CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

Census Bureau’s latest  Annual Retail Trade Survey  reports e-commerce expenditures rose from $571.2 is clearly failing to protect cardholder account details effectively in today’s environment. Protect stored account data. In fact, the U.S. billion in 2019 to $815.4 billion in 2020, a 43% increase. and PCI v4.0:

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Antivirus Retail Software Accountability 138

IT Security Guru

JANUARY 22, 2024

Users can save credit card details that can be easily filled on retail websites, as well as bank information such as account and routing numbers. This information can be securely shared with others with full end-to-end encryption, ensuring your most sensitive financial information is never exposed via unsecure channels.

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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. mandates that account data storage is kept to a minimum by implementing data retention and disposal policies, procedures, and processes. Requirement 3.2

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

of internet traffic, while good bots accounted for 19.4% Generative AI technology uses web scraping bots and automated crawlers to feed its training models while enabling nontechnical users to write automated scripts for personal use. In 2013, when Imperva first launched the Bad Bot Report, bad bots comprised 23.6%

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Exposed records include email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, dates of birth, IP addresses associated with payment methods, credit scores (from Equifax and other companies), unencrypted payment card data with CVV codes, locations, and other customer service records, and account details. All the data was encrypted.

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Mobile Data breaches Retail Accountability 82

Krebs on Security

APRIL 5, 2021

” The message above was sent to a customer of RaceTrac Petroleum , an Atlanta company that operates more than 650 retail gasoline convenience stores in 12 southeastern states. . “Call or write to this store and ask to protect your privacy!!!!” Wosar said Clop isn’t the only ransomware gang emailing victim customers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. locked to the filename of the encrypted files. Once compromised the target network, attackers attempt to exfiltrate the company’s accounts and passwords database. continues the report.

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. Cybercriminals are forever leveraging advanced tools and tactics to attack consumers globally.

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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. Communication to and from the EdgeRouters involved encryption using a randomly generated 16-character AES key.

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Energy and Utilities Government Firewall Malware 97

The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing. Cybercriminals have begun escalating their efforts to bend the legitimate online advertising and retailing fulfillment ecosystem to their whims.

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Retail Digital transformation Advertising Software 138

Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Data breaches caused by weak security measures and procedures result in severe monetary losses, erosion of clients’ trust, and irreversible reputation damage to organizations in the healthcare, financial services, technology, and retail industries, as well as government and public sector entities.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Retailers around the world are anticipating less foot traffic in their shops this holiday season, with more than 75% of consumers expected to do most of their shopping online due to the pandemic. Make certain it is secure, encrypted and possibly even hidden. Make sure your Wi-Fi networks are secure. Limit access to business computers.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Organizations can create a structured foundation for data loss prevention techniques by delineating responsibilities and ensuring accountability. Integration with Business Processes Effective DLP goes beyond technology; it integrates seamlessly with existing business processes.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital transformation inherently drives organizations into a data driven world – and each technology used for digital transformation (cloud, big data, IoT, blockchain, mobile payments and more) requires its own unique approach to protecting data. Adoption levels are high across the board for these technologies. Encrypt the data.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 10, 2021

Now for access as a service, you're getting a username and password to a database, or to the back end of the administrative account, to a hospital or to a bank. This specific variety of criminal market offerings is less well known than others, such as the sale of compromised payment cards from retail and hospitality breaches.

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Telecommunications Marketing Ransomware Accountability 98

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Most of all, privacy-preserving technologies were among the most discussed tech topics, even if opinions on some of the implementations, e.g. NeuralHash or Federated Learning of Cohorts , were mixed. Citizens, for their part, are increasingly concerned with surveillance capitalism , a lack of anonymity and dependence on online services.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2021

A bold move by the retail giant which aims to offer the complete shopping journey for customers by changing how identification at check-in can substitute authentication at check-out for payment. The technology has only been deployed in the USA for now in two of Amazon’s stores in Seattle, Washington. A need to adapt.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 19, 2022

million downloads per day and 9,400 stars on Git Hub, cert-manager protects cloud native workloads with TLS encryption and provides critical security for clusters. million downloads per day across industries including financial services, technology, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. With over 1.5 Australia and South Africa.

