Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “These operations have targeted various industries, including Aerospace & Defense, Education, Energy & Utilities, Governments, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Retail, Technology, and Transportation. ” continues the report.

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Energy and Utilities Government Firewall Malware 93

Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2022

It enables insurance companies to collect and share data with customers about their insured goods in real time, allows consumers to make instant contactless payments and provides the framework for retail banks to collect information on each customer that enters one of their locations. Better investment decisions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Virtually every major financial institution, retailer, and scores of payment processors have been the victims of data breaches, incurring both financial and reputational damage. In this blog I will focus on two requirements and show how Thales CipherTrust Data Security Platform solutions can help businesses streamline compliance.

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Financial Services Data breaches Accountability Encryption 77

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Suppose you have an Amazon Prime account. You click the authentic-looking link and enter your login credentials. Would a popular retailer send an email with an excessive number of typos? Visit the SiteLock blog to learn more about the disastrous effects of phishing scams. Signs of a Phishing Email. Use your spam filters.

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Phishing Scams Retail Education 52

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2017

We’re now seeing big data play an increasing role in how retail sales and payments are being tailored to individual consumer’s preferences, and providers are adopting and integrating smarter, more efficient ways of completing the path-to-purchase. Three-Domain Secure (3DS) 2.0

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Retail Marketing Mobile Digital transformation 83

SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. A Geek Squad car is parked at Pentagon Centre, in Pentagon City, Virginia.

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Phishing Social Engineering Scams Engineering 81

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

509 certificates to authenticate and secure communication between Kubernetes workloads, containers, clusters and microservices. million downloads per day across industries including financial services, technology, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. retailers; and the top four banks in each of the following countries: the U.S.,

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Retail Software Marketing Engineering 67

Security Boulevard

JUNE 16, 2021

Fast forward to 2021, the European Banking Authority passed the Strong Consumer Authentication (SCA)—a PSD2 requirement—for payment service providers to make online payments more secure and prevent financial fraud. In the next installment of this blog series, we’ll explore how deploying programmable data can: .

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Banking Marketing Financial Services Retail 120

Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The holiday season is critical for the retail industry in the U.S., Retailers have to protect consumer PII and stay compliant to PCI DSS, GDPR, CPPA and more. The breaches could easily be prevented by leveraging a zero trust security posture and implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA). Retail is critical to the U.S.

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Retail Cybersecurity Identity Theft Authentication 75

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 26, 2018

One challenge, however, is that not all retailers have the necessary scanners to read QR codes. The cashless security model has changed considerably since chip-enabled payments, in which everything was pinned to the authenticated consumer. Root of trust. From a merchant’s point of view, QR codes could represent more of a risk.

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Mobile Technology Retail Authentication 100

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. These are: Enabling strong mutual authentication between connected devices and applications. Threats and Vulnerabilities.

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IoT Data collection Encryption eCommerce 72

Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) just released the 2022 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report that reveals the most prevalent malware tools leveraged by cyber criminals this year, with phishing and fraud dominating the list.

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Retail Cyber threats Social Engineering Phishing 78

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, one website offered users to obtain a COVID vaccination certificate by entering their British National Health Service (NHS) account credentials. To lend an air of authenticity and to motivate the victim to enter valid information, the swindlers warned that the victim could be prosecuted for providing false information.

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Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 100

Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In our recent passkey blog series , we’ve been unpacking the difference between new passkey technology and more conventional password security in light of some of the most critical authentication scenarios. They can also be used on other devices through QR code-based “hybrid” authentication. That’s where passkeys come in.

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Passwords Authentication Accountability Password Management 72

Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not all multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions are equal. For a two-factor authentication solution, that may include hidden costs, such as upfront, capital, licensing, support, maintenance, and operating costs. Estimate and plan for how much it will cost to deploy multi-factor authentication to all of your apps and users.

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Authentication Software Mobile Passwords 67

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. forums where accounts and IP addresses are routinely sold, as visible in the screenshot above.

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Accountability Artificial Intelligence Engineering Retail 107

Elie

MAY 30, 2018

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. forums where accounts and IP addresses are routinely sold, as visible in the screenshot above.

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Accountability Artificial Intelligence Engineering Retail 91

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

million online accounts at 17 companies, including online retailers, restaurant chains and food delivery services, according to the report. Virtually every website and app uses passwords as a means of authenticating its users,” investigators wrote in the report.

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Password Management Passwords Authentication Accountability 120

Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Logging and Audit Trail: Establishing systems to track and register user behaviors and creating an audit trail for accountability are essential steps in establishing accountability. Accountability Policies are pointless if they are consistently ignored. That is true whether everyone violates a policy or just one person does.

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Government Backups Data privacy Accountability 52

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. That story about the Flashback author was possible because a source had obtained a Web browser authentication cookie for a founding member of a Russian cybercrime forum called BlackSEO.

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Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 230

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 21, 2023

Why Sucessful Central Bank Digital Currencies require Partnership enagement madhav Thu, 06/22/2023 - 06:23 In Part 1 of this blog series we explored what CBDC, or Central Bank Digital Currencies are, and why they are important. Successful completion of CBDC projects requires the involvement of multiple partners.

Banking 62

Banking Retail Encryption Technology 62

Security Boulevard

APRIL 20, 2022

Email continues to be the top phishing vector, but other vectors such as SMS are growing: consumers trust text messages more than emails, and a successful SMS phishing (“SMiShing”) attack can give attackers the smartphone access that they need to bypass two-factor authentication. See the latest ThreatLabz threat research on the Zscaler blog.

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Phishing Retail Risk Architecture 113

Malwarebytes

JULY 13, 2022

Here’s how the top five industries ranked by number of ransomware attacks this spring: Services: 171 Manufacturing: 76 Technology: 65 Utilities: 61 Retail: 50. To add insult to injury, REvil (aka Sodonokibi) appeared to return in April with new payloads and a fresh leak blog featuring a mixture of recent and old victims.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Government Computers and Electronics 109

Troy Hunt

MARCH 29, 2018

That blog post had been in the works for many months before this partnership was conceived of, but I ultimately decided to get it out before this announcement to help explain my thinking. I even shutdown accounts I no longer wanted / needed. The Intent of HIBP Has to Remain Beyond Reproach. Thanks for all your work!

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Password Management Passwords Data breaches Retail 264

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. If you’re like the majority of users out there, you reuse credentials.

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Big data Accountability Passwords Digital transformation 164

Webroot

MARCH 4, 2024

Example: Online retailer: “Looking for running shoes? Imagine receiving a phone call from a seemingly genuine bank manager, requesting sensitive account details for “security verification.” We need your account details for security verification.” The post The Marvels and Challenges of AI appeared first on Webroot Blog.

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Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing Banking 85