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Are Data Breaches the New Reality for Retail?

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While retailers digitally transform their businesses to better serve the higher demands of their customers, they’re being challenged with safeguarding personal data to protect customers, partners and suppliers’ critical information. In fact, this year’s report showed a massive increase in data breaches, with 50 percent of U.S.

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Mapping the threat: an insight into data breaches across Europe

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According to Thales eSecurity’s latest Data Threat Report, European Edition , almost three in four businesses have now fallen victim to some of the world’s most significant data breaches, resulting in a loss of sensitive data and diminished customer trust. Where the hazard really lies.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 426 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

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Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

Security Affairs

According to the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report , 43% of all nefarious online activities impacted small businesses. According to the annual study conducted by IBM examining the financial impact of data breaches on organizations , the cost of a data breach has risen 12% over the past 5 years and now costs $3.92

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Federal cybersecurity: breaking down the barriers to adoption

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These vulnerabilities can span from limited use of data encryption to the abuse of privileged user policies. However, modernization and transformative technologies are creating new vulnerabilities resulting in data breaches. Data Breaches aren’t Slowing Down. The problem? Regulations Stoke the Flames.

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Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions

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To this end, and in honour of Cyber Security Awareness Month, we decided to look at some of the most commonly asked cyber security questions on the internet and break down the answers as simply as possible. Data Sovereignty What is data sovereignty? Not least to mention the language around the basics is often anything but.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

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However, simple actions like adopting multi-factor authentication (MFA) or encrypting sensitive data everywhere should be exercised throughout the year and not just during that month. Download the full Thales 2023 Data Threat Report for the Critical Infrastructure for more information.