Data

Dell warns of user data breach — 49 million customers affected in security incident, here’s what we know

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Dell warns of user data breach — 49 million customers affected in security incident, here’s what we know

Dell has begun sending breach notification emails to some 49 million people whose data was apparently stolen in a recent cyberattack. The type of information involved includes people’s names, postal addresses, and Dell hardware and order information, such as service tags, item description, order dates, and different warranty information. “We are currently investigating an incident … Read more

US Patent and Trademark office says data leak affected filers

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US Patent and Trademark office says data leak affected filers

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) kept an open, internet-accessible database of private postal addresses belonging to patent filers for more than eight months. The U.S. government agency, responsible for handling patents and trademarks, sent a notification letter to affected individuals, explaining what had happened, and what it did following the discovery.  As reported … Read more

Android could make data transfer much faster during new phone setup

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Android could make data transfer much faster during new phone setup

Android has always been great with files and file sharing. One of the most critical times when you need access to files is switching from one device to another. Android has a built-in tool to migrate data from an old phone to a new one, and Samsung has its own data migration tool called Smart … Read more

Could generative AI work without online data theft? Nvidia’s ChatRTX aims to prove it can

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Could generative AI work without online data theft? Nvidia’s ChatRTX aims to prove it can

Nvidia continues to invest in AI initiatives and the most recent one, ChatRTX, is no exception thanks to its most recent update.  ChatRTX is, according to the tech giant, a “demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content.” This content comprises your PC’s local documents, files, … Read more

Do cutting-edge CAR-T-cell therapies cause cancer? What the data say

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Do cutting-edge CAR-T-cell therapies cause cancer? What the data say

US drug regulators dropped a bombshell in November 2023 when they announced an investigation into one of the most celebrated cancer treatments to emerge in decades. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it was looking at whether a strategy that involves engineering a person’s immune cells to kill cancer was leading to new … Read more

FCC Fines AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Almost $200 Million for Illegally Sharing Customer Location Data

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FCC Fines AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Almost 0 Million for Illegally Sharing Customer Location Data

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced [PDF] that it has fined AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile $196 million collectively for illegally selling access to customer location information without consent. Sprint and T-Mobile (now merged into T-Mobile) have been fined $12 million and $80 million, respectively. Verizon has been fined almost $47 million, and … Read more

Distributed cloud may solve data management challenges

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Distributed cloud may solve data management challenges

Due to its explosive growth, the management and storage of unstructured data is becoming increasingly challenging for organizations to contend with. This unprecedented expansion, however, is a double-edged sword: while the opportunities for leveraging this treasure trove abound, so do the issues in orchestrating it. Another major factor impacting data management, is that according to … Read more

dangerous strain gains ability to spread through sex, new data suggest

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dangerous strain gains ability to spread through sex, new data suggest

Monkeypox virus particles (artificially coloured).Credit: UK Health Security Agency/Science Photo Library A virulent strain of the monkeypox virus has gained the ability to spread through sexual contact, new data suggest. This has alarmed researchers, who fear a reprise of the worldwide mpox outbreak in 2022. Evidence from past outbreaks indicates that this strain, called clade … Read more

UnitedHealth confirms major cyberattack, says hackers stole “substantial” amount of patient data

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UnitedHealth confirms major cyberattack, says hackers stole “substantial” amount of patient data

UnitedHealth Group has issued an update on the data breach that recently struck its subsidiary, Change Healthcare. The healthcare giant suffered a ransomware attack that knocked some of its services offline and affected different pharmacies and other adjacent businesses across the United States. In an update, UnitedHealth Group said that based on initial targeted data … Read more

Discover if your data have been leaked with Proton Mail’s new tool

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Discover if your data have been leaked with Proton Mail’s new tool

Proton Mail has just unveiled a new Dark Web Monitoring feature in a bid to bolster its security capabilities against widespread data breaches.  Incidents of data leaks are reportedly on the rise, as billions of people’s credentials are exposed. The longer this sensitive information remains on the web, the easier is for cybercriminals to exploit … Read more