Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

Passwords 296

Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Access 296

IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. Data breached: 5 TB.

Data Privacy 97

Data Privacy Energy and Utilities Privacy Manufacturing 97

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Now toss in the fact that digital transformation is redoubling software development and data handling complexities.

Digital transformation 193

Digital transformation Marketing Analytics Risk 193

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? Data fashion will develop similar players.

Retail 109

Retail Mining IT Personal data 109

erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

What Is Data Intelligence? Data Intelligence is the analysis of multifaceted data to be used by companies to improve products and services offered and better support investments and business strategies in place. Data intelligence can encompass both internal and external business data and information. Healthcare.

Analytics 103

Analytics Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Big data 103

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The data shows how perceptions around cyber and technology risks, from ransomware and other cyber-attacks to the threats posed by AI, are changing the global business risk landscape. Companies with an annual revenue of US$250,000 to US$999,999 report feeling less prepared to deal with cyber risks in 2023 (76%) than they did in 2022 (70%).

Risk 189

Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities Marketing 189

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2018

NTA refers to using advanced data mining and security analytics techniques to detect and investigate malicious activity in traffic moving between each device and on every critical system in a company network. Meanwhile, here are key takeaways: Data ingestion advances. Related: How the Uber hack pivoted off of DevOps.

Digital transformation 140

Digital transformation Security Analytics Access 140

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Harnessing industry insights from previously disclosed breaches, insurance claims data, and incidents that have not been publicly disclosed, Kovrr’s models assess the likely frequency and severity of cyber breaches experienced by the included companies.

Retail 100

Retail Risk Data breaches Mining 100

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

Data science 76

Data science Analytics Unstructured data Artificial Intelligence 76

Data Protection Report

JUNE 1, 2020

Many businesses are suffering serious financial difficulties as a result of COVID-19, particularly those in the retail, hospitality and tourism sectors. For example, in February of this year, the FCA and ICO issued a joint statement warning regulated firms and insolvency practitioners of their responsibilities when dealing with personal data.

Personal data 100

Personal data Sales Marketing GDPR 100

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Additionally, data-driven insights uncover new sources of revenue such as new products, services, markets, audiences, channels, partners, etc. Check out “ The New Normal: Big Data Business Model Disintermediation and Disruption ” for more details on business model disruption and customer disintermediation.

Artificial Intelligence 102

Artificial Intelligence Analytics Customer Experience Big data 102

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The partners aim to combine fingerprint and facial data to more effectively authenticate employees in workplace settings. It’s now commonplace for high-resolution video cams to feed endless streams of image data into increasingly intelligent data mining software. The partnering of SureID and Robbie.AI

Privacy 157

Privacy Retail Authentication Artificial Intelligence 157

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

What do a Canadian energy company, a Dutch coffee retailer and a British multinational consumer packaged goods (CPG) company have in common right now? All are transforming their procurement operations by leveraging state-of-the-art process mining and intelligent automation technology. dollars annually in direct or indirect procurement.

Mining 66

Mining Financial Services Digital transformation Retail 66

John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 18, 2012

His thesis extends to transportation (think Uber but also FedEx, which runs on software), retail (besides Amazon, Walmart is a data machine), healthcare (huge data opportunity, as yet unrealized), energy (same), and even defense. Software-powered drones launch airstrikes without putting human pilots at risk.

Mining 97

Mining Retail Communications Marketing 97

John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 30, 2010

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. You came in for your own retail therapy, after all.

Retail 92

Retail Search queries Marketing Mining 92

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 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 Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

Data Privacy 76

Data Privacy Privacy Insurance Security 76

IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s digital age where data stands as a prized asset, generative AI serves as the transformative tool to mine its potential. Businesses globally recognize the power of generative AI and are eager to harness data and AI for unmatched growth, sustainable operations, streamlining and pioneering innovation.

Analytics 77

Analytics Retail Cloud Insurance 77

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Data poisoning attacks. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. duplicate) models or recover training data membership via blackbox probing. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. Model stealing techniques.

