy ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; PREVIOUS POST Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.44-85.0 on May 17, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. You can also run Docker containers from the images in the Docker Hub repository. Based on MySQL 5.6.44, and including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.44-85.0 is the current GA release in the Percona Server for MySQL 5.6 series. Percona Server for MySQL is open-source and free – this is the latest release of our enhanced, drop-in replacement for MySQL. New Features: Bugs ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Spain is known for many things, including fantastic sunshine, bullfights, Flamenco music and more. It’s also one of the biggest countries in the world for soccer, or, as called by its proper name, fútbol. If you’re outside of Spain and want to get in on the action, you’ll need a Spanish IP address. In this guide on how to get a Spanish IP address, we’ll show you how to tunnel into the country securely. While accessing fútbol streams is great, we’re also going to talk about the security and privacy risks involved with connecting to ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. © xkcd.com under the Creative Commons License 2.5Functions defined as SECURITY DEFINER are a powerful, but dangerous tool in PostgreSQL.The documentation warns of the dangers:Because a SECURITY DEFINER function is executed with the privileges of the user that owns it, care is needed to ensure that the function cannot be misused. For security, search_path should be set to exclude any schemas writable by untrusted users. This prevents malicious users from creating objects (e.g., tables, functions, and operators) that mask objects intended to be used by the function.This article describes such an attack, in the hope to alert ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Packt Publishing. PyTorch is known for being a clean framework, and hence it was a challenging task to achieve the production capability and flexibility needed for research. I think that the major hurdle for pushing production support to the core was going out of Python's realm and moving the PyTorch model to a faster, thread-safe language that has multithreading capability. But then, that violated the Python-first principle that PyTorch had up to that point.   Serving the PyTorch model in Python itself is the easiest way of serving your model in ... Read More