The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2020

As a result, the way in which they connect and authorize communication makes them a primary security risk for organizations. Now comes a study from Boston-based consultancy Air Worldwide that puts some hard numbers on the degree to which threat actors are plundering virtual machines. LW: This isn’t theoretical is it?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Retailers and shoppers are leveraging and enjoying many benefits data sharing brings: loyalty programs, personalized experiences, easier product location and ordering, online shopping, mobile access and the list goes on. Unfortunately, this results in retailers as a top target for cyberattacks. Business is booming and data is flowing.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The rise of online commerce over the last two decades has completely transformed the retail and consumer goods industries—and with smartphone adoption accelerating globally, the share of shopping done via the internet will only continue to expand. of all studied attacks among the top ten industries in 2022, up from 7.3%

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Retail Data breaches Security Manufacturing 79

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up? Retailers have been prepping for this season all year and are ready to provide a safe, secure, and seamless customer shopping experience. According to the National Retail Federation (NFR), retail sales during 2024 will grow between 2.5%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

When I began studying this threat, Ursnif campaigns were more widespread and less targeted. The analysis of the web injects used by the group suggests that the threat actors were also interested in steal credentials for websites associated with major retailers. The payloads were scattered across poorly targeted campaigns.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

“In the Box” dark web marketplace is leveraged by cybercriminals to attack over 300 financial institutions (FIs), payment systems, social media and online-retailers in 43 countries. According to independent studies, almost every 1 in 5 users on mobile devices may be compromised with mobile malware. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The man of Kosovar origin was studying computer science in Malaysia. The KHS breached a database of a US retailer was able to identify the records belonging to military and government personnel. The post Hacker who helped the ISIS will remain in US prison appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

L inear eMerge E3 smart building access systems designed by N ortek Security & Control (NSC) are affected by a severe vulnerability (CVE-2019-7256) that has yet to be fixed and attackers are actively scanning the internet for vulnerable devices. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – NSC Linear eMerge E3 , hacking).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

I had the chance to discuss this with Matt Keil, director of product marketing at Cequence Security , a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based based application security vendor that’s in the thick of helping businesses mitigate web application exposures. A security mindset still needs to take hold at many more levels. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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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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Reltio

JUNE 22, 2020

3 Things Data Innovators at Retail & Luxury Brands Have in Common. Retail and luxury brand leaders may use different terms to describe customers, including “clients” or “guests.” According to Accenture , 71% of retail executives believe digital demographics are expanding the number of ways they deliver products and services.

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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. We point this out to encourage everyone here to move to token-based 2FA.”.

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Access Authentication Retail Cloud 159

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Organisations, including retailers, may collect biometric information via CCTV for a variety of reasons, including to build profiles of the individuals entering their stores, identify returning shoppers or to identify specific individuals that have previously been removed from their premises. The OAIC’s full statement is available here.

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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? According to the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study by Ponemon Institute , the average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million users was compromised.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

And this continues to include enterprises that have poured a king’s ransom into hardening their first-party security posture. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study , some 59% of companies experienced a third-party data breach in 2018, yet only 16% believe they are effectively mitigating third-party risk. Uphill battle.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Source (New) Retail USA Yes 2,469 Three GreatStar Industrial Co. Source (New) Manufacturing Japan Yes Unknown Midland Industries Source (New) Retail USA Yes Unknown Rosen’s Diversified, Inc.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The FTC continues its defense of the wide-reaching Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on “ Commercial Surveillance and Data Security ” that the Commission, by a 3-2 vote, issued in August. Marshall Erwin , Chief Security Officer, Mozilla. Paul Martino , Vice President and Senior Policy Counsel, National Retail Foundation.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2020

This actor was first spotted by PaloAlto’s UNIT42 in 2018 during wide scale operations against technology, retail, manufacturing, and local government industries in the US, Europe and Asia. The code contains some “funny” comments related to the twitter community of security researchers which constantly monitor the actor operations.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2020

The first half of 2020 ended on a familiarly bad note, with 92 security incidents accounting for at least 7,021,195,399 breached records. Duluth student alerted school district about security breach (unknown). University of Missouri Health Care discloses 2019 security incident (unknown). hack (350,000).

