Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2018

With a little more investigation, I found two browser extensions that were crypto mining, which fortunately uninstalled without a problem. My high schooler fessed up immediately that he installed the crypto mining extensions just to see what would happen (and to make some money). At dinner, we had “the talk” about safe computing.

Cybersecurity 86

Cybersecurity Mining Ransomware Data breaches 86

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Who Owns Our Personal Data? Who now owns that data?

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Data breaches Personal data GDPR Data collection 53

John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Bitcoin mining operation. “These definitions do not restrict the use of pen registers or trap-and-trace devices to communication facilities associated with individual users, it is finding that these definitions encompass an exceptionally broad form of collection.” And tweet us links! ” N.S.A.

Computer and Electronics 95

Computer and Electronics Mining Privacy Paper 95

The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

After a document is captured, employees collaborate by adding data, editing information, approving or denying requests, adding metadata, etc. Additionally, non-record data may have administrative value and may contain confidential information that must be safeguarded, even if it does not have any records retention requirements.

Information governance 98

Information governance Government Records Management e-Discovery 98

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The popular expert Marcus Hutchins analyzed data shared by Beaumont and confirmed that attacks the honeypot systems were hit by attackers leveraging the BlueKeep exploits to deliver a Monero Miner. Due to only smaller size kernel dumps being enabled, it is difficult to arrive at a definite root cause.” They only expose port 3389.

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Honeypots Mining Analytics Ransomware 67

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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Digital transformation Blockchain IT Computer and Electronics 59

InfoGovNuggets

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

“Alternative Data Is Valued on Wall Street,” The Wall Street Journal , November 2, 2018 B1. Companies mine different types of available information to help traders. Is information is worth so much, won’t someone start a business to provide it? Apparently.

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Mining IT Access Analytics 28

Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2023

This ask gave me an opportunity to think about what I'd like to say to people who write (or might write in the future) application programs that involve accessing Db2 for z/OS-managed data. I'll share these thoughts of mine in a two-part blog entry. For one thing, job one really is to get the right data.

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Access Mining IT Communications 62

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors. We foresee regulations expanding beyond authentication and data privacy, and into more detailed requirements of network security and visibility into device bills of materials.

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IoT Security Manufacturing Privacy 89

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.

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Passwords Phishing Mining Data breaches 355

ForAllSecure

APRIL 4, 2023

There’s been a major data breach, and you’re booked on the next night flight out, at 6am. Which creates some interesting challenges such as how do you respond to an incident when all the data can be cleared out of the cloud? There's definitely some tricky things in the cloud. It’s 3am and the call comes in.

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Cloud Government Access IT 40

eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

If you don’t, Rob discusses definitions for these different types of predictive coding technologies and others. So far, Rob has received 19 responses (mine was one of those). You probably know what Active Learning is. Do you know what Latent Semantic Analysis is? What about Logistic Regression ? Or a Naïve Bayesian Classifier ?

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Mining Education IT 31

Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Here goes: Last week, someone reached it to me with what they claimed was a Spoutible data breach obtained by exploiting an enumerable API. Just your classic case of putting someone else's username in the URL and getting back data about them, which at first glance I assumed was another scraping situation like we recently saw with Trello.

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Personal data Passwords Data breaches IT 145

John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Comcast is definitely throttling Netflix, and it’s infuriating. Data pioneers watching us work — FT. Mining for efficiency and effectiveness gains, but it all sounds a little creepy, too. Steelcase is even putting sensors into furniture.

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Mining Metadata Privacy Encryption 64

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.

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MDM Retail IT Government 75

CILIP

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Now we are in a place where Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the ideas that are set to launch the next big thing. New conference, ConTech, which takes place in December and is in its second year aims to capitalise on the buzz about data and AI for anyone working with content ? The company is built on data and that?s

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e-Delivery Libraries Data science Artificial Intelligence 40

John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2012

And this time, I’m going to give you more data to work with, and a fresh challenge. (Or ” By their definition, reach means “the total number of people who have taken action — viewed or clicked — on the content in your feed.” Is it normal for sites like mine to have.0017

IT 101

IT Mining 101

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. They're on all your devices, [Peloton commercial]. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

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Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. What's on your mobile than our external API's and in the past few years there's been an explosion of external API data. They're on all your devices, [Peloton commercial]. Okay, that's starting to get very personal.

