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How Do You Protect Yourself from Credit Card Skimmers?

Identity IQ

Little to no surveillance over each point-of-sale device at the pump can allow thieves to set these devices up in plain sight. It has been shown that skimmers copy the data from the magnetic strip on your credit card, so it is safer to use your chip due to it being more heavily encrypted. Protect Your Identity.

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How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Namely, they should implement encryption, key management and identity and access management (IAM) to help preserve the privacy of their stored data. Encryption. An organization’s digital security strategy would not be complete without encryption. Key Management. A Streamlined Data Security Strategy.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

New encryption and anonymity tools may arise to counter the advancement of law enforcement and government monitoring tools. Surveillance and monitoring initiatives that enable authorities to track and identify individuals on the dark web. Cryptocurrencies will likely remain the primary way to facilitate dark web transactions.

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Episode 185: Attacking COVID, Protecting Privacy

The Security Ledger

Consider mass digital surveillance of the kinds used in repressive countries like China and Russia. Episode 178: Killing Encryption Softly with the EARN IT Act. Also: SMBs Struggle with Identity. Also: securing Digital Identities in the age of the DeepFake. Jason Sabin is the Chief Technology Officer at DigiCert.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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The Challenges Facing the Passwordless Future

eSecurity Planet

A few years ago, a security hacker — Jan Krissler, alias Starbug — demonstrated this vulnerability by utilizing a high-resolution photo of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen’s thumb and “reconstructing it with commercial software to demonstrate the relative simplicity of fingerprint identity theft,” Dhapte said.

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