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Optimizing energy production with the latest smart grid technologies

IBM Big Data Hub

New technologies are shaping the way we produce, distribute and consume energy. alone has installed nearly 10,000 electricity generation units, connected by more than 300,000 miles of transmission lines and capable of generating over a million megawatts of energy. Software and analytics: Smart grids generate massive amounts of data.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

It also appears that the data was accessed: the Readme bot “partially destroyed” the open instance, injecting a ransom note with a bitcoin wallet address to send a payment to in exchange for the files. Data breached: over 300 million records. The company’s description of the incident suggested ransomware.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Nearly 20 million Cutout.Pro users’ data breached Cutout.Pro, an AI photo and video editing platform, has suffered a data breach. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

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Private cloud use cases: 6 ways private cloud brings value to enterprise business

IBM Big Data Hub

Enterprise organizations in industries that need to meet strict regulatory compliance standards or comply with data sovereignty laws (manufacturing, energy, oil and gas) frequently choose private cloud environments when they need to meet strict regulatory standards. All the major public cloud providers (e.g.,

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