Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

How to activate multifactor authentication everywhere. The impact of not having multifactor authentication (MFA) activated for all users is now well known by enterprises. The challenge of multifactor authentication everywhere. Variety of a user’s authentication journey…. Variety of a user’s authentication journey….

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2024

The new Badge Partner Program further accelerates the adoption and integration of Badge’s privacy-preserving authentication, enabling even more users to benefit from seamless MFA experiences across any device or application without storing user secrets or private keys. “We Learn more at www.badgeinc.com.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 30, 2024

Tighter Security Controls Help Stop Fraud, But Fake IDs and Web Scraping Are Rising Account takeover fraud in the financial services industry is declining in contrast with other industries such as retail and hospitality.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 15, 2023

The World Wide Web Consortium today announced a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. Customer authentication For the past 15 years, e-commerce has increased as a percentage of all retail sales.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2023

The Retail Data Threat Environment and Why CIAM is a Key Cornerstone to Better Cybersecurity. madhav Thu, 05/11/2023 - 06:06 The retail landscape has changed significantly. Customers should be aware of the existing threats, while retailers must understand the risks associated with poor management of customer identities.

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Dark Reading

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Retailers' new holiday jingle must hit cybersecurity high points to help survive the season. Forget Dasher and Dancer — add SAST and DAST to app testing; manage third-party risks; and use MFA along with training and proper authentication to secure credentials.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Passwordless authentication as a default parameter can’t arrive too soon. That’s the upshot of a new report, The State of Passwordless Security 2021 , put out by HYPR , a New York City-based supplier of advanced authentication systems. Related: Top execs call for facial recognition to be regulated. 1 use case is remote access.”.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

How to activate multifactor authentication everywhere. The impact of not having multifactor authentication (MFA) activated for all users is now well known by enterprises. The challenge of multifactor authentication everywhere. Variety of a user’s authentication journey…. Variety of a user’s authentication journey….

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 24, 2021

How FIDO 2 authentication can help achieve regulatory compliance. One common denominator in all regulations is the need for strong authentication. Strong authentication is the key to eliminate a large percentage of cyber-attacks, including those based on stolen credentials and subsequent credential stuffing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2018

So before the shopping frenzy begins, we thought this would be an opportune time to outline some best practices that both retailers and consumers should follow in order to protect consumer data. As convenience technologies evolve, look for more risks to consumers and retailers. Protecting Consumer Data is Priority #1. Back to basics.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the latest episode of Thales Security Sessions podcast , I was asked by Neira Jones to join Simon Keates, Head of Strategy and Payment Security at Thales and share my thoughts about the major security and organizational challenges retailers and other financial services organizations are facing. Pandemic has changed us all.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2020 report indicates that financially motivated attacks against retailers have moved away from Point of Sale (POS) devices and controllers, towards web applications. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Table 1: Strong Customer Authentication Factors.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

30 , the FCC said it plans to move quickly on requiring the mobile companies to adopt more secure methods of authenticating customers before redirecting their phone number to a new device or carrier. In a long-overdue notice issued Sept. ” The FCC said the proposal was in response to a flood of complaints to the agency and the U.S.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 21, 2018

Only time will tell – and we may not have to wait long – but in the meantime, what is the impact of data breaches in the retail industry, and what needs to be done to mitigate them? Despite the prospect of fines and other penalties, many retailers are still not PCI-compliant. Identify and authenticate access to system components.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2024

However, per that story: Cybernews couldn’t confirm the authenticity of the data. I couldn't confirm the authenticity of the data either and I wrote a short thread about it during the week: I'm not convinced this data is from Accor. We reached out to Accor for clarification and are awaiting a response.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7% job rise in the retail industry. How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Many retailers and shipping services are planning to hire temporary workers for the upcoming holiday season. That’s 50,000 more seasonal employees than the retailer brought in at the end of 2020, noted CNBC. Many organizations already have robust authentication solutions in place for their permanent workers.

