Krebs on Security

MARCH 28, 2021

The group looks for attacks on Exchange systems using a combination of active Internet scans and “honeypots” — systems left vulnerable to attack so that defenders can study what attackers are doing to the devices and how. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: It wasn’t me. krebsonsecurity[.]top

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

A 2022 CDP study found that for companies that report to CDP, emissions occurring in their supply chain represent an average of 11.4x A 2022 CDP study found that for companies that report to CDP, emissions occurring in their supply chain represent an average of 11.4x more emissions than their operational emissions.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2022

an operative who’s adept at, say, carrying out a crypto mining routine that saps processing power. Sophos’ study of adversary activity found that some 47 percent of attacks started with an exploited vulnerability and 73 percent of attacks involved ransomware. Understanding digital assets. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Gartner analysts estimate that over 80 percent of enterprise data is unstructured and is growing up to 65 percent a year, enticing cyber criminals to mine the mother lode. Related video: Why it’s high time to protect unstructured data.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

Either way, these KBA questions are notoriously weak security because the answers to them often are pulled from records that are public anyway, and can sometimes be deduced by studying the information available on a target’s social media profiles. According to the website, roughly 600,000 employers at over 1.9 So I chose to unlock it.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The IIPC’s Content Development Working Group is taking up the challenge of preserving web content related to global street art to serve for study and research in the future. by the Archive-It team. Happy Holidays. Warmest wishes for the 2022 Holiday Season from our team to you and yours! Community News. Feature Spotlight: Sharing Seeds.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign primarily targets users in Spain and South American countries, aims to launch a coin-mining shellcode directly in memory. The in-memory DLL then injects a coin-mining code into notepad.exe through process hollowing. .” reads the Tweet published by the Microsoft Security Intelligence team.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

Some studies show as many as 40 billion records were compromised in 2021. Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. However, this isn’t a good idea. In fact, it’s terrible. Here’s an example.

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 29, 2008

Laurie Lock Lee from Optimice has published the results of a social network analysis (SNA) study of the Wikipatterns community (pdf). Laurie used SNA to examine the value of participation, health and value of new relationships of this particular community, using a combination of a survey and " wiki mining " to gather data.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

t an area of academic study ? ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. And if they?re re more worried about reputational risk than the benefit they might bring to their audience, there is a problem. Because is it really copyright ? the right of the author ? re worried about?? ?Being t even know if you?re

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to a separate 2023 Global Security Operations Center Study , SOC professionals say they waste nearly 33% of their time each day investigating and validating false positives. The findings in these studies paint a tremendously strained situation for most security operations teams.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Further analysis of the financial effects of cyber crime can be found in a report released this week by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Here are this week’s stories.

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Archive-It

MARCH 12, 2021

In July, we announced our partnership with the Archives Unleashed project as part of our ongoing effort to make new services available for scholars and students to study the archived web. by the Archive-It team. As part of our partnership, we are releasing a series of publicly available datasets created from archived web collections.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. How data science evolved With the increase in data from social media, e-commerce sites, internet searches, customer surveys and elsewhere, a new field of study based on big data emerged.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 4, 2019

Together, these Db2 features are aimed at "taking the fear out of rebinding," as a former colleague of mine so aptly put it. "Size" refers in this case to aggregate in-Db2 CPU cost of SQL statement execution, and that's easy to determine: for a given workload component (a given connection type), find first the average in-Db2 (i.e.,

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 26, 2015

Not long ago, an IBM colleague of mine who is a WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z/OS specialist sent to me and to a few other IBMers (including some of our CICS and DB2 for z/OS developers) some information about an application scenario, and asked for our ideas and feedback. I think it makes for an interesting case study.

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Archive-It

JULY 28, 2020

Archived web data and collections are increasingly important to scholarly practice, especially to those scholars interested in data mining and computational approaches to analyzing large sets of data, text, and records from the web. by the Archive-It team. We are excited to announce a significant expansion of our partnership.

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 25, 2021

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). In addition, “access” meant something completely different at the time.