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. It open security doors for them and alerts security officers whenever a surveillance camera catches sight of an unauthorized adult on school property.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

A Digital Guardian report found that 90% of corporate security breaches are the result of phishing attacks. An Office for National Statistics report revealed that UK organisations have experienced a 57% increase in “consumer and retail fraud” compared to pre-pandemic levels. Anatomy of an attack 19. com’ websites. org’ in 1.8%.

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Phishing Data breaches Government Communications 111

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

. “The investigator didn’t explain exactly how it worked, but it was basically a backdoor entrance that they were reselling on the Dark Web, and it bypassed whatever security there was and let them go straight into the customer database.” 16 column, Hanging Up On Mobile in the Name of Security. ” Sgt.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As always, you can check our full conversation in our latest Security Ledger podcast at Blubrry. While exact numbers are hard to come by, large scale studies of companies found that more than a third had been hit by ransomware in the past year, with the retail, government and education sectors particularly hard hit.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The price you pay for this breakfast increases radically with poor security. You may be a retailer predicting the mood of a potential buyer using deep learning for sentiment analysis, or maybe you run an aircraft lease company consuming diagnostics to make critical decisions about engine component failures. 113–172, 2003.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

European Commission adopts cyber security certification scheme The European Commission has adopted the first European cyber security certification scheme, in line with the EU Cybersecurity Act. The voluntary scheme provides a set of rules and procedures on how to certify ICT products.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A recent study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) warns that an overabundance of computer security measures might actually lead users to engage in “risky computing behavior at work and in their personal lives.”. design for consistent decision making whenever possible.

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The Security Ledger

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This Cyber Monday may have been the biggest yet - and not just for shoppers and online retailers. » Related Stories Episode 168: Application Security Debt is growing and Securing Web Apps in the Age of IoT Episode 164: Who owns the Data Smart Cars collect? . » Read the whole entry. » Also: making Passwords work.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

What would happen if you typed in “Amazon,” the corresponding domain popped up, and you clicked, but instead of finding the world’s largest online retailer, you landed on a 1980s WarGames-themed page with a laughing skull? ” Hacking campaigns exploiting poor domain name security can be more subtle.

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Retail Authentication Insurance Data breaches 52

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In security, some may refute that there is “no savings to worry about" if no investment has been made to begin with, arguing that they’ve been “just fine so far” In this blog, we will argue there is a cost in doing nothing. A 2019 Ponemon study revealed that the cost of a data breach is $4.88 million dollars.

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Retail Data breaches Cybersecurity GDPR 52

Reltio

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Total Economic Impact™ Study Finds Reltio's Modern MDM Delivered 366% ROI. We recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to complete a study called "The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of the Reltio Master Data Management Platform , Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Reltio."

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Cash as a physical commodity is a costly means of payment, given the security issues, risks and handling costs to every stakeholder in the value chain handling the cash. ban makes access to retailers more equitable for the unbanked, but it doesn’t address the root cause of being unbanked in the first place.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 29, 2024

” An example of a company that underwent a major retail transformation is Amazon, which changed the way consumers shop for everyday items. There are several examples, or case studies, of successful digital transformation across a range of different industries. (They might do so if pushed, but they are not being asked to do it).”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. The global study that informs the Index involved more than 21,000 participants across 11 countries. Tue, 10/11/2022 - 06:46.

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CGI

JUNE 14, 2016

According to a new study into boardroom attitudes of cybersecurity conducted by CGI in the UK in conjunction with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), boards are taking cybersecurity more seriously with planned increases in scrutiny, investment and external advice.

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