The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The data shows how perceptions around cyber and technology risks, from ransomware and other cyber-attacks to the threats posed by AI, are changing the global business risk landscape. Companies with an annual revenue of US$250,000 to US$999,999 report feeling less prepared to deal with cyber risks in 2023 (76%) than they did in 2022 (70%).

Risk 189

Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities Marketing 189

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Steelcase is a US-based furniture company that produces office furniture, architectural and technology products for office environments and the education, health care and retail industries. The company is not aware of data loss caused by the ransomware attack. It is the largest office furniture manufacturer in the world.

Ransomware 100

Ransomware Computer and Electronics Manufacturing Mining 100

Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Many businesses are suffering serious financial difficulties as a result of COVID-19, particularly those in the retail, hospitality and tourism sectors. For example, in February of this year, the FCA and ICO issued a joint statement warning regulated firms and insolvency practitioners of their responsibilities when dealing with personal data.

Personal data 100

Personal data Sales Marketing GDPR 100

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, you want to know if your telecom provider offers an unlimited data plan, so you call customer service and are given a set of basic questions following strict if-then scenarios—“… say yes if you want to review service plans; say yes if you want unlimited data.”. Watson Assistant sits at the top—level three.

Customer Experience 86

Customer Experience Mining Retail Analytics 86

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Now toss in the fact that digital transformation is redoubling software development and data handling complexities.

Digital transformation 193

Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Additionally, data-driven insights uncover new sources of revenue such as new products, services, markets, audiences, channels, partners, etc. Check out “ The New Normal: Big Data Business Model Disintermediation and Disruption ” for more details on business model disruption and customer disintermediation.

Artificial Intelligence 102

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Customer Experience Big data 102

John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 12, 2014

The post We Have Yet to Clothe Ourselves In Data. We’ll “dress ourselves in data,” because doing so will become socially important – and personally rewarding – to do so. Sure, you can download a copy of your Facebook data, but what can you *do* with it? Data fashion will develop similar players.

Retail 109

Retail Mining Sales IT 109

Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2019

The flaw also affected the Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure, the Fusion Middleware MapViewer, and four three Oracle Retail components. The bug affected the OCA’s Diameter Signalling Router component and its Communications Services Gatekeeper.

Financial Services 70

Financial Services Libraries Mining Retail 70

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor or rebuild) to achieve the desired result. Duplicative capabilities across applications and channels give rise to duplicative IT resources (e.g.,

Cloud 99

Cloud Customer Experience Mining Marketing 99

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Amazon is investigating allegations that its staff is selling customer data. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. US State Department confirms data breach to unclassified email system. Ngrok Mining Botnet. A flaw in Alpine Linux could allow executing arbitrary code.

Computer and Electronics 55

Computer and Electronics Security Mining Data breaches 55

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, you want to know if your telecom provider offers an unlimited data plan, so you call customer service and are given a set of basic questions following strict if-then scenarios—“… say yes if you want to review service plans; say yes if you want unlimited data.”. Watson Assistant sits at the top—level three.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Mining Retail Analytics 52

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The partners aim to combine fingerprint and facial data to more effectively authenticate employees in workplace settings. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. The partnering of SureID and Robbie.AI

Privacy 157

Privacy Retail Authentication Artificial Intelligence 157

Reltio

MAY 21, 2019

. “I think we don’t really have a good hold on customer data. We are not able to segment customers by loyalty, price-elasticity, impulsivity, or need, as we cannot continuously align and correlate interaction and transaction data with customer profile. Especially for CPG, retail, or hospitality business.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Retail B2C Marketing 89

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? This year’s report is especially relevant because it tells us federal agency data is under siege.

Encryption 48

Encryption Cloud Data breaches Government 48

John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If Walmart can leverage data tokens to lure Amazon’s best customers away , what else is possible in a world of enabled by my fictional Token Act? What I envision below assumes the Token Act has passed, and we’re at least a year or two into its adoption by most major data players. Gramercy Tavern in New York City.

Marketing 53

Marketing Retail Blockchain Mining 53

Reltio

MARCH 19, 2019

Mike Evans is CTO and Founder at Comma Group and has spent more than a decade in the business analysis, MDM and data management space. What is your background and what was your route into data management? I never consciously chose to work in data. It became apparent very quickly that a lack of focus on data was the root cause.

