big data

Those 50 million Facebook profiles were already harvested

Digital advertising brings money to companies and relevant ads to you and me — and attracts fraud. How does it all work?

Powerful chatbots can replace real-life communication — and take over the world.

Catching criminals, waking up a sleepy driver, stopping teens from buying cigarettes — facial recognition can help us accomplish all that and more.

How everyone and his dog online make the big data tyranny raise.

Big data is amazing for sure, but as any other tech, especially emerging one, it has issues. Let’s take a look what could possibly go wrong with big data implementations.

Does your use of social media make you a liability to your company?

Facial recognition algorithms can track your movements with amazing accuracy. But if you know how they work you can trick them.

Just think of the sticky fingers of banks, marketers and insurers that hunt for your personal data with revolting impudence and store them unsecured. So, what’s the fuss about?

Big data helps to catch child abusers, drug dealers, and terrorists, and allegedly it also helped to locate Bin Laden.

There are many cool and funny projects in the world that deal with big data and we’ve gathered the Top 10 list of the most interesting ones. See for yourself!

Wrapping up our Big Data Week, in this post we talk about potential of abuse of Big Data, which is arguably extreme.

Big Data means increased risks: a large-scale leak may lead to tremendous reputational damages, so cyber-resilience is extremely important.

Big Data is widely used for security purposes, especially in the banking sphere. However, the amount of security-related data causes an issue of its own.

Big Data allowed to beat cyberfraudsters over the extended frontage. Unfortunately, they read the very same books as the security and Big Data experts.

Big Data is widely used by businesses to gather information on their consumers. But it’s quite evident that the same Big Data may be used against the businesses as well.

Big Data concept is the new “big thing” of the last two or three years. While it promises a lot of advantages, there are voices of doubt and reservation. This week we are publishing a series of blog posts dedicated to Big Data, trying to find out what this “big” is about. Stay tuned!