Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 18, 2022

When a participant uses a SNAP payment card at an authorized retail store, their SNAP EBT account is debited to reimburse the store for food that was purchased. The Massachusetts SNAP benefits card looks more like a library card than a payment card. .” California’s EBT card does not currently include a chip.

Retail 293

Retail Libraries IT Risk 293

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2025

Last Friday morning, April 11, I was making my way home from NTT Researchs Upgrade 2025 innovation conference in San Francisco, when it struck me that were at a watershed moment. On one hand, NTT Research CEO Kazu Gomi drew this analogy: for millennia, humans watched apples fall without understanding why. What’s in the black box?

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Artificial Intelligence Retail Libraries 147

Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2019

In fact, the “ fwmain32 ” process is part of the software services produced by Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH, one of the major vendors providing retail and banking hardware such as ATMs. Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. .

Libraries 240

Libraries e-Discovery Communications File names 240

Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2019

FIN6 group has been active since 2015, past attacks were focused on point-of-sale (POS) machines used by retailers and companies in the hospitality sector in the U.S. and Europe. . The experts discovered that the FIN6 group (a.k.a. ITG08) is injecting malicious software card skimmers into online checkout pages of compromised websites.

Retail 274

Retail Libraries Sales Phishing 274

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Multiple supply chains potentially impacted Bulgaria hit by a cyber attack originating from Russia Interpol arrested 75 members of the cybercrime ring Black Axe 45,654 VMware ESXi servers reached End of Life on Oct.

Security 194

Security Data breaches Ransomware Retail 194

CILIP

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Shift happens: the future office/library in a connected world. The impact of the pandemic on office life has been dramatic, but as we learn to live with Covid-19 what will the future hold. Luis Suarez, Neil Usher and Rob Cottrill join CILIP President Paul Corney for this issue?s s President?s Join CILIP?s t going into work, they don?t

Libraries 88

Libraries Retail IT Digital transformation 88

CILIP

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Take action with your library this Libraries Week. This Libraries Week (4-10 October 2021) libraries across the UK showcase their vital role in supporting active and engaged communities as we celebrate the transformative impact libraries can have on people?s s much-loved libraries.

Libraries 52

Libraries Retail Education Sales 52

CILIP

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Uncensored Library in Minecraft: Promoting Free Press Zakariya Gayle, Academic Support Librarian at UAL High Holborn made the switch from retail management to libraries, starting as a Casual Assistant in the public sector. This blog post was written after he attended Libraries Rewired. Get in touch today!

Libraries 52

Libraries Retail Archiving Access 52

CILIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Public library content in an age of impact. Public library content in an age of impact. The range of activities, services and impacts a modern library service provides has grown significantly and undeniably in recent years. Very few public library services now have the luxury of dedicated, in-house cataloguers.

Libraries 52

Libraries Customer Experience Retail Risk 52

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

” The following month, Michigan authorities found the same individual accessing personal consumer data via public Wi-Fi at a local library, and seized 45 SIM cards, a laptop and a Trezor wallet — a hardware device designed to store crytpocurrency account data. WHAT YOU CAN DO. All four major U.S. All four major U.S.

Authentication 248

Authentication Computer and Electronics Passwords Retail 248

CILIP

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Should library services be cutting their most dynamic spaces? Photo credit: Should library services be cutting their most dynamic spaces? A recent report, Libraries on the Move , by Dr Alyson Tyler, studied the impact of mobile libraries in Scotland. And that there were 274,136 visits to mobiles in 2017-18. t be helping.

Libraries 40

Libraries Retail Digital transformation Communications 40

CILIP

OCTOBER 11, 2018

UX in Libraries: Behaviour Mapping - decisions and desires. While the routes we take may not command much of our attention, in service industries such as libraries, it is worth inspecting choices of route more closely. Library users may always take the same path from the entrance to a specific area: a quick route to ?their

Libraries 40

Libraries Retail IT Education 40

IT Governance

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Welcome to our September 2022 list of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compared to August, it was a comparatively quiet month, as we identified 88 publicly disclosed security incidents and 35,566,046 compromised records. However, we’d like to know more about how our readers use this data, and what you’d like to see in this list in the future.

Data breaches 143

Data breaches Ransomware Education Phishing 143

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. The report takes the information collected in these lists and summarises our findings.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 115

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2022

State Bar of Georgia investigating cyber attack (unknown) US Department of Defense tricked into paying $23.5 State Bar of Georgia investigating cyber attack (unknown) US Department of Defense tricked into paying $23.5 If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Get started. Ransomware.

Data breaches 126

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Education 126

IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Hackers send offensive, sexual messages to Chicago suburban school districts (unknown) ‘Beyond troubling’ emails sent from hacked teacher’s account (1) South African firm Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data (unknown). In other news….

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Ransomware e-Discovery Personal data 137

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2023

If left unremediated, the exposures would allow attackers and malicious insiders to drain funds from the wallets of millions of retail and institutional customers in seconds, with no knowledge to the user or vendor. New York, N.Y., The issue was promptly addressed and no user funds were affected.

Retail 100

Retail Insurance Libraries Paper 100

CILIP

JULY 16, 2019

CILIP, the library and information association, is proud to announce a new two-year partnership with Nielsen Book that includes sponsorship of CILIP?s s Building a Nation of Readers campaign and National Libraries Week. s commitment to supporting libraries, librarianship and the book trade. About Libraries Week.

Libraries 40

Libraries e-Discovery Retail Sales 40

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 5, 2021

But also full disclosure, I do buy Lenovo machines at full retail with my own hard-earned dollars because frankly, they're awesome: Bought @charlottelyng a *very* nice Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme to replace her MacBook Pro. And without doubt, the best educational technology thing I've ever brought home is my Prusa 3D printer.