Mining 107

Mining Cloud Paper Artificial Intelligence 107

Reltio

MAY 21, 2019

. “I think we don’t really have a good hold on customer data. We are not able to segment customers by loyalty, price-elasticity, impulsivity, or need, as we cannot continuously align and correlate interaction and transaction data with customer profile. Especially for CPG, retail, or hospitality business.

Customer Experience 89

Customer Experience Retail B2C Marketing 89

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Data poisoning attacks. which involve feeding training adversarial data to the classifier. duplicate) models or recover training data membership via blackbox probing. skyrocketed past $10,000, we saw a surge of new attacks that attempted to steal Google cloud compute resources to mine. Model stealing techniques.

Mining 91

Mining Cloud Paper Artificial Intelligence 91

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.

Data Privacy 63

Data Privacy Privacy Data breaches Security 63

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.

MDM 75

MDM Retail IT Government 75

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.

Customer Experience 79

Customer Experience Mining Retail Analytics 79

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.

Marketing 53

Marketing Retail Blockchain Mining 53

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches.

Cybersecurity 122

Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 122

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Enabling true transformation You’re on the lookout for adoption of industry best practices along with the capabilities of process mining and process discovery to both simplify and standardize the process flows. From a business and IT perspective, this helps in cycle time and eventually price per business object.

Cloud 84

Cloud Mining Retail Education 84

CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Utilities Digital Journey Insights (Part 3): Data, the new “digital capital” - Going beyond the hype of advanced analytics and AI. The 2018 CGI Client Global Insights reveal that utilities recognize data as the new “digital capital.” What’s holding utilities back from delivering the benefits of data? Quite simply, data.

Energy and Utilities 40

Energy and Utilities Analytics Digital transformation Customer Experience 40

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.,

Cloud 89

Cloud Customer Experience Marketing Mining 89

Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

This screen faces out into the retail store with people constantly wandering past it only a couple of meters away, well within the distance required to observe the contents off it. This is the user-selected password used for identity verification with store customers wandering past it.

Security 71

Security Passwords Authentication Mining 71

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Additionally, data-driven insights uncover new sources of revenue such as new products, services, markets, audiences, channels, partners, etc. Check out “ The New Normal: Big Data Business Model Disintermediation and Disruption ” for more details on business model disruption and customer disintermediation.

Analytics 40

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Customer Experience Big data 40

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

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Riskonnect.

Compliance 68

Compliance Risk Government Retail 68

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Data privacy regulations like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) can be hard to navigate for businesses of any size, but GRC tools can simplify and streamline compliance with all of the requirements. Its features include: Enterprise risk management. Riskonnect.

Compliance 58

Compliance Risk Government Retail 58

Robert's Db2

JUNE 5, 2012

First, the basics: table-controlled partitioning refers to a means of range-partitioning the data in a table, so that, for example, sales records for retail store numbers 1-25 go into table space partition 1, records for store numbers 26-50 go into partition 2, records for store numbers 51-75 go into partition 3, and so on. NO PROBLEM.

Mining 48

Mining Financial Services Retail Personal data 48

Reltio

JULY 23, 2019

Steve Whiting is the COO of Agile Solutions (GB) Ltd, a specialist data management and analytics consultancy that focuses on tangible business benefits. He believes in an agile approach to data-driven solutions and co-founded Agile Solutions in 2014 to deliver that vision.

MDM 40

MDM Cloud Analytics Marketing 40

IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

At first glance, August has been a quiet month for data breaches, with a total of 114,686,290 breached records. British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). Hackers steal personal data from website of Denmark’s Tivoli Park (1,000). Data breaches. Ransomware.

Data breaches 111

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Personal data 111

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

to discuss the findings of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition. Question: Can you provide an overview of the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition, and elaborate why it’s needed today more than ever? This year’s report is especially relevant because it tells us federal agency data is under siege.

Encryption 48

Encryption Cloud Data breaches Government 48