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latest abney and associates technology news Google's Eric Schmidt Invests in Obama's Big Data Brains During the 2012 campaign, Barack Obama's reelection team had an underappreciated asset: Google's (GOOG) executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. He helped recruit talent, choose technology, and coach the campaign manager, Jim Messina, on the finer points of leading a large organization. "On election night he was in our boiler room in Chicago," says David Plouffe, then a senior White House adviser. Schmidt had a particular affinity for a group of engineers and statisticians tucked away beneath a disco ball in a darkened corner of the office known as "the Cave." The data analytics team, led by 30-year-old Dan Wagner, is credited with producing Obama's surprising 5 million-vote margin of victory. For all its acclaim, the analytics team's main achievement is often misunderstood as "microtargeting" or some variant on wooing voters. This reverses the relationship between campaign and voter at the heart of Wagner's method. Recent campaigns have employed a top-down approach to identify what they thought were vital demographic groups such as "soccer moms." Wagner's team pursued a bottom-up strategy of unifying vast commercial and political databases to understand the proclivities of individual voters likely to support Obama or be open to his message, and then sought to persuade them through personalized contact via Facebook (FB), e-mail, or a knock on the door. "I think of them as people scientists,'' says Schmidt. "They apply scientific techniques to how people will behave when confronted with a choice or a question." Obama's rout of Mitt Romney was a lesson in how this insight can translate into political strength. Traditional marketing has the same inherent limitation as traditional campaigning: It's impossible to appeal to everybody, even among the groups likeliest to favor a product. "Budweiser might target football fans with an ad s

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http://www.writerscafe.org/groups/Abney-Associates/9883/forum/20088/ Forbrugere, finansielle modtager der er fra indgående sårbare opkald institutioner leaders over for telefonen phishing-svindel, hvor karakterer uddrag tvivlsomme private data under forudsætning den, er at finansielle forbrugerens tjenesteyder. Overvej et eksempel på et realkreditlån låntager, der modtager et opkald, hvor blokeret opkalds-er ID. Kaldende Kunne forsket har i offentlige register for at Laere navnet realkreditinstitut ejerens af og på identitet. Med disse oplysninger i händen, kaldende forbrugeren foregiver at være långiver begynder anmoder personoplysninger og som om af sikkerhedsprocedurer. Kalderen ender med til at oplysninger personlige give in Ukendt part. JPMorgan Chase & Co talskvinde Amy Bonitatibus erkendt, at Chase anmoder om kunde Verifikation, give them således at oplysninger ikke med på andre beboere Hjemmet. "Men saw you Altid introducere Jungle, og vi til opkaldet oplyse årsagen OGSA," sagde hun. Et andet indebærer et opkald scenario, der er som kun på telefonsupport free identificeret opkalds-ID. Dette er af med fra opkald tilfældet Bank America Corp., kontrol personlige som om af Beder OGSA data. BofA kommentere som ikke har på svar on anmodning om om sine afklaring procedurer. Mens et frikaldsnummer i kan opkalds-ID visningen virke beroligende for låntager, tager meget for det ikke til operator in kriminel at opnå et frikaldsnummer og telefon udføre in phishing-systemer. Afdeling bestemt Jungle Chase om om opkalds vile vise-ID, New York-baserede selskabets nødvendigvis navn vises ikke er, Bonitatibus sagde. blokerer Men sit nummer Chase fra aldrig caller ID. På Citigroup Inc., afgiftsfri opkaldet nummer stammer fra HVIS vises in dialer, mens den forlængelse direkte vises, NAR opfordringen kommer fra office-gruppe, til i talsmand erklæring sagde. Jeg har bemærket, at selskabet vises ikke på telefonnumre blokere caller ID . In tredje

Internet Reviews Abney Associates Blog Articles The US Federal Trade Commission has carried out a huge international crackdown on a number of "tech support" scams being run out of India which have conned people in the UK, US, Canada and elsewhere out of millions of pounds since 2008. As explained by the Guardian in 2010, the scams used "boiler room" tactics, dialling through phone books for English-speaking countries. People who answered the phone were told the call came from Microsoft or their internet service provider, and that the person's computer was "reporting viruses". The caller would then perform an unnecessary "fix" on the computer and charge the person for it - and sometimes sign them up to multi-year "support" contracts. The cost could run to hundreds of pounds. People in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were targeted because they, like the people carrying out the scam, are English-speaking. The Guardian understands that the scam was worth millions of pounds a year to the organised gangs carrying it out. At the FTC's request in six cases, a federal district judge froze the US assets of 17 people and 14 companies that have been accused of taking part in the operations. The FTC has also shut down 80 internet domain names and 130 phone numbers used in the US to carry out the scams. The FTC is seeking an end to the scams, and repayments for people who were conned out of money. Though the FTC said it could not put a figure on how many people had been scammed, or how much they had lost, Microsoft - which has been working with the commission for the past two years to try to catch the criminals - provided data on more than a thousand people who had been scammed, whose losses averaged $875 each. Microsoft has repeatedly pointed out that it would not call people about any problems with their computers. In some cases, the scammers would try to sell antivirus software from reputable companies, and in some cases would install new copies of Windows

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AN Abney Associates News Flash Phishing sites, which masquerade as genuine websites to steal users' personal information, are on the rise in Hong Kong, Microsoft warned on Thursday. Some 6.23 phishing sites were found per 1,000 hosts in the fourth quarter last year, up from 6.01 in the third quarter, according to Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report. However, the number of malware infections remained low in the same period. Every 1,000 computers had 2.2 malware infections on average, the report found. Tim Rains, director of product management in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, said the rise could be because Hong Kong is a financial centre and phishing sites masquerade as banking websites to steal information. "The fact that we have a low malware infection rate in Hong Kong, but slightly elevated level of phishing is actually interesting," he said. He said the reason could be that the attackers were using a smaller number of compromised systems in Hong Kong to do more phishing than other attacks. Roy Ko Wai-tak, manager of Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre, said websites of small and medium enterprises were often hijacked by attackers to build phishing sites - which pose as big corporations - because of poor cyber security. Rains also said the most common malware is called keygen, which comes with key generators that produce serial numbers required to run piracy software. Ko said it showed that Hong Kong people still continue to use piracy software. The report, which also found that 2.5 out of 10 computers on average did not have up-to-date antivirus software in the city, was based on data from over 600 million computers worldwide using Microsoft's products. The number of Hong Kong computers was unknown at the time of going to press. AN Abney Associates News Flash READ MORE: http://mariahabney.weebly.com/ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz5ub4_online-attempts-to-steal-personal-information-on-the-rise-i