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Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Are Retailers Shopping for a Cybersecurity Breach? Retailers started the century as the prime targets for cyber attackers looking for credit card data. Today, unfortunately, retailers are again coming back to the spotlight. Similar to many organizations, 36% of retail respondents cited human error as the leading threat.

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Spotlight: When Ransomware Comes Calling

The Security Ledger

Max gives us some tips about how best to respond to ransomware threats and attacks. 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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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet

The Last Watchdog

NCSA operates the StaySafeOnline website that provides a variety of cybersecurity educational resources and programs. We also have a lot of educational programs that reach far beyond the insular, cybersecurity expert areas. We have a lot of programs geared toward education at a lot of different levels. Schrade r: Absolutely.

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5 Ways You Can Get More from Your Terminal Emulator

Rocket Software

According to research by Aberdeen, the industries with the strongest need for terminal emulation are business services (accounting, HR and consulting, for example), manufacturing, retail, education, healthcare, finance and insurance. When employee experiences are improved, customer experiences benefit as a result.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for July 2022

IT Governance

Hardman provided tips to help OpenSea users spot phishing attacks. The next most frequent targets were software-as-a-service and webmail providers (20.5%) and e-commerce sites and retail stores (14.6%). You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. It found that 23.6%

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How To Keep Cybersecure Over the Holidays

Adam Levin

None of this is to suggest that falling prey to holiday cybercrime is unavoidable or that the potential damage can’t be mitigated, but it is important to educate yourself, friends and family to safeguard the holiday season. Protecting Against Malware and Scams While Shopping Online During the Holiday Season.

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In Today’s Privacy Environment, That’s the Way the (Website) Cookie Crumbles: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

The companies audited were from industries ranging from online retail to sports to banking & insurance to media, even automotive & electronics and home and residential. As covered in Alston & Bird’s Privacy and Data Security Blog ( Google-Style GDPR Fines for Everyone?

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