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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

Most of the unstructured data generated in the course of conducting digital commerce doesn’t get stored in a database or any other formal management system. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. With unstructured data, out of sight is out of mind, leaving it ill protected.

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SHARED INTEL: A foolproof consumer’s guide to creating and managing bulletproof passwords

The Last Watchdog

Some studies show as many as 40 billion records were compromised in 2021. Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. You can use the same method, of course, for the smaller parts of the password. And finding that password is even easier.

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Why is most of the 20th Century invisible to AI?

CILIP

t an area of academic study ? d borrowed from and donated to the library, and then we used large scale computing to mine that against all the books he?d t study anyone after 1910 using that because we can?t The Victorians are the people that you can study because that?s s tried and tested safety mechanisms? So, we couldn?t

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A Java Program, a COBOL Program, and a DB2 Update - An Interesting Case Study

Robert's Db2

Not long ago, an IBM colleague of mine who is a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS specialist sent to me and to a few other IBMers (including some of our CICS and DB2 for z/OS developers) some information about an application scenario, and asked for our ideas and feedback. I think it makes for an interesting case study.

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Founders Online Celebrates Seventh Anniversary

Archives Blogs

Writers of book-length studies have discovered the usefulness of the searchable database that drives Founders Online. Media, social and otherwise, mine the trove. New works such as Martha Brockenbrough’s Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary , Robert L. Every history writer keeps a list of questions or problems like that to be addressed.

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Tips on collecting data for social network analysis (SNA)

ChiefTech

While the results of an SNA project are focused on the intangible connections between people (and there is a lot of focus on this fun part), the process of collecting data for SNA is actually similar in fashion to data mining and it requires a bit of planning to do it effectively. Data Mining. Pre-processing. Transformation.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this.