MDM 75

MDM Retail IT Government 75

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Data poisoning attacks. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. duplicate) models or recover training data membership via blackbox probing. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. Model stealing techniques.

Mining 107

Mining Cloud Paper Artificial Intelligence 107

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Data poisoning attacks. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. duplicate) models or recover training data membership via blackbox probing. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. Model stealing techniques.

Mining 91

Mining Cloud Paper Artificial Intelligence 91

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Additionally, data-driven insights uncover new sources of revenue such as new products, services, markets, audiences, channels, partners, etc. Check out “ The New Normal: Big Data Business Model Disintermediation and Disruption ” for more details on business model disruption and customer disintermediation.

Analytics 40

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Customer Experience Big data 40

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

Passwords 356

Passwords Phishing Mining Data breaches 356

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 18, 2012

His thesis extends to transportation (think Uber but also FedEx, which runs on software), retail (besides Amazon, Walmart is a data machine), healthcare (huge data opportunity, as yet unrealized), energy (same), and even defense. Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk.

Mining 97

Mining Retail Communications Marketing 97

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Riskonnect.

Compliance 67

Compliance Risk Government Retail 67

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Riskonnect.

Compliance 57

Compliance Risk Government Retail 57

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 30, 2010

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. You came in for your own retail therapy, after all.

Retail 92

Retail Search queries Marketing Mining 92

Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

This screen faces out into the retail store with people constantly wandering past it only a couple of meters away, well within the distance required to observe the contents off it. This is the user-selected password used for identity verification with store customers wandering past it.

Security 61

Security Passwords Authentication Mining 61

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. That’s because we’re looking for ways to improve the way we deliver this data. Our blog has become the go-to source for monthly data breach statistics, and we’ve been producing this series for over seven years. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

Data breaches 143

Data breaches Ransomware Education Phishing 143

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

Passwords 233

Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 233

Robert's Db2

JUNE 5, 2012

First, the basics: table-controlled partitioning refers to a means of range-partitioning the data in a table, so that, for example, sales records for retail store numbers 1-25 go into table space partition 1, records for store numbers 26-50 go into partition 2, records for store numbers 51-75 go into partition 3, and so on. NO PROBLEM.

Mining 48

Mining Financial Services Retail Sales 48

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). Hackers steal personal data from website of Denmark’s Tivoli Park (1,000). Data breaches. Ransomware.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Phishing Ransomware Personal data 111

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Enabling true transformation You’re on the lookout for adoption of industry best practices along with the capabilities of process mining and process discovery to both simplify and standardize the process flows. From a business and IT perspective, this helps in cycle time and eventually price per business object.

Cloud 94

Cloud Mining Retail Sales 94

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2018

NTA refers to using advanced data mining and security analytics techniques to detect and investigate malicious activity in traffic moving between each device and on every critical system in a company network. Meanwhile, here are key takeaways: Data ingestion advances. Related: How the Uber hack pivoted off of DevOps.

Digital transformation 140

Digital transformation Security Analytics Mining 140

CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Utilities Digital Journey Insights (Part 3): Data, the new “digital capital” - Going beyond the hype of advanced analytics and AI. The 2018 CGI Client Global Insights reveal that utilities recognize data as the new “digital capital.” What’s holding utilities back from delivering the benefits of data? Quite simply, data.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Analytics Digital transformation Customer Experience 40

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic. And so far we've had reassurance from them that no patient data has been compromised. And in many cases, employers would expect you to go to work even if you were sick certainly in, even in places like retail. Remember using early versions of it.

IT 52

IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic. And so far we've had reassurance from them that no patient data has been compromised. And in many cases, employers would expect you to go to work even if you were sick certainly in, even in places like retail. Remember using early versions of it.

IT 52

IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Harnessing industry insights from previously disclosed breaches, insurance claims data, and incidents that have not been publicly disclosed, Kovrr’s models assess the likely frequency and severity of cyber breaches experienced by the included companies.

Retail 100

Retail Risk Data breaches Mining 100