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4 Industries That Have to Fight the Hardest Against Cyberattacks

Security Affairs

Some attacks shut down entire health systems comprising multiple facilities or forcing affected individuals to switch from computerized processes to using pens and paper. The retail industry is cyclical, so certain times of the year — including the holiday season or when kids go back to school — are particularly busy.

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Checkout Skimmers Powered by Chip Cards

Krebs on Security

Easily the most sophisticated skimming devices made for hacking terminals at retail self-checkout lanes are a new breed of PIN pad overlay combined with a flexible, paper-thin device that fits inside the terminal’s chip reader slot. What enables these skimmers to be so slim? ” IT’S ALL BACKWARDS.

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Here’s Why Credit Card Fraud is Still a Thing

Krebs on Security

banks took years to replace their customer card stocks with chip-enabled cards, and countless retailers dragged their feet in updating their payment terminals to accept chip-based cards. A copy of the NYU research paper is available here (PDF). merchants to continue allowing customers to swipe the stripe instead of dip the chip.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 181 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Paper Copy. Magecart cybercrime group stole customers credit cards from Newegg electronics retailer. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Once again thank you!

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Use Cases for Apache Cassandra®

In this white paper, discover the key use cases that make Cassandra® such a compelling open source software – and learn the important pitfalls to avoid. There’s a good reason why Apache Cassandra® is quickly becoming the NoSQL database of choice for organizations of all stripes.

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One of America’s largest retail banks re-signs with TAB to upgrade to FusionRMS v10

TAB OnRecord

TAB is pleased to announce that a large American retail bank with over 2 million paper records has upgraded from TAB FusionRMS v9.3 The post One of America’s largest retail banks re-signs with TAB to upgrade to FusionRMS v10 appeared first on TAB Records Management Blog | TAB OnRecord.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 177 – News of the week

Security Affairs

Paper Copy. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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