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CGI

MAY 6, 2021

Product authenticity plays a huge role in assuring consumer confidence for B2B and B2C businesses. Correspondingly, for manufacturers and retailers, safeguarding the consumer experience and ensuring safety and trust are key to protecting the brand. Using blockchain to combat counterfeiting in manufacturing. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

ABE opens the door to an advanced form of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , the system we use to encrypt data, as well as to authenticate individual users and the web servers they log onto. PKI revolves around the distribution of digital certificates to validate the authenticity of websites.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

The basic model featured here retails for $20. Security Keys are inexpensive USB-based devices that offer an alternative approach to two-factor authentication (2FA), which requires the user to log in to a Web site using something they know (the password) and something they have (e.g., A YubiKey Security Key made by Yubico.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

CyberNews researchers reported that Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Original post @ [link]. It’s no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking, an old Irish proverb says.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

wireless carriers today detailed a new initiative that may soon let Web sites eschew passwords and instead authenticate visitors by leveraging data elements unique to each customer’s phone and mobile subscriber account, such as location, customer reputation, and physical attributes of the device. The four major U.S.

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Dark Reading

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Seventy-nine percent of people used two-factor authentication at least once in 2021, with 72% regularly using the technology, as remote work, social media, and online retail spur demand.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Already having our primary access points for code and infrastructure behind strong authentication requiring two factor authentication (2FA), we learned that SMS-based authentication is not nearly as secure as we would hope, and the main attack was via SMS intercept. This is because they are useful in targeting big companies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

FortiGuard Labs researchers observed a worrisome level of attacks attempting to exploit an authentication bypass vulnerability in TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most of the attacks have been reported in July, the organizations hit by the ransomware gang operate in professional services, construction, manufacturing, retail, and food industries. Ransomware operators also stole data from the victims and leaked it online when they refused to pay the ransom. in Australia since 2020.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many readers were aghast that the IRS would ask people to hand over their biometric and personal data to a private company that begin in 2010 as a way to help veterans, teachers and other public servants qualify for retail discounts. These readers had reasonable questions: Who has (or will have) access to this data? What happens if ID.me

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Cyber security firm Venafi announced it has uncovered lookalike domains with valid TLS certificates that appear to target major retailers. The number is doubled compared to last year, the study revealed that less than 19,890 certificates have been issued for legitimate retail domains. retailers with over 49,500 typosquatted domains.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Account takeover fraud (ATO) attacks are on the rise, up nearly 300 percent since last year.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 16, 2024

The flawed app is called Verizon Retail Demo Mode (“com.customermobile.preload.vzw”) and requires dozens of permissions for its execution. “The application fails to authenticate or verify a statically defined domain during retrieval of the application’s configuration file.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Applicable Metrics Aruba ClearPass is deployed in high-volume authentication environments (e.g. 10+ million authentications a day) as well as distributed environments requiring local authentication survivability across multiple geographies (e.g. 30 points of presence).

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Benefits of PrivX •Eliminates static credentials with passwordless authentication and just-in-time access, enabling easy implementation of Zero Trust access management solution. 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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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2020

TA505 hacking group has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking sectors. The Netlogon service is an Authentication Mechanism used in the Windows Client Authentication Architecture which verifies logon requests, and it registers, authenticates, and locates Domain Controllers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Ultimately, these delays led to the European Banking Authority (EBA) extending the deadline to implement Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) by fifteen months, setting a new deadline for December 2020. PSD2 hinges on a critical connection between retailers, fintechs, and banks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2022

The IT giant pointed out that many of these vulnerabilities can be exploited by remote attackers without authentication. Oracle also urges its customers to apply Critical Patch Update patches as soon as possible due to the risk of exploitation of the addressed vulnerabilities. The highest CVSS v3.1 Base Score (10.0) Base Score of 9.9.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 14, 2024

A lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect privileged accounts was another culprit, at 10%, also 7 percentage points lower than average. Among FinServ organizations, 73% have adopted multifactor authentication (MFA) to secure cloud data access, nearly matching the overall average of 74%.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Mobile payment platforms, like Apple Pay and Google Pay, use advanced technology, like fingerprint authentication and tokenization (in which credit card account numbers are replaced by randomly generated numbers) to provide brick-and-mortar shoppers with an added layer of security. Shop at reputable and recognizable retailers.

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