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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

Earlier this year, for example, the group was tied to a particularly aggressive malware campaign that exploited recent vulnerabilities in widely-used networking products, including flaws in Cisco and D-Link routers, as well as Citrix and Pulse VPN appliances. .” APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day.

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Acuity Who? Attempts and Failures to Attribute 437GB of Breached Data

Troy Hunt

Does that mean that Netflix, for example, provided customer data to this list? Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. Could that indicate the data as coming from Acuity Ads (now Illumin )?

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blekko Explains Itself: Exclusive Video (Update: Exclusive Invite)

John Battelle's Searchblog

But then again, there are literally hundreds of thousands of such folks - the entire SEO/SEM industry, for example. And in case you are wondering what the big deal is, besides all the data you can mine, to my mind, it's the ability to cull the web - to "slash" the stuff you don't care about out of your search results.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

It uses advanced tools to look at raw data, gather a data set, process it, and develop insights to create meaning. Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Publishes Final Guidance On Employee Monitoring

Data Protection Report

It substantially follows the draft guidance, with some additional examples and pointers on where employers “must”, “should”, or “could” follow the approach laid out. Similarly, examples draw out the distinctions between workers who might expect intrusive monitoring in their employment and those who would not. Takeaways for employers 1.1

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Additionally, data science requires experience in SQL database coding and an ability to work with unstructured data of various types, such as video, audio, pictures and text. For example, retailers can predict which stores are most likely to sell out of a particular kind of product.

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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

For example, a completed W4 form is a record , and it provides information about an employee’s tax withholding preferences. It is a useful tool that helps us consider how records might need to be managed differently, depending on their current purpose and function. Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.