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Privacy of Printing Services

Schneier on Security

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

Unfortunately, however, the BBC reports that there are a few “teething troubles […] with some users saying their privacy has been compromised after responding to an on-screen prompt asking for access to their photo library. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. What’s that?

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Embeddable AI saves time building powerful AI applications

IBM Big Data Hub

Just a few weeks ago, IBM announced an expansion to their embeddable AI software portfolio with the release of three containerized Watson libraries. The new libraries include: IBM Watson Natural Language Processing Library for Embed. IBM Watson Speech-to-Text Library for Embed. Partner solutions using embeddable AI.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

noyb files complaint with Austrian data protection authority against creditors’ association The privacy rights campaign group noyb has filed a complaint against the creditors’ association KSV1870 for charging data subjects to access their personal data, in contravention with Article 15 of the EU GDPR.

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Q&A: Here’s why Android users must remain vigilant about malicious apps, more so than ever

The Last Watchdog

The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. However, our analysts were able to detect it because apps using these libraries waste the user’s battery and make the device slower.

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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

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