The compromised data in these forums tends to come from phishing attacks--those spammy e-mails asking you to send along your financial data--and from malware.
To investigate the investment success of crowds, The Economist asked Morningstar, an investment-research firm, to send us fund-flow data and performance statistics for its American mutual-fund range.
Mrs Aigner fired her slingshot after Facebook had said it might send data on members to hand-picked partners such as CNN and Yahoo!
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Once the victim received a text message that included a certain protocol, the malware would send the collected data back to the command-and-control server.
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Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers with Beamforming technology will precisely adjust, steer and monitor the direction and shape of the Wi-Fi signals in order to send data back and forth over the optimal path, resulting in up to two times the speed of routers without this technology in place.
Aircraft equipped with ADS-B are able to automatically send highly precise data, such as aircraft positioning and speed, to air traffic controllers every second.
Earlier this week the stock-data provider Nanex told my colleague that firms send in massive orders on purpose to manipulate the market.
Intel last summer said it had developed a research prototype of a silicon-based transceiver with four data channels that each send data at 12.5 gigabits a second.
When you're ready, you can send out an e-mail to those people you've entrusted with your data should anything happen to you.
"If the data show it's a single business with five PCS, we send them an e-mail, " says Gary Skidmore, president of Harte-Hanks' response management division in Austin.
"If the data show it's a single business with five PCs, we send them an e-mail, " says Gary Skidmore, president of Harte-Hanks' response management division in Austin, Tex.
San Francisco-based Kaggle is a successful startup based around the idea of competition: Companies send data to Kaggle, which provides them to teams of data scientists who compete to come up with the best predictive models for that data, based on historical results.
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