Tech Xplore - financial data

Half a million stolen passwords, emails for sale on dark web

Hackers stole personal data from more than a half million users of an Italy-based email service and posted the purloined information for sale online.

Apr 08, 2020 report

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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

Knowing a company's true sales can help determine its value. Investors, for instance, often employ financial analysts to predict a company's upcoming earnings using various public data, computational tools, and their own ...

Dec 19, 2019

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Deep learning helps tease out gene interactions

Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have taken a deep learning method that has revolutionized face recognition and other image-based applications in recent years and redirected its power to explore the relationship ...

Dec 10, 2019

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Security is one problem that small businesses need to take care of pronto

So where's the best place to spend your company's technology budget next year? The answer may surprise you.

Dec 05, 2019

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Health websites in UK share data with advertisers: FT

Health websites accessed from within Britain are without permission sharing users' sensitive information with online giants, including Google, Amazon and Facebook, the Financial Times reported Wednesday following an investigation.

Nov 13, 2019

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Russian hacker pleads guilty in massive data theft scheme

A Russian hacker has admitted to his involvement in one of the biggest thefts of consumer data from a U.S. financial institution.

Sep 24, 2019

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YouTube to pay $170M fine after violating kids' privacy law

Google will pay $170 million to settle allegations its YouTube video service collected personal data on children without their parents' consent.

Sep 04, 2019

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Privacy watchdogs warn Facebook over Libra currency

Global privacy regulators joined forces Tuesday to demand guarantees from Facebook on how it will protect users' financial data when it launches its planned cryptocurrency, Libra.

Aug 06, 2019

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Mobile technology may serve underbanked with no cryptocurrency

As Facebook touts a new cryptocurrency as a way to serve people who are underbanked, mobile technology companies may provide the same path to financial services using good old-fashioned dollars.

Jul 24, 2019

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Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy

Facebook's News Feed algorithm determines what users see on its platform—from funny memes to comments from friends. The company regularly updates this algorithm, which can dramatically change what information people consume.