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.

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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. Ransomware target. Here are some ways: •Basic inventory.

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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 The same study showed that 72% of CDP-responding companies reported only their operational emissions (Scope 1 and/or 2). more emissions than their operational emissions.

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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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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

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. Teeming criminal activity.

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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.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

t an area of academic study ? d borrowed from and donated to the library, and then we used large scale computing to mine that against all the books he?d t study anyone after 1910 using that because we can?t The Victorians are the people that you can study because that?s s when I saw I should be doing computing.

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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. From there, it’s easy to reset the pass code for almost all of your accounts when the bad guy controls your email too.

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Information Management Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Large enterprises that have higher corporate data literacy experience can expect $320 million to $534 million in higher enterprise value.

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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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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. As part of our partnership, we are releasing a series of publicly available datasets created from archived web collections.

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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. So, there you go.

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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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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The first data that emerged from the study is that threat actors continue to look at the IoT devices with increasing interest. “More and more exploits are being weaponized by cybercriminals, and infected devices are used to steal personal data and mine cryptocurrencies, on top of traditional DDoS attacks.

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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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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).

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Wrapping up Legal Literacies for Text and Data Mining – Cross-Border (LLTDM-X) As this project has ended, Thomas Padilla (Deputy Director, Archiving and Data Services at the Internet Archive) details the resulting publication of an instructive case study for researchers and a white paper in this blog post.

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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.

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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. Specifically: share insights of threat. develop a whole nation attack response plan.

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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. So, how do we proceed?

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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. You start looking for a new candidate and the entire cycle repeats.

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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.

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The Texas Record

JUNE 28, 2021

It may be used to create reports, bolster planning studies, or drive management decisions (and should be retained as long as the related records are retained), but the data itself does not really “do” anything and may not document any specific government business. Still, you can put the data to work—it is an information asset!

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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. Get Involved in Web Archiving Street Art. Read more about their efforts and how to nominate web content for inclusion in this blog post. What we’re reading.

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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.

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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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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. New works such as Martha Brockenbrough’s Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary , Robert L. Every history writer keeps a list of questions or problems like that to be addressed.

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Information Management Resources

JUNE 21, 2018

Better decision-making remains the top BI objective for 2018, says a new study. Other key objectives include improved operational efficiency and growth in revenues.

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Information Management Resources

JUNE 21, 2018

Here are the top challenges this is creating, according to a new study by Nexla. Data pros are dealing with a skyrocketing amount of data, created and gathered by ever-more devices.

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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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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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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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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Detection Using Machine Learning and Data Mining. Related to heuristic detection, which scans for unidentified viruses that resemble existing file structures containing malware, the latest approach in threat hunting is machine learning and data mining to enhance detection abilities. eSecurity Planet’s AV software methodology.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this.

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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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