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The Risks In Using Third-Party Code

ForAllSecure

During 2013’s peak holiday shopping months, popular retailer Target was breached -- 40 million customer credit card accounts, and up to 110 million sets of personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers were stolen. Thus far, the breach has cost the retailer $61 million. Watch EP 04 See TV Guide. See graph above.

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Massachusetts Court Ruling Benefits Plaintiff in Zip Code Case

Hunton Privacy

The court ruled that (1) a ZIP code constitutes personal identification information under the Massachusetts law; (2) a plaintiff may bring an action for a violation of the Massachusetts law absent identity fraud; and (3) the term “credit card transaction form” refers equally to electronic and paper transaction forms. Michaels Stores, Inc. ,

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A Digital Transformation Lesson: Open Source Business Models

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

In my original Strata presentation back in 2012, I shared with the audience how they could use Michael Porter’s classic (Old School) Value Chain Analysis technique to identify where and how to apply big data analytics. The goal was to deliver material financial, operational, and competitive benefits to the organization (see Figure 2).

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A Digital Transformation Lesson: Open Source Business Models

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

In my original Strata presentation back in 2012, I shared with the audience how they could use Michael Porter’s classic (Old School) Value Chain Analysis technique to identify where and how to apply big data analytics. The goal was to deliver material financial, operational, and competitive benefits to the organization (see Figure 2).

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. Another domain registered to that phone number is bothunter[.]me me , which included a copyright credit to “Hot Spot 2011.”