Schneier on Security

AUGUST 10, 2020

Yet another Internet-connected door lock is insecure : Sold by retailers including Amazon, Walmart, and Home Depot, U-Tec's $139.99 UltraLoq is marketed as a "secure and versatile smart deadbolt that offers keyless entry via your Bluetooth-enabled smartphone and code."

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 2, 2018

But they also realized there was a greater good in encouraging safety and security of the Internet, as it becomes more and more an important part of people’s lives. A large retailer may spend millions on cyber security. They built a very robust group of committed cybersecurity professionals in their own businesses.

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Threatpost

MARCH 23, 2021

The arts-and-crafts retailer left 138GB of sensitive information open to the public internet.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with a surge in retail and online transactions. During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

Based on Ransomlooker, a free Cybernews tool for monitoring the dark web and other hidden areas of the internet, more ransomware attacks occurred in spring and summer, with 1253 and 1275 victims, compared to winter and autumn, which had 611 and 1052 incidents, respectively. Winter was the least active time (14.6%

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s worth noting that there’s no reason a legitimate retailer would need that last one — the skeleton key to your identity — to process a purchase.). If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. Shop at reputable and recognizable retailers. Lock your devices. Read reviews.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The year 2020 disrupted just about every industry, including retail banking. Locked down at home, consumers were abruptly forced to do all their banking over the internet. The sudden transition profoundly impacted banks and created unprecedented demands on online infrastructure. Some sites crashed altogether.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company believes the incident occurred on January 4, 2021, after threat actors managed to trick employees into accessing and downloading malicious software on some retail-store computers. “A few employees in retail stores were successfully scammed by unauthorized individuals and downloaded software onto a store computer.”

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 7, 2024

Pet retail company PetSmart has emailed customers to alert them to a recent credential stuffing attack. Across the internet, fraudsters are constantly trying to obtain user names and passwords and they often try and test the credentials they find on various websites, like ours. Credential stuffing relies on the re-use of passwords.

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Dark Reading

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

New initiative offers five principles for greater IoT security.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

The public key gets used on both ends to encrypt the information that gets transmitted across the Internet; but only one party holds the corresponding private key to decrypt the data on the other end. Attribute-based encryption would enable this retailer to issue a private key that worked only when those parameters were met.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Kilmer said Faceless has emerged as one of the underground’s most reliable malware-based proxy services, mainly because its proxy network has traditionally included a great many compromised “Internet of Things” devices — such as media sharing servers — that are seldom included on malware or spam block lists.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

” Chhabria continued, “In an effort to more effectively stamp out infringement, the plaintiffs now go after a service common to many of the infringers: Cloudflare.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. It’s not just attachments from retailers, but also from shipping companies or financial institutions. …and don’t open that attachment. Do your online shopping at home on a secure network.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

For the uninitiated, Black Friday is the annual celebration of peak capitalism that commemorates the symbolic moment that retailers go “in to the black” for the year and start to make a profit. At least that’s how I felt when it happened to me. Not just Magento.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

“After reviewing thousands of posts, the OAG compiled login credentials for customer accounts at 17 well-known companies, which included online retailers, restaurant chains, and food delivery services. The experts analyzed thousands of posts containing login credentials. In all, the OAG collected credentials for more than 1.1

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2024

The NCSC clarified that the PSTI act also applies to organizations importing or retailing products for the UK market, including most smart devices manufactured outside the UK. Manufacturers that don’t comply with the act will be punished with fines of up to £10 million or 4% of qualifying worldwide revenue.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, holiday shopping can account for up to 30 percent of annual sales for online retailers. In fact, the National Retail Federation (NRF) forecasts holiday sales will grow to between $727.9 As holiday shopping revenue reaches new heights, the number of internet shoppers continues to grow as well, with 55 percent.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 11, 2020

Diebold Nixdorf , a major provider of automatic teller machines (ATMs) and payment technology to banks and retailers, recently suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted some operations. The 35,000-employee company also produces point-of-sale systems and software used by many retailers.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

app), one very interesting Internet address is connected to all of them — 185.159.83[.]24. retailer, said the crooks who broke into Wipro used their access to perpetrate gift card fraud at the retailer’s stores. This address is owned by King Servers , a well-known bulletproof hosting company based in Russia.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

Cybersecurity Insiders has learnt that the leaked data was only related to customers who have registered as members of the retail brand and was only limited to Korean customers. Chanel Korea has released a sincere apology and said that it will take all necessary measures to curb such incidents in near future.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2023

.” As early as April 2022, KrebsOnSecurity began receiving tips from Canadian readers who were puzzling over why they’d just received one of these SMS phishing messages that referenced information from a recent order they’d legitimately placed at an online retailer. info , legodelivery[.]info info , adidascanadaltd[.]com

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2021

.” DIVD researchers confirmed that during the last 48 hours, the number of Kaseya VSA instances that were reachable from the internet has dropped from over 2.200 to less than 140 in their last scan today. The number of exposed installs in the Netherlands has dropped to zero.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Other campaigns observed by the experts invited recipients to claim gift cards from popular retailers like Home Depot. In this case, the spam messages include links to fake online survey pages that have nothing to do with the retailer’s gift card. The experts also published a guide for a secure holiday shopping.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing.

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IT Security Guru

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Free proxies are frequently saturated with users, resulting in slow connection speeds, subpar performance, or even causing you to lose internet access. This is incredibly important when using residential or mobile proxies, which direct internet traffic through actual user devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2021

It offers promising benefits that are rapidly transforming a variety of industries, including manufacturing, health care, commercial buildings, smart homes, retail and energy. The IoT is maturing rapidly, and surveys show that global IoT spending will achieve a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3% over the 2020-2024 forecast period.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web. “None of those are good replacements for LuxSocks or 911.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 21, 2023

Similar AI-powered systems are being used by retailers in Australia and the United Kingdom to identify shoplifters and provide real-time tailored alerts to employees or security personnel. It’s easy to see how the AI systems being deployed by retailers to identify shoplifters could be redesigned to employ microdirectives.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Borderless means that today, cybersecurity threats are equally significant in internet, extranet, and intranet networks. We have 5,000+ customers worldwide, including 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies and major organizations in the Finance, Government, Retail, and Industrial segments.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. GRAY: The Internet is a penetration test. That's an example of AI.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 2, 2022

Zogby Analytics was the firm that conducted the survey for HSB and came to the above stated conclusion, after taking the opinion of over 1000 respondents working for healthcare, retail, finance and construction sectors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

“Anything that is connected to internet is targeted with advertisements and cannot be trusted for online privacy”, says Fredrick Flambolt, a researcher working independently on a Google related Cybersecurity project on connected devices.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last week, the European retailer, Dixons Carphone, admitted to a huge data breach involving 5.9 The rules that required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content are no longer in effect as of June 11, 2018. Privacy is a major concern for many when it comes to technology and the internet.

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