Authentication 52

Authentication Communications IoT Security 52

Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

In the next few months, it will show all pages requested over an unencrypted connection as "Not secure" The risk this poses is that any intermediary able to intercept the traffic has the ability to read and modify the data (and yes, that applies to internal company networks as well).

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Security Passwords Authentication Mining 61

ARMA International

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Whereas the pilots of yesteryear had to decide whether to take their aviation skills and adapt them to space flight, you must choose whether to adapt and expand your records disciplines and apply them to all of your organization’s information – regardless of its data type, format, delivery medium, department, or location.

Information governance 98

Information governance Government Records Management Energy and Utilities 98

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. Again, NOT SO.

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Mining Financial Services Retail Sales 48

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 21, 2011

Not only did The Information speak to the theme of the conference this year ( the Data Frame ), I also knew Gleick, one of science's foremost historians and storytellers, would have a lot to say to our industry. Reviews of The Information are mostly raves, and I have to add mine to the pile.

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Mining Communications IT 90

Robert's Db2

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Think, for example, about the packages associated with the IBM Data Server Driver (which you can think of as the successor to Db2 Connect). These packages, whose default collection is named NULLID, are used by applications (other than REST clients) that access a Db2 for z/OS system via Db2's distributed data facility (DDF).

Mining 62

Mining IT Access 62

Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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IoT Security Risk Cloud 143

Robert's Db2

JANUARY 26, 2015

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.

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Mining Access IT 48

Information Management Resources

DECEMBER 26, 2017

have been making their rounds these past few months, mine included (authoring tools), but what about the worst? The data though just doesn’t back it up. Questionmark has a nice niche with the F500, and there are definitely CLO’s who love it, but is it sustainable over the next few years? I have it still to this day.

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Marketing Mining IT Cloud 0

ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

You see, Mills, you see cotton gins, you see mines that have shut down, you see places and every now and then there's somewhat of a success story. Daniel: Due to some labor disputes, and, you know, mining, even open pit mining, is a rough job. And you know the hollow empty factories in different places.

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Mining IT Security Education 52

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

erwin

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Untapped data, if mined, represents tremendous potential for your organization. While there has been a lot of talk about big data over the years, the real hero in unlocking the value of enterprise data is metadata , or the data about the data. Metadata Is the Heart of Data Intelligence.

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Metadata Big data Government Mining 104

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

Robert's Db2

MARCH 13, 2011

While several of the DB2 DISPLAY commands provide information that's useful for monitoring activity on a DB2 subsystem (a favorite of mine is -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(ACTIVE) DETAIL), for an in-depth view into what's going on you really want the capabilities of a monitor tool at your disposal. Take, for each part of the report (i.e.,

Mining 48

Mining IT Access 48

AIIM

JUNE 30, 2020

Notice this definition includes all of the supporting strategies, methods, and tools in addition to the technology itself. In other words, the role we expect content and information management to play in our organizations is more than ECM (especially in its more traditional transaction-centric and records-centric definition).

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ECM Content services Paper Information architecture 184

eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2023

Organizations must practice incident response if they want to stop data breaches and cyberattacks. Insider threats : This refers to the risk posed by individuals within an organization who have authorized access but misuse it to intentionally or unintentionally harm the organization’s security, systems, or data.

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Ransomware Passwords Data breaches Access 86

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.

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Digital transformation Security Analytics Mining 140

Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

The fact that SHA-1 is fast to calculate and has proven hash collision attacks against its integrity doesn't diminish the purpose it serves in protecting badly parsed data. By any definition of the term, those first 6 bytes tell you absolutely nothing useful about what email address is being searched for. is the middle one.

Passwords 123

Passwords IT Mining Consumer Services 123

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Vamosi: So let's first ground ourselves in a common definition of what is and what is not stalkerware. So one of the definitions in that definition of stalkerware.

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Passwords Access IoT IT 52