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Rocket Software

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Having a 20 or 30 or even 50-plus-year-old platform (in the case of some mainframe programs) handling the basic data transactions doesn’t preclude you from delivering innovative new customer experiences or mining your data for insights to optimize your operations. And, when choosing words, it matters that we all agree on their meaning.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. ” That sounds great! For example, a completed W4 form is a record , and it provides information about an employee’s tax withholding preferences.

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AIIM

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the help of big data technology, algorithms created by big data consultants tend to nominate individuals by studying the employee’s online activity, profile updates, employment history, job performance, and payroll data. However, it becomes just a risk management technique. Analytics & HRM Glossary.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 18, 2021

As part of that program, Easterly harkened back to her studies at West Point and said she was interested in modeling CISA around Eisenhower’s strategy. Oue particular passion of mine," Easterly said, "is developing diverse organizations. She later returned to West Point to teach. Specifically: share insights of threat.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope.

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CILIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

And we’re taking this ability to unlock knowledge further by developing Lancaster Digital Collections for text mining. Or if users are seeking a comfortable reading or study space, monitoring technology could help them find areas where ambient temperature and noise level meet their preferences. Yet, in some respects this isn’t new.

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ChiefTech

MAY 19, 2012

Amazon reviews are just as likely to give an accurate summary of a book's quality as those of professional newspapers, according to a study from Harvard Business School. Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies. via guardian.co.uk. Leave a comment »

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 9, 2013

” We spoke on the phone and I learned that the intersection of society and data was her passion – and that her background was an awful lot like mine. In the post, I wrote: I love the book I’m working on, and I don’t plan to abandon it (I’m bringing on a co-author). You can read her post about it here.

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Archives Blogs

JUNE 17, 2020

Writers of book-length studies have discovered the usefulness of the searchable database that drives Founders Online. Media, social and otherwise, mine the trove. Congressional appropriations began in 1965, and all six projects have received grant support. With Founders Online, you can double-check those problems very readily.

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 15, 2018

For those that were compromised, the attackers modified a proxy service on the routers to inject crypto mining code onto the computers of anyone who used the infected router to connect to the Web. Troy is an expert on crypto-jacking malware and has studied the growth of crypto-jacking campaigns that are using vulnerable MikroTik routers.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In the very difficult MITRE testing , Bitdefender was one of just seven vendors to score 90% or greater, a strong result in very difficult testing and better than some well-known names. It’s one of just a handful of antivirus vendors with a strong enterprise pedigree, and that coupled with an impressive consumer product place it atop our list.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. For some people, crypto means cryptography. For others, it means cryptocurrency. Fortunately, in this episode, we’re discussing vulnerabilities in both. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. The ultimate concern with this technology is that we’ll end up in a surveillance society where your I.D. is your face, and everybody is checking on you at every moment, monitoring you.”.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 24, 2023

It aims to understand what’s happening within a system by studying external data. ITOA uses data mining and big data principles to analyze noisy data sets within the system and creates a framework that uses those meaningful insights to make the entire system run smoother. ITOA turns operational data into real-time insights.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

A study published at the World Economic Forum on the impact of technology in combating corruption and waste, shed light on how technology contributes to transparency in government institutions by creating precise algorithms in government transactions and developing innovative programs to detect and deter fraud and deception.

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

While the results of an SNA project are focused on the intangible connections between people (and there is a lot of focus on this fun part), the process of collecting data for SNA is actually similar in fashion to data mining and it requires a bit of planning to do it effectively. Data Mining. Pre-processing. Transformation.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

As one of the founders of BSides and as a community advocate for Tenable, Jack provides guidance on how we can re-emerge and successfully amplify and support people of different ethnicities, faiths, and genders within our infosec communities without being patronizing. I'm attending in person this year, as are a lot of people in the InfoSec world.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Below I list some of the webinar advice, and some of mine too: Know the awarding body: do some research on the awarding body, to understand what kind of person they are looking for. She obtained her MSc in Information and Library Studies from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) in 2017, with Distinction. How did it all start?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 25, 2014

Both are run by great colleagues of mine – so I already know a lot about their businesses. October 1st. 9 am - Tumblr. I knew the company back before it was acquired by Yahoo!, but I have not been back since. I cannot wait to grok the vibe of the place again. Tumblr has not yet uploaded its session description (tick tick, folks!)

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