Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Decathlon, the world’s largest sporting goods retailer, has suffered a massive data breach, affecting 123 million customer and employee records. Cyber security researchers at vpnMentor found a leaky database on a publicly accessible Elasticsearch server. Customers’ email addresses and login information were also compromised.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. ” reads the announcement published on the website.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 11, 2019

23 Million Victims Across US, UK, EU and Australia Receive Breach Notifications Personalized product retailer CafePress has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that it failed to notify 23 million customers about a data breach in a timely manner or follow security best practices.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. A YubiKey Security Key made by Yubico. a mobile device).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 10, 2022

How Can We Secure The Future of Digital Payments? The biggest challenge for both retailers and financial organizations was the rapidness of that change. Without it, it’s close to impossible for an organization to act securely and in accordance with rules and regulations. Advice for secure digital payments.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 10, 2022

Indeed, security-minded readers have often alerted KrebsOnSecurity about spam to specific aliases that suggested a breach at some website, and usually they were right, even if the company that got hacked didn’t realize it at the time. ” HaveIBeenPwned’s Hunt arrived at the conclusion that aliases account for about.03

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But not long after KrebsOnSecurity reported in April that Shefel/Rescator also was behind the theft of Social Security and tax information from a majority of South Carolina residents in 2012, Mr. Shefel began contacting this author with the pretense of setting the record straight on his alleged criminal hacking activities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Solid Data Security: The Foundation of a Safe Digital World madhav Thu, 10/17/2024 - 04:58 It’s that time of year again. This year’s theme, “Secure Our World,” encourages people to safeguard the digital assets that are instrumental to their personal and professional lives. Oh, and it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The result?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 11, 2020

On August 5, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it has levied a fine of €250,000 on French online shoe retailer, Spartoo, for various infringements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The CNIL found that the company should have required users to use more robust passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

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. HYPR polled 427 IT professionals and found a high level of awareness about passwordless authenticators — and not just for enhanced security. Benefits beyond security.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Electricity company EnergyAustralia suffered a security breach, threat actors had access to information on 323 customers. EnergyAustralia is the country’s third-largest energy retailer. “It added that impacted customers had been contacted by text and email on October 2 with a prompt to reset their passwords.”. .

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

In January 2023, the Faceless service website said it was willing to pay for information about previously undocumented security vulnerabilities in IoT devices. Recently, Faceless has shown ambitions beyond just selling access to poorly-secured IoT devices. The password chosen by this user was “ 1232.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How to Secure Access for your Seasonal Workers. 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. Mon, 11/21/2022 - 05:36.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

Unauthorized SIM swaps often are perpetrated by fraudsters who have already stolen or phished a target’s password, as many banks and online services rely on text messages to send users a one-time code that needs to be entered in addition to a password for online authentication. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2024

VF immediately began taking measures to remediate the attack and launched an investigation into the security breach. ” reads a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 18, 2024. VF Corp also added that it has found no evidence that customer passwords were stolen.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2021

The company detected the security breach on January 6, 2021, and determined that the intrusion took place early this year, on January 4th, 2021. Then threat actors tricked UScellular employees working in retail stores into downloading and installing malicious software. ” reads the USCellular data breach notification.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. Exposed personal information includes names and contact information, usernames, passwords, and answers to security questions associated with online accounts. The security breach impacted 4.6

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Isn’t it fun to use different passwords for all of the dozens of accounts you use and just when you think you’ve got them memorized you’re forced to change them every few months? The standards on password usage are changing. Well, let me share some good news. Past ‘Best’ Practices. Like this: TxRecBi#1!

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Retail giant The North Face has reset the passwords for some of its customers in response to a successful credential stuffing attack. Outdoor retail giant The North Face has forced a password reset for a number of its customers following a successful credential stuffing attack that took place on October 8th and 9th.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2022

This kind of attacks is very efficient due to the bad habit of users of reusing the same password over multiple services. “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.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Network security threats weaken the defenses of an enterprise network, endangering proprietary data, critical applications, and the entire IT infrastructure. This guide to major network security threats covers detection methods as well as mitigation strategies for your organization to follow. Also read: What is Network Security?

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This week, we discuss a security flaw affecting 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass; the prevalence of historic vulnerabilities in corporate IT systems; the increase in formjacking attacks; and Wendy’s $50 million data breach settlement. Each password manager also attempted to scrub secrets from memory.

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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? The data included contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords. million users was compromised. The PCI DSS. The PCI challenge.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 22, 2018

Hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 Superdrug customers who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer. The British Superdrug is the last victim of a security breach, hackers claim to have stolen the personal details of almost 20,000 people who shopped online at the cosmetics retailer.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 9, 2023

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire , a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. Constella also shows the email address zankomario@gmail.com used the password “dugidox2407.”

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

A report last week by the New York Attorney General’s Office put a spotlight on the ongoing threat of credential stuffing, a common technique used by cybercriminals that continues to spread and is helping to fuel the push for security practices that don’t involve usernames and passwords. Password Reuse.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. JD Sports does not hold full payment card data and, further, has no reason to believe that account passwords were accessed.” According to the company, account passwords were compromised.

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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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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 8, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Retail Law Resource blog , this week, the Federal Trade Commission voted 3 to 1 to accept a settlement agreement with MoviePass, Inc., The information allegedly was stored such that it was “accessible to any parties with an internet connection” after MoviePass failed to maintain and manage security controls.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It’s a tough time to be a retailer. Just recently, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), owner of retailers Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks OFF 5th and Lord & Taylor, acknowledged that an undisclosed number of customers’ payment card data had been stolen, and HBC shares fell more than 6 percent in response to the news.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

This week, we discuss ICANN’s warning about DNS attacks, the extent of credential stuffing attacks on the retail sector, password managers’ responses to recent research into security flaws, and the European Data Protection Supervisor’s annual report for 2018. We often talk about the perils of password reuse.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 12, 2018

On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. In its decision, the ICO meticulously detailed the chronology of events and technical failures that led to the breach.

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