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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

” Most Devices Communicate in Plaintext. That said, it was devices like 3D printers, data collection terminals and geolocation trackers in such segments as manufacturing and retail that generated 59 percent of the transactions from IoT devices. How the devices communicated was also a problem.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing. Cybercriminals have begun escalating their efforts to bend the legitimate online advertising and retailing fulfillment ecosystem to their whims.

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What is a business glossary?

Collibra

In other cases, differences could be down to the entity in question – for example, a retail bank would see customers as natural persons, while a corporate bank would broadly see them as companies. Data dictionaries, on the other hand, describe specific data elements in a way that databases can understand.

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CNIL Fines Two Companies of the Carrefour Group €3.05 Million for GDPR and Cookie Violations

Hunton Privacy

On November 26, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it imposed a fine of €2.25 million on Carrefour France and a fine of €800,000 on Carrefour Banque for various violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act governing the use of cookies.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. ” SEPTEMBER.

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The Internet of Things (IoT): Managing the Data Tsunami

Collibra

Advancements in sensor equipment will enable more data to be gathered with greater accuracy, granularity and at lower cost (both financially and in terms of power consumption). Continued evolution of chipsets, cloud architectures and AI/ML algorithms will provide evermore scalable storage and computer required to analyse that data.

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Conversational AI use cases for enterprises

IBM Big Data Hub

Today, people don’t just prefer instant communication; they expect it. The integration of these technologies extends beyond reactive communication. Marketing and sales: Conversational AI has become an invaluable tool for data collection.