eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A VPN provides a secure channel for users to send and retrieve sensitive data using public infrastructure – the Internet. Read on to find more answers to “What is a VPN?” Encryption: Individual packets of data are encrypted by military-spec technology. Categories of VPN Broadly, there are three categories of VPN.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

affect retailers everywhere, there’s no denying that online holiday shopping will look different this year. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly every business, retailer, and consumer has opted to shop online for the holiday season. Cyber Checklist For Retailers And Businesses To Follow. Use secure networks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. 2/2) Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details which are encrypted and tokenized. Please be assured that there is no compromise of customer payment details, which are encrypted and tokenized.”

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Be wary of these common online shopping scams: Fake websites and online stores: Scammers often create fake websites that mimic legitimate retailers, hoping to trick unsuspecting shoppers into entering their personal and payment information. But it also presents an opportunity for scammers to exploit.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. In fact, according to our recent survey of retailers , 88% feel vulnerable to data threats. Alternately, consider investing in a Virtual Private Network (VPN).

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When shopping at a retail location, watch where your card is swiped and follow the card wherever it is taken. Use only WiFi with proper authentication and encryption methods, or purchase a cellular data plan from your carrier while traveling. SSL Certificates protect data in transit by encrypting the content being sent and received.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of fake warnings of cyberattacks sent from a hacked FBI email server GravityRAT returns disguised as an end-to-end encrypted chat app Intel and AMD address high severity vulnerabilities in products and drivers New evolving Abcbot DDoS botnet targets Linux systems Retail giant Costco discloses data breach, payment card data exposed (..)

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SecureList

DECEMBER 12, 2023

To find out, in 2022 we created a list of 700 companies worldwide from different industries: industrial, telecommunication, financial, retail, and others. But are we really conscious of the true scale of the threat? Then we searched through Darknet trying to answer the question of “How likely these companies have suffered a breach?”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Use a VPN: A VPN is a Virtual Private Network , which protects your data and privacy online by creating an encrypted tunnel that makes your activity far more anonymous than without one. Retailers have sensors that they can connect to, which then collect data.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This ransomware is controlled by command line parameters and can either retrieve an encryption key from the C2 or an argument at launch time. Also, many groups relied on vulnerabilities in VPN servers. This ransomware sample is custom made and developed explicitly by the threat actor behind this attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 19, 2023

History of Hive Ransomware Hive typically goes after nonprofits, retailers, energy providers, healthcare facilities, and others in similar spaces. Once trapped, Hive allows its victims to contact a customer service representative through a fake ‘customer service’ link provided at the time of encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Virtual Private Network (VPN) : For remote access, remote desktop protocol (RDP) no longer can be considered safe. Instead, organizations should use a virtual private network (VPN) solution. Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

The fastest growing need stems from edge computing for the Internet of Things (IoT) such as fitness bands, self-driving cars, and retail point-of-sale (POS) registers. Instead, data now processes within branch offices, retail locations, factories, and a host of IoT devices.

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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. To mitigate VPN vulnerabilities, implement least privilege access management across your infrastructure.

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Pen Test Partners

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Use AES encryption. Encrypt in transit. Confidentiality stops someone from reading the content of a message: Figure 8: Encryption and decryption. Encryption is important when: Sending a password. These are present on most modern mobile devices and computers and store card information or BitLocker encryption keys.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. This module contains the encrypted embedded module RwDrv.sys. This module uses an RAS (Remote Access Service) API to establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) connection. < The vpnDll32 module establishes a VPN connection. permaDll32.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Zero-trust security features include risk analytics, auto-remediation, SSO and multi-factor authentication (MFA) , integrated mobile threat defense (MTD) and VMware Tunnel for device and per-app VPN , integrations to third-party security tools via Trust Network and to VMware Secure Access cloud-hosted zero trust network access solution.

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

We provide a high-availability service split across multiple geographic regions, providers and power grids for seamless failover, and our multiple offsite backups of customer data are encrypted. If you need to replace any of the broken tokens, you’re talking about another added cost. The whole program gets very, very expensive.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

While direct customer facing businesses like restaurants and retailers have had to change their opening hours, adapt their business models or close their doors entirely, there are still millions of jobs that can be done at home, outside of the usual office working environment.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Ransomware & Data Theft Organizations worldwide continue to feel the pain of ransomware attacks, although many ransomware gangs may be shifting to extortion over data theft instead of encrypted data. Secure remote access : Enables encrypted connections between internal network resources and remote users using a variety of methods.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2021

Monero is the cryptocurrency of choice, instead, and all communications must be PGP encrypted. More retailers accept several forms of online payments. If you must log in to an account of any kind while on public WiFi, use a VPN for encrypting all your internet traffic. So they have high-security practices in all ends.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Group-IB’s report Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 examines various aspects of cybercrime industry operations and predicts changes to the threat landscape for various sectors, namely the financial industry, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and the energy sector. Ransomware operators buy access and then encrypt devices on the network.

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SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

In addition, attackers appear to be more focused on exfiltrating data as well as encrypting it, i.e., siphoning off confidential information and threatening to make it public if the victims refuse to pay. These include crypto-ransomware (malware that encrypts your files), screen lockers, browser lockers, and boot lockers. Conclusion.

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