The Pandemic Has Made Us Germaphobes, Data Shows. Here’s How Cleaning Businesses Are Stepping In.

Cleanliness took on a new meaning at the beginning of the pandemic. Suddenly disinfecting surfaces became a top priority for businesses and households alike. Cleaning supplies sold out nationwide almost immediately as consumers scrambled to ensure that their spaces and surfaces were virus-free. We’re now more clean-conscious than ever, and there’s a chance that we’ll … Read more

Covid-19: Data security is keeping IT pros awake at night

Data security is creating fear and trust issues for IT professionals, according to the third-annual Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2020. The study of 750 cybersecurity and IT professionals across the globe found that a patchwork approach to data security, misconfigured services and confusion around new cloud security models has created a crisis of … Read more

Social Credit: Much More Than Your Traditional Financial Credit Score Data

We are used to thinking only about our financial behaviors when trying to improve our credit scores. That’s probably because since the 1950s, FICO’s ranking formula has been an industry standard for consumer credit of all kinds. But in recent years we have seen more and more marketplace lenders ditch the traditional FICO scores for … Read more

Philips Hue company announces lights that beam data at 250 Mbps

Signify, the company formerly known as Philips Lighting that produces Hue-branded smart lights, has announced a new range of internet-transmitting Li-Fi lights called Truelifi. They’re capable of transmitting data to devices like laptops at speeds of up to 150 Mbps using light waves, rather than the radio signals used by 4G or Wi-Fi. The product range … Read more

Security at stake, again! Serial hacker returns to steal data of 26 mn users

SAN FRANCISCO: The hacker, who earlier stole and posted personal data of close to 843 million users of various popular websites on a Dark Web marketplace, has now put up the fourth set of nearly 26 million hacked databases for sale. Hacker Gnosticplayers has put up the personal data of 26 million people using the services of six different companies globally … Read more

Amazon is coming to company data centers, and that should scare Cisco, HPE and Dell

Source: CNBC Andy Jassy, Amazon AWS Amazon cloud chief Andy Jassy said that during the first half of 2018, he was consistently getting requests from customers who wanted Amazon’s help not just in the cloud, but also in their own data centers. For some companies, there are regulatory concerns or privacy issues that limit their … Read more

The biggest headache in machine learning? Cleaning dirty data off the spreadsheets

If you imagine the life of a machine learning researcher, you might think it’s quite glamorous. You’ll program self-driving cars, work for the biggest names in tech, and your software could even lead to the downfall of humanity. So cool! But, as a new survey of data scientists and machine learners shows, those expectations need adjusting, … Read more

SEC Reveals Data Breach Caused By Software Application Vulnerability

Printer-friendly versionEmail this CRN article Another data breach has taken advantage of application vulnerabilities in a major organization, as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed a data breach that exploited a software vulnerability in its database filing application. In a public statement Wednesday, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said the organization detected an intrusion by attackers in … Read more