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How the New Retailers' Security Knowledge Base Will Benefit Testers In an initiative to curb cyber attacks, a group of retailers created a forum called the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center. Stores such as Lowe’s, Nike, and Target formed the center with the goal of identifying new threats and sharing how to mitigate risk, which will help security testers. |
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Big Data Makes Big Impact on Retailer LocationFreedom from the commitment of a lease or rental agreement gives virtual stores the advantage of flexibility with future decisions while using big data to maximize their revenue streams. Now, big data can help level the playing field when it comes to the perceived disadvantage of rental space. | 
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How the Weather Company Is Using Big Data to Stay ahead of the StormThe Weather Company is moving to a NoSQL-powered big-data platform, which can gather some twenty terabytes of weather data a day. The NoSQL environment’s ability to scale to extremely large sizes helps with the intake of this additional data, and faster queries mean quicker, more accurate forecasts. | 
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New Relic Makes a Splash with Software AnalyticsIf the words “big data” seem like something that’s out of grasp for your software development shop, New Relic has a solution for you. This week, New Relic made a big splash with its announcement of New Relic Insights, based on what the company calls “software analytics.” | 
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search PartySatellite imaging company DigitalGlobe is posting photos of the sea where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely to have gone down and asking for the public’s help to comb through them. Its pictures map thousands of square miles, prompting a crowdsourcing effort to scour the open water for evidence. |
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Information Technology Predictions for 2014The information technology (IT) field has a plethora of people discussing predictions for the coming year. In this story, Joe Townsend explores many of those predictions. Hopefully next year, we can look back and see if they were fulfilled or completely missed. | 
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Target Investigating Security Breach of 40 Million Card AccountsTarget is investigating a security breach where credit card and debit card information was stolen from millions of customers starting on Black Friday. The information was apparently stolen when customers swiped their cards at machines during checkout in stores. 40 million cards were compromised. |
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Privacy Testing: A Growing Field for Software Security SpecialistsSecurity is not just about preventing hacks. There is a larger aspect to consider: user privacy and how organizations handle collected user data. Privacy testing is still a niche field, but it is growing as users become more aware of protecting themselves and social networks gain popularity. |
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