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Detecting and characterizing lateral phishing at scale Ho et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019 This is an investigation into the phenomenon of lateral phishing attacks. A lateral phishing attack is one where a compromised account within an organisation is used to send out further phishing emails (typically to other employees within the same organisation). So … Continue reading Detecting and characterizing lateral phishing at scale

GridGain announces new tools and resources to make it easier to develop and manage applications for Apache Ignite and GridGain. Learn about our new documentation site, developer portal, and a redesigned GridGain Web Console.

in-toto: providing farm-to-table guarantees for bits and bytes Torres-Arias et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019 Small world with high risks did a great job of highlighting the absurd risks we’re currently carrying in many software supply chains. There are glimmers of hope though. This paper describes in-toto, and end-to-end system for ensuring the integrity of … Continue reading In-toto: providing farm-to-table guarantees for bits and bytes

Transaction processing in today’s global payments networks is what essentially powers the global economy. The framework for transaction processing has expanded and morphed considerably over the past few years as consumers have started using their mobile devices to execute payments. Meanwhile, non-traditional deep-pocketed players like Google and Apple have entered the system with competitive alternatives, […]

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“Corporations can have the best technology, the best digital infrastructure, but if they cannot excite people to work with it and to see it not only as a tool, but a vehicle for innovation and development that can massively empower the greater vision of the company they are part of, technology will only reach half […]

The Spark SQL engine provides structured streaming data processing. The benefit here is that users can implement scalable and fault-tolerant data stream processing between the initial data source and final data sync. You can read more about it here. Apache Ignite provides the Ignite SQL engine, which includes advanced indexing and strong processing APIs for computing on distributed data. In other words, Apache Ignite can be used as an accelerator for data processing.

Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the npm ecosystem Zimmermann et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019 This is a fascinating study of the npm ecosystem, looking at the graph of maintainers and packages and its evolution over time. It’s packed with some great data, and also helps us quantify something … Continue reading Small world with high risks: a study of security threats in the npm ecosystem

Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems Sathaye et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019 It’s been a while since we last looked at security attacks against connected real-world entities (e.g., industrial machinery, light-bulbs, and cars). Today’s paper is a good reminder of just how important it is becoming to consider cyber threat models in what … Continue reading Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems

We had a great time at Oracle OpenWorld last week and really enjoyed sharing the power of active analytics with everyone who stopped by our booth or came to our sessions!

With so much buzz around the event, we wanted …

Culture makes a good company, great. To achieve greatness, we have to be willing to admit “we’re all a little dysfunctional” if we’re going to take our team to the next level. The word “dysfunction” can have a negative connotation. In fact, many people start to get very uncomfortable at the mere mention that something ...continue reading We’re all a little dysfunctional, but there’s something we can do about it…

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This blog was originally published on the Oracle for Startups blog .

Guest Author: Amy Sorrells, Global Communications, Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem

You might not know the name Kinetica today. But their executives believe in the near future the name …

If you’ve been following Intel IT’s data center strategy journey, which began in April 2010, you know that every few years we publish an update to our white paper, “Data Center Strategy Leading Intel’s Business Transformation.” These updates track the extraordinary business value (USD 2.8 billion in savings so far!) that can result from running ...continue reading Intel’s Data Center Strategy Leads to USD 2.8 Billion in Savings

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If you look at the top trends in technology, things like autonomous vehicles, blockchain, edge deployment, natural language processing, and virtual reality, they all need analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). As society generates an unprecedented amount of data, there is an opportunity to make systems more efficient and create entirely new, immersive services. The challenge ...continue reading How to Become a Data-First Enterprise

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50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system Reardon et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019 The problem is all inside your app, she said to me / The answer is easy if you take it logically / I’d like to help data in its struggle to be … Continue reading 50 ways to leak your data: an exploration of apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system

At this year’s SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Intel is unveiling the storage networking technologies in our new Intel® Ethernet 800 Series silicon and network adapters. First announced in April of this year, the Intel Ethernet 800 Series features speeds up to 100GbE and many new advanced, innovative capabilities. The Ethernet controller and four new Intel ...continue reading Choosing the Right NVMe over Fabrics Transport Protocol Option for Data Center Storage

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