Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As I was starting to write this blog, yet another retail program data breach occurred, for Marriott’s Starwood loyalty program. In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. Even though U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Oracle launched OCI in October 2016. Honoring data sovereignty Name any business use case: banking, retail, healthcare, government, military, entertainment, elections. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup. Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Local government agencies remain acutely exposed to being hacked. However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. That’s long been true.

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2020

Dutch government loses two external hard drive containing personal data (6.9 India-based electronics retailer Vijay Sales made to pay for misconfigured database (unknown). Toronto government leaks personal data of elderly and vulnerable (7,227). Settlement reached in lawsuit over 2016 hack of Quest Diagnostics.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The Velocity hub, which opened in 2016, is the collaborative output of the Merit Network, the MEDC’s Michigan Defense Center , Macomb County Department of Planning & Economic Development, the City of Sterling Heights and Oakland University. MEDC, for instance, forged a research and development pact with the US.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 3, 2021

The latest evaluations were dubbed Carbanak+FIN7 and were modeled after threat groups that target the banking and retail industries. Previous evaluation rounds were modeled after the APT29 and APT3 threat groups connected to the governments of Russia and China, respectively.

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CGI

JUNE 14, 2016

Cybersecurity in the boardroom: 7 steps to improve cyber governance. Tue, 06/14/2016 - 08:00. High-profile incidents coupled with increasing government focus are raising awareness of the extent and potential impact of cybersecurity breaches. kathy.jacquay@…. 68% of boards plan to rely more on external cybersecurity consultants.

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CGI

JUNE 15, 2016

Cybersecurity in the boardroom: 7 steps to improve cyber governance. Wed, 06/15/2016 - 08:45. High-profile incidents coupled with increasing government focus are raising awareness of the extent and potential impact of cybersecurity breaches. 68% of boards plan to rely more on external cybersecurity consultants.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On September 15, 2016, the New Jersey Senate unanimously approved a bill that seeks to limit retailers’ ability to collect and use personal data contained on consumers’ driver and non-driver identification cards. The bill, known as the Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act , must now be approved by the New Jersey Assembly.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 16, 2019

In fiscal year (FY) 2018, the OCIE National Exam Program examined approximately 17 percent of SEC-registered advisers (RIAs), up from 15 percent during FY 2017 and 11 percent during FY 2016. Continued Focus on Retail Investors. Just five years ago, 9 percent of RIAs were examined. Other Relevant Focus Areas.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Marriott acquired the Starwood chain in 2016 for $13.6 The post Marriott Starwood hack affects 500 million customers appeared first on IT Governance Blog. However, during the course of an internal investigation, the chain learned “that there had been unauthorised access to the Starwood network since 2014.”.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 7, 2016

The Recommendation highlights these privacy concerns and calls on governments to offer consumer redress for breaches relating to information gathered by such free services. Thus, the OECD recommends that governments work with inter-industry stakeholders “to develop minimum levels of consumer protection across payment mechanisms.”.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Hyper-V 2016/2019 R2/2019 VMware ESXi up to 7.0 Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 Clusters of physical and virtual appliances can be deployed to expand reach or improve resilience through redundancy.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 28 September. The online fashion retailer SHEIN (I’ve probably pronounced that wrong) has said that it suffered a data breach from June to August this year involving the personal information of approximately 6.42 Big numbers this week: we discuss a data breach affecting 6.42

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Countless hotel chains, retailers and restaurants have been breached in recent years – particularly in the US, which by and large doesn’t use chip-and-PIN. Take this data breach at Boeing from 2016 : An employee was having difficulty formatting a spreadsheet, so he sent it to his spouse, who didn’t work at Boeing but was an Excel whiz.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

This trend remained constant from 2016 to 2018. However, while gaming suffers most from bad bots, the law and government sectors suffer from the most advanced ones. However, by 2015, bad bot traffic had fallen to its lowest historical level of 18.6%, mainly due to increased human traffic from China, India, and Indonesia.

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Data Matters

APRIL 10, 2018

FinCEN issued new FAQs on the CDD Rule on July 19, 2016. FinCEN clarifies that the private label retail credit exception is available only for credit that can be used solely to make purchases at the private label retailer. These FAQs are timely because the May 11, 2018 compliance date for the CDD rule is fast approaching.

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RFID Global Solution, Inc.

