John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 4, 2015

Last year, for example, I predicted that 2014 would be the year that the Internet would “adopt the planet as its cause.” A good example of this is my declaring that Twitter would become a major media platform three years ago. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. It’s about time. 2014: How I Did.

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

Shields Health Care Group The largest data breach of April 2023 was at the Shields Health Care Group, a Massachusetts-based medical services provider. Reports emerged near the end of the month that a cyber criminal had gained unauthorised access to the organisation’s systems and had stolen the personal data of 2.3

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. We welcome the Government’s proposal for an offence of knowingly or recklessly re-identifying de-identified personal data without the data controller’s consent.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, some adware might harvest personal data or redirect web browsers to malicious websites. Although Creeper is the first known example of a worm, it is not actually malware. The attack is an early example of social engineering and phishing. Thus the first computer worm was born.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

This tends to diffuse sober analysis of the countless examples of Russia, in particular, weaponizing social media to spread falsehoods, interfere in elections, target infrastructure and even radicalize youth. In 2011, Russia launched a social media site called iFunny aimed at disaffected young men.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

They were particularly effective at wreaking havoc on the web around 2011 and back then, they too were represented as being another bunch of scary dudes. For example: It's also configured to route requests out over Tor and. Many times, exposed data is literally just lying around on publicly facing services. Remember LulzSec ?

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