Analysing information from transactions in real time can enable retailers to boost sales and discover banking errors, according to Juan Luis Carselle, assistant director of IT strategic planning and information security at Walmart Mexico ...
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Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data ...
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A defiant Edward Snowden resurfaced in Hong Kong today vowing to fight any U.S. efforts to extradite him on charges that he leaked classified documents describing two secret government data collection programs. In comments to the South ...
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Check Point has published its second mobile security report, revealing that 79% of businesses had a mobile security incident in the past year, in many cases incurring substantial costs. The report found mobile security incidents cost more ...
Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
Hong Kong-based Dah Sing Life Assurance (DSLA) has completed implementation of eBaoTech LifeSystem suite to run its conventional and unit-linked life insurance operations. Accomplished in two phases, the implementation has enabled the ...
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Dairy.com, a US-based Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, has completed the acquisition of Blimling and Associates and its two sister companies, which are involved in dairy market analysis, research, and consulting. Blimling and ...
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EE has hit back at claims by the Sunday Times that it and market research firm Ipsos MORI have been working on a deal that would feed data on EE's 27 million customers to the research firm, and even, allegedly, to the police. An EE ...
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Co-founder and CEO of systems integrator Cloudreach Pontus Noren has warned firms that the US government is capable of taking data it deems important to its security, without needing to rely on the Patriot Act. Many firms are wary of ...
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South Korean insurer Hanwha Life has selected eBaoTech LifeSystem as the policy administration system for management of its new business in Indonesia. The selection is based on the partnership between eBaoTech and Hanwha Life, which has ...
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LivingSocial, the daily deals website, has suffered a huge data breach on its computer systems, impacting up to 50 million customers. LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy sent employees an email, seen by AllThingsD, which explained that the ...
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Online deals service LivingSocial was hacked at the weekend, and the personal data of more than 50 million customers may have been affected. The company said on Friday on the US that customers' names, email addresses, dates of birth and ...
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Salesforce.com is taking steps to combine its acquisitions in social media monitoring and social advertising with its core CRM (customer relationship management) software through a new product called Social.com. The new product, which was ...
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Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Ill., was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database. At the time of the intrusion Kretsinger, who ...
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The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to approve a controversial cyberthreat information-sharing bill, despite opposition from the White House and several privacy and digital rights groups. The House on Thursday voted 288-127 to ...
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