Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2018

As the volume of both card-based payments and digital payments continue to grow significantly year-on-year, the importance of securing sensitive card data (and in particular the primary account number or PAN) has never been a more critical and challenging task.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2021

Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile , a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. ” The statement continues: “Our investigation indicates that no sensitive data or Payment Card Information, which we encrypt, was affected.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Insights into the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard SAQ SPoC from our QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) consultant Stephen Hancock is an experienced information security professional who combines expertise in cyber security with a broader background in IT and value-for-money audit. A back-end monitoring system.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2019

Canadian Freedom Mobile mobile network operator exposed the details of many customers, including their payment card data. Security researchers at vpnMentor discovered an unprotected database containing information belonging to Freedom Mobile customers. million users of the mobile network operator.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year Amazon announced the adoption of a game changer for payments; Amazon One, which allows shoppers to pay at stores by placing their palm over a scanning device when they walk in the door or when they check out. They’ve done it through new ways like contactless and lately mobile payments. billion payments.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Fraudsters are increasingly tailoring phishing emails towards mobile devices, because it gives them a greater chance for success. The use of mobile devices to check work emails increased during the pandemic, as the boundaries between work and private life merged. But it’s not just energy suppliers that need to be concerned.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

businesses are taking advantage of digital technologies like cloud, mobile, and IoT to digitally transform their operations. Increased contactless and mobile payments introduce bigger risks. Labelled Industry 4.0, Even “traditional banks” seek to drive more revenue from digital products, personalized services and experiences.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In my recent blog on the evolving PCI SSC initiatives in 2018, “ Minor on PCI DSS, major on almost everything else ,” I outlined how the organisation is covering new areas to reflect the migration from physical card payments to online digital payments.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 26, 2018

Previous stories here on the proliferation of card-skimming devices hidden inside fuel pumps have offered a multitude of security tips for readers looking to minimize their chances of becoming the next victim, such as favoring filling stations that use security cameras and tamper-evident tape on their pumps. Image: SAPD.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 17, 2022

But that spending surge has brought with it a corresponding rise in payment security challenges. eSecurity Planet sat down with Dustin White, chief risk data officer at Visa, to discuss some of the steps the credit card and online payment giant has taken to combat fraud and improve cybersecurity. Leveraging Tokens.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 2, 2021

There was no need for a password or login credentials to access the information, and the data was not encrypted. AMT Games is a mobile and browser game developer based in China. Transaction data encompassed price, item purchased, time of purchase, payment provider, and in some cases IP address of the buyer. What’s Happening?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES divya Tue, 02/28/2023 - 06:31 CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES an evolution of money and payments CBDC, or Central Bank Digital Currency, is a trending topic in the financial industry. Part 1 – what CBDC is all about There is a constant development and progression of payment methods and systems over time.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Researchers discovered a series of incidents involving software credit card skimmer used by Magecart to hit the booking websites of hotel chains. The JavaScript code was used to load a remote script on their payment page since August 9. . js that contains the card skimmer code. com / gtm [. ]

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

While it performs similarly to a regular wallet, it stores digital assets in the form of cryptographic keys rather than actual cash or credit cards. These wallets are available in a variety of formats, including hardware wallets, online wallets, mobile wallets, and desktop wallets. Secure your network, device.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

Russian police have detained the organizers of a criminal group that focused on reissuing SIM cards and stealing money from Russian banking customers. At the next stage, the fraudsters used an underground SIM card recovery service, which is quite popular on the Darknet. They used a forged driving license as an ID.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

This prolonged season of online shopping (and stress) will provide ample opportunity for phishers, smishers, vishers and identity thieves to pilfer your valuable personal and/or payment information. Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 16, 2019

In many markets, this comes in the wider context that e-commerce – and mobile commerce in particular – are seeing rapid growth, but putting long-term aspirations at risk by continually disappointing customers with unstable on-boarding and checkout processes , or failing to assure customers they are processing their data securely.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 10, 2019

The analysis was conducted by the Aite Group, which looked at mobile apps in eight categories: retail banking, credit cards, mobile payment, healthcare savings, retail finance, health insurance, auto insurance and cryptocurrency.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 28, 2020

If you use the legacy email and password login, your passwords are encrypted, but we highly encourage that you change it. We do not store any credit card or payment related information on our servers.” .” “We use Facebook and LinkedIn for account login and do not store any passwords on our system.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2020

The campaign recently spotted by the experts at Juniper Threat Labs aimed at stealing credentials and payment-card data from Amazon.com, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Capital One, Chase, Discover, eBay, E-Trade, J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab, T-Mobile, USAA, Verizon Wireless, Wells Fargo and others. dat” files. .

