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Akira ransomware attack on Tietoevry disrupted the services of many Swedish organizations

Security Affairs

Impacted customers include Sweden’s largest cinema chain Filmstaden (the attack disrupted its online ticket system) and the discount retail chain Rusta. At present, Tietoevry cannot provide a definite timeframe for the complete restoration process due to the complexity of the security breach.

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VR Business Applications: Branding with VR

AIIM

For instance, healthcare, education, and journalism are experimenting with VR and related technologies. Some educational institutions are using VR is similar ways, helping simulate certain situations using VR, AR, and MR technologies. It seems VR is poised to disrupt all sorts of business practices and even entire industries.

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Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

The Security Ledger

While exact numbers are hard to come by, large scale studies of companies found that more than a third had been hit by ransomware in the past year, with the retail, government and education sectors particularly hard hit.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

GB City of Clemson, South Carolina Source New Public USA Yes 21,056 DGX-Dependable Hawaiian Express Source New Professional services USA Yes 20 GB Verdimed Source New Agricultural Spain Yes 19 GB Watchmax Source New Retail UK Yes 15,000 Del-Tron Precision Source New Manufacturing India Yes 8.9 GB Signature Performance, Inc.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

From the conclusion: The result of performing that operation on the series of cumulated benefits extrapolated for the 169 survey respondents finds that present value of benefits from today's perspective is approximately $8.9 On the other hand, the present value of NIST's costs from today's perspective is $127 million.

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Conversational AI use cases for enterprises

IBM Big Data Hub

Retail: Customers can manage their entire shopping experience online—from placing orders to handling shipping, changes, cancellations, returns and even accessing customer support—all without human interaction. Conversational AI is also making significant strides in other industries such as education, insurance and travel.

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Data breaches and cyber attacks quarterly review: Q2 2021

IT Governance

The education, technology and retail sectors were the other big contributors to Q2’s total with 44, 42, and 41 incidents, respectively. Notably, there was a significant increase in data breaches and cyber attacks in the retail sector compared to Q1 (41 vs 14). Keeping your organisation secure.