JULY 15, 2017

Billion in 2016 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.7% The base year considered for the study is 2016, and the forecast period is between 2017 and 2023. Target audience of the report: Government bodies, venture capitalists, and private equity firms. The RFID market was valued at USD 16.95 between 2017 and 2023. Commercial.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Chatbots, AI, robotics – such as Hilton’s robot concierge, Connie , which hit the headlines in 2016 – the IoT (Internet of Things), recognition technology, virtual reality, augmented reality, automation, voice search and virtual concierge are just some of the developments being adopted.

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CGI

JUNE 15, 2016

Wed, 06/15/2016 - 06:57. Local Government. Central Government. Now is the time for your organisation to pilot Robotic Process Automation. p.butler@cgi.com. Zuboff’s Laws…. Everything that can be automated will be automated”. Everything that can be informated will be informated". For Example: Insurance. Financial Services.

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CGI

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Early 2018 will mark the beginning of a new era for the UK’s retail banks. Described by the Government as “technological revolution will give people greater control over their money”, Open Banking is intended to transform the relationship between banks and their customers by introducing competition to the banking market.

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IT Governance

MARCH 13, 2019

IT Governance has been working with gambling operators for more than 15 years, helping them to comply with a range of regulations, so we were interested to see evidence that two of the UK’s biggest gambling trade bodies are set to merge, creating a new lobbying group that will represent the interests of bookmakers and online betting companies.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2018

Of those organizations, 57 percent have been breached in the last year – a number that is three times the rate of just two years ago (in our 2016 report, 18 percent reported a breach within the last year, and in our 2017 report, 34 percent reported a breach within the last year). This bears out in the stats: Nearly half (45 percent) of U.S.

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CGI

OCTOBER 31, 2018

while the share of spending on traditional direct response media like newspapers has shrunk from 38% in 2008 to 14% in 2016. In the 2018 CGI Client Global Insights, 87% of utilities executives ranked analytics as both a top IT and business priority, compared to just 41% in 2016. Why is this so? Quite simply, data.

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Information Matters

MAY 8, 2018

The need to build on this research has been given impetus by the recent UK government’s Industrial Strategy White Paper 4) Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2017. [online] Oxford Internet Institute. Available at: < [link] > and Cambridge 2) Hartmann, P.M., Hartmann, P.M., Feldmann, N., Feldmann, N.,

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CGI

JULY 20, 2018

As someone engaged with blockchain projects since 2016 in CGI’s Trade Innovation Lab (and countless emerging technology projects before that), my experience is that blockchain is making the leap from experimental to production-ready solutions. This beginning-to-end visibility is being embraced beyond banking. Add new comment.

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CGI

MAY 15, 2018

As someone engaged with blockchain projects since 2016 in CGI’s Trade Innovation Lab (and countless emerging technology projects before that), it feels as though blockchain is now making the leap from experimental to production-ready solutions. This beginning-to-end visibility is being embraced beyond banking.

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CGI

JULY 28, 2018

As someone engaged with blockchain projects since 2016 in CGI’s Trade Innovation Lab (and countless emerging technology projects before that), my experience is that blockchain is making the leap from experimental to production-ready solutions. This beginning-to-end visibility is being embraced beyond banking. Add new comment.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In 2016, the Mirai botnet attack left most of the eastern U.S. Since 2008, RAM scraping has been a boon for retailers. Government agencies and law enforcement often use spyware to investigate domestic suspects or international threat actors. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. .” When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, in March of 2016, two researchers, Mike Ahmadi and Billy Rios independently reported an astounding fourteen hundred vulnerabilities to CareFusion's Pyxis SupplyStation, an automated, networked, supply cabinet used to store and dispense supplies. .” When I was working for a retail company I thought it was fantastic.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone. The leaked data shows that in 2015, BriansClub added just 1.7 million card records for sale.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2020

Hackers break into government system used by the country’s schools (unknown). Singapore-based retailer Love, Bonito apologises to customers after malware infection (unknown). Chinese government-linked hacking group has been bypassing 2FA in a wave of attacks (unknown). Galt, CA, government suffers ransomware attack (unknown).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 23 November. According to The Register , the online retail giant emailed affected customers on Tuesday, unapologetically saying: Hello, We’re contacting you to let you know that our website inadvertently disclosed your name and email address due to a technical error.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

Those include a large number of cybercrime forums and stolen credit card shops, ransomware download sites, Magecart-related infrastructure , and a metric boatload of phishing Web sites mimicking dozens of retailers, banks and various government Web site portals.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

The program grew over the years into what it is today, a collaborative consortium of professionals from the banking, investing, insurance, healthcare, retail and telecom industries as well as academics and GRC (government, risk-management and compliance) specialists.

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