Dell Technologies and Cloudera have collaborated to deliver best-in-class solutions for analytics on optimized infrastructure for nearly a decade, since the dawn of the Big Data era. During this time, we have jointly developed numerous solutions for flexible, scalable, and enterprise-class analytics applications based on Cloudera software and Dell EMC infrastructure. These analytic solutions have grown to encompass far more than Apache Hadoop. The modern data platform includes a multitude of capabilities and applications that…

Working with clients on finding vulnerabilities within their cybersecurity frameworks is the key part of a security manager’s job. Here’s how one security auditing manager gets it done. Bryan Hornung, center, is a security auditing manager and CEO of Xact IT Solutions. He helps clients make their systems secure and in compliance with government regulations.  Image: Xact IT Solutions When he was in college at Rider University in New Jersey, Bryan Hornung wanted to…

Email spam is an old problem that many people may have forgotten about or, at least, made peace with. Thanks to improvements in automatic filters from email providers and third-party services, the early 2000′s onslaught of sketchy Viagra offers and promised contest winnings were mostly kept out of sight. The spam waterfall became a leaky faucet, with just a few iffy emails showing up in our inboxes alongside a bunch of legitimate marketing emails that…

The modern world would grind to a halt without URLs, but years of inconsistent parsing specifications have created an environment ripe for exploitation that puts countless businesses at risk. Image: RobertAx, Getty Images/iStockphoto A team of security researchers has discovered serious flaws in the way the modern internet parses URLs: Specifically, that there are too many URL parsers with inconsistent rules, which has created a worldwide web easily exploited by savvy attackers. We don’t even…

Over half (51%) of SME businesses and self-employed workers in the UK have experienced a cybersecurity breach, according to a new study by insurance firm Markel Direct. The findings were taken from a survey of 1000 SME firms and self-employed individuals in the UK, underlining fears that these organizations are at particularly high risk of cyber-attacks due to lack of resources and cybersecurity expertise. This issue has been exacerbated by the digital shift during COVID-19. The most common…

US government security experts have issued new guidance for possible targets of commercial spyware on protecting themselves from unwarranted surveillance. “Some governments are using commercial surveillance software to target dissidents, journalists & others around the globe who they perceive as critics,” warned the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) in a Twitter post. “Commercial surveillance tools are also being used in ways that pose a serious counterintelligence and security risk to US personnel and…