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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on the degrees of privacy tech companies assign to your digital footprints

The Last Watchdog

Data explicitly provided by the user is considered “zero-party” data. In ecommerce, this commonly comes in the form of a registration, a review, or a purchase. Marketers frequently purchase or share first-party data from another partner organization. Data collection red flags. E-commerce impacted.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

In yet another recent cutting-edge attack, cyber criminals targeted smaller online retailers with stealthy malware, dubbed CartThief, designed to exploit websites using the open-source Magento ecommerce platform. We’re talking about things like consumer data collection, data management platforms and retargeting enablement systems.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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Ransomware en masse on the wane: top threats inside web-phishing in H1 2020

Security Affairs

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2020. They are followed by banking Trojans , whose share in the total amount of malicious attachments showed growth for the first time in a while.

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Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of websites all over the world

Security Affairs

This successful operation is just one example of how law enforcement are working with industry partners, adapting and applying new technologies to aid investigations and ultimately reduce the global impact of cybercrime,» concluded Mr Jones.” ” Craig Jones. INTERPOL’s Director of Cybercrime. ” James Tan.

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Best Fraud Management Systems & Detection Tools in 2022

eSecurity Planet

Fraud.net offers specific solutions for a number of industries, including gaming, financial services, and eCommerce, as well as government organizations. They’re also useful for background checks, data analytics, and data mining. Losing data due to fraud and other complications can be tough. LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

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Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity: Does It Work as Advertised?

eSecurity Planet

“Users” in this case can mean your employees, your customers, or just anyone who directly interfaces with your business and your business’s data on a regular enough basis to generate patterns. A common use case for behavioral analytics is on eCommerce or media platforms. Transparency is key whenever you’re collecting user data.