IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 58

Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

“The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” ” continues the report.

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Mining Honeypots Cloud Passwords 95

John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Sovrn , a company I still chair, has a similar mission, but with a serious data and tech focus. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. First, Data. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data.

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Government IT Marketing ROT 92

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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Data breaches Mining Education Access 102

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Who Owns Our Personal Data? Who now owns that data?

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Data breaches Personal data GDPR Data collection 53

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released draft Data Security Administrative Measures (the “Measures”) for public comment. The Measures cover 40 articles in total, divided among four chapters, that address data collection, processing and use and data security. Regulated Data and Activities.

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Security Data breaches Data collection Cybersecurity 53

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“During the course of this investigation, OPP investigators determined an individual was responsible for numerous ransomware attacks affecting businesses, government agencies and private individuals throughout Canada as well as cyber-related offenses in the United States,” reads an OPP statement.

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IT Ransomware Mining Sales 276

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

So, it’s crucial for companies that want to add specific AI capabilities to their applications or workflows to do so without expanding their technology stack, hiring more data science talent, or investing in expensive supercomputing resources. Users can then mine the data using simple keyword searches to find the information they need.

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Libraries Data science Cloud Mining 82

IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. AgentTesla is a keylogger that can “log keystrokes, access the host’s clipboard, and conduct disk scans to uncover credentials and other valuable data”.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A potential solution for protecting customer privacy when sharing smart meter data. Along with smart meter technology, however, comes some challenges in protecting consumer’s data privacy. Along with smart meter technology, however, comes some challenges in protecting consumer’s data privacy. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Obfuscate(.)

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Energy and Utilities Privacy Mining Analytics 40

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

You see, these days, many data breaches could be traced back to people using the same password across multiple accounts. Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. You can use the same method, of course, for the smaller parts of the password.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

This, of course, is a tall task. The recent series of strategic moves made by VASCO Data Security underscore this seismic shift in banking services. What we’re seeing is they’re going in and taking a bank’s good application and wrapping a crypto currency mining app around it. So banks are all in. LaSala: Exactly right.

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Mining Authentication Passwords Security 173

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, you want to know if your telecom provider offers an unlimited data plan, so you call customer service and are given a set of basic questions following strict if-then scenarios—“… say yes if you want to review service plans; say yes if you want unlimited data.”. Watson Assistant sits at the top—level three.

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Customer Experience Mining Retail Analytics 79

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” “At this moment in time, it looks like no emails, passwords, or any personal data were accessed, but we do suggest resetting your password and activate 2FA security,” the company wrote in a blog post.

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Phishing Passwords Access Authentication 363

John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 12, 2014

The post We Have Yet to Clothe Ourselves In Data. We’ll “dress ourselves in data,” because doing so will become socially important – and personally rewarding – to do so. Sure, you can download a copy of your Facebook data, but what can you *do* with it? – have preferences and settings.

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Retail Mining IT Sales 109

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

They also may sell the personal data they find on the dark web. Device developers at times will spend their money on features rather than security and the data on the devices often move between the devices and the cloud or on-premises data centers. IoT a Security Concern. Spending on Digital Display Ads Increasing. “The

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IoT Cloud Mining Marketing 145

John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If Walmart can leverage data tokens to lure Amazon’s best customers away , what else is possible in a world of enabled by my fictional Token Act? What I envision below assumes the Token Act has passed, and we’re at least a year or two into its adoption by most major data players. Gramercy Tavern in New York City.

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Marketing Retail Blockchain Mining 53

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of this week, I've been writing about "Fixing Data Breaches" which focuses on actionable steps that can be taken to reduce the prevalence and the impact of these incidents. Let's move on and talk about why this makes a lot of sense when it comes to fixing data breaches. across the internet.

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Data breaches Marketing Mining Security 48

CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Similarly, the European Commission’s assessment of the evidence around its future text and data mining rules noted rightholders’ claim that an exception would “facilitate the misuse and piracy of their content and make them lose business opportunities in future”.