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Spoofing technology has allowed scammers to impersonate government agencies and exploit government-issued stimulus payments easily. While some may be harmless, consisting of ads from retailers, criminals also use emails in mass-market phishing campaigns. A daily dose of spam. IRS and Bank-related scams.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 17, 2023

The report focused on several cyber-related risks, such as attacks on gas and energy infrastructure, fuel supply infrastructure, health and social care systems, the transport sector, financial infrastructure and retail banks, then assessed the risk this poses to national security. This should include a secure password manager.

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

. “I don’t think it would influence Federal Reserve policy, but what it might do is influence the industry to take additional action through our existing venues and our ability to share the data,” said Trish Supples, advanced subject matter expert in the Retail Payments Office at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 31, 2022

Organizations in the finance sector manage trillions of dollars and maintain very valuable and vital electronic data, including bank account, credit card, and transaction information as well as sensitive data related to estates, wills, titles, and other matters. Thu, 09/01/2022 - 05:15. Moving ahead.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As technology has adapted and grown over the years, so has fraudulent ways of gathering people’s information. If you are at a gas station, retail store or an ATM, check for any malfunctions with the alignment of the card reader. Bottom line, protect yourself and your bank account from credit card skimmers in any way you can.

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Identity Theft Banking Scams Retail 105

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This includes the evolution from physical currency and checks to digital payment methods such as credit and debit cards, as well as the emergence of newer technologies like mobile payments and cryptocurrencies. Open banking is a good indicator of the speed and extent to which consumers and businesses are adopting new payment technologies.

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Banking Cryptocurrency Financial Services Accountability 71

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As an online retailer, it is time to address the elephant in the room by addressing your customers’ fears. An SSL is a digital certificate that encrypts information sent between a web server and web browser. Encryption is the process of jumbling plain text to an incomprehensible format during electronic transmission.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, any unique passwords generated for products must avoid simplicity, such as incremental counters or information easily linked to the device, unless encrypted or hashed using industry-recognised secure methods. It means that returns from retailers could be significant.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In November VISA published another security alert, titled “ ATTACKS TARGETING POINT-OF-SALE AT FUEL DISPENSER MERCHANTS ,” that warns of threat actors that were able to obtain payment card data due to the lack of secure acceptance technology, (e.g. EMV Chip, Pointto -Point Encryption, Tokenization, etc.)

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Previous communications lacked sufficient detail, according to the SAO’s account. “Government tends to let technology stay in place until replacement or upgrade is unavoidable, something we call ‘management by landmine.’ Hence the reason why credit card information is never transmitted to the retailer. ” . .

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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. Employing asymmetric cryptography, PKIs manage the key pairs used for signing and encrypting data.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Interestingly, 61 percent of all SMBs and 79 percent of large SMBs believe cyberhackers have more sophisticated technology at their disposal than the SMBs’ own cybersecurity resources. “I Last February, Dallas-based email encryption vendor Zix Corp. There are so many more ways to subvert authentication.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In the incident we describe in this post, the threat actors also took into account that an e-commerce site may get cleaned up from a Magento 1 hack. Costway is a retailer that started to sell its own name-brand products via platforms such as Amazon and later rolled out costway.com and subsequent localized online stores.

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Hacking Retail Software Encryption 91

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. The technology itself encompasses a number of tools, including: Compliance management. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer. LogicManager. Back to top. Riskonnect.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

LogicManager’s GRC solution has specific use cases across financial services, education, government, healthcare, retail, and technology industries, among others. The technology itself encompasses a number of tools, including: Compliance management. See our in-depth look at RSA Archer. LogicManager. Back to top. Riskonnect.

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Government Risk Retail Insurance 57

SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The industries affected included everything from IT to retail, from oil and gas to healthcare. It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. Buying traffic for malicious sites has transformed into buying data — access to different organizations, account information, etc.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 9, 2020

The retailer wasn’t alone. The best way to avoid getting skinned by e-skimming is standard issue: We all need to monitor our accounts, avoid using debit cards (because they are a direct money funnel), keep our password games strong, and generally practice good cyber hygiene. Too Many Coders in the Kitchen. It is cultural.

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