The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software.

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Privacy Retail Authentication Artificial Intelligence 109

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. A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals. Kate Tickner, Reltio.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Many businesses are suffering serious financial difficulties as a result of COVID-19, particularly those in the retail, hospitality and tourism sectors. The case involved the fall out of a lending business from the Lehman Brothers Group which was subject to a large number of PPI claims.

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Personal data Sales Marketing GDPR 99

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 1, 2011

To help us think through the program and theme of the Web 2 Summit this Fall, we invited a small group of influential folks in the Bay area to a restaurant in San Francisco, fed them drinks and snacks, and invited their input. Dan, another anonymized pal of mine, made his name in real estate. Do you have examples like mine?

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Mining Healthcare Retail IT 111

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 30, 2010

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. You came in for your own retail therapy, after all.

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Retail Search queries Marketing Mining 92

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. Penchukov was arrested after leaving Ukraine to meet up with his wife in Switzerland.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Encryption 220

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

suffers second ransomware attack in months Having been struck by a ransomware attack in October by the BlackSuit group , which led to operations and appointments being postponed, Akumin Inc. has suffered a second attack, this time by the BianLian ransomware group. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co.

Data Privacy 101

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 101

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Sensitive data belonging to Loyal Order officials found by a member of the public on street (unknown) Ocean City therapist used patients’ credit cards for psychic readings InterContinental Hotels Group confirms cyber attack by ‘vindictive’ couple (unknown) Health worker photographed patient credit cards and went shopping with them (120).

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Data breaches Ransomware Education Phishing 143

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Known records breached Eye4Fraud Source (New) Finance USA Yes 14,900,000 Gumtree Source (New) IT services South Africa Yes 13,300,000 Schneider Electric Source (New) Energy France Yes “terabytes” of data BeatBase ApS Source (New) IT services Denmark Yes 1,648,030 Football Australia Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Leisure Australia Yes 1,421,804 Indian Bank (..)

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Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 88

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. Network traffic analytics, or NTA , just may be that pivotal step forward. Related: How the Uber hack pivoted off of DevOps.

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Digital transformation Security Analytics Mining 104

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic. So, you know, a or a group of enterprising hackers thought huh. And in many cases, employers would expect you to go to work even if you were sick certainly in, even in places like retail. Remember using early versions of it.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic. So, you know, a or a group of enterprising hackers thought huh. And in many cases, employers would expect you to go to work even if you were sick certainly in, even in places like retail. Remember using early versions of it.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s rare I imagine something bounded in real space – a new restaurant or a retail store. Back in the early 1990s my best friend’s dad died, and a group of us scattered his ashes at the top of Mammoth Mountain, where all of us loved to ski. But a recent thought experiment made me question that assumption.

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Mining Retail IT Marketing 75

IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). Online clothing retailer Poshmark confirms data breach (unknown). Group dating app 3fun exposes sensitive data amid app vulnerability (1.5 Hacker’s site incriminating database published online by rival group (749,161). Ransomware.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Phishing Ransomware Personal data 111

ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In particular, I think if technology, one Office group, not one of this group is, I believe survivors and I think that's a responsibility to totally understand the impact of our technology. It's important that people think this isn't mine. Their work is on society in general and vulnerable. We share some resources on tech abuse.

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Passwords Access IoT IT 52

Reltio

JULY 23, 2019

I was trained in Oracle relational databases and GUI tools to deliver group-wide Banking Systems. I started on a graduate trainee scheme that Abbey National (Santander) were running in computer programming. I stayed for a few years and then became tempted by the opportunity to broaden my horizons by becoming a freelancer.

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