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Libraries Mining Marketing Education 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

In this blog, and in an accompanying one by my Thales colleague Juan Asenjo, we will discuss the subject of big data analytics, and how it is enabling a new behavior-based authentication evolution for easier and more robust identity management. Lots of data, of course!

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Analytics Mining Authentication Big data 54

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, you want to know if your telecom provider offers an unlimited data plan, so you call customer service and are given a set of basic questions following strict if-then scenarios—“… say yes if you want to review service plans; say yes if you want unlimited data.”. Watson Assistant sits at the top—level three.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience Mining Retail Analytics 52

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Years of data disappeared. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. In March 2018, the city of Atlanta fell victim to a ransomware attack that shut down its computer network. City agencies were unable to collect payment. Police departments had to handwrite reports.

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Government Digital transformation Mining Insurance 147

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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Phishing Mining Libraries Blockchain 48

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Application modernization starts with assessment of current legacy applications, data and infrastructure and applying the right modernization strategy (rehost, re-platform, refactor or rebuild) to achieve the desired result. Duplicative capabilities across applications and channels give rise to duplicative IT resources (e.g.,

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Cloud Customer Experience Mining Marketing 89

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.”

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IoT Communications Mining Encryption 86

ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

As a healthy but slight change from recent topics , I was going through some old notes and thought it might be worthwhile sharing some tips with you about collecting data for Social Network Analysis (SNA). So that's what its all about, but what is the problem with collecting data for SNA? Data Mining. Transformation.

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Mining Data collection Communications Privacy 46

eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 25, 2020

One week from today, on Thursday, April 2 at noon CST (1:00pm EST, 10:00am PST), ACEDS will host the webinar Mining for Valuable Data – Collection Fundamentals. That’s nearly 2 hours of new CLE courses in less than a week! In this one-hour webcast that’s CLE-approved for 0.75 So, what do you think?

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Education e-Discovery Mining Metadata 48

CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

As a data scientist and information engineer ? d borrowed from and donated to the library, and then we used large scale computing to mine that against all the books he?d s recent projects used text mining to find mentions of professors and academics in children?s Here the text mining is used to hunt down references. ?You

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers?

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e-Discovery Computer and Electronics Education Mining 47

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Overall, given that it’s nearly impossible to avoid putting your data into someone’s cloud, I believe that Google is probably the best choice for any number of reasons. In the past I’ve criticized Google for failing to ask interesting questions of the massive amount of data it collects on search patterns each year.

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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. What is your background and what was your route into data management? I never consciously chose to work in data. It became apparent very quickly that a lack of focus on data was the root cause.

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MDM Retail IT Government 75

Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

If you remove availability from the C-I-A triad, you're then left with confidentiality and integrity, which can be boiled down to two main questions: 1) What are the data protection requirements for each dataset? Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining.

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Risk Cloud Mining Government 40

Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Most Bitcoin mining happens in China. In this context, asymmetric threats like embedded illegal data become a major challenge. Bitcoin and blockchains like it are on a collision course with these laws. And then there’s illegal pornographic content and leaked classified data.

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Blockchain Paper Government Mining 145

Troy Hunt

JUNE 24, 2024

I've been harbouring some thoughts about the state of data breaches over recent months, and I feel they've finally manifested themselves into a cohesive enough story to write down. In one case that comes to mind, I got an email from their lawyer after finally tracking down a C-suite tech exec via LinkedIn and sending them a message.

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Data breaches IT Communications Mining 114

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28).

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Digital transformation Blockchain IT Computer and Electronics 59

IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Also in January, the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) fined Carphone Warehouse £400,000 – one of the largest fines it issued under the DPA (Data Protection Act) 1998 – for multiple security inadequacies that led to a 2015 data breach in which three million customers’ personal data was compromised.

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Data breaches Personal data Access GDPR 56