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• Dow Jones & Co. discloses breach, incident likely related to Scottrade

  10-10-2015 18:26
  
  On Friday, in a letter to customers, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co. disclosed a data breach affecting 3,500 people. Based on public details, the incident seems similar to a breach reported by Scottrade last week that impacted 4.6 million investors.
  In his letter, Dow Jones Chief Executive William Lewis said that law enforcement officials informed the company about the potential breach in late July.
  After bringing in outside help, an investigation turned up a confirmation that the systems housin
  
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• Meet the virtual woman who may take your job

  10-10-2015 18:24
  
  IPsoft's Amelia is more interesting than Apple's Siri. Amelia's language is expressive. Her facial expressions and gestures are generated on the fly. Siri can show wit to an oddball question, but Amelia aims for empathy.
  Amelia is IPsoft's artificial intelligence platform. It has an ability to understand things in context and engage with the listener. Most importantly, Amelia is real enough to take your job.
  The system learns by observing interactions between a user and service agents. At one m
  
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• FBI takes down alert on chip credit cards after bankers complain

  10-10-2015 18:23
  
  The FBI posted an online advisory about vulnerabilities with new chip-enabled credit cards, but then removed the message on Friday, less than a day later, following concerns from U.S. bankers that back chip cards.
  The original online post was headlined, "New microchip-enabled credit cards may still be vulnerable to exploitation by fraudsters," and was replaced by a "page not found" message as of mid-day Friday.
  The FBI didn't offer any comment Friday on what happened to the original post, which
  
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• Safe harbour: afnemers cloud-diensten moeten zich beraden op strategie

  10-10-2015 10:54
  Het Europese Hof haalde dinsdag een streep door de safe harbour-overeenkomst, die jarenlang gegevens uit de EU ondergebracht bij dienstverleners in de VS met privacy-waarborgen omkleedde. Terwijl dit voor optimisme heeft gezorgd bij voorvechters van privacy, kunnen bedrijven die gebruikmaken van diensten in de cloud... lees meer
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How CIOs can reinvent IT with ITaaS

  10-10-2015 02:44
  
  In recent years business lines have been increasingly going the shadow IT route to achieve their critical objectives, showing there's a real disconnect with IT as to how to leverage cloud computing.The problem lies with cloud vendors who ignore the issue of the business vision. They see low IT costs and accelerated application delivery as business growth drivers while businesses are more concerned with market responsiveness achieved through agile and collaborative environments that bring togethe
  
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• 'Steve Jobs' review: Unconventional, entertaining, but incomplete

  10-10-2015 00:45
  
  If you know enough about Steve Jobs, watching the new biopic Steve Jobs without bias is almost impossible. You can’t help think about Apple event keynotes, anecdotes from books about the late Apple CEO, the devices you use or have used that were guided by his vision.But try to leave all of that aside and appreciate Steve Jobs for what it is: entertainment. That’s where the movie succeeds, even as facts are fudged.Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (of The Social Network fame) constructed Stev
  
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