Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 15, 2021

Secure firmware flashing is also a way to enhance assurance of device security, allowing for audit capabilities and controls around these devices. Yes, and Ellen uses the example of a retail grocery store to effectively demonstrate the point. There are also data privacy implications with IoT.

IoT 100

IoT Data privacy Technology Risk 100

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The Linear E3 devices are installed in commercial, industrial, banking, medical, retail, hospitality, and other businesses to secure their facilities and manage access to personnel. This unauthenticated remote command injection vulnerability affects Linear eMerge E3 access control systems running firmware versions 1.00-06 06 and older.

DDOS 77

DDOS Hacking Internet Internet 77

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

FIN8 is a financially motivated group that has been active since at least 2016 and often targets the POS environments of the retail, restaurant, and hospitality merchants to harvest payment account data. Enable EMV technologies for secure in-person payments (chip, contactless, mobile and QRcode).

Cyber Attacks 63

Cyber Attacks Malware Cybercrime Advertising 63

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations. For customers like retailers, as well as banks and business software providers, an outage like this can be a blow to your reputation as well as a financial loss. And network users don’t just need to be authorized — they need to be authenticated, too.

Network Security 107

Network Security Firewall Internet Internet 107

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Multi-factor authentication : Protects stolen credentials against use by requiring more than a simple username and password combination for access to resources. Passwordless authentication : Eliminates passwords in favor of other types of authentication such as passkeys, SSO, biometrics, or email access.

Cybersecurity 119

Cybersecurity DDOS Penetration Testing Passwords 119

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Although beyond the scope of the network, effective network security relies upon the effective authentication of the user elsewhere in the security stack. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)

Firewall 107

Firewall Network Security Penetration Testing Encryption 107

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. Install updates/patches to operating systems, software and firmware as soon as they are released. Noteworthy March attacks.

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Ransomware Manufacturing Government Computers and Electronics 110

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This exposed data includes everything from emails and documents typed to passwords entered for authentication purposes. By obtaining sensitive authentication access, attackers can break into the vendor network or user account. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers. Firmware rootkit. Rootkit Type.

Malware 104

Malware Adware Spyware Antivirus 104

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. Vamosi: For example, let's say you're a large retail organization with a number of physical locations.

IoT 52

IoT Hacking Internet Internet 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. Problem is, MAC addresses are not great for authentication. Vamosi: For example, let's say you're a large retail organization with a number of physical locations.

IoT 52

IoT Hacking Internet Internet 52