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How a Massachusetts Decision to Publish Data Breach Info Will Affect Big Law
The American Lawyer At present, the Data Breach Notification Archive made public by the decision includes all 10 of the agency's annual reports, with each compiling information on the breached organization; date of the breach; number of state residents affected; and type … |
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QuadRooter Android Security Bugs Affect More than 900 Million Devices
SPAMfighter News (press release) Four new vulnerabilities, discovered most recently, were found in the Android phones as well as tablets which get shipped with the Qualcomm chip. Researchers of Check Point, who are behind the discovery of flaws, say that the set of vulnerabilities … Google says that insanely scary new Android vulnerability isn't really that scary Quadrooter Android Security: How To Protect Nexus, HTC, BlackBerry OnePlus, Samsung Devices Against Threat QuadRooter brings Android security into spotlight |
Seventeen high-risk vulnerabilities out of the 276 flaws fixed by Oracle Tuesday affect products from third-party software vendors, including Microsoft.
The vulnerabilities were found by researchers from Cisco’s Talos team and are located in the Oracle Outside In Technology (OIT), a collection of software development kits (SDKs) that can be used to extract, normalize, scrub, convert and view some 600 unstructured file formats.
These SDKs, which are part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware, are licensed to other software developers who then use them in their own products. Such products include Microsoft Exchange, Novell Groupwise, IBM WebSphere Portal, Google Search Appliance, Avira AntiVir for Exchange, Raytheon SureView, Guidance Encase and Veritas Enterprise Vault.
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For prospective borrowers who have no credit history, a common problem for immigrants whose credit starts anew when they move to the U.S., economists and startups are using metadata from smartphones to see how reliable a borrower is in other areas of their lives to help determine their likelihood of paying back a loan.
A recent article in the New Scientist cites research conducted by Brown University economist Daniel Björkegren and the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab which involved combing through cellphone data of 3,000 borrowers from a Haitian bank to identify such trends as how often they pay their cellphone bills, how quickly they return important phone calls, and travel behavior based on location data.
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