Education 28

Education IT Retail Libraries 28

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2022

To that end, IBM recently announced a set of embeddable AI libraries that empower partners to create new AI solutions. Using the DSCE self-serve portal, partners can discover and try the recently launched IBM embeddable AI portfolio of IBM Watson Libraries, IBM Watson APIs, and IBM applications at their own pace and on their schedule.

Libraries 56

Libraries Education Cloud Digital transformation 56

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

Library of technical documentation support to configure Badge in various customer environments, including Windows desktop login, web application single-sign-on, passkeys, legacy applications, etc. Customers and partners include top Fortune companies across healthcare, banking, retail, and services. San Francisco, Calif.,

Authentication 100

Authentication Privacy Analytics Digital transformation 100

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 27, 2024

Hospitals, retail stores, large businesses - all are under a constant threat of some form of attack to exfiltrate data or for some other nefarious purposes. Today most of these services are secured by vendors using open source or other libraries that your enterprise may rarely manage or maintain despite the critical reliance on them.

Libraries 62

Libraries Retail Risk Encryption 62

Preservica

APRIL 11, 2018

Oxford, UK and Boston, MA: April 11 2018: The John Lewis Partnership, one of the UK’s leading retail businesses, has selected digital preservation specialist Preservica to build a secure cloud-based business archive. The business has annual gross sales of over £11.5bn. about/our-heritage/heritage-centre.html. Media enquiries.

Archiving 61

Archiving Digital preservation Cloud Libraries 61

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The report contains lots of facts and figures relevant to crypto policy debates, including the chaotic nature of crypto markets in the mid-1990s, the number of approved devices and libraries of various kinds since then, other standards that invoke AES, and so on. There's a lot to argue with about the methodology and the assumptions.

Encryption 60

Encryption Agriculture Retail Manufacturing 60

CILIP

MARCH 13, 2020

CILIP is committed to supporting our members in all aspects of their work, including understanding and managing the emerging impact of COVID-19 and coronavirus on library, information and knowledge services. If your library, information or knowledge service is to be fully-closed. Encourage users to contact the library via email/online.

Libraries 52

Libraries Government Risk Retail 52

IT Governance

MAY 24, 2024

And various other ransomware groups, including Ragnar Locker and Black Basta , suffered the same fate. It just goes to show that no one’s above being successfully attacked. That’s just the unfortunate reality. But if threat actors are being brought down, doesn’t that improve the cyber landscape? What do you mean by ‘changing their objectives’?

Security 117

Security Risk Ransomware Phishing 117

Preservica

MARCH 14, 2018

Preservica’s active digital preservation platform selected to future-proof unique digital assets that document nearly 150 years of corporate, brand and retail history. The Sainsbury Archive is undertaking a large-scale digitisation project which prompted the team to examine its digital preservation strategy. About The Sainsbury Archive.

Archiving 45

Archiving Digital preservation Cloud Retail 45

IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 15, 2023

North American retailer saves 450,000 USD annually TCS and IBM collaborated effectively to migrate a North American-based retailer’s AS400 infrastructure to IBM Power Virtual Server, demonstrating another successful example of our partnership in action. This upgrade resulted in improved overall performance.

Cloud 58

Cloud Digital transformation Energy and Utilities Retail 58

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Visual modeling: Combine visual data science with open source libraries and notebook-based interfaces on a unified data and AI studio. .” Of this, PwC estimates that “USD 6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity, and USD 9.1 trillion is likely to come from consumption-side effects.” trillion in value.

Data science 71

Data science Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Government 71

Collibra

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Semantic label: a generic descriptor for the column header, using an assigned value chosen from a library of approved data classes. Examples include finance, sales, and retail operations. The foundation required for scalable data access governance consists of three components: data classification, data catalog, and data governance. .

Government 93

Government Access Sales Risk 93

IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

GB City of Defiance Source (New) Public USA Yes >390 GB Dafiti Argentina Source (New) Retail Argentina Yes 321.63 GB City of Defiance Source (New) Public USA Yes >390 GB Dafiti Argentina Source (New) Retail Argentina Yes 321.63 Data breached: personal data belonging to 14,690,284 individuals. GB Goa Natural Gas Pvt.Ltd.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. A spokesman for the London Stock Exchange Group, which maintains the database, confirmed the breach involved a data set illegally obtained from a third party. Data breached: 5,300,000 records.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 52

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For example, a retail company that has been using a legacy inventory management system for several years is less cost-efficient. Staying competitive is essential in today’s fast-paced business industry—this is where legacy application modernization comes into play.

Digital transformation 94

Digital transformation Cloud Compliance Customer Experience 94

Rocket Software

MARCH 8, 2022

Once a business has built a library of applications, they need to manage them and ensure that they’re providing value; if they aren’t, they can eliminate them to lower maintenance burden. To effectively curate this library, enterprises need to answer questions such as: Which web services are being used, and which are not?

Analytics 52

Analytics Libraries Access Customer Experience 52

IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Newspaper reports claim that the USB stick was found in London on 16 October 2017, and that the person who found the stick viewed the contents on a library computer before passing it to the Sunday Mirror. How did the data breach occur? The newspaper copied the data before returning the stick to Heathrow Airport.

Data breaches 58

Data breaches Personal data Information Security Libraries 58

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Imagine walking into the largest library you’ve ever seen. Fortunately, the library has a computer at the front desk you can use to search its entire inventory by title, author, genre, and more. You have a specific book in mind, but you have no idea where to find it. She also wants to predict future sales of both shoes and jewelry.

Metadata 52

Metadata Data Privacy Access Government 52

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 Data breached: >10 million records.

Data Privacy 65

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 65