Blog Posts Tagged with "Data Mining"
Psychopathy Tweets: Too Many Statistics, Not Enough Proof of Concept
August 01, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
What I came out with, after many slides of numbers, was “nope not really”, which I pretty much had thought before. There are just too many variables to this type of venture and you would need to have a trained psychoanalyst to talk to the individual to determine whether or not they are a true psychopath...
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Detecting Psychopathy via Tweets? A Flawed Premise...
July 25, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
It seems to me that more and more we are being collectively mined not only for our habits, but now our emotions as well as our psychological makeups. All of this could potentially be collated from numerous sources. I doubt we will ever be able to contextualize the human psyche just from internet datum…
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Another Angle on Big Data
July 22, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Today, we don’t have the concept of “knowledge security,” but should we begin considering that moving forward? Given that we are moving, quite quickly, into a knowledge-based orientation, what are the implications for “information security?” Are there any? Does this perspective even matter?
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NIST Conducts Big Data Workshop
June 14, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
In this first NIST 'Big Data' workshop, key national priority topics will be explored, including examples from science, health, disaster management, security, and finance. At the same time, topics in emerging technology areas including analytics and architectures will also be discussed...
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Data Mining A Mountain of Zero Day Vulnerabilities
May 22, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
Information leakage happens when sensitive information is displayed to the a user inadvertently. An example would be pathnames or database IP addresses returned within an error message to a user. An attacker can use this information to undermine the system...
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Some Observations on Klout Scores
May 15, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Influence is extremely difficult to measure. In the academic world, the Hirsch number is an index that attempts to measure the impact of a published work, but like every index it can be manipulated. So is Klout an effective method of measuring online influence? From my analysis, no...
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Legal Implications of Social Networking Part 3: Data Security
January 31, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
Technology exists for monitoring and tracking of social media usage by employees. Ultimately however, like social media itself, it comes down to people - risk can only be addressed appropriately if the individuals using social media are equipped to identify and mitigate against it...
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Security is in the Cracks
January 26, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
In preparing to implement an application for financial management, CRM, data mining or ERP, something in the back of your mind probably says the vendor’s development organization is not a lot different than yours - though you hope they’ve thought through the security issues first...
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WikiLeaks Source Manning Used Data-Mining Software
April 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The U.S. Army has confirmed that accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning had installed data-mining software on his SIPRnet-linked computer during the same period he is suspected of harvesting hundreds-of-thousands of classified government documents...
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Data Mining Analysis vs. Predictive Modeling
May 16, 2010 Added by:Michael O'Connor
Fraud prevention and risk management professionals are familiar with both data mining/analysis and predictive modeling as tools of the trade, and the two are often discussed in conjunction with each other.
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