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2021

comprised millions of confidential records including names, passwords, email addresses, passport numbers, national IDs, credit cards, financial transactions and more. Despite containing very sensitive financial data, the server was left open without any password protection or encryption. User ID and Credit Card Photo Uploads.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 25, 2019

With an estimated $500 billion retail market spend per year, what’s next for the payments industry as a whole. The answer is frictionless payments. Cashierless Amazon Go stores have popped up in several locations featuring self-checkout and mobile payments. Security as Frictionless as Checkout.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In addition, the increasing speed of technology innovation has lead to a broader diversity of payment methods in recent years with new platforms for mobile payments continuing to be deployed. Digital payment data is created, shared and stored in more places than ever before. Happy (and safe!) holiday shopping.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2018

million mobile app users. million mobile app users. The news was confirmed by Air Canada that revealed to have detected unusual login behaviour with Air Canada’s mobile App between Aug. 22-24, 2018, it added that financial data was protected but invited to remain vigilant for fraudulent credit card transactions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 15, 2018

Making payments even in a face-to-face environment is no longer just about using magnetic stripe or chip cards where the security, operating rules, and risks have been long established and well understood by all the actors involved. This has created new complexities to manage and new forms of risk to mitigate.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A typical website or mobile web app consumer experience today gets cobbled together with software components supplied by dozens of different software contractors. For 20 years now, we’ve been on a continuous march towards outsourcing the software development that make worldwide web and mobile web functions possible.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

QR technology isn’t new, and security features like two-factor authentication (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) often invite users to generate such codes to secure their access to mobile apps. Threat Actors Love QR Codes. While QR codes offer a great way to store and access information, they come with a fair amount of risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 22, 2018

To see where the future of payments lies, we should look to its past. The concept of payment, at its most fundamental, is simply about people agreeing to exchange goods or services. For many years these middle things took the form of banks or simple cash, then later credit companies and credit cards. What does the future hold?

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 29, 2012

On May 16, 2012, the PCI Security Standards Council’s (“PCI SSC’s”) Mobile Working Group published its “ At a Glance: Mobile Payment Acceptance Security ” fact sheet (the “Guidance”), which outlines best practices for securely accepting payments via mobile devices.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) reported that at least three attacks took place this summer, crooks aimed at infecting the PoS systems with malware to scrape payment card data. EMV Chip, Pointto -Point Encryption, Tokenization, etc.) and non-compliance with PCI DSS. ” continues the security alert.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

On September 13, 2012, the PCI Security Standards Council (“PCI SSC”) issued new guidelines entitled “ PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines ” (the “Guidelines”), which outline best practices for mobile payment acceptance security.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The ARM TrustZone is part of all modern mobile devices, the most popular commercial implementations of the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for mobile devices running on top of ARM hardware: Qualcomm’s Secure Execution Environment (QSEE), used on Pixel, LG, Xiaomi, Sony, HTC, OnePlus, Samsung and many other devices.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As digital transformation takes hold, the retail industry is under siege from cyber criminals and nation states attempting to steal consumers’ personal information, credit card data and banking information. retailers are implementing encryption in the cloud today. Lines are now blurred between physical and digital experiences.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 31, 2018

Air Canada is advising customers to reset their passwords on their mobile application after detecting a potential data breach of customer records. We detected unusual login behavior with Air Canada’s mobile App between Aug. In a notice, Air Canada says that a data breach it discovered last week impacted 20,000 profiles. 22-24, 2018.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Records breached: Unknown ALPHV/BlackCat attacks MeridianLink then reports it to the SEC Date of breach: 7 November Breached organisation: MeridianLink Incident details: The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has added the software company MeridianLink to its leak site, having exfiltrated data without encrypting company systems.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 4, 2018

From cloud computing , to mobile devices to digital payments and the emerging applications of the IoT, organizations are re-shaping how they do business. But paying via credit or debit card launches a complex, automated and highly integrated process. The QR code of my eTicket scans quickly and easily.

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