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It’s time to think twice about retail loyalty programs

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Utilities Digital Journey Insights (Part 3): Data, the new “digital capital” - Going beyond the hype of advanced analytics and AI

CGI

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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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

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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