Can big data be used to protect the big data industry from hackers, reports Forbes. 

Big data has immense value, but there is little doubt it remains extremely vulnerable to hackers and malicious actors. 

According to Phys.org, scientists need an easier way to access big data generated by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. 

At CERN's Large Hadron Collider, as many as 40 million particle collisions occur within the span of a single second inside the CMS particle detector's more than 80 million detection channels. 

Is big data really living up to its hype, reports Forbes.

In a May 2011 special research report, Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity, the management consulting firm McKinsey put forth the case that “